Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 30, 2023

Between heating and cooling seasons Headlines about renewable energy records also highlight how much of electricity demand renewables are meeting at a given time. Solar and wind generation grew by an average of 16 percent a year over the past decade and was 18 percent higher in 2022 than in 2021.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A Future Without Climate Action: Heat-related deaths in homes continue to rise as hot weather events become more common, adding to the more than 600 heat-related deaths that occurred from the 2021 British Columbia heat dome. Fossil fuel price volatilities continue year-round, and energy prices are unaffordable.

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Fossil Fuels Cooling Climate Change Electricity 113

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Energy equity also means thinking about the unequal distribution of energy system costs in our country and how that directly reflects historical harms enacted through policy and siting of polluting facilities that have sacrificed communities of Black, Latinx, Native, low-income, and immigrant groups for decades.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 31, 2022

It issued five Flex Alerts in 2020, eight in 2021, but there’s only been one so far this year. The solar, wind, nuclear, hydropower, geothermal, energy storage and natural gas on the grid right now are the resources the state has this month. All that being said, it’s still 2022 and September is upon us.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 26, 2022

For example, they may need to choose between cooling down with their windows open at night or breathing polluted air, as residents often don’t have air conditioners or the economic capacity to pay for higher electricity bills.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2021

In many cases, an entire building needs to be heated or cooled even if only a portion of the building is occupied. This wastes energy. Over 75 percent of those clean energy jobs are in energy efficiency industries.” Posted: August 10, 2021] PA Environment Digest Click Here for a copy of the complete report.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The Stourbridge Project and the Greater Wyoming Valley Audubon Society were awarded 2021 Northeast PA Environmental Partnership awards for their work to build relationships with and improve their region. The panels were financed by a public-private partnership and by the Clean Energy Co-op.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 27, 2022

For stationary storage, companies such as RePurpose Energy and B2U Storage Solutions are repurposing these batteries to be used for renewable energy generation support. The industry is quickly growing capacity for future recycling, with planned facilities in Nevada, New York, and Georgia, to name just a few. Slattery et al.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2024

In 2021, a fire breached a coal plant in Turkey, prompting evacuations and the removal of explosive substances from the plants. In addition to increasing the potential for onsite fires at nuclear plants, wildfires can cut off external grid power that the plants need for keeping their reactors cool.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

When it comes to saving energy, understanding where and when it is being used can be a game changer. Energy Information Administration, buildings are the primary energy consumers in the nation. Lighting, refrigeration, ventilation, and cooling systems contribute to a building’s energy consumption.

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Clean Energy Greenhouse Cooling Waste 59

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. Stats Canada ’s most recent statistics report that just six per cent of Canadian homes relied on heat pumps in 2021.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Wolf’s Proposed Budget Supports Conservation And Recreation Critical Budget Issue: How Will The General Assembly Help Communities, Workers Transition To Clean Energy? Wolf Announced PA Received The Initial $244.9 11 Take Five Fridays With Pam Now Available; Feb.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 23, 2023

Now, if you thought I was going to say that clean energy technologies aren’t capable of providing a reliable electricity supply, you’re way off track. A diverse portfolio of clean resources is quite literally the key to a reliable power grid.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 19, 2024

Support clean energy Solar Power Plant in modern city: Sustainable Renewable Energy. Transitioning how we produce and consume energy is crucial for reducing fossil fuel emissions. Look for ways to embrace clean, renewable energy. Using the 2021 average of $1.45

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Washington Nature

MARCH 11, 2022

Joe Nguyen’s bill, SB 5722 , will require performance standards for energy systems in existing buildings and decarbonization of building heating and cooling loads. That includes reducing our reliance on greenhouse gas pollution from buildings. Finally, we thank state Rep. Davina Duerr, and state Sens.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 14, 2023

Our country continues to experience an increase in significant weather events- the 2014 Polar Vortex, successive hurricanes, fires, and Winter Storm Uri in 2021, which brought down Texas' grid,” said Chairman Dutrieuille. Natural Gas Is An Intermittent Generator Rep. Click Here for a copy of the PUC’s written testimony.

