Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 23, 2023

From 2015-2020, massive booms in solar power and high speed rail reconstructed landscapes across California’s San Joaquin Valley. Download the thesis. Globally rare alliances of construction unions with environmental justice and immigrant movements won breakthroughs in regional politics.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In 2022, the installed capacity of wind and solar power grew almost 10% in the United States [1]. In 2020, this number was 10,566 kWh per year [4]- representing a mere 7% improvement in energy efficiency in more than 10 years. Eia.gov 2020. [5] Colorado Solar Panel Cost: Is Solar Worth It In 2023?

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A Greener Life

JULY 26, 2021

Ravindra Puranik, Oil and Gas Analyst at GlobalData, said: “Global power demand is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 2.5% from 2020 to 2030. A significant portion of this will be fulfilled by renewable power generation. BP and Total are also leading the way in terms of upcoming solar power capacity.”.

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Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 24, 2023

Since 2020, the company has diverted 22 million pounds of food waste from landfills, achieving 88% of their goal, which is to divert 25 million pounds of food waste.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

According to a new national report on schools’ adoption of solar published last week by nonprofit Generation180 , Pennsylvania ranked 11th in the nation for the amount of solar installed by its K-12 schools, climbing up from 13th place two years ago. The report found that 87% of solar power installed at U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 10, 2023

The cost of wind and solar power have been falling for over a decade, making them the world’s cheapest source of new electricity. of gross domestic product in 2020 and are expected to increase. The industry has shown its true colors, it loves to talk about green energy, but it doesn’t put its money where its mouth is.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 27, 2021

The milking shed for her 80 dairy cows that can yield 1,100 litres of milk per day, along with the barn that houses 21,000 chickens at a time, will soon sit alongside a photovoltaic solar plant with 85 panels. Even the new church in town, which is under construction, will have solar panels,” May says. MW to 791.32

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Wind turbines and solar power, two sturdy and growing sources of renewable energy, require negligible amounts of water. A study published in 2020 found that direct air capture required a surprisingly large volume of water, primarily because of the energy to run the equipment. degrees Celsius than it was two centuries ago.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2023

From a countrywide perspective, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) released a study in August 2022 identifying multiple pathways to a net-zero power grid by 2035. It’s time for the state Legislature to ensure the two utilities meet those goals and urge them and others to accelerate their progress.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 24, 2023

M-2020-3022877. NewsClip: -- The Center Square: Solar Power Comes To University Of Pittsburgh Campus Related Articles: -- Air & Waste Management Assn. Annual Symposium To Focus On Electric Power Transformation - Energy, Environment, Policy & Technology Sept. Comments must reference Docket No.

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A Greener Life

JULY 7, 2021

They found that the share of renewable energy that achieved lower costs than the most competitive fossil fuel option doubled in 2020. 162 gigawatts (GW) or 62 per cent of total renewable power generation added last year had lower costs than the cheapest new fossil fuel option. Beyond the tipping point of coal. C climate pathway.

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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.

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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.

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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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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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PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2022

Programs [PaEN] -- Help Celebrate Lancaster County Water Week June 3-11 [PaEN] -- Penn State Master Watershed Steward Program Earns Governor’s Environmental Excellence Award -- Interfaith Partners For The Chesapeake Hosting Upcoming Programs On Funding Projects, Rain Gardens, Interfaith Environmental Stewardship [PaEN] -- Chesapeake Bay Foundation: (..)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Methane emissions showed their biggest annual increase in 2020 and again in 2021. The WMO’s GHG bulletin’s headline takeaways are stark: Atmospheric concentrations of three major heat-trapping gases, carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), methane (CH 4 ) and nitrous oxide (N 2 O) hit all-time highs in 2021 (see table below).

