Earth 911

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Despite setbacks from the pandemic, renewable energy deployment is increasing. The post 3 Renewable Energy Trends for 2023 appeared first on Earth911. The Inflation Reduction Act extends.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 20, 2025

To deliver on this goal, the federal government made important investments in renewable energy projects. Yet, reaching net zero also means phasing out polluting fossil fuel energy, so the government developed rules to impose a pollution limit on electricity producers. Canada formally adopted this goal.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

They are useful tools for incentivizing things that we want more of – like renewable energy. That’s what the proposed clean energy tax credit does. Hydrogen, like electricity, is an energy carrier – it can be used to store and deliver usable energy, for example to a cement or steel factory or to produce fertilizer.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Earlier this month at COP28 countries committed to transitioning off of fossil fuels and massively scaling up renewable energy instead. So you’re excused if, like me, you’re baffled by Minister Freeland’s first move in the wake of COP28: a giant new fossil fuel subsidy, via the new Canada Growth Fund.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 24, 2023

There’s good news in the recently released official data on electricity generation in the United States in 2022: renewable energy has continued to grow, coal power has continued to drop, and renewables are now firmly ahead of coal for the first time ever. They offer a lot of good news about clean energy progress.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Regionalizing the grid could allow California to take advantage of renewable energy in other states such as wind power from Wyoming and hydropower in the Pacific Northwest. But it also would require California to give up some of its energy autonomy.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Earlier this month the Government of Canada delivered on a key climate promise and released new rules which end public funding for fossil fuels abroad, starting January 1, 2023. It also begins to align federal spending with a climate-safe future, by prioritizing public dollars towards climate solutions like renewable energy.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Yet in 2023, China accounted for about 60% of the world’s new renewables and electric vehicles. Four questions: Why have emissions continued to grow despite the huge expansion in renewables? The problem is that China’s energy use grew even faster than its clean energy use. million exports in 2023.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 13, 2024

Paul Arbaje is an energy analyst in the Climate & Energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists and an expert on electricity policies and reforms that reduce fossil fuel use and reliance. There are benefits to installing these clean appliances that go far beyond just contributing less to climate change.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The Premier and her government are so focused on picking fights with Ottawa that they are missing the fact that there are now more people employed in the development of renewable energy around the world than people working in oil and gas.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 22, 2024

When it comes to the transition to clean energy, 2023 was quite a year for progress: record-breaking amounts of solar installed in the United States, a solid drop in carbon emissions from the US power sector, more than one million electric vehicles sold in the country for the first time, “breakneck” growth in renewable energy globally, and more.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Vehicles powered by biomethane consume about one percent of California’s transportation fuel, but in the first three quarters of 2023, biomethane used to fuel these vehicles accounted for 17 percent of LCFS credit generation. But what about the rapidly increasing credits generated by biomethane?

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 30, 2025

On April 30, the PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center and Evergreen Collaborative unveiled Renewable Energy Success Stories in the Keystone State. Pennsylvanians deserve an affordable, clean energy future, and these funds are making that future a reality.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 9, 2024

I reviewed ExxonMobil’s two most recent reports (2023/2024) to evaluate the scientific rigor of its claims. A word about CCS : this technology has existed for decades but is only used at a handful of fossil energy facilities. Who needs units anyway?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

It adds Michigan to the growing list of states, including Illinois and Minnesota , that have adopted standards to increase renewable energy on the grid and move toward 100-percent decarbonization of the power sector. It also will expand energy efficiency programs, streamline utility-scale renewable project siting approvals, and more.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

” Prioritizing fossil fuels over renewable energy in 2023 for insubstantial reasons does not pass strict scrutiny. Notable for future litigation was this court’s focus on the feasibility of quickly moving to renewable energy systems, especially wind, water, and solar. They’ll have to be pushed.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2022

Companies are spending millions fighting lawsuits that would hold them accountable for the costs that fossil fuel extraction has imposed on people and the planet. DO: Dramatically increase your investment in renewable energy. DO: Pay your fair share of the costs of climate change. Chevron alone is facing a $9.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

The fossil fuel giant now claims to be “aligned” with the Paris climate agreement, all while it continues to massively expand oil and gas exploration and production and lobby against climate action. A single climate expert clearly failed to steer the corporation away from climate disinformation.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 17, 2025

