TCI Update: Final Model Rule Addresses EJ, but Political Will May Be Lacking
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JUNE 16, 2021
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Climate Policy in the World’s Fourth Largest Country
Legal Planet
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
Over three-fourths of Indonesia electricity comes from fossil fuels: 60% from coal and 16% from gas. Indonesia’s 2021 climate pledge under the Paris Agreement was to reduce emissions from 2020-2030 by 29%. In fact, Indonesia is moving its capital 600 miles away for this reason. Several official plans.
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Germany’s Role in Climate Policy
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Fifteen percent of electricity is renewable. Renewables are a third of electricity consumption. Renewables are 42% of electricity. My foray into Germany climate policy left me with unanswered questions: What was the politics behind Germany’s history of climate action? How much of a role did the Green Party play?
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A 100% Renewable Energy Future is Possible, and We Need It
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 19, 2022
Climate Alliance (USCA) can meet all of their electricity needs with renewable energy—while decarbonizing other sectors of the economy and ensuring equitable benefits to all communities. And we’re already seeing the prominent role that renewables are starting to play in our electricity mix. by 2035 is needed.
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California’s Climate Leadership: A Timeline
Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
Required state to reduce emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and gave broad authority to CARB to implement the standard. Effectively prohibited California utilities from using electricity from coal-fired generation. Required the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to set standards for greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) new vehicles.
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The EIA Just Released a 30 Year Energy Outlook. It’s… Not Great
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 16, 2022
They just released their 2022 “Annual Energy Outlook” (AEO), which is a big deal: it tells us where electricity is headed over the next 30 years. Here are five key takeaways from this year’s AEO, focused primarily on the electricity sector: 1. Relying on market trends is nowhere near enough to do the job. Carbon emissions remain high.
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The EU pledges support for the wind energy sector
A Greener Life
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
of electricity from renewable energy sources by 2030. The European industry lobby, Eurelectric , has welcomed the announcement made by the EU but called for increased urgent support to upgrade Europe’s electricity grids so that they can better handle the influx of renewable energy.
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What’s Up With Water – November 1, 2021
Circle of Blue
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
In the Nile River basin last week, a political power shift in Sudan could turn up the heat on a long-simmering dispute over a major dam in the region. This hotly contested referendum is focused on the future of electric power in the region. Rhode Island followed in 1987, and was the last state to do so.
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Don’t Believe the Lies: Five Facts to Consider as the UN’s COP27 Comes to a Close
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 The report found that these states can meet all of their electricity consumption with renewables by 2035, even with a significant increase in demand due to the electrification of transportation and heating.
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Energy Equity: How Can Power Utilities Get It Right?
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
Like many other public-serving institutions throughout society, electricity and gas utilities are facing calls to be more equitable in their operations, planning, and treatment of customers. In 2019 and 2020, I served as a member of a committee involved in the implementation of California’s Assembly Bill 617.
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2022 Election: Water Regulation and Spending Punctuate State and Local Ballots
Circle of Blue
OCTOBER 26, 2022
Weeks before the November 8 election, national political debate centers on control of Congress. Wilce is the treasurer of Arizona Water Defenders, the political action committee that brought the question to the ballot. Photo © Keith Schneider / Circle of Blue. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – October 26, 2022.
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The Stream, November 17, 2021: Meet The Activist Saving a Polluted Chinese Lake
Circle of Blue
NOVEMBER 17, 2021
A new report finds water and energy use from Oahu hotels did not decrease in 2020 despite lockdown orders. HotSpots H2O: In Afghanistan, Political Upheaval Aggravates Drought-Fueled Famine – Drought, a financial crisis, and political collapse are accelerating the country’s decline into all-out famine. A study from the S.
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Accelerating Freight Decarbonization
Legal Planet
JUNE 8, 2023
To further advance sustainable logistics, Rotterdam signed the Zero Emission City Logistics Covenant (ZECL) in December 2020, demonstrating a collective commitment to establishing a zero-emission zone for city logistics (ZECL-zone). Rotterdam, Netherlands serves as an example with its existing Low Emission Zone that affects freight vehicles.
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Latest UN, IEA, WMO Climate Reports Show Global Emissions Dangerously High, Emergency Action Required
Union of Concerned Scientists
OCTOBER 27, 2022
Methane emissions showed their biggest annual increase in 2020 and again in 2021. At the same time, 2021 was also a year when renewable electricity generation reached a record high globally. The key components to reach this goal are well known and reiterated by the IEA. According to the IEA, “From USD 1.3
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Why Are Gasoline Prices So Volatile?
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 29, 2022
When gasoline prices rise, as they have since the winter of 2020, or spike dramatically, as they have with the war in Ukraine , people naturally want to know why it happened and what we should do about it. People might think about trading in that gas-guzzling SUV for a fuel-efficient hybrid or an electric vehicle. UCS/Jeremy Martin.
