Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2022

Nearly all of the alliance members have a renewable electricity standard (RES), which requires utilities in their jurisdiction to increase their use of renewable energy to a particular percentage by a specific year. We found that states have technically feasible and highly beneficial ways to achieve 100-percent renewable energy.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 31, 2022

A new report released today by Environmental Defence – Buyer Beware: Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Carbon Capture Fairy Tales in Canada – reveals that despite promises to phase out fossil fuel subsidies, the federal government provided the fossil fuel sector with at least $8.6 billion in 2021. .

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 30, 2022

First-ever compilation of Canadian data on public subsidies for carbon capture technology documents billions in funding, but meager climate results . billion to the oil and gas sector in 2021 alone – a substantial amount of taxpayer money that went towards making it cheaper to find, extract, process, transport and export fossil fuels.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

However, as we replace fossil fuels with clean electricity for heating and transportation to meet our climate goals, these peak demands will increasingly shift to the winter in many parts of the country. Decarbonizing the power sector also plays a critical long-term role by replacing fossil fuels in other sectors.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 8, 2022

That amount of money could have funded every major wind and solar project in Canada from 2019-2021 five times over.). Fossil hydrogen: $300 million. Fossil (or “blue”) hydrogen helps oil and gas companies greenwash themselves, but it’s just another fossil fuel. What should the government do?

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The era of renewable energy is knocking at the door. In this year’s edition of World Energy Outlook , the International Energy Agency showed that with the rapid roll out of renewable energy technologies, the demand for fossil fuels – gas, coal and oil – will peak this decade. degrees.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 6, 2023

However, it’s a disappointment to the initiative’s proponents and to a larger group of environmental advocates who seek to promote California’s quick transition from reliance on heavily-polluting and climate-damaging fossil fuels to renewable energy resources. Measure Z never took effect.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 15, 2022

In 2021, 9 percent of US electricity came from those graceful kinetic sculptures, up from less than 3 percent in 2011. Wind is now the largest source of renewable energy in the country. Wind power generation will continue to rise, including in the near term as a result of one of the US wind industry’s best years ever in 2021.

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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

MARCH 16, 2022

The biggest takeaway : without robust new policies, US energy sector heat trapping emissions will continue to remain high, far off-track from where we need to be to meet our climate goals. Source: US Energy Information Administration, Annual Energy Outlook 2022 (AEO2022).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

I’ve written recently about why a Cap on Vegetable Oil-Based Fuels Will Stabilize and Strengthen California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard , which addresses the bio-based diesel credits. This is a little different than other similar sounding policies like Renewable Energy Standards, which can create some confusion.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Federal government releases new policy aimed at ending international public financing for fossil fuels, next step is ending domestic financing . This new policy will end a significant portion of EDC’s support for fossil fuels and redirect those funds to support the clean energy transition.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 27, 2023

The other was Kendall Dilling, CEO of the Pathways Alliance, a new group made up of oil sands producers like Cenovus, with the intention to push carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) to perpetuate fossil fuel production. Myth: The oil and gas industry has ready-to-deploy technology to get us to net-zero.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The renewable energy transition involves harnessing epic forces of nature. Sleek solar panels forged from silver and silica from the depths of the Earth translate the sun’s blindingly fiery light energy into electricity. What secret weapon is a critical enabler of this dramatic energy transition? Batteries.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

On September 21, members of the Senate and House called for early action on legislation -- House Bill 100 and Senate Bill 872-- to require Pennsylvania to reach 100 percent renewable energy generation by 2050. This is one of the biggest concerns of my constituents and I will continue to fight for investments in clean energy.”

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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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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 24, 2023

The world is moving away from fossil fuels. With renewable energy, like solar and wind, becoming cheaper and easier to scale up, there has never been a better moment for governments to transition away from the fossil fuel industry and its destructive impacts on the environment, the climate and communities.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Despite a significant uptake of renewable energy, India still relies on coal plants for more than half of its installed electricity supply. By Rejimon Kuttappan Along with a major expansion of renewable energy, India is also pushing for big increases in its coal production, casting doubt on its climate commitments.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 31, 2022

The Just Energy Transition Workshop is a timely workshop to examine the progress of the EU member countries, as well as the United States and Canada, following the COP-26 in Glasgow in 2021 and the IPCC Sixth Assessment Reports published in 2022. The keynote speaker will be: Jim Skea (Ph.D.

