Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2023

The state-specific fact sheet, On the Road to 100 Percent Renewables for Minnesota , outlines how it could meet its electricity needs completely and equitably with renewable energy by 2035 and dramatically reduce fossil fuel use in vehicles and buildings.

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A Greener Life

JULY 26, 2021

In order to make their portfolio more sustainable and respond to lower fossil fuel demand, oil majors are increasingly snapping up renewable energy projects as the pressure grows to take action on climate change. from 2020 to 2030. A significant portion of this will be fulfilled by renewable power generation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

There is still much we can do to bend that emissions curve sharply within this decade—but only if world leaders, especially leaders of richer countries and major emitting nations, take responsibility to act together quickly and fossil fuel companies are held accountable for their decades of obstruction and deception.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

percent of peer-reviewed scientific papers agree that climate change is driven by human burning of fossil fuels, Johnson clings to the lie that there “are facts on both sides.” Four of the top five congressional districts for solar power output are also in Republican districts. Despite the fact that 99.9

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 1, 2023

We know that fossil fuels are causing the climate crisis. And we know that to avoid more climate destruction, the world must stop digging up and burning fossil fuels. Wind and solar power, paired with energy storage and energy savings, can almost entirely replace fossil fuels – and leave our communities better off.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Under the LCFS each fuel pathway gets a unique carbon intensity (CI) based on a lifecycle analysis of the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production and use of the fuel. The CI of an electric vehicle charged with solar power is zero, and most of the biofuels fall somewhere in the middle [i].

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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 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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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The bankruptcies were set in motion even before 2020. A 2020 study found that Native American households’ median energy burden was 45 percent higher than non-Hispanic White households, while Black households’ median energy burden was 43 percent higher and Hispanic households’ burden was 20 percent higher.

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A Greener Life

JULY 23, 2021

Japan, a long-time supporter of nuclear power, now has serious hydrogen ambitions. The 2020 Tokyo Olympics will be powered by hydrogen. Hydrogen may have lost the race to fuel electric cars but it looks a likely contender to replace fossil fuels in trucks, ships, planes and heavy industry. By Fred Pearce.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged on September 21 that his country would no longer finance coal-fired power plants abroad, making a high-profile commitment to move away from some forms of fossil fuel infrastructure less than six weeks before a pivotal global climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland. It is already 1.1

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 20, 2022

Energy Information Administration reported-- in our January Short-Term Energy Outlook , we forecast that rising electricity generation from renewable energy resources such as solar and wind will reduce generation from fossil fuel-fired power plants over the next two years. The forecast share of generation for U.S.

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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. 4, 2020); California v. Renewable Fuels Association v. United States , No. 18-36082 (9th Cir. Chao , No.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 22, 2022

With several new power-intensive IT industries proposed to be established, Bhutan’s domestic demand for energy is projected to more than double in the next two years, and its winter energy deficit will worsen, officials at the Department of Industry told me. Solar energy has become competitive. Previous obstacles have been overcome.

Renewable Energy 96

Renewable Energy Solar Power Fossil Fuels Electricity 96

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 4, 2023

5: Virtual Keynote & Panel Discussion, 5 Regional Workshop Locations [PaEN] -- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Climate Activists Call On PA Lawmakers To End Fossil Fuel Use At ‘PA Climate Convergence’ -- Inside Climate News - Jon Hurdle: At ‘Climate Convergence’ In PA, Environmental Activists Urge Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

In June 2020, The GIANT Company completed a two-phase solar project at its Carlisle, Pa. corporate headquarters, which includes a 625kw rooftop solar array and seven-acre pollinator-friendly solar field, enough to generate renewable power for the entire campus.

Renewable Energy 116

Renewable Energy Carbon Emissions Fossil Fuels Solar Power 116

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. Solar as of 2020 represented less than 1 percent of electricity produced in New York.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 7, 2022

At the same time, Germany is having to find ways to reduce its reliance on Russian fossil fuels and readjust its long-planned energy transition. Dependence on Russian fossil fuels. Germany is a large net importer of fuel. Or could it perhaps boost the transition to a renewables-based economy?

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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. in Spring 2020? 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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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Clear cutting forests and compacting and covering healthy soils for large-scale solar farms threaten to replace the vast array of benefits, with polluted runoff degrading streams, increased nuisance flooding, loss of critical wildlife habitat, and even the release of soil carbon back into the atmosphere.

