Circle of Blue

JUNE 23, 2025

Curtailing this source of inexpensive electricity would raise the cost of power in the region while also challenging the integration of renewable energy into the electric grid. Power generation in 2023 was roughly half the output of 2000, the last year that Lake Mead was effectively full.

2027

Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

Thats why I was happy to partner with Environmental Defence and use my platform to promote renewable energy, action against climate change, and our most valuable resource: wide open untouched, healthy nature. Replacing fossil fuels like oil and gas with renewable energy is critically important for addressing climate change.

Fossil Fuels

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. GW in 2023. Canada formally adopted this goal.

Electricity

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.

Renewable Energy

PA Environment Daily

JULY 22, 2025

Chairman DeFrank emphasized the need for continued investment in a wide range of energy resources-- including renewables, energy efficiency, storage, demand response, and traditional baseload generation-- to ensure that Pennsylvania’s grid remains resilient and affordable. “We Click Here for video and photos.

Solar Power

A Greener Life

MAY 1, 2025

By Chalie Charoenlarpnopparut Entrenched gas interests and domestic issues put a strain on Thailands solar potential, writes renewable energy expert Chalie Charoenlarpnopparut. The first is that renewable energy will make up a large portion of Thailands portfolio. By 2037, Thailand aims to have 51% renewable energy.

Renewable Energy

A Greener Life

APRIL 17, 2025

Even as renewable capacity expands, old fossil infrastructure continues to serve as a crutch during extreme stress. Despite its inexorable march toward renewable energy, the countrys rapidly expanding clean-power system remains insufficiently resilient to withstand extreme conditions. c in August and 23.1

Cooling

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

The Rural Energy for America Program (REAP ) offers grants and loan guarantees to farmers, ranchers, and rural small businesses for energy efficiency improvements and renewable energy systems. Renewable energy systems like solar dominate REAPs portfolio, with most awards granted to farms and small businesses.

Renewable Energy

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.

Clean Energy

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The OCP Group has agreed on an essential renewable energy and infrastructure deal with the French energy giant Engie. The agreement could yield investments of up to €17 billion in desalination, renewable energy, and green hydrogen. By 2040, it aims to be fully carbon neutral.

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 25, 2025

In 2023, it increased to 4.4% (176 TWh) of the total U.S. All these estimates come from the 2024 United States Data Center Energy Usage Report. data centers consumed 66 billion liters of water directly at their facilities (also known as direct water) in 2023. electricity consumption and projections to 2028 fall within 6.7%

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 17, 2024

This report reflects insights gathered over three years of stakeholder engagement, including contributions from the Clean Energy Workforce Roundtable , a regional network facilitated by Sustainable Pittsburgh aimed at aligning workforce development strategies with the growing demands of the clean energy sector.

Clean Energy

A Greener Life

JULY 6, 2025

Renewable energy expansion Brazil’s renewable energy sector continues to grow, with hydropower providing around 60% of the country’s electricity, making it one of the world’s largest producers of hydropower. drop in Amazon deforestation between 2023 and 2024. million hectares destroyed between 2001 and 2020.

2025

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The framework they built is now paying off in a big way with new investments and job creation, as well as the considerable health and environmental benefits of clean energy.” Homeowners with solar installations have an estimated savings of 20% on their monthly energy bill. Department of Energy.

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 10, 2025

Now, Virginia has more data centers than anywhere, and in 2023 those data centers used over 25% of electricity sold in the state. Further complicating matters, the global capacity to build conventional energy infrastructure, including gas-fired generators is already stretched to meet new demand.

Nuclear Power

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2025

Total centralized capacity grows from 33 MW in 1900 to 1,281,892 MW in 2023, while total distributed capacity grows from 0 MW in 2003 (before data collection began) to 122,518 MW in 2023. Energy Information Agency. A log-scale plot showing the change over time of centralized and distributed generation capacity. Data source: U.S.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

APRIL 11, 2025

Over the last five years, several states, including New York (2020), California (2022), Illinois (2023), and Michigan (2023) have adopted comprehensive permitting reforms that curtail the power of local governments to block development of large-scale renewable energy projects.

Renewable Energy

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.

Renewable Energy

A Greener Life

APRIL 10, 2025

The Swiss public gives the final nod to boosting renewable energy With 97% of its broad gauge lines now transitioned, India has the second highest electrification rate of any major rail network in the world. India Railways has ambitious plans to shift to 100% renewable energy , using its surplus land for solar farms.

Electricity

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

OTTAWA/TRADITIONAL, UNCEDED TERRITORY OF THE ALGONQUIN ANISHNAABEG PEOPLE — Ecojustice and Environmental Defence have uncovered that greenhouse gas emissions from Canada’s exported oil, gas, and coal ballooned to record levels in 2023. Last year at COP28, countries, including Canada, finally agreed to transition to renewable energy systems.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JULY 2, 2025

The department also has embraced green building practices and renewable energy sources to make its facilities more sustainable. From eco-friendly buildings to energy-efficient infrastructure, DCNR continues to set a high standard for environmental responsibility.

