Vermont Law

APRIL 9, 2025

The law, passed by Governor Phil Murphy in 2020, requires the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to evaluate the environmental and health impacts on overburdened communities (OBCs) when reviewing applications for new facilities. This legislation is underwhelmingly referred to as New Jerseys Environmental Justice Law.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The US only exited the Paris Agreement days after Joe Biden won the 2020 US Presidential Election and swiftly joined it again once Biden was inaugurated in January 2021. On clean energy, there’s little Trump can do to stop projects on private land—even the ones that require planning approval, as this will be done on a state level.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2025

The [federal Bipartisan Infrastructure and Inflation Reduction Acts] provide billions of dollars in investment aimed at expanding low-and no-carbon technologies, accelerating a just energy transition, and building equity into climate adaptation efforts. from 2019 to 2020 and 44.4% from 2005 to 2020. from 2005 to 2020.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

By Anders Lorenzen Data released by BloombergNEF (BNEF), the clean energy analysts body owned by Bloomberg , have shown that despite the uncertainty, on a global level, the cost of clean energy technologies continues to decline.

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Scientific American

JULY 16, 2025

Shanghai Hailanyun Technology To grow its economy, China is betting big on artificial intelligence , cloud computing and other digital technology—and a big part of that bet involves rapidly building data centers to boost computing power. Shanghai Hailanyun Technology But Microsoft has reportedly shelved Project Natick.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Earlier this year, but in the previous legislative session, a form of this bill-- House Bill 1842 (Schweyer-D-Lehigh)-- passed out of the House with a bipartisan vote of 110-90, after having been passed unanimously out of the House Consumer Protection, Technology and Utilities Committee. billion in economic development in the state.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 22, 2025

A dedicated team of operators uses sophisticated technology to balance supply and demand and direct the power grid 24/7 from PJM’s control rooms. Demand response programs pay customers in advance to have their electricity use automatically reduced in times of system stress. MW-Day For 2025/26 Delivery Compared To $28.92/MW-Day

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2025

In 2020, DEP issued a $1.95 million penalty to Energy Transfer/Sunoco for construction violations of the Mariner East Pipelines under the federal Raystown Lake Recreation Area in Huntingdon County. The Public Utility Commission fined Energy Transfer/Sunoco $1 million for violations related to the Rev olution Pipeline explosion.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 10, 2025

In 2021, Greenpeace analysis found that after Carney joined Brookfield Asset Management as a vice chair in 2020, it had invested billions of dollars in fossil fuel projects, including a coal port and an oil sands pipeline. There are also concerns that Carney would still support continued investments in tar sands.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 29, 2025

After the repeal of the 2016 rule was vacated, a federal district court in Wyoming vacated the 2016 rule itself in October 2020. Environmental groups and two blue states appeals from the October 2020 decision were still pending when the Biden administration BLM adopted a new waste prevention rule in April 2024.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

fossil fuel production rose over the last four years, from 76 quads in 2020 to a record high of 86 quads in 2023, over ten times the amount of total renewable energy production, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. For better or worse, investment in fossil fuels represents more continuity than change.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

By Anders Lorenzen The British oil and gas giant BP , which, until recently, has been one of the oil and gas giants with the most ambitious clean energy plans, has joined the chorus of fossil fuel giants moving away from net zero. The energy sector’s volatility makes it hard to answer this with any convincing argument.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 1, 2025

Shapiro has spoken extensively about the importance of clean energy. After all, they report to their investors and their shareholders.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 24, 2025

We recognize that bringing on new sources of baseload, carbon-free energy is critical to meeting society's growing electricity needs and meeting our customers' demands. It is one of the reasons we are investing in a diverse portfolio of energy sources, including solar, wind, and advanced nuclear technologies.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2025

Shapiro Marks Milestone Of Plugging 300 Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells Over 2 Years; New Technology Finding More Abandoned Wells [PaEN] -- PA Council Of Trout Unlimited: $180 Million In Trout Unlimited Watershed Projects Now Frozen Across The US; Office Closures, Staff Cuts 'Sacrificing Our National Conservation Legacy' [PaEN] -- Gov.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Additionally, these carbon capture and storage facilities consume excessive amounts of energy by using fossil fuels to power the technology, largely defeating the purpose. For example, in 2020 in Satartia, Mississippi, a carbon dioxide pipeline ruptured, hospitalizing at least 45 people.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Additionally, long-term energy plans consider how utilities will operate their existing power generating facilities and what type of new facilities they might build and when. In its previous energy plan , which the MPSC approved in 2020, DTE planned to operate Monroe until 2040. See this notice for more details on how to submit.)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Rethinking the role of innovative pilots is an exciting development, because most utilities have not yet fully supported, let alone adopted, the technologies needed to reduce emissions. Consumers Energy proposed $10 million. In 2020, Hawaii’s Public Utility Commission implemented an expedited process for pilot approvals.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 24, 2023

The progress in the numbers The new numbers are from the federal Energy Information Administration (EIA), which collects data from power plant operators from across the country. They offer a lot of good news about clean energy progress. Renewables up, coal down More renewable energy is desirable for a lot of reasons.

