Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

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). Methane emissions showed their biggest annual increase in 2020 and again in 2021. A truly scary prospect.

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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%. The Asian Development Bank has a detailed guide to Indonesia’s energy issues. Several official plans.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Although its track record has some complexities, this timeline of German actions shows just its early and sustained attention to clean energy policy: 1990. Fifteen percent of electricity is renewable. Renewables are a third of electricity consumption. Renewables are 42% of electricity. trillion tons.]

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

Throughout his career, Minott and the Clean Air Council earned a reputation for holding government agencies and fossil fuel companies accountable. Mr. Minott holds two degrees in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. In 2011, Kraybill purchased his first electric car, a Chevy Volt.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

Professors would be required to “encourage and allow students to reach their own conclusions” and “not seek to inculcate any social, political, or religious point of view.” Just a year or so ago, these bad actors seemed to be focused on undermining clean, cheap, renewable energy as an obvious and crucial part of the climate change solution.

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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. A rapid clean energy transition is (still) the best path forward.

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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. How are energy equity and energy justice connected? Energy equity lives under the umbrella of energy justice.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 16, 2024

Much of our electricity system is 50 to 70 years old, yet current plans for domestic manufacturing, electric vehicle fleets, community solar gardens and more clean energy all depend on a modern grid. New demands for electricity and the need to reduce climate-changing emissions are driving new grid planning efforts.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Wolf Releases 2021 Update To PA Climate Action Plan, Calls For Statewide Action Now On Climate Change [9.22.21] -- Gov. Wolf: 2021 Climate Impacts Report Projects Pennsylvania Will Be 5.9° Wolf: 2021 Climate Impacts Report Projects Pennsylvania Will Be 5.9° 5.5.21] Resource Links: -- Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

. -- Inquirer - Andrew Maykuth: PA Electricity Prices Rising By As Much As 50% Next Week; Here’s How You Can Save -- ScrantonT: Multiple Programs Available To Help With Heating Costs -- PA Cap-Star: Municipalities Want To Limit Carbon Emissions, PA Utilities Want To Preempt Them -- MCall Guest Essay: Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Will Create Funding (..)

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 19, 2024

Embrace political advocacy Photo by Kempton via Flickr Creative Commons Political action and advocacy is crucial to climate action, because changing the larger system is the greatest opportunity to reduce emissions, and changing the way our economy and society operate requires government action. Using the 2021 average of $1.45

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 31, 2021

17 Learn About Elk Program [PaEN] PA Politics -- PennDOT: Transportation Revenue Options Commission Submits Report To Gov. Wolf, General Assembly National/International -- AP: U.S.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

These protests, triggered by an issue in Kazakhstan’s energy sector, have rapidly expanded to cities all over the country and have broadened to include political demands and tense standoffs between protesters and the police. The government had abruptly stopped subsidies, dramatically increasing the price for consumers.

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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.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

As noted at the end of last year, 2021 was significant for climate litigation, with several decisions worldwide providing a fresh look at stakeholder responsibility for climate change. In Germany, after the successful decision from 2021 in Neubauer et al. By Maria Antonia Tigre. Photo by Matt Palmer on Unsplash. In Greenpeace v.

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Legal Planet

JULY 18, 2023

Several studies conclude that CEQA is decidedly not a primary driver of California’s housing/infrastructure backlogs and that political barriers, labor and materials costs, and exclusionary zoning are the real culprits. Likewise, even today’s “green” infrastructure projects still risk turning overburdened communities into sacrifice zones.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 29, 2024

Climate policy has been boosted by dramatic changes in the economics of clean energy. Wind power costs fell by half from 2008 to 2021. The Department of Energy estimates the cost of an electric vehicle lithium-ion battery pack declined 89% between 2008 and 2022. There’s also a lot of exciting work on solar cells.

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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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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

This post was originally published on the Law and Political Economy blog as part of a symposium on inflation. Energy prices have been much in the news over the past several months, occupying a prominent place in mainstream discussions of inflation. How then do we explain what is currently happening with energy prices?