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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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Physics World

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Solar power has a major role to play in cutting carbon emissions, but producing photovoltaic cells from silicon – the long-time market leader – is an energy-intensive process. This sector generated sales of $671 million in 2020 and is forecast to grow by 33% per year, according to market analyst 360 Research Reports.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2023

Shapiro Provides Fresh Support To Key Changes Recommended In 2020 Grand Jury Report To Tighten Regulation Of The Natural Gas Drilling Industry To Better Protect Public Health, Environment Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Facility Malfunction Dec. 27 Released 1.1

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2022

Photo: Midd-West School District solar energy installation, Middleburg, Snyder County) Related Article: -- New Report Finds Solar Energy Installations At PA K-12 Schools Doubled Since 2020; Their Energy Costs Don’t Fluctuate With Energy Markets [Posted: August 10, 2022] PA Environment Digest

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A Greener Life

JULY 9, 2021

It also missed energy consumption and intensity targets in the 13th Five Year Plan (2015-2020). There were no improvements in 2020. It could then explore local heating systems, using waste heat from factories and power plants rather than building new boilers. Fu Sha is also optimistic about local efforts to build data centres.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Wind and solar power, paired with energy storage and energy savings, can almost entirely replace fossil fuels – and leave our communities better off. For example, when a carbon dioxide pipeline ruptured in Mississippi in 2020, 300 people were evacuated and 45 people had to be hospitalized. So what’s standing in the way?

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

With the big push for renewable energy, solar farm developers are looking for forested land because there are plenty of privately held large tracts available across Pennsylvania and it is cheaper than cleared land. Some counties in the PA Wilds have active proposals for solar fields going on old strip mine lands.

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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. The Tokyo Olympics will be powered by a fuel with ambition – hydrogen. The Tokyo Olympics will be powered by a fuel with ambition – hydrogen. photo credit: Kim Kyung-Hoon / Alamy.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 19, 2023

The NDC also states: “From 2020, new coal power plants are subject to a moratorium.” No new Chinese-backed coal power overseas? In 2021, China’s president Xi Jinping announced that China would not build any new coal-fired power projects abroad. The 300 MW coal power plant will be a lifeline for Gwadar,” he asserted.

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Environmental Progress

MAY 28, 2020

According to the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2020 that was released this year, more than half of the world’s total GDP is moderately or highly dependent on nature. In Morocco, the Ouarzazate Solar Power Station is the world's largest concentrated solar power plant. Footprints must fall.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 14, 2022

By 2020, the village has disappeared. However, spatial analysis revealed that the wetlands, which stretched over an area of about 2,600 km² in 2000, had receded to about 1,800 km² by 2020. One farmer even recalls that, in 2020, he gave 30 bags of rice to charity but was not able to harvest even 10 the following year.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 5, 2021

Million For PFAS Cancer Study WHYY: What’s In The Water? 27-28; Moraine State Park Regatta Aug. 27-28; Moraine State Park Regatta Aug.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 24, 2023

Here’s a taste: Wind power , the largest single source of renewable electricity in the country, grew the most of any renewable energy source in overall generation from 2021 to 2022. Solar power increased the most among renewable electricity sources in percentage terms, up 24 percent. Large solar provided 3.5

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Global Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

CHRIS JOHNSTON DECEMBER 2, 2020. Throughout the US, coal has been the leading source of energy for electric power generation. Almost 90 percent of the increase in renewables came from wind- and solar-power generation. Recently that has changed. Electric energy generation by renewable sources has doubled since 2008.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Most studies show that achieving these targets will require an unprecedented increase in wind and solar power to decarbonize the power sector and meet the increased demand for zero- carbon electricity to replace fossil fuels in building, industrial and transportation sectors.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Lesker Company -- Andrew JG Schwartz, Studio Director, Environmental Planning and Design Progress Toward Goals In 2020, the CEOs group identified three priorities that underscore sustainability as a demonstrated strategy for prosperity: -- Advance racial and ethnic equity; -- Support local businesses and communities; -- Reduce carbon emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2022

“Solar arrays, like the original wind and water-powered feed grinders (still in use in parts of Pennsylvania), are fueled by the elements. We have carried this message to Western PA communities since 2020, and it is having a positive impact on public policy,” noted PA Land & Liberty Field Director Justin Mason.

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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. They Deserve Our Thanks, Our Support!

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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. Virginia, for example, was ninth in the nation for new solar capacity in 2021. On average, it takes about one to five sheep per acre to keep plant growth trimmed.

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