PA Environment Daily

APRIL 11, 2023

On April 11, PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center unveiled a new interactive map highlighting one renewable energy or energy efficiency project in each county of the Keystone State, showing the vibrancy and growth of the clean energy sector across Pennsylvania. Click Here to visit the map.

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Environment + Energy Leader

DECEMBER 8, 2022

While many challenges will likely carry over into 2023, growth will accelerate, powered by robust demand and the record-breaking raft of clean energy incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The post Deloitte Report Points to Strong Growth in Renewables for 2023 appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Environment + Energy Leader

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Each month E+E Leader releases partner content and company resources from the top organizations and companies in the Environment+ Energy C&I space. The post E+E Resource Hub: February 2023 Highlights appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. Download your copies today.

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Environment + Energy Leader

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Each month E+E Leader releases partner content and company resources from the top organizations and companies in the Environment+ Energy C&I space. The post E+E Resource Hub: February 2023 Highlights appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. Download your copies today.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing December 11 on House Bill 1467 (Otten-D-Chester) expanding the mandate for renewable energy under the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards to 30% by 2030. Related Article: -- Philadelphia Solar Energy Assn.

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Environment + Energy Leader

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The post Corporate Responsibility in 2023: Triple Bottom Line Sustainability appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. Triple Bottom Line provides a framework for companies to evaluate their impact beyond just financial success and focus on long-term economic, social, and environmental sustainability.

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Environment + Energy Leader

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The post Corporate Responsibility in 2023: Triple Bottom Line Sustainability appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. Triple Bottom Line provides a framework for companies to evaluate their impact beyond just financial success and focus on long-term economic, social, and environmental sustainability.

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Law Columbia

MAY 24, 2023

New York State Office of Renewable Energy Siting , a lawsuit challenging the state’s March 2021 regulations for siting and permitting major renewable energy facilities. Source: Hecate Energy. Last Thursday, May 18, a state appellate court affirmed the trial court’s dismissal of Town of Copake v.

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Law and Environment

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) of the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) is responsible for the development of offshore renewable energy in federal waters. The agency is slated to act on both Requests in 2023. Publication of a draft environmental assessment is slated for Q1-Q2 in 2023.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Read the full story from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. It may be hard to believe 2023 has already come and gone, but researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have not let the past year slip by.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 11, 2023

The PA Interfaith Power and Light , the PA Jewish Earth Alliance and Lower Merion Carbon Pollution Reduction Initiative will host an April 19 webinar on How To Source Clean Renewable Energy sta rting at 7:00 p.m. Pennsylvania electricity customers can choose who they want to supply electricity to their homes. You just need to buy it.

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Corp Watch

AUGUST 27, 2023

Shell and BP accused of greenwashing renewable energy production Rebecca Speare-Cole pratap Sun, 08/27/2023 - 22:32 Wednesday, August 23, 2023 [link] Shell and BP are among 12 oil firms accused of greenwashing over the amount of renewable and low-carbon energy they produce.

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E2 Law Blog

JULY 26, 2023

In May and June 2023, Latin American countries embarked on a variety of projects to advance the renewable energy movement. Whether it is new agreements to promote international cooperation for a decarbonized market or solar farm projects, Latin America is becoming a focal point for the renewable energy market.

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SPR Law

MAY 10, 2023

On May 3, 2023, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced the highlights of the approved Fiscal Year 2024 state budget, including numerous investments in decarbonization programs and renewable energy development. Hochul’s Housing Plan appeared first on Sive Paget Riesel.

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Environment + Energy Leader

MARCH 23, 2023

The post Global Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Outlook and Regulations: What to Expect in 2023 and Beyond appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 30, 2023

The Pennsylvania Technical Assistance Program can help rural businesses apply for USDA Rural Energy for American Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency loans and grants. The application deadline is March 31, 2023. Rural small businesses and agricultural producers are eligible to apply.

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New Scientist

JANUARY 3, 2023

The Inflation Reduction Act will accelerate US progress on boosting renewable energy and reducing carbon emissions in 2023 as a decade of funding starts

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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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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Croatia, the Balkan country probably most known for its beautiful Adriatic coastline, has been urged to fulfil its enormous renewable energy potential. A report by Global Data, an analytical firm, has found that the country could ease its reliance on energy imports significantly, by expanding its renewable energy industry.