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A Greener Life

JUNE 28, 2023

in 2021, according to LinkedIn’s Green Skills Report. According to figures from the LinkedIn report, in 2021 there was a big jump in the number of job listings requiring green skills, with those ads accounting for half of the total, far more than the global average. The share of green employment in the global total rose from 9.6%

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 18, 2023

electric power supply, and other independent system operators, may impose steep tariff provisions to recover the costs related to interconnection study penalties previously issued by the old rule or whether utilities can even come into compliance with the new rule within 90 days. In Maine, it is.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 13, 2023

Spring is a time of new beginnings, and this spring scientists are calling for financial institutions to start doing their part to limit the worst impacts of climate change and hasten a just, equitable transition to clean energy. Those three alone borrowed more than $200 billion between 2016 and 2021. degrees Celsius (2.7

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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. Some have argued that weather-dependent energies would, paradoxically, make electricity even more reliable.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 21, 2022

When they fuse, they release a helium atom, a single energetic neutron, and a tremendous amount of energy which (it is hoped) will be harnessed to cleanly generate electricity. This was nearly double the previous record at NIF , achieved in August of 2021 but not repeated since. Are we on the way to commercialized fusion energy?

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The second-most expensive campaign in Maine history is a debate over energy infrastructure. New England Clean Energy Connect, a 145-mile-long transmission line will cut through the commercial timberlands of western Maine. Lobbying campaigns are being funded largely by rival energy groups.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 21, 2023

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 (IIJA) and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) represent a radical change in federal climate policy. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget assesses its spending to be around $485 billion, of which around $386 billion goes to climate and energy programs. RSVP here !

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2023

DOE Releases National Clean Hydrogen strategy And Roadmap To Build A Clean Energy Future, Accelerate Manufacturing Boom PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- AP: PA House Passes Bill To Require Electronically Filed Campaign Finance Reports -- Gov.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

Congress took questions relating to the security of America’s electricity supply seriously before more than a dozen states experienced energy shortages last month, but those events make this hearing all the more urgent. electrical grids were increasingly “complex and vulnerable.” [2] Shellenberger. 5] The U.S.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 30, 2023

If anything, use of clean energy is about to accelerate. According to the power sector news report UtilityDive : “Texas also led the country in renewable energy projects in 2021. One major difference between the two states is the way they regulate electricity. Instead, Texas is doubling down on renewables.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

(Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images) Rose asked Tillerson open-ended questions on a range of subjects, including climate change and national energy policy. But in nearly every instance, Rose listened politely, refrained from challenging Tillerson on the facts, and went on to his next question.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2024

Click Here for the Senate Republican reaction to Energy Plan. This plan is projected to save Pennsylvania ratepayers and Pennsylvania households more than $252 million dollars in the first five years alone, lower utility bills, and create a more reliable energy industry, create more jobs, and a cleaner air – that is a win in my book.”

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 14, 2024

Million For Federal Clean School Bus Program Help/Interns Wanted -- WESA: PA Outdoor Corps Seeking Young Adult Crew Members -- Interns Wanted: Department Of Environmental Protection, Conservation & Natural Resources, Agriculture - Deadline Feb. 16; Snowmobile/ATV Grants Feb. 18 [PaEN] -- Still Time To Register! 29 -- DEP Sets Feb.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

on the path toward a better future by investing in clean energy transmission, lead pipe removal, public transit, electric vehicle charging stations, reclaiming abandoned mines, and plugging orphaned gas wells. It is time to end the procrastination and political games. “ There is still more work to be done.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 15, 2023

- Shalefield Stories, Revisiting Our Fracking Past -- The Allegheny Front: DEP Issues Scathing Report On Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Environmental Compliance -- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Jan. 7 to 13 [PaEN] -- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - Jan.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Sánchez Valle ) , together with the recent disastrous, expensive, and unaccountable privatization of electricity generation, transmission, and distribution, prove beyond any doubt that the authority to decide on issues that affect Puerto Rico lies, not on the people of Puerto Rico, but with US Congress. SCOTUS’ Puerto Rico v.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Today’s choice to pass the most ambitious and transformative climate and clean energy investments in our nation’s history will reverberate throughout the generations that follow, making our air purer, our communities safer, our economy stronger, and our families and neighbors healthier. It is a moral issue and a matter of life. “We

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2022

Senate Republicans also failed again to suggest any alternative to RGGI to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants or to help workers and communities caught in the market-driven clean energy transition. Read more here.

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