Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 22, 2022

Renewable energy will help with all of that—but we need a grid that is designed for wind and solar instead of having to rely on expensive coal and gas plants. Getting energy from where it’s produced to where it’s needed. Xcel Energy pledged to provide customers with 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2050.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 18, 2022

Right now, states and the federal government have a choice that will define our country’s options for clean energy and planning the power grid for the challenges ahead. This choice reveals how the electric grid, and the work to cut global warming emissions, are shaped by our political structures. Shared Duties, with Leadership.

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

EPA’s Class VI Regulations Section 1421 of the Safe Drinking Water Act mandates that EPA establish Underground Injection Control (UIC) program regulations to protect underground sources of drinking water (USDW) from risks associated with underground fluid injections.

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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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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

Sounding Green” has not only become politically correct, but also a possible finance-generating mechanism. Climate is a global issue and when complex political systems around the world are brought together, solutions cannot be straightforward. Developing countries need renewable energy investments of about US$1.7

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 28, 2023

The cap-and-trade program will require emitters of greenhouse gases to purchase credits at auctions, which will generate revenue that will be invested in clean energy and disadvantaged communities. NYCI’s immediate linkage with WCI could also be seen as politically desirable. Unfortunately, no reforms of the cap have been made.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Flynn Wants Reform To Prevent Uncollected Turnpike Tolls -- PG: PA Cong.

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Energy and Climate Law

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

To do so, this mechanism will mobilise at least €100 billion in investments over the period 2021-2027 (p.1). On 14 January 2020, a proposal of regulation establishing the Just Transition Fund was published, detailing the rules that should apply to it. - Article 7 of the proposed regulation on JTF sets the legal regime for these plans.

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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. The ruling clarifies requirements for standing under primary EU law to challenge a Commission regulation. By Maria Antonia Tigre.

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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. In some states, when the legislature created new clean energy goals they also started transmission planning to help meet those goals.

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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

Grid Safety: How Cost-of-Service Ratemaking Creates Tension Between Regulators and Utilities and Slows Grid Hardening By: Michael Murphy and Professor Genevieve Byrne The number of wildfires each year is increasing, which cost billions of dollars in damage and take hundreds of lives. In Maine, it is.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

On October 26, 2021, Observatório do Clima (OC), a network of 71 civil society organizations, filed a class action at the federal court of Amazonas against the Environmental Ministry and Brazilian government ( Laboratório do Observatório do Clima v. By Maria Antonia Tigre. Environmental Ministry and Brazil ). by 2020 against a 2010 baseline.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Though with the boom and bust nature of coal mining—where a significant drop in demand or political shifts towards clean energy can eliminate a mine’s buyers—hundreds of coal mines would close across the Pennsylvania and in Cambria County, stripping entire towns of their main livelihood.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2022

In March, Client Earth launched a legal action against Shell’s board of directors, seeking to hold it liable for its failure to prepare the company properly for the clean energy transition. Shell is appealing the ruling. Chevron (Wednesday, May 25, at 8 a.m. The public comment period on the rule is open through June 17.

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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. They point out that conventional energy sources underperformed ERCOT’s risk accounting more than wind energy had. [5]

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 30, 2021

Student -- ScrantonT Editorial: Civilian Conservation Corps Times Comes, Again -- Ohio River Valley Institute: Poll Finds PA Voters Want Tougher Regulation Of Natural Gas Drilling Wastes; Support Community Regulation Of Drilling; Favor Clean Energy Sources [PaEN] -- Delaware RiverKeeper: Aug.

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Acoel

JULY 30, 2021

Posted on July 30, 2021 by Jeff Thaler. “I Like Dangerfield, advocates for the clean energy technology known as offshore wind power (OSW) have confronted a regulatory field of danger from hesitant environmental and utility regulators, legislators, beachfront home owners, and a most difficult set of critics—fishermen.

Clean Energy 40

Clean Energy Wind Power Technology Technology 40

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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2021 Clean Energy Carbon Dioxide Electricity 317

Brag

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

On September 15, 2021, the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works held a hearing on several U.S. Howe how she would transition from the political sphere into governmental management, given President Biden’s initiative to bolster EPA staff. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Ranking Member of the Committee, asked Ms.