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Environment + Energy Leader

APRIL 17, 2023

Ember, a non-profit think tank that aims to accelerate the transition to clean energy, releases its Global Electricity Review 2023. The post Ember’s Global Electricity Review 2023: Accelerating the Transition to Clean Energy appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Law and Environment

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

One of the IRA’s provisions was an adder to the ITC for renewable energy projects located in an “energy community”. One way to be in an energy community is to be a brownfield. They are clearly driving renewable energy developers towards projects that utilize brownfield sites.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

Solar power is expected to make up about half of all additions of US electric generating capacity in 2023, according to data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). Compiled by UCS from Energy Information Administration data as of January 2023. The general outlook includes some good news and some bad news.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 20, 2023

during the first quarter of 2023 in the face of unrelenting demand for clean energy, according to a new report from LevelTen Energy. Wind prices … Continue reading Renewable energy PPA prices continue to rise despite Inflation Reduction Act relief: LevelTen Solar PPA prices are up 8.5%

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Acoel

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Posted on November 8, 2023 by Jeff Porter Over two years ago I wrote about a lawsuit filed by a Connecticut-based solar farm developer with a summer home in Martha’s Vineyard seeking to enjoin the Vineyard Wind project off the Massachusetts coast. Here’s the thing. appeared first on ACOEL.

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Law Columbia

JULY 7, 2023

The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law posted its Winter/Spring 2023 Semi-annual Report, which includes a summary of the Center’s key activities between January and June 2023. Opposition to Renewable Energy Facilities in the United States (May 2023 Edition) Urban Climate Law , by Amy Turner and Michael Burger (forthcoming Oct.

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Nanotech

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Department of Energy’s (DOE) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) announced on October 19, 2023, that North Carolina State University will hold the Waste to Advanced Resources Matter (WARM) workshop November 15-16, 2023, in Raleigh, North Carolina.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 22, 2023

To date in 2023, the United States has already suffered nine climate and weather disasters resulting in at least a billion dollars of damage, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. should take steps toward being carbon neutral by 2050 and should prioritize renewable energy over expanding fossil fuel exploration.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Renewable energy target raised to 50% by 2030. Requires 90% renewable energy and zero-carbon electricity by 2035, 95% by 2040 and 100% by 2045 CARB prohibited sale of new gas and diesel cars after 2034. 2023 SB 253. Effectively prohibited California utilities from using electricity from coal-fired generation.

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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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PA Environment Daily

MAY 18, 2023

Without changes to its queue processing pace, PJM will likely force states to fall short of state renewable targets, even after the reforms it approved last year.” As of September 2022, there were over 202 gigawatts (GW) of renewable energy resources waiting in the PJM queue, over 95% of the total queue. Read more here.]

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 5, 2023

Vanuatu, one of the most vulnerable nations in the world to climate change, has been seeking international justice for years while also “leading by example,” pledging complete conversion to renewable energy by 2030, despite already being net carbon-negative.

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 20, 2021

The International Energy Agency said in a report Tuesday that even as carbon dioxide emissions are set to hit a record high in 2023, international governments are set to only put 2 percent of their COVID-19 recovery spending toward renewable energy. Read more →

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Vermont Law

APRIL 5, 2023

The potential contribution of the BBNJ agreement to strengthen environmental protection in the development of marine renewable energy technologies in areas beyond national jurisdiction. The BBNJ negotiations started in April 2018 and the new instrument was agreed on 4 March 2023. 11, Issue 2 p. 202-219; 2) Soria-Rodríguez, C.,

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The Applied Ecologist

MARCH 19, 2024

Shortlisted for the Chico Mendes Prize 2023 In their latest Practice Insights article, Henry Hansen and colleagues present a case study that applies a new method to improve current fish habitat models and better guide future restoration efforts. The proliferation of hydropower plants supports the world’s shared goal …

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The State of Maine is expected to release the Maine Offshore Wind Roadmap in early 2023, and the global offshore wind industry should be watching. What can we expect to see when the final Roadmap is released in early 2023? Josh is a regular contributor to the Law & The Environment and Energy Climate Counsel blogs.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 31, 2022

On the last day of the 2022 Minnesota legislative session, state legislators had a real case of the Mondays: They failed to deliver on climate and energy policies that would have accelerated renewable energy enough to forge a clear path to carbon-free electricity and set the state on track to meet science-based emission reduction targets.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 28, 2023

Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – Environmental Defence experts on climate change, climate finance, Just Transition, clean transportation and, safeguarding freshwater react to the Federal 2023 budget, released today.

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