Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 15, 2024

When the current Ontario government came to power in 2018, one of the first things they did was introduce a bill that canceled the cap and trade program and weakened Ontario’s climate target, which had been enshrined in law. What’s the case about? This move set back climate ambition in Ontario, and Canada, significantly.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 17, 2022

On March 17, the Community College of Allegheny County officially “flipped the switch” to solar power. The extensive new 543-kilowatt solar installation will produce enough electricity to power 30–40% of CCAC North Campus’s electrical energy needs. Solar (Galvanizing our Energy Transition) program.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2023

Yaw Proposes Independent Energy Office To Promote Development Of PA’s Diverse Energy Portfolio - Natural Gas, Nuclear Power, Coal [PaEN] -- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Greene County House That Exploded In 2018 From Natural Gas Leak Stands As A Monument To Leaking Gas Pipelines, Leaking Gas Wells, Leaking Gas Storage Areas -- Post-Gazette: Smoke Stacks (..)

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Natural Gas Endangered Species Act Nuclear Power Fossil Fuels 85

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Last week, I joined my colleagues at COP28 in Dubai , as negotiators and civil society push for a fossil fuel phaseout to meet climate goals. The industry is pushing a narrative that misleadingly calls out emissions , not fossil fuels as the problem. Source: IPCC Sixth Assessment Report.

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Acoel

MAY 18, 2021

Perhaps predictably, the large energy companies NextERA and Calpine oppose it, and are funding the opposition: the companies own fossil fuel and other power plants that will become less economical, and stand to lose many millions when the less expensive hydropower enters the grid. and worldwide).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 6, 2025

Investor-owned utilities want to protect the bottom line of their fossil fuel power plants and stave off competition from low-cost renewables that would be aided by transmission, even if those cleaner solutions would help ratepayers and boost grid reliability.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 18, 2021

But what you probably haven’t heard is that our grid is getting dirtier again, with fossil fuels increasing in our electricity supply from burning natural gas. The rest of our power comes from a mix of nuclear power, renewables like hydro, wind and solar power, and biofuel. Source: IESO [link].

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A Greener Life

JULY 9, 2021

The other is to improve the energy structure, replacing fossil fuel sources with alternatives. tonnes of CO2 in 2018. It could then explore local heating systems, using waste heat from factories and power plants rather than building new boilers. Neither of these will be easy for Inner Mongolia.

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Columbia Climate Law

AUGUST 6, 2015

Hillary Clinton’s climate change plan , released last week, centers on two goals: installing 500 million solar panels by 2021, and, relatedly, adding enough electric generation capacity from renewable sources to supply all residential electricity needs. But there are other issues that she has yet to address.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 1, 2024

Renewable energy projects face significant disadvantages in the siting process compared to fossil fuel projects due to a three-year-old state law that allows counties to block large solar and wind projects—but not large fossil fuel projects. Smaller projects are permitted at the county level.

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Renewable Energy Fossil Fuels Government 2023 75

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 17, 2022

From 2018 to 2019, US capacity increased from 234 to 402 megawatts (MW), mostly in California. Currently only 4 percent of US electricity comes from solar. Energy markets run by grid operators (called regional transmission organizations, or RTOs) were designed for fossil fuel technologies.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 19, 2022

Financed by one of the world’s richest private equity firms, The Blackstone Group, the CHPE is championed by its supporters as essential to unwind New York’s reliance on carbon-spewing fossil fuel and meet a 2040 target of emissions-free electricity. Emissions-Free Electricity by 2040. Photo by Caldwell Marine. A Big ‘Green Battery’.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

And it reveals how American families and businesses bear the brunt of wild price fluctuations in fossil fuels and deserve more stable, cleaner sources of energy. Fuel costs don’t change for wind- and solar-powered electricity over time because the wind and sun are free, and clean energy produced in the U.S.

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Clean Energy Natural Gas Fossil Fuels Electricity 75

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2025

Million Planted Since 2018 [PaEN] -- Guest Essay: Life Depends On Protecting The Natural World, Federal Rollbacks Are Threatening Our Future - By Michael Kensinger, Juniata Valley Audubon Society [PaEN] -- TribLive: Flight 93 Memorial Supporters In Somerset County Step Up Fundraising As Potential Job Cuts Loom -- Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 3, 2022

By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal A solar power boom generated by new renewable energy mandates is unfurling in the Chesapeake Bay region. Virginia, for example, was ninth in the nation for new solar capacity in 2021. one of the largest solar developers in the nation. Twenty states have sheep grazing on solar sites.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2023

Yaw Proposes Independent Energy Office To Promote Development Of PA’s Diverse Energy Portfolio - Natural Gas, Nuclear Power, Coal [PaEN] -- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Greene County House That Exploded In 2018 From Natural Gas Leak Stands As A Monument To Leaking Gas Pipelines, Leaking Gas Wells, Leaking Gas Storage Areas -- StateImpactPA - Rachel (..)

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Comitta: Calls For Hearings On The Failure Of Pennsylvania To Invest In Clean Energy Infrastructure [PaEN] -- ErieT: Solar Energy Project Planned In Girard, Another Still Planned In Southern Erie County -- PG: Pittsburgh Mayor, Other Cities, U.S. Labor Secretary Talk About Future Of $600 Billion Clean Energy ‘Marshall Plan’ -- Sen.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The Ninth Circuit further concluded that even if the first prong was satisfied, the plaintiffs did not “surmount the remaining hurdle” of establishing that the relief they sought was within the power of Article III courts. Fossil fuel companies also filed their reply brief in their appeal of the remand order in Rhode Island’s case.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

It was a bogus argument that fossil fuel proponents would repeat ad nauseum over the next 10 years, so when Rose failed to provide some needed context, I jumped in. I’m not aware of anything the fossil fuel industry gets that I would characterize as a subsidy.” His reply ?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 31, 2022

The US House Oversight and Reform Committee kicked off its investigation of the fossil fuel industry’s decades-long climate change disinformation campaign last fall by inviting top executives from BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell to testify about their role and subpoenaing their companies for internal documents.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

While it is unsurprising that his policy priorities will reflect his long-standing antipathy toward climate protections and renewables not to mention the fossil fuel industrys financial support during his campaign his attempt to frame this policy by declaring a national energy emergency is beyond disingenuous.

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