Clean Air Act 40

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Most of these pieces were about the company’s support for a seemingly independent network of anti-regulation, “free-market” nonprofits that spread falsehoods about the reality and seriousness of climate change. See no evil I wrote more columns about ExxonMobil and its top executives than any other major source of climate lies.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 30, 2023

And not just that, but Texas is by far the biggest producer of oil, with a governor who has pledged to protect the industry from climate regulation at all cost. Which seems a little hard to square with the state’s reliance on renewable energy. If anything, use of clean energy is about to accelerate.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 13, 2021

On July 13, the Environmental Quality Board voted 15 to 4 to approve the final regulation establishing a Carbon Pollution Reduction Program covering power plants after an attempt at the beginning of the more than two hour long meeting to delay action by Republican legislators on the Board. Read more here. Defeated 15 to 4. Metcalfe and Sen.

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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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Clean Energy Renewable Energy Electricity Climate Change 85

ESA

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

This summit will build on the work of the 2021 tribal nations summit, as well as other on-going work to strengthen nation-to-nation relations. War in Ukraine Likely to Speed, Not Slow, Shift to Clean Energy, I.E.A. Additional information and the meeting agenda will be posted on the PCAST website. . 30 and Dec.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2022

On April 7, the Department of Environmental Protection appealed the April 6 Commonwealth Court order blocking publication of the final regulation establishing a Carbon Pollution Reduction Program covering power plants consistent with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to the PA Supreme Court. Click Here for a copy of the appeal.

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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. 13] California regulators in 2020 over-estimated the contribution they could reasonably expect from renewables.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Senate returns to session September [ 20-canceled ], 21, 22 -- Committee Schedule House returns to session September 20, 21, 22 -- Committee Schedule TODAY’s Calendar Of Events -- 29 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA [PaEN] -- PA Environment Digest: Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults [PaEN] -- PA (..)

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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.

Natural Gas 49

Natural Gas Fossil Fuels Conservation 2023 49

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

On September 1, the Independent Regulatory Review Commission is considering whether to approve the final Environmental Quality Board regulation reducing carbon pollution from power plants consistent with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. How did we get here? On October 3, 2019, Gov. Read more here. Carolyn Comitta (D-Chester).

Regulations 52

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

“Job-killing regulations” is a longtime conservative meme. 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. billion to $197.4 billion to $197.4

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 15, 2023

Hours From Its Revolution Natural Gas Processing Plant In Washington County [PaEN] -- Observer-Reporter: Energy Transfer Natural Gas Cryogenic Plant Resumes Partial Operations -- StateImpactPA - Reid Frazier: Energy Transfer Natural Gas Plant Explosion Under Investigation In Washington County -- FracTracker Alliance Hosts Jan.

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Natural Gas Climate Change 2023 Electricity 49

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 24, 2021

26 With Ely Farm Visit In Bucks County [PaEN] -- SunburyDI Guest Essay: Methane Emissions From Low Producing Wells Must Be Regulated - Responsible Drilling Alliance -- Washington Examiner Guest Essay: Strengthen U.S. Energy Infrastructure Before The Next Cyberattack - John Lehman, Fmr Sec.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Circuit found that FERC failed to address the significance of a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulation that the petitioners argued required use of the social cost of carbon or another methodology to assess the impacts of the projects’ greenhouse gas emissions. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission , No. 20, 2021), No.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Million In July Helpful Resources: Click Here for latest PA Environmental News Like PA Environment Digest on Facebook Follow PA Environment Digest on Twitter Read Weekly PA Environment Digest [Posted: September 21, 2021] PA Environment Digest Million In Conservation Grants To Restore Delaware Watershed; PA Grants Total $4.5

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Natural Gas Clean Energy Conservation 2021 64

PA Environment Daily

JULY 30, 2022

Wolf Announces Evaluation Of How DEP Regulates Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling & The Industry’s Compliance With Environmental Safeguards [PaEN] -- 16 Oil & Gas Facility Spill, Soil, Water Contamination Cleanups Under Act 2 Land Recycling Program During July [PaEN] -- Appalachian Voices: Bipartisan STREAM Act Passes U.S.

Natural Gas 64

Natural Gas Fossil Fuels Ozone 2005 64

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Electric Vehicle Charging Network Strategy Being Released -- White House: Fact Sheet On Electric Vehicle Charging Action Plan -- New Conservative Energy Network Poll: 84% Support Govt. National/International -- EPA: Extends Comment Deadline To Jan. 2020 Election -- AP: Republican Cong.

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