Enviromental Defense

MAY 17, 2024

2023 was the hottest year on record The degree of devastation across Canada in 2023 was difficult to comprehend. July and August 2023 were the hottest months ever recorded globally. Lytton, BC was Canada’s hot spot in 2023 at 42.2°C Greenhouse gas emissions are causing the climate crisis. C on August 15.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The Department of Environmental Protection is now accepting nominations for the 2023 Governor’s Award for Environmental Excellence. The deadline for nominations is December 21.

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E2 Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

11, 2023, the City Planning Commission approved amendments to the New York City Zoning Resolution, called “City of Yes for Carbon Neutrality,” proposed by Mayor Adams’ administration to advance the city’s climate goals, including an 80% reduction in carbon emissions by 2050.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The Legislature also increased efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions with the passage of Assembly Bill 1279 and Senate Bill 1020, setting net zero emissions targets and renewable energy and zero-carbon targets for California retail electricity sales. None of the amendments, however, more broadly limit CEQA’s reach.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 4, 2023

January 4, 2023. By coincidence rather than design, two different approaches to reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the electric power sector have been under discussion by North Carolina agencies since 2021. This post will describe draft rules being considered by the N.C. The proposed N.C. As a result, the N.C.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 11, 2022

The Department shall approve the rebates not later than June 30, 2023; and. The proposals shall ensure equitable participation by all electric vehicle owners and lessees. Not later than October 31, 2025 the department shall issue at least 1 order that responds to distribution.

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Law and Environment

JULY 10, 2023

On June 26, 2023, the Cambridge City Council voted to amend the city’s Building Energy Use Disclosure Ordinance (BEUDO) to require large non-residential buildings to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2035 and mid-size non-residential buildings to do so by 2050.

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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.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2023

On October 17, Energy Vision announced the Dickinson College Farm anaerobic digester was one of three winners of its 17th Annual Leadership Awards recognizing renewable energy projects in the U.S. that reduce greenhouse gas emissions by converting organic waste into sustainable energy. Read more here.

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

First off, some facts and figures from Ember, which recently stated that both fossil fuels generation and CO2 emissions from the European electricity sector fell 19 percent last year alone. Renewables now account for 44% of the EU electricity mix and wind power is now producing more electricity than natural gas.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 16, 2024

By making it cheaper to find, extract, process, transport and export fossil fuels, subsidies encourage more fossil fuel production, increasing the risk of locking in greenhouse gas emissions for decades to come. Compared to funding for fossil fuels, clean energy stimulus creates nearly three times as many jobs for equivalent investments.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Ontario is failing to reduce the province’s greenhouse gas emissions. This is pitiful, especially because p rovinces hold sizable levers that can reduce (or increase) greenhouse gas emissions in Canada. Ontario does have a target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 13, 2023

Learn how schools can access this funding to save money by permanently reducing your electric bill! Join Philadelphia Solar Energy Association and PHENND Sustainability for a preview of the Solar Schools Toolkit. The federal Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) provides unprecedented incentives to go solar.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2023

Twenty-one school, business and community projects were honored with the 2023 Governor's Award for Environmental Excellence. Utilizing manure nutrients efficiently means that risk of loss of nitrogen, phosphorus, sediment, and greenhouse gas is minimized. The overarching goal of Manure Expo is based on environmental quality.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In 2023, Canada experienced its worst ever wildfire season , with 167,000 people forced to evacuate their homes under 211 federal evacuation orders. While the federal and some provincial governments made key announcements in 2023 that will support climate action and improve the cost of living, they have more to do.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2023

On May 1, the Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee was told the wholesale prices of electricity in the PJM regional electric grid are too low to support coal and natural gas power plants. There were no representatives of renewable energy generators on the panel of witnesses.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 16, 2023

On August 16, the University of Pittsburgh and Vesper Energy officially cut the ribbon on the 20-megawatt Gaucho Solar Energy project built on 68 acres on the border of Findlay Township, Allegheny County and Independence Township, Beaver County. Geoffrey Pyatt, assistant secretary for energy resources at the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 11, 2023