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Natural Gas Electricity Nuclear Power Fossil Fuels 47

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 17, 2023

While global emissions did drop (by about 7%) in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, they rebounded in 2021. Between 2021 and 2022, global emissions from energy sources and industrial processes grew by nearly 1% and preliminary data suggests that US emissions grew by an estimated 1.3%.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 10, 2024

A 2021 analysis by the Union of Concerned Scientists found that by 2065, the outdoor exposure to hazardous heat could quadruple. We’re going to look back at 2023 and say, man, that was cool,” Dessler said. Both Texas and Florida were in the top five states for heat deaths last year.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The US solar industry was valued at $33 billion in 2021, employed more than 230,000 people, and continued to grow in power capacity at an average rate of 33 percent per year. Solar panels generated almost 4 percent of electricity in the US in 2021, up from less than 1 percent in 2015. A solar panel has been made.

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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. New York, which has one of the most ambitious clean-energy goals in the nation, has 80,000 sheep.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

At RePlanet Nederland, we are delighted that the European Commission has proposed, on December 31, 2021, to include nuclear energy in the sustainable finance taxonomy. Yet, we believe that in its current form the proposal would underachieve the goal of encouraging private investment in nuclear energy as a sustainable activity.

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Fossil Fuels Regulations Waste Technology 52

Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

Testimony before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce For a hearing on “Power Struggle: Examining the 2021 Texas Grid Failure” Written statement submitted by: Michael D. is 32 years, as of January 2021. [14] percent, 47.4 percent, 51.5 percent, and 13.7 GW from its 4.9

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

Gas plants proposed as of the close of 2021 were estimated to result in up to $74 billion in health costs over their lifetime, and that’s just from the burning of gas at the power plant, ignoring all of the polluting upstream impacts from drilling and transporting gas.

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Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 11, 2022

On December 8, 2021, President Biden issued an Executive Order on Catalyzing Clean Energy Industries and Jobs Through Federal Sustainability (EO), which aims to set the federal government — the largest purchaser in the country with an annual purchasing power of $650 billion — on a path to net zero emissions by 2050.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

That attack has now been joined by the claim that major new spending for clean energy is overheating the economy. The inflation claim is new, prompted by the passage of the 2021 Infrastructure law and the 2022 IRA. In fact, we might need even stricter environmental regulations to help cool the economy and cut inflation.

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2027 Cooling Regulations Clean Energy 218

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Tom Wolf announced the Pennsylvania Climate Action Plan 2021 and called for statewide action on climate change by all sectors: legislative, government, industry, business, agriculture, and community organizations. “As Pennsylvania Climate Action Plan 2021 is where to start. On September 22, Gov. Where to start?” Read more here.]

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2022

To get an assessment of the progress thus far, as well as an idea if what has to happen next, I turned to two of my colleagues in the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) Climate & Energy Program: Principal Climate Scientist Rachel Licker and Transmission Policy Manager Sam Gomberg. In 2021, EIA reported that coal generated 21.8

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2022

Million Fine Against U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

Democrats said the General Assembly has been holding hearings on the RGGI regulations since the concept was first proposed in October of 2019 and Senate Republicans have yet to offer a plan for reducing carbon pollution or a proposal for helping workers and communities caught in the market-driven transition to clean energy.

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Natural Gas Climate Change Electricity Greenhouse 52

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 22, 2022

House Republicans Pass Bill Exempting Conventional Oil & Gas Wells From Plugging Bonds Sticking Taxpayers With $5.1 Billion In Cleanup Liability [PaEN] -- Independent Fiscal Office Projects Up To $24.3

Natural Gas 64

Natural Gas Politics Nuclear Power 2020 64

ESA

APRIL 11, 2022

Between 2019 and 2021, total CO2 emissions from outside China fell by 570 million tons, but China’s emissions grew by 750 million tons and drove annual emissions to their highest level ever in 2021, according to the International Energy Agency. degrees or try to cool the planet back down through the massive use of CDR.

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ESA

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The measure, known as a continuing resolution, generally keeps funding at fiscal year 2021 levels. 2750 ) in June 2021. The Biden administration withdrew this rule in November 2021. 3277 ) to codify a Trump administration regulation that limited states’ ability to block fossil fuel projects under the Clean Water Act.

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