Natural Resources

National Law Center

JULY 29, 2025

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2013

Enviromental Defense

JULY 2, 2025

In 2023 alone, Google consumed 23 billion litres of water in its data centres, which is equivalent to the yearly water use of 280,00 people in Canada for one entire year. In particular, oil and gas companies use AI to cut down costs as they strive to compete with cheap renewable energy production.

Fossil Fuels

Environmental News Bits

JULY 16, 2025

consumer demand for renewable energy continues to grow, with more solar panel capacity installed in 2024 than in 2023, which saw more than in 2022. by Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti, University of Michigan U.S. trade policy is in flux, and high tariffs have been imposed on imported solar panels, which may cause shortages.

Renewable Energy

A Greener Life

APRIL 3, 2025

The potential is immense, with the International Energy Agency (IEA) reporting that global investment in EV batteries has surged eightfold since 2018 and fivefold for battery storage, rising to a total of $150 billion in 2023. Yet renewable energy offers a transformative solution.

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Over 140 such cases have been filed globally since 2016, with 47 new filings in 2023 alone. These cases, which challenge companies for making deceptive claims about their climate commitments or sustainability efforts, are becoming a cornerstone of climate litigation.

2025

A Greener Life

JANUARY 2, 2025

The German example Germany, the economic and industrial powerhouse in Europe in 2023, decided, for ideological and emotional reasons, to wean itself off nuclear power , even though the low-carbon baseload energy source was key to stability and economic output. billion tonnes in 2024.

2027

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 10, 2025

This refers to more than just whether DERs are in stock and available for purchase; it also depends on whether there are clear pathways to install DERs in communities where energy justice is lacking, or whether there are significant barriers. As it turns out, significant barriers remain.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 29, 2025

Yaw’s Senate District -- Williamsport Sun Editorial: Act 13 Shale Gas Drilling Impact Fee Just Part Of Gas Industry’s Success -- PA Capital-Star: Gov.

Conservation

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 3, 2025

Source: Adapted from Hotchkiss, Grue, and Petty 2023 Resilient systems must, first and foremost, serve communities While transmission system planners must think regionally and inter-regionally about the investments needed to build a more climate-resilient power system, investment decisions must start with a focus on communities.

Climate Change

A Greener Life

APRIL 25, 2025

billion in 2023 to $723 million in 2024. Much like renewable energy 20 years ago, CDR is a long-standing yet underutilised technology that entails large sunk costs and offers uncertain returns. CDR purchases increased by 750% from 2022 to 2023, and by May 2024, they had already surpassed the previous years total.

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 6, 2025

[Cold Weather, LNG Demand Push Prices Higher] [ PDF of Article ] -- WTAJ: 200,000+ PA Residents Could See 18% Increase In National Fuel Gas Natural Gas Bills In 2025 -- WFMJ: National Fuel Gas Customers Could See 17% Increase In Gas Costs Starting Aug. 1 -- Altoona Mirror: Peoples Gas Natural Gas Rates To Increase Jan.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

4 - Repurposing Underutilized Lands For Energy - Marginal Farmlands, Abandoned Mine Sites, Brownfields [PaEN] -- EPA Awards $34 Million In Grants To Reduce Air Pollution At Schools; Highlights Efforts In Philadelphia [PaEN] -- DEP Awards $18.9 Million To 126 Municipalities To Support Local Recycling Programs [PaEN] -- DEP To Hold Nov.

Conservation

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Enacted in 2023, the American Innovation and Manufacturing (AIM) Act directs the EPA to address hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) by phasing down the production and consumption of HFCs in the United States by 85% by 2036, mirroring the Kigali Amendment (a climate-related treaty that the Senate had ratified in 2022.

Law

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The impacts of these obstacles are very real and apparent, with large renewable energy generation and transmission projects regularly facing denials or uneconomical delays. A national policy of repurposed energy may help counter local opposition and accelerate clean energy development.”

Clean Energy

Legal Planet

MAY 20, 2025

As chair of the California Air Resources Board for nearly 20 years, I attended the annual conferences from Bali in 2007 to Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, in 2023. In 2023, data show the planet was losing rainforest equivalent to 10 soccer fields a minute, and had lost more than 7% since 2000. Trust me, Ive been there.

Rainforest

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

In 2023, grid planner PJM approved more transmission upgrades for the region, costing another $800 million. In Virginia, where data centers already account for 25% of electricity use, $627 million in grid projects were approved in 2022 to get enough power over the wires to support this data center alley.

Nuclear Power