Legal Planet

MARCH 31, 2022

There’s a lot of discussion of how the private sector is supporting renewable energy, but it’s almost all about power consumers like Apple and Walmart. It turns out that most of them are 50-60% reliant on fossil fuels, with a lot of the remainder coming from nuclear and hydro. Fossil Fuel Use. Carbon Goal.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

Source: US Energy Information Administration, Annual Energy Outlook 2022 (AEO2022). According to the forecast, while economy-wide CO 2 emissions decrease from 2022 to 2037 due primarily to the growth in renewable energy replacing retiring coal plants, emissions do increase after 2037 from increased usage of natural gas.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

In New England, the percent of people of color living near fossil fuel power plants is up to 23.5 Even as some parts of the country transition away from fossil fuel infrastructure, the retirement of gas plants has become another driver of inequity.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The 2020 Maine Fishermen’s Forum was the last conference I and many others attended before the pandemic shutdown. GOM communities, not fossil fuel interests, should determine policies that affect GOM people. It was the first weekend in March, and I recall people even then were unsure of offering a handshake or a fist bump.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 31, 2022

It issued five Flex Alerts in 2020, eight in 2021, but there’s only been one so far this year. For example, the two rotating blackouts in August 2020 occurred during energy supply shortages that happened at 6:38 to 7:40 p.m. When grid conditions are tight, California’s grid operator issues Flex Alerts. and 6:28 to 6:48 p.m.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 15, 2022

Wind is now the largest source of renewable energy in the country. From 2010 through 2020, the cost of electricity from wind fell more than 60 percent, according to the Department of Energy. Wind power is now cheaper than fossil fuels—even existing coal plants—in many parts of the country. J Rogers/UCS.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The renewable energy transition involves harnessing epic forces of nature. Sleek solar panels forged from silver and silica from the depths of the Earth translate the sun’s blindingly fiery light energy into electricity. Once the battery looks up to code, it is off to the grid to power our renewable energy future!

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 17, 2022

As we’ve discussed before , multiple cities and towns in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts have tried to ban fossil fuel hookups for new buildings by zoning or other ordinance over the past few years. As we noted then, in order for municipalities to restrict or ban fossil fuel connections, [T]he legislature must move first.

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Global Green

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Michael Moore’s last movie, Planet of the Humans , questions the reliability, affordability and sustainability of renewable energy. The thought-provoking film also highlights the renewables’ dependence on fossil fuels. What are the limitations of renewable technologies? So, is burning trees renewable?

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The law also requires the CEC and CARB to work together on a plan to transition the state off fossil fuels; this effort will certainly be aided by the access to new data the law affords. Newsom vetoed an end-of-session gut-and-amend by Sen. The Governor did sign other laws designed to advance electrification, though.

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

As per the World Investment Report 2023, much of the growth in international investment in renewable energy, which has nearly tripled since the adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015, was concentrated in developed countries. Developing countries need renewable energy investments of about US$1.7 Egli, Florian.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

Notably, in the same proposal, the Commission has also included screening criteria for gaseous fossil fuels. Their inclusion appears to be the result of a political compromise with Member States rather than of scientific appraisal as in the case of nuclear energy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The bankruptcies were set in motion even before 2020. High energy burdens can result from a variety of factors, including earning lower average salaries, residing in older, less-efficient buildings, and having insufficient access to energy efficiency programs. Don’t believe the industry spin.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Despite the climate crisis and the pledges made by global oil and gas companies to start moving their operations away from hydrocarbons and invest more heavily in low-carbon energy technologies, the reality is often different. However, this is at odds with climate science and what the International Energy Agency (IEA) and climate experts say.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Governmental agencies and utilities involved in the energy sector can pair an energy justice framework with meaningful community engagement to assess their actions and decisions and realize the benefits of energy equity for their constituents.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2022

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 7, 2021

None of this happened in 2020 due to the COVID-19 crisis, which led the UN to postpone the meeting, and negotiations are resuming this year with the same agenda. The country, they point out, already has some of the most ambitious clean energy goals, with 450GW of clean energy capacity to be installed by 2030.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 24, 2023

There’s good news in the recently released official data on electricity generation in the United States in 2022: renewable energy has continued to grow, coal power has continued to drop, and renewables are now firmly ahead of coal for the first time ever. They offer a lot of good news about clean energy progress.