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Saturday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 9.9.23
PA Environment Daily
SEPTEMBER 9, 2023
. -- PennLive Guest Essay: PA Lost $1 Billion Opportunity By Not Implementing RGGI - By Patrick McDonnell, PennFuture -- Warren Times Editorial: Renewables Are Barely A Blip On State Electric Grids -- DEP Invites Comments On Modern Landfill NPDES Water Quality Permit; Hearing Oct.
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Decarbonizing Transportation Must Come with People-Powered Mobility Justice
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 19, 2023
New narratives, startups, and mobility experiments were based on great optimism about electric, digital, autonomous, hybrid, micro, or even aerial (drone) mobilities. increase over 2020. That means beginning from a mobility justice outlook, as outlined in my book Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes.
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Temperatures keep on rising globally. When will we act ?
Edouard Stenger
JULY 11, 2023
above the average temperature for the same month in 1991-2020, Copernicus said, as climate change pushes global temperatures to new records and short-term weather patterns also drive temperature movements. What lacks is the political leadership and courage. Unfortunately, political courage has never reelected anyone.
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German National Hydrogen Strategy - Back to the Future?
Energy and Climate Law
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
Germany is a key European country when it comes to hydrogen and the most advanced in Europe in terms of electricity storage via hydrogen, the so called Power-to-Gas technology. In July 2020 the German government is taking over the rotating presidency of the European Union.
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Boston-Area Communities Work Together to Beat the Heat
Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 30, 2023
A collaborative research partnership between heat-impacted communities and scientists The Chelsea & East Boston Heat ( C-HEAT ) project began in 2020, through partnership between researchers at Boston University School of Public Health and GreenRoots , a grassroots environmental justice organization, and funded by the Barr Foundation.
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Analysis: Coal returns to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor
A Greener Life
MARCH 19, 2023
Electricity shortage is the biggest impediment to developing Gwadar,” he said. Just 3% of generated electricity in the 2022 fiscal year came from non-hydropower renewables. The NDC also states: “From 2020, new coal power plants are subject to a moratorium.” Pakistan’s energy sector is dominated by fossil fuels.
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A Cap on Vegetable Oil-Based Fuels Will Stabilize and Strengthen California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 30, 2024
The CI is determined through a lifecycle analysis of the global warming pollution associated with the production and use of gasoline, diesel, biofuels, electricity, or other alternative fuels. In 2020, every state except Alaska blended at least 9.5 But California’s LCFS has been struggling and is approaching a treacherous precipice.
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A Quick Science Refresher on Greenhouse Gas
Greenbuilding Law
MAY 1, 2022
But make no mistake, the larger issue is the regulation for the first time of GHGs (including carbon) which will literally change the structure of the global economy, our political order, market capitalism and even our biological selves.”. In 2020, carbon dioxide accounted for about 79% of all U.S. emission trends.
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War in Ukraine and the Climate Crisis Are Connected: Our Future Depends on Solutions that Address Both
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 30, 2022
Earlier this month the International Energy Agency (IEA) released data showing that global carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions hit an all-time high in 2021, rebounding sharply from the 2020 decline caused by COVID-19 related economic slump.
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China’s premier particle collider set for major upgrade
Physics World
MAY 2, 2022
The proposal to build the BEPC, which lies in the west of Beijing, was approved in the early 1980s when China emerged from the Cultural Revolution – a nationwide political movement that had disrupted research and education. and a charged pion, weighed four times as much as a proton, and carried an electrical charge.
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Friday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 1.13.23
PA Environment Daily
JANUARY 13, 2023
Million Investment To Plant Trees, Buffers, Meadows To Improve Water Quality, Climate Resiliency; New Grant Rounds Opening Jan. 17 [PaEN] -- DCNR Announces $19.4 Million In Grants To Underserved/Distressed Communities, Partnerships To Improve Recreation, Community Revitalization Efforts Across PA; New Grant Rounds Opening Jan.
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France’s next president could ban wind turbines?
A Greener Life
APRIL 19, 2022
Nuclear represents the core of her energy plan, in which she would build 20 EPR reactors, extending the life of existing plants to 60 years from more than 40 and re-opening the Fessenheim plant shut in 2020. An aberration. Unsurprisingly, Macron has pushed back against the plans to ban wind turbines and solar farms calling it an “aberration”.
New York Cap and Invest should think twice before linking to the Western Climate Initiative
Law Columbia
AUGUST 28, 2023
The creation of NYCI follows the 2019 passage of the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA), under which New York State’s electricity sector must reach zero emissions by 2040. NYCI’s immediate linkage with WCI could also be seen as politically desirable. Unfortunately, no reforms of the cap have been made.