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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. Nancy Guenst (D-Montgomery), U.S. Army Veteran & Rep. Webster (D-Montgomery), U.S.

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Clean Energy Fossil Fuels Solar Power 2008 57

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. Unsurprisingly, Macron has pushed back against the plans to ban wind turbines and solar farms calling it an “aberration”.

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Global Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

CHRIS JOHNSTON DECEMBER 2, 2020. Yes, in some cases, fossil fuels are burned to generate the electricity used to charge electric cars, but this highlights two of electric vehicles’ many advantages. They are much more efficient than gas powered vehicles and the electrical grid is getting greener. Recently that has changed.

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Electricity Climate Change Fossil Fuels Nuclear Power 98

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

This little-known fact bears repetition—the wholesale price of natural gas-generated electricity determines the wholesale price of wind and solar power in Pennsylvania. And this will continue to be the case until there is more wind and solar power generation in our region. That is, as the U.S. domestic demand.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 19, 2023

Pakistan’s energy sector is dominated by fossil fuels. According to the country’s Finance Division , as of April 2022, just under 60% of total installed generation capacity used fossil fuels, including gas, oil and coal. The NDC also states: “From 2020, new coal power plants are subject to a moratorium.”

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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].

Electricity 52

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2023

-- LancasterOnline: Fritz Schroeder Named President Of Lancaster Conservancy -- The Center Square: PA’s Outdoor Recreation Boom Persists, Data Shows -- LebTown.com: Lebanon Valley Trail Trail Breaks Ground On Phase 6; City Trail And Park Underway -- Observer-Reporter: ADA-Accessible Trail Coming To Washington Park -- York Daily Record: Closed Since (..)

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A Greener Life

JULY 9, 2021

The other is to improve the energy structure, replacing fossil fuel sources with alternatives. It also missed energy consumption and intensity targets in the 13th Five Year Plan (2015-2020). There were no improvements in 2020. During the 13th FYP period (2015-2020), its total coal mining capacity reached 1.34

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 9, 2022

no later than 270 days after the application is deemed complete, or as soon as practicable thereafter, the commission shall determine whether to certify the environmental impact report and to issue a certificate” unless an exception applies, id. e)(1) (emphasis added).

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2023

Mastriano, Ex-Presidents Admits Her Voter Fraud Claims Were False -- May Primary Election -- AP: PA House Speaker Sets May 16 Primary Date For House Special Election -- Election Reform/2020 Election Fallout -- WITF/Votebeat: PA Republican Senator’s Record On Election Policy Has Democrats, Voting Advocates Worried Passing Reform Will Be Difficult -- (..)

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

2] The Texas grid operator, ERCOT, in its pre-winter 2020 report on winter power plant availability for the winter of 2020/2021, expected some of the gas and coal fleet to experience winter outages, along with the loss of some capacity in normal winter high-demand periods, with further losses in extreme weather. percent, 47.4

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 15, 2022

Oil Lobby Pushes Biden To Roll Back Fossil Fuel Curbs -- Bloomberg: 10 EU Nations Warn Against Diluting Green Plan Before Key Vote -- Bloomberg: Key EU Parliament Groups Reject Green Label For Natural Gas, Nuclear -- Reuters: Hydrogen Will Give U.S. EIA: Oil Supply to Struggle To Keep Pace With Demand In 2023 -- Reuters: U.S.

Natural Gas 62

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 31, 2021

-- Ed Wytovich Discusses Catawissa Creek's Unique Potential, Threats It Faces, What's Needed [PaEN] -- Clearfield Conservation District, Trout Unlimited, DEP Potts Run Passive Mine Drainage Treatment - Video -- Perkiomen Watershed Conservancy Announces 2021 Environmental Award Winners; Nov. Messiah University [PaEN] -- Gov.

Conservation 62

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2022

Wolf Announces Aggressive Push To Secure Clean Hydrogen Hub In PA [PaEN] -- Gov.

Conservation 62

Conservation Natural Gas Fossil Fuels Climate Change 62

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.

Renewable Energy 57

Renewable Energy Fossil Fuels Greenhouse 2020 57

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

24 Organizing Black Birders Week Webinar With Tykee James -- Keep PA Beautiful Local Affiliates Recycle 1.1 24 Organizing Black Birders Week Webinar With Tykee James -- Keep PA Beautiful Local Affiliates Recycle 1.1

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