It was a stark reminder that fossil fuels remain the fallback when extreme weather strikes. From Texas to Tamil Nadu, power grids have been buckling under unprecedented demand for cooling, exposing a paradox of the energy transition. Those countries are prime examples. c in August and 23.1 Cooling demand spiked substantially.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 5, 2024

There’s a direct line of culpability between fossil fuel corporations and climate change – it’s why so many oil and gas CEOs have topped our list of Climate Villains. But they aren’t the only powerful players who shoulder responsibility for keeping us hooked on fossil fuels, the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 24, 2023

Ahead of Budget 2023, we joined over 20 other organizations in calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland to scale up climate investments in order to build a thriving, stable and healthy future for people in Canada. That would amount to $287 billion over the next five years.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2023

On May 17, 2023, the Midcontinent Independent System Operators (MISO), responsible for operating the energy markets and transmission infrastructure serving 45 million people across the central United States, released the results of its annual energy capacity auction, held to ensure enough electricity is available for consumers.

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Legal Planet

JULY 5, 2023

A 2022 Rainforest Action Network repor t found that “fossil fuel financing from the world’s 60 largest banks has reached USD $4.6 trillion in the six years since the adoption of the Paris Agreement, with $742 billion in fossil fuel financing in 2021 alone.” The biggest US bank investors in fossil fuels? “At

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 17, 2024

PJM directs the revenues and operation of the largest fossil fuel power plant fleet (124 gigawatts), making it the largest utility in the US. They have since split this into two efforts and have issued two packages of rule changes: Order 2023 and Order 1920. For comparison, in 2023 , 6,727 megawatts were retired.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Statement by Julia Levin, Associate Director, National Climate Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – New analysis released today from the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) demonstrates that the Government of Canada is still intent on providing massive subsidies to fossil fuel companies.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The Premier had made it very clear in past statements that she is biased against renewable energy, and instead favours projects that cause pollution, limit Alberta’s future economic growth, and contribute to global climate change. In 2023, Alberta led the country in renewable energy investment.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 22, 2024

At UCS, we’re working to ensure effective and equitable implementation of key clean energy and clean transportation provisions. The IRA also includes some less than ideal fossil-fuel supporting incentives that will need continued monitoring.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

What makes me most optimistic are the recent technological innovations and falling costs for renewable energy generation, battery storage and alternative fuel vehicles. –Jay Parepally, JD 2023. –Tom Hanrahan, JD 2023. –Laurel Hunt, JD 2023. –Sarah Repko, JD 2023.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The Global Stocktake process, the first of which is underway right now and set to conclude in 2023, is designed to help assess the impact of collective national pledges and identify opportunities to do more. Renewed, scaled-up climate finance pledges from richer countries to help support both mitigation and adaptation in low-income countries.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 16, 2024

This needs some thought, as both the laws of physics and the principles of supply and demand will apply, even if legislatures and regulators have not yet spoken about allocating costs and resources related to data center energy demands. Data centers’ total energy demand is challenging to meet.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

In fact, between 2000 and 2023, 80% of all major power outages in the United States were due to weather, including severe storms, wildfires, and extreme heat. The traditional electricity grid starts with generation of electricity from power plants fueled by gas, nuclear, coal, or, increasingly, renewable energy sources like solar and wind.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 18, 2024

This council suggested labeling fossil fuel activities like CCUS (carbon capture, utilization, and storage) as sustainable, as well as some types of oil and gas expansion. Labeling fossil fuel activities as sustainable is like including a harpooned whale under Ocean Wise, or describing a peanut butter and jelly sandwich as nut-free.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

State of Montana, a Montana trial court ruled that the state Constitution’s guarantee of a healthy and clean environment prevails over Montana’s longstanding fossil-fuel-based state energy system. legal history.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 24, 2024

Albertans want and need leadership to address the climate crisis, energy affordability, and the fair and unbiased development of the renewable energy industry. 65 per cent of Albertans support reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2050 and 70 per cent believe that the Alberta economy is too dependent on fossil fuels.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 5, 2025

The Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Cindy Dunn, provided the event’s keynote address, saying , “The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources is using solar energy as a part of our broader commitment to sustainably managing the Commonwealth’s natural spaces.

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