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Energy and Climate Law

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The financial part of this Green Deal is the European Green Deal Investment Plan (EGDIP) , revealed on 14 January 2020. Source: The European Green Deal Investment Plan and Just Transition Mechanism explained, EC, Brussels, 14 January 2020, p. A legislative proposal will be presented in March 2020 to officially set it up.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Another tool is carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS), which removes CO2 at the source -- industry and fossil-fuel-burning power plants -- before emissions have the chance to enter the atmosphere and cause warming effects.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 17, 2022

In just one year—from 2020 to 2021—utility-scale battery storage capacity in the United States tripled , jumping from 1.4 gigawatts (GW), according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). The clean energy industry is continuing to deploy significant amounts of storage to deliver a low-carbon future.

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A Greener Life

MAY 3, 2022

As climate change accelerates, the risks and costs of extreme weather – like 2020’s Cyclone Amphan – are set to skyrocket in India. New analysis has found India’s large lenders and state-run energy giants are doing little to reduce their mounting climate exposure. Photo credit: Majority World CIC / Alamy. By Lou Del Bello.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

A recent National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) study shows that it would take less than 1 percent of the land in the Lower 48—that’s an area comparable to or even smaller than the fossil fuel industry’s current footprint. Fortunately, the answer is relatively little. times current levels by 2035.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 27, 2022

In 2020, around 90% of the electricity used in the country was generated from renewables , including hydropower, geothermal, solar PV and wind. Kenya is targeting 100% clean energy use by 2030. As of 2020, Kenya was the largest geothermal energy producer in Africa, with some 672 megawatts (MW) of capacity.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 29, 2024

Climate policy has been boosted by dramatic changes in the economics of clean energy. Perhaps the most important development of the past decade has been the dramatic decline in the cost of renewables. Rooftop solar costs in 2020 were a third of what they had been in 2010. Wind power costs fell by half from 2008 to 2021.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 28, 2023

The cap-and-trade program will require emitters of greenhouse gases to purchase credits at auctions, which will generate revenue that will be invested in clean energy and disadvantaged communities. It also weakens the incentive in the private sector to invest in long-term renewable energy projects.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

Worse than that, it might end up misdirecting the world’s clean energy efforts into dirtier than appreciated energy technologies because of the country’s ongoing dependence on coal-fired energy. The scale of the IPCC’s undercount shocks once applied to the EU’s “clean” energy plans. million cars to the road.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Global price benchmarks for crude oil have risen to $80 per barrel in the last month (double where they were a year ago) and are expected to rise even higher in the months ahead, after going negative in April 2020 during the height of the pandemic. The geopolitics of energy are also quite different today than they were in the 1970s.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Lest one thinks this disconnect is a failure of the global climate architecture, the failure lies much closer to home—in the domestic politics in the US and many other countries that continue to favor the interests of the rich and powerful , and fossil fuel companies, at the expense of the health and safety of everyone else and the planet.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 13, 2023

A decade ago, the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) estimated that, based on the available technology, the United States could get 80% of its electricity from renewables by 2050. Now NREL says the country has the potential to reach 100% clean energy by 2035.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

How do higher natural gas prices impact The Energy Co-op’s renewable energy programs? Domestic Production Some natural gas production had been shut down during 2020 as the economy slowed due to the pandemic. Finally, some new production projects that had been under construction in 2020 were put on hold or delayed.

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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. Studies are also finding that vegetation planted for grazing under solar panels helps keep the panels cool, boosting energy production. There are environmental benefits as well.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

California Clean Energy Committee v. League to Save Lake Tahoe, Mountain Area Preservation Foundation, and Sierra Watch (Sierra Watch) and the California Clean Energy Committee (Committee) filed separate writ petitions alleging numerous CEQA and TPA violations, which the trial court consolidated for hearing.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 18, 2023

A proposed offshore wind procurement bill in Maine would go a long way to enable the state to meet its climate and clean energy targets and become a national leader in floating offshore wind technology. That said, offshore wind development will be critical to meet state and regional climate and clean energy requirements.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Over the course of the reform process, energy experts have described the newly adopted changes as “a slow-moving train wreck.” But other experts have called them “a big step forward for clean energy.”. And what does it mean that hardly anyone outside of the wonkiest energy circles even noticed? Which is it?

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Electricity Fossil Fuels Clean Energy Regulations 217

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

How then do we explain what is currently happening with energy prices? In the early days of the current price shocks, fossil fuel boosters blamed clean energy and climate policy. But as the clean energy transition accelerates, these broader questions of politics and price making should be front and center.

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Natural Gas Electricity Fossil Fuels Clean Energy 130

Law and Environment

MAY 12, 2023

Fossil power plants could offset emissions by investing in new natural gas and renewable energy generation sources. EPA relied on the Biden Administration’s interim Social Cost of Carbon, i.e. , $51/ton emitted (using 2020 dollars at a 3% discount rate). Emphasis added.] The Court rejected this approach.

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