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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.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2022

To meet that goal, the International Energy Agency’s Net Zero Roadmap released in 2021 says no new oil and gas supply projects can come online. Meanwhile, annual reports show corporations are pushing ahead with plans to expand production, betting on new technologies to somehow make it all okay in the future.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 2, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen The world invested a record-high amount in renewables in 2022, a report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) has found. It revealed that the global investments in renewable energy as well as energy efficiency reached $ 1.3

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

Enough research has shown that Collective Green Action requires the stakeholders to work together, to build technological synergies based on transparency and a public-private partnership that goes beyond borders and profit accumulation. Developing countries need renewable energy investments of about US$1.7

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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. Don’t believe the industry spin.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 30, 2021

In this blog, we’ll take a look at the technologies that are being sold as climate saviours when their real objective is to prolong the life of the polluting fossil fuels which are driving climate change: carbon capture, offsets and ‘blue’ hydrogen. There are many, many concerns with carbon capture technology.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

In order to reduce emissions, we must phase out fossil fuels—oil, coal and gas—and move towards renewable energy and less plastic and petrochemical production since these products, so dangerous as ocean pollutants, are made from oil. Offshore Wind. Individual nations, like Vietnam, made new commitments as well.

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A Greener Life

MAY 20, 2022

With more than 300,000 panels deployed over an area of 214 hectares, it is the largest of its kind in the country, with a production capacity of 100 megawatts (MW) – a sizeable output, but not enough on its own to turn Bolivia’s energy mix away from fossil fuels and towards renewables. Advantageous and encouraging.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Read more here ] -- Renewable Energy Generation Isn’t Coming Online Fast Enough: A study PJM released February 24 showed renewable energy generation sources were not coming online fast enough to replace fossil fuel plants that are retiring. Energy Information Administration.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – September 23, 2021. Wind turbines and solar power, two sturdy and growing sources of renewable energy, require negligible amounts of water. But other low-carbon technologies do not tread as lightly. degrees Celsius than it was two centuries ago. It is already 1.1 degrees C higher.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 23, 2022

The conference will focus on "Energy Source Diversity" in awareness of the ongoing transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. Diverse energy sources will play a vital role in the generation, industrial, and transportation sectors. In the Annual Energy Outlook 2021, the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2024

In 2010, the mix was 48% coal, 34% nuclear, 15% gas and 2% renewables. I n 2017, electricity generation was 35% coal, 35% nuclear, 23% natural gas, 6% renewable, biomass and other. Energy Information Administration. PJM said the new generation capacity includes almost all investor-driven renewable energy and storage-- 50.8%

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

“Why pay for polluting energy from a dirty power plant hundreds of miles away when Pennsylvanians can just soak up the sun on our rooftops?” Small-scale solar energy, of which rooftop solar is the largest component - is growing rapidly in the United States, producing 10 times as much power in 2022 as a decade earlier.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 22, 2022

Bhutan’s first ground-mounted solar plant to feed power into the grid only went online in August 2021: the 180-kilowatt plant in Rubesa village in Wangduephodrang district. Photo credit: Department of Renewable Energy, MoEA Bhutan. Improvements in technology also mean it is now cheaper and more reliable.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 27, 2024

New analysis from Environmental Defence reveals that despite federal government promises, funding to the fossil fuel and petrochemical industries remains high Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – New analysis released today by Environmental Defence reveals Canada’s federal government provided at least $18.6

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

In 2021, Winter Storm Uri killed at least 246 Texans. Because no other fuels are required, power generation to this home would not be interrupted by a fossil-fuel supply line disruption. As of 2021, 36 percent of US residents are renters. Eight percent of those deaths were attributed to carbon monoxide poisoning.

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

According to the International Energy Agency (IEA) , renewable energy sources are to become the first electricity source by 2025, surpassing dirty coal. This is taking place as according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF), worldwide cleantech investments surpassed fossil fuels investments last year, with $1.1

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Law Columbia

APRIL 1, 2024

The Sabin Center, through the Renewable Energy Legal Defense Initiative (RELDI), partnered with Ohio attorney Trent Dougherty to help a local supporter named Dr. John Boeckl intervene in the Siting Board proceeding to advocate for approval of the project. Notwithstanding this opposition, Oak Run also found significant local support.

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