Physics World

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Tricky problem Nuclear energy is often not viewed as a low-carbon energy source. According to a poll carried out in 2020 by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), only a quarter of people aged between 18 and 24 in the UK are aware that nuclear is a low-carbon source of 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.

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Cresforum

MARCH 10, 2022

In the Unites States’ march to transition to clean energy and reduce greenhouse gasses, resilience may be the most important word to summarize 2021. Nine months after the pandemic first upended lives and the economy, the market fundamentals for clean energy looked unstoppable. gigawatts in 2020.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Under Governor Wolf, we’ve accelerated and expanded work to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to equip Pennsylvania’s communities, businesses, and individual residents to address climate change impacts occurring now and projected for the near future. Pennsylvania’s greenhouse gas emissions are tracked yearly.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2022

He has spent his career championing environmental issues like clean air and water, advocating for a transition away from fossil fuels, and promoting clean energy solutions such as energy efficiency, wind, solar and geothermal. Joe is a sought after environmental voice and leader across the state and the region.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 27, 2022

Transport accounts for about 13% of Kenya’s greenhouse gas emissions. 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. Rush hour in Nairobi. By Charles Wachira.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The Legislature also increased efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions with the passage of Assembly Bill 1279 and Senate Bill 1020, setting net zero emissions targets and renewable energy and zero-carbon targets for California retail electricity sales. 2020) 51 Cal.App.5th

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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

JUNE 1, 2022

As part of our commitment to create a clean energy future for all in the Pittsburgh region, DLC is increasing opportunities for customers and communities to experience the many benefits of electric mobility while addressing one of our area’s largest sources of carbon emissions and air pollution —?

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 30, 2022

“Oil and gas companies know these are dead-end technologies which won’t make a dent in emissions, but are using them anyway to delay the clean energy transition and wring out even more subsidies. million tonnes of carbon per year – which represents 0.05% of Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions.

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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. What we need at [this year’s] COP is action plans to rapidly cut greenhouse emissions and finance to adapt to climatic hazards.”.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 30, 2019

Back to North Carolina developments in late 2018: Executive Order on Climate Change and Clean Energy: On October 29, 2018, N.C. Governor Roy Cooper issued an executive order on climate change and clean energy. Increase the number of zero-emission vehicles in the state to 80,000. It also requires preparation of a N.C.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 22, 2024

The Fifth National Climate Assessment recently concluded that, to meet national and international climate targets, United States net greenhouse gas emissions will need to decline by over 6% per year and reach net zero by roughly 2050. In other words, the United States will need to build significant amounts of renewable energy infrastructure.

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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. In Virginia, where an estimated 7,500 to 35,000 acres will be needed for solar projects to meet the state’s goal of 50% renewable energy by 2020, there are 72,000 sheep.

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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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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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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). The Court rejected this approach. This could affect the standing analysis.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 11, 2022

In 2021 Comcast Signs Agreement To Purchase 250 MW Of Solar Energy In Step Toward Carbon Neutral Goal U.S.

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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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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

The Regulation’s proposed criteria for gaseous fossil fuels (which includes both conventional natural gas, and synthetic gas derived from coal gasification) allow investment in their consumption without restriction in function, scale, or time period, as long as greenhouse gas emissions are no higher than 100 gCO2eq/kWh (see §4.29-31

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Some analysts are predicting that as China’s rate of renewable energy deployment exceeds the rate of energy demand growth it will lead to reduced USE of coal-fired power plants. this is an affirmation from this administration that the goal is to deploy renewable energy in a way that supplants coal, oil and gas.

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Law and Environment

MAY 11, 2023

The fact sheet provides an endorsement of the Building American Energy Security Act of 2023, establishes several major objectives for permitting reform, provides several recommendations to streamline federal permitting processes, and urges Congress to include the objectives and recommendations as part of bipartisan permitting reform legislation.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 18, 2021

Ontario Energy Output by Fuel Type: 2020 . It’s mostly due to a combination of poor planning coupled with an ideological opposition to renewable energy. But their plans to fill some of this gap with renewables, energy conservation, and other programs were derailed in 2018. Source: IESO [link].

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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 9, 2022

We suggest rephrasing the query such that it is about using renewable energy to reduce the environmental harms associated with fossil fuel energy, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increase the supply of renewable energy and foster a just transition to an ESG driven economy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Batteries are key to enabling the renewable energy transition. When the sun isn’t shining or the wind isn’t blowing, batteries help store clean energy to continue supplying electricity to the grid and to customers consistently and reliably. A fossil fuel energy grid extracts and expends finite resources.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

4] Meanwhile, many experts see in recent trends an inevitable transition away from coal and nuclear power plants, designed to function as baseload capacity, toward variable renewable energy sources with just-in-time natural gas back-up. While energy sources across all categories failed in mid-February, they didn’t all fail equally.

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2021

“Renewable Energy Development in the California Desert” by mypubliclands is licensed under CC BY 2.0. Below the federal level, it’s difficult to discern the impact that the Trump Administration had on energy policy. Utilities enacted renewable programs traditionally led by states. Jetta Cook is a J.D.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 17, 2022

By Patrick Monahan, PittWire In February 2020, the University of Pittsburgh announced its goal to go carbon neutral by 2037 -- 13 years sooner than the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s call for global carbon neutrality.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 21, 2022

A 2020 study found that, in most states, regulators can only approve a transmission line if they determine it is “in the public interest.” greenhouse gas emissions by 50 to 52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. transportation and buildings) which will further increase the need for renewable generation. To get there, the U.S.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

EPA of a 2015 rule barring replacement of ozone-depleting substances with hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are powerful greenhouse gases. May 1, 2020). Circuit’s partial vacatur in Mexichem Fluor, Inc. In Mexichem , the D.C. Natural Resources Defense Council v. Wheeler , No. 18-1172 (D.C. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS. 4:18-cv-00073 (D.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Transportation A Cap-and-Invest Approach . In recent years, states in New England and the mid-Atlantic region have made significant progress in reducing climate change-inducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the electricity generation sector. [1].

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Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 25, 2024

By Joshua Bledsoe , Kevin Homrighausen , and John Detrich On December 2, 2023, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a final report that substantially increases estimates of the social cost of greenhouse gases (GHG), including carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide (collectively, SC-GHG). 3d 1172 (9th Cir. 2016), [link].

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Tom Wolf has issued a proclamation recognizing September 20-24, 2021 as Clean Energy Week in the state in conjunction with the fifth annual National Clean Energy Week (NCEW). In his 2021 proclamation, the Pennsylvania Governor praises the state's clean energy sector, which employed more than 90,000 individuals in 2020.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Setting federal clean air policy aside, there are modest victories to celebrate for the United States clean energy transition. strongly assisted by low natural gas prices and competition in wholesale energy markets. clean energy industry is humming. clean energy industry is humming.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Many other provisions in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will also benefit Pennsylvania’s environment and public health, including-- -- Replacing lead pipes, addressing drinking water contamination by PFAS, wastewater facilities; -- Cleaning up Superfund and brownfield sites [ $38.7 In November of 2020, Gov. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 25, 2022

On January 25, the Republicans on the Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee voted to report out legislation to redefine water pollution and prohibit the state from owning clean energy credits. In fact, the company still hasn't cleaned up a spill that occurred at one of our state parks back in August of 2020.” “I

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