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New California law allows state to bypass local restrictions in siting large-scale renewables
Law Columbia
AUGUST 9, 2022
While those applying for a permit to construct a major renewable energy facility in New York must “consult[] with the municipality or political subdivision where the project is proposed to be located . . . Developers of renewable energy facilities of at least 20 MW but less than 25 MW may also submit applications to ORES. 94-c(4)(g).
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RePlanet Nederland’s review of the draft Delegated Regulation on nuclear energy and gaseous fossil fuels in the sustainable finance taxonomy
Environmental Progress
JANUARY 20, 2022
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. Having an expiration date creates political investment uncertainty and risk, which is precisely what the Taxonomy intended to remove. This makes the condition impractical.
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This election, we need real climate plans not false solutions
Enviromental Defense
AUGUST 30, 2021
As political parties prepare their election platforms and publish their climate priorities, it can be difficult to determine which parties are releasing strong climate plans that put us on a pathway to zero emissions – and what policies are actually dangerous distractions from real solutions.
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Climate Policy and the Audacity of Hope
Legal Planet
APRIL 29, 2024
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. The Department of Energy estimates the cost of an electric vehicle lithium-ion battery pack declined 89% between 2008 and 2022.
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Analysis: Climate change: ditch 90% of the world’s coal and 60% of oil and gas to limit warming to 1.5°C – experts
A Greener Life
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
C above the pre-industrial average in 2020, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned in its recent report that Earth could hit 1.5°C Alliances between countries are also likely to be important to build political support for reducing fossil fuel production. Photo credit: Evgenii Parilov / Alamy Stock Photo.
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Guest Post: Climate Litigation in Japan: Citizens’ Attempts for the Coal Phase-Out
Law Columbia
JUNE 1, 2022
In a statement of appeal, which was filed by one of the citizens in December 2020, the appellant asserted that the Sendai District Court should have considered the consequences of GHG emissions even though they could not be directly addressed as an illegal activity.
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Business and industry must rise to the challenge of climate change
Physics World
OCTOBER 27, 2021
“Let’s hope our political leaders in Glasgow can make that a reality.”. C above pre-industrial levels, for example by phasing out coal, stopping deforestation, switching to electric vehicles and investing in renewables. Global goals. Finally, we all need to help – there’s no point in only a minority of people taking action.
Will renewable energy save us from climate change?
Global Green
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Over the quarter of 2020, up to 47% of the electricity demand in the UK was met by renewable energy sources. One reason leading to this drastic measure was the insufficient power supplied by solar and wind altogether, which normally provides 30% of the overall electricity in the California State. Solar and wind.
Wind Energy Development in the Gulf of Mexico
The Energy Law Blog
OCTOBER 12, 2022
Wind development in the GOM began to gain traction in late 2020 when Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards formally requested that BOEM form an intergovernmental task force to study the feasibility of wind energy in the GOM. REN-N03 (May 27, 2020). The Construction and Operations Plan for this project was approved by BOEM in 2021.
Ways of Price Making, Inflation, and Energy Price Shocks
Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
This post was originally published on the Law and Political Economy blog as part of a symposium on inflation. To be sure, oil price benchmarks are up significantly compared to their all-time lows during the pandemic when prices actually went negative in April 2020.
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Censorship Laundering By The U.S. Department Of Homeland Security
Environmental Progress
DECEMBER 13, 2023
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to flag election and Covid misinformation to social media platforms in 2020 and 2021 say that they didn’t break the law. DHS supported, created, and participated in the 2020 Cyber Threat Intelligence League, or CTIL ; the 2020 Election Integrity Partnership, or EIP; and the 2021 Virality Project, or VP.
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The Shock of the Global
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. And electricity planners and systems operators have always factored it into their planning.
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Monday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 3.4.24
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 4, 2024
March 6-- House Consumer Protection, Technology & Utilities Committee informational meeting on electric vehicle infrastructure. Room G-50 Irvis Building. Click Here to watch online. Room G-50 Irvis Building.
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Lake Erie’s Failed Algae Strategy Hurts Poor Communities the Most
Circle of Blue
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
“There were families who did not know about it, because they were living without electricity, so they didn’t hear the story,” Smith recalls. Water rates more than doubled between 2010 and 2020, while income of the city’s poorest one-fifth of residents inched up only 12 percent. And political power with it.
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EPA Proposes New Power Plant Rule That Promises Major Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions in the Coming Years
Law and Environment
MAY 12, 2023
Yet because of the politics of climate change, the rule will almost certainly be subject to a similar challenge. 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.] This language, particularly the bolded text, is important.
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Why smaller is better when it comes to nuclear power
Physics World
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Safety – and the politics surrounding it – remains the single biggest issue influencing the development of nuclear power around the world. Germany, for example, closed three of its six remaining nuclear plants on 31 December 2021, which together accounted for 6% of the country’s electricity. Some have nuclear but are phasing it out.
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