According to the Solar Energy Industries Association, the U.S. solar industry is on target to add a record-breaking 32 gigawatts of new solar capacity to the grid in 2023, which is 50% more than it added last year. Click Here to register and for more information.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

A quick glance at the latest data from CARB shows there are three large and growing sources of credits: bio-based diesel, biomethane and electricity. Bio-based diesel, biomethane and electricity are the largest and fastest growing sources of LCFS credits in recent years.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 27, 2023

On June 14, 2023, the U.S. Direct pay – which is already in effect as of January 1, 2023 – allows tax-exempt entities, including local governments, to claim the value of certain clean energy and other tax credits as a cash payment, rather than as an offset to tax liability that they do not have.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The opportunities to diversify our generation fleet will continue to grow as nationwide investment has pushed down the cost of emerging technologies substantially over the last two decades, making solar and other advanced generation solutions affordable, and in many cases, the cheapest energy resource to build.

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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. The US Energy Information Administration is forecasting the wholesale price of gas to reach its highest level since the winter of 2009-2010 in inflation-adjusted terms.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Although the country has said it will go all renewable from 2023, its current construction of lignite power plants will generate emissions for decades. Coal currently makes up nearly 40% of Indonesia’s energy mix. Coal, energy goals and the climate. Photo credit: China Dialogue. By Arpan Rachman.

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E2 Law Blog

JANUARY 5, 2024

26, 2023, applicable to clean hydrogen production facilities. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) issued proposed regulations , published in the Federal Register Dec.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2023

Greater Philadelphia is committed to attaining net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and preparing our communities for the impacts of climate change,” said Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission Executive Director Ariella Maron. 27 Released 1.1 27 Released 1.1

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The grant recipients, ranging from a small borough to rental car, garbage truck, and school bus companies, will replace 88 old gasoline or diesel vehicles with 78 electric and 10 renewable natural gas vehicles and install 36 chargers for electric vehicles. Click Here for a list of projects funded. “We

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

Opportunities to learn more about environmental and energy issues affecting Pennsylvania for students and adults-- -- Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Facility Malfunction Dec. Posted: April 16, 2023] PA Environment Digest 27 Released 1.1 Visit DEP’s Teaching Green webpage to learn about more environmental education resources.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

And in 2023, which is the first year that we had funding available to implement these well plugging projects, 148 wells were plugged and 124 of those were plugged with the funding from the IIJA. “You You could do a microgrid installation for Community Energy Resilience. billion to fund projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions. “So,

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Brag

JANUARY 24, 2023

BETO states that methanol has “rich potential for uses that contribute to lower greenhouse gas emissions and help in the fight against climate change.” Bergeson and Carla N. Hutton The U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

In short, we urge you to prioritize sustainable industries, particularly the rapidly growing renewable energy, battery storage, electric vehicle, and energy efficiency sectors. Pennsylvania is one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gas emissions in the nation.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 9, 2023

PWSA holds the largest share at 30% of the total, underlining our strong commitment to sustainable energy practices. “It Additionally, this agreement further safeguards the region’s energy needs by providing a long-term hedge against rising energy prices. PaEN] [Posted: August 9, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 27, 2023

This comes with massive greenhouse emissions that are rapidly changing the earth’s climate, with disastrous effects for our health, homes and economies. The path to net zero means not developing new oil and gas projects , scaling down current production, and transitioning to renewable energy sources.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 22, 2024

The Fifth National Climate Assessment recently concluded that, to meet national and international climate targets, United States net greenhouse gas emissions will need to decline by over 6% per year and reach net zero by roughly 2050. In other words, the United States will need to build significant amounts of renewable energy infrastructure.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 24, 2023

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. In short, past Energy Futures have modelled climate failure.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2023

On November 16, 2023, the Department of Energy (DOE) published a proposed rule to expedite the environmental review process for certain renewable energy infrastructure projects through the use of categorical exclusions.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

In Mexico, challenges to the government’s backsliding on incentives to renewable energy have failed to advance. The amendment significantly reduced the participation of autonomous energy operators in the energy sector, directly affecting the supply of renewable energy. In Greenpeace v. In RWE and Uniper v.

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