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Environmental Leader

JUNE 28, 2021

Dow’s ESG report states that, in 2020, the company initiated a joint development agreement with Shell to develop electrified cracking technology that could be powered by clean energy. The post Dow Commits to Develop Cracking Technology Powered by Clean Energy appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 29, 2024

Climate policy has been boosted by dramatic changes in the economics of clean energy. Rooftop solar costs in 2020 were a third of what they had been in 2010. In 2020, the cost of single-axis utility scale solar was only a fifth of what it was in 2010. Wind power costs fell by half from 2008 to 2021.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

The biggest takeaway : without robust new policies, US energy sector heat trapping emissions will continue to remain high, far off-track from where we need to be to meet our climate goals. Renewable energy generation increases faster than any other technology.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

An ambitious law that promises to accelerate the state’s clean energy transition, CEJA provides a detailed framework for greater utility transparency and accountability to update electricity distribution infrastructure to ensure a clean energy future. Illinois utilities contributed to that trend. billion to $2.2

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Publicly, Elsevier claims to be committed to a clean energy future. ” Lobbying and financially supporting US politicians who block climate action In the 2019-2020 U.S. But its ongoing practices tell a very different story. At UCS, we think Elsevier can do better.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

What secret weapon is a critical enabler of this dramatic energy transition? A 1 megawatt vanadium flow battery (a different technology from lithium-ion, but also used for energy storage) is in Pullman, Washington, built by UniEnergy Technologies and owned by Avista Utilities. Batteries help store surplus energy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 16, 2024

These owners understood both the need for a supply of energy, and the value and reliability of clean energy. A significant fraction of the clean energy built in the US was financed on the commitments by such high profile, public data companies. Data centers’ total energy demand is challenging to meet.

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Environmental Leader

JUNE 28, 2021

Dow’s ESG report states that, in 2020, the company initiated a joint development agreement with Shell to develop electrified cracking technology that could be powered by clean energy. The post Dow Commits to Develop Cracking Technology Powered by Clean Energy appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Part of that progress is due to the increasing dominance of more-efficient mono-crystalline technologies (the ones with smooth-looking single-crystal cells). LBNL also mentions the increasing use of passivated emitter rear-cell technology, or PERC. . LBNL found additional drops from 2020 to 2021 of 3.4, Source: LBNL 2022.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Updated analysis from 2020 shows that emissions traced to the 88 largest carbon producers contributed approximately 60 percent?of If they do, they will see the only truly robust forward course is the one that puts the accelerated transition to clean energy at its center. The technology to keep the planet under 1.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 27, 2022

EVs are a newer technology, and their batteries require different end-of-life processing than gasoline vehicles. For stationary storage, companies such as RePurpose Energy and B2U Storage Solutions are repurposing these batteries to be used for renewable energy generation support.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 15, 2022

And US wind jobs, currently totaling more than 100,000, should grow right along with the technology and the market. From 2010 through 2020, the cost of electricity from wind fell more than 60 percent, according to the Department of Energy. Flickr/Lance Cheung. Wind power is a bargain.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2022

While today’s carbon fiber and fiberglass require lots of energ y to produce and are hard to recycle , incorporating more bio-materials into their composites and developing new recycling technologies can reduce their footprint. By 2020, demand for balsa wood outstripped supply. Source: ShellASP/Wikimedia Commons.

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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. It is also rechargeable, and does not degrade significantly over hundreds of recharges.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Clean energy is sweeping across America. In 2020, America generated almost four times as much renewable electricity from the sun and the wind as in 2011, with wind and solar now producing 11% of the nation’s electricity. Download the document.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The wind is in our sails on the voyage towards a clean energy future. Wind energy is currently the largest renewable energy source in the US, and the industry is growing fast. The World Bank predicts that the demand for neodymium for energy technologies in 2050 will be 37% of total 2018 neodymium production.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2021

million square feet, released its 2020 progress report detailing efforts by partners who have committed to a 50 percent reduction in energy use in their buildings by the year 2030. In 2020, the Erie 2030 District reduced energy usage to 13 percent below the baseline, a slight increase from 14.8 percent in 2019.

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