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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Governmental agencies and utilities involved in the energy sector can pair an energy justice framework with meaningful community engagement to assess their actions and decisions and realize the benefits of energy equity for their constituents.

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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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Washington Nature

MARCH 18, 2024

The 2024 session of the Washington State Legislature has wrapped up, and at The Nature Conservancy in Washington we are celebrating new investments in the transition to a clean energy economy and a climate-resilient future for all Washingtonians. We’ve been wary of attempts to weaken the CCA since its passage in 2021.

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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

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 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.

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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.

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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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Legal Planet

APRIL 29, 2024

Climate policy has been boosted by dramatic changes in the economics of clean energy. Perhaps the most important development of the past decade has been the dramatic decline in the cost of renewables. Wind power costs fell by half from 2008 to 2021. In short, we’re seeing something like a slimmed-down Green New Deal.

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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). Aim The JTM aims for “a fair and just green transition […] to support workers and citizens of the regions most impacted by the transition.” refineries) or on highly carbon-intensive industries (such as cement plants or smelters).

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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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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Nonetheless, the new rule is a step in the right direction to a greener path towards 80 percent clean energy by 2030. #4: Despite the positives, there are some concerns that Regional Transmission Organizations (RTOs), who manage about 60 percent of the U.S. In Maine, it is. But despite producing enough food to support its 1.3

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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. Ras Laffan LNG terminal in Qatar. Photo credit: Matthew Smith, Flickr. In the U.S.,

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Lest one thinks this disconnect is a failure of the global climate architecture, the failure lies much closer to home—in the domestic politics in the US and many other countries that continue to favor the interests of the rich and powerful , and fossil fuel companies, at the expense of the health and safety of everyone else and the planet.

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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. percent, 47.4

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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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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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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.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 19, 2022

Despite drastically reducing the use of thermal coal domestically, in 2021 Canada exported over 16 million tonnes of American and Canadian thermal coal through the West Coast. According to the International Energy Agency , coal is “the single largest source of global temperature increase” in 2018. .

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Legal Planet

MARCH 30, 2023

Which seems a little hard to square with the state’s reliance on renewable energy. Instead, Texas is doubling down on renewables. The state will soon get more power from renewables than natural gas. If anything, use of clean energy is about to accelerate.

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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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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. In that same time, EIA projects renewable electricity will rise from 28 percent to 50 percent of global generation. [6]

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Glasgow — Today at COP26, Canada, US, Mali, UK, and 20 other countries and institutions from both developed and developing countries launched a joint statement committing to end direct international public finance for unabated coal, oil and gas by the end of 2022 and prioritize clean energy finance. This was 2.5

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Gas Rate Hikes -- Peoples Gas: Seeks Base Rate Changes To Support Pipeline Modernization Program -- Times Leader Guest Essay: Powering Up Consumer Savings With Natural Gas - By Gas & Oil Association Of West Virginia [Forgot About 2021-22 Price Spikes Already ?

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Walko [Mine Drainage Treatment, Clean Energy, Reforestation] Federal Budget Bill -- TribLive Guest Essay: We Can Create Jobs Without Sacrificing The Environment - Fmr Rep. Schweyer -- Inquirer Guest Essay: PA On The Precipice Of A Major Political Showdown Over Voting Rights - Rep.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Electricity bill hikes keeping coming—seven so far by grid operator LUMA, a US-Canadian consortium—since it took over the grid in 2021. The path to climate and clean energy resilience for Puerto Rico goes through self-determination and decolonization—that is what PRÁ and the Puerto Rican diaspora are working towards.

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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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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission , No. 3, 2021); Vecinos para el Bienestar de la Comunidad Costera v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission , Nos. 20, 2021), No. 20-1045 (D.C. 20-1093, 20-1094 (D.C. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS. City of Hoboken v. Exxon Mobil Corp. , 2:20-cv-14243 (D.N.J. Minnesota v. 0:20-cv-01636 (D.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2022

True Energy Independence Means Renewables [We’re Not Independent If Foreign Markets, Despots Set The Prices We Pay For Energy ] -- Financial Times: ExxonMobil Flags Highest Quarterly Profit Since The Boom Year Of 2008 When Russia Invaded Georgia [Anyone See A Pattern?

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Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

May 17, 2021). May 24, 2021); Suncor Energy (U.S.A.) May 24, 2021); Shell Oil Products Co., May 24, 2021). June 2, 2021). The fossil fuel companies removed the case in March 2021, citing five grounds for removal, including the federal officer removal statute. May 19, 2021). 19-1189 (U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 21, 2023

CLICK HERE to View or Print the May 22 PA Environment Digest.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

Circuit Decision Vacating Affordable Clean Energy Rule. Circuit’s January opinion vacating EPA’s repeal and replacement of the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan regulations for controlling carbon emissions from existing power plants. EPA’s response to the petitions is due June 3, 2021. FEATURED CASE. 20-1530 (U.S.

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Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Tesla vehicles have been involved in 273 crashes , of which six were fatal and five resulted in severe injuries, over a nine-month period between 2021 and 2022. The company has come under severe criticism for its “full self-driving” mode in its vehicles. chief to not invest in Indonesia's nickel industry on environmental concerns.

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