2021 Carbon Dioxide Renewable Energy Technology 
Enviromental Defense
MAY 1, 2024
Statement from Julia Levin, Associate Director, National Climate Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – Today Capital Power announced that they would not be pursuing carbon capture at the Genesee Generating Station, east of Edmonton Alberta, given the high costs and complexity of implementing the technology.
Circle of Blue
AUGUST 3, 2021
utilities have been slower to adopt the energy- and emissions-saving technologies than those in other parts of the world. Wastewater-to-energy systems start with a process called anaerobic digestion, which treatment plants have been using for ages to reduce the volume of sewage waste. Photo © Richard Webb / Wikimedia Commons.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 12, 2022
All told, they represent 56 percent of the US population, generate 62 percent of the country’s gross domestic product, and are responsible for 43 percent of the country’s annual carbon emissions. We found that states have technically feasible and highly beneficial ways to achieve 100-percent renewable energy.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 10, 2023
In 2021, an ExxonMobil lobbyist described API as a “ whipping boy ” that takes the heat for bad policy positions while allowing the oil and gas giant to appear reasonable. B is for Beyond Petroleum In the 1990s, BP famously rebranded itself as “ Beyond Petroleum ,” then backpedaled from its plans to invest in renewable energy.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 23, 2023
Solar power is expected to make up about half of all additions of US electric generating capacity in 2023, according to data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). GW record from 2021. Compiled by UCS from Energy Information Administration data as of January 2023.
Enviromental Defense
AUGUST 1, 2023
Heat pumps, a simple but effective technology, use electricity to remove heat from inside your home to cool it in the summer and pull heat in from outside to heat your home in the winter. Gas is made mostly of methane – a climate-damaging fossil fuel that is over 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide.
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 20, 2022
US ratepayers very likely will pay even more for electricity and heating this winter compared to the already-expensive winter of 2021-2022. However, make no mistake: Technological advancement did not create the production boom by itself. The bankruptcies were set in motion even before 2020.
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