Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

If we are to protect the ocean, its marine ecosystems and the people who depend on them, we must address climate change at its root: the burning of fossil fuels for energy. In August 2024, Chevron began operating a new deepwater project in the Gulf of Mexico that could pump oil into the 2050s.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 14, 2025

Without a strong oil and gas pollution cap, fossil fuel companies will continue to prioritize their profits at the expense of our health, climate and future. We cant solve the climate crisis while continuing to funnel taxpayer dollars to the companies fueling the crisis. These new rules were promised over three years ago.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

.” It’s a review of 2024 sponsorships across six major league sports leagues in the U.S. That includes 25 sponsorship deals with Big Oil companies as well as 36 deals with lesser-known utility companies that generate electricity predominantly from fossil fuel-burning power plants and sell fossil gas directly to consumers.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 2, 2025

Bringing More Generation Online As new generation comes online more efficiently through these reforms, the demand for electricity and retirement of generators continues to outpace the addition of new generation. MW-Day In 2024-25; Extreme Weather Risk Big Factor [PaEN] Related Articles This Week: -- DEP Received Air Quality Permit For 4.6

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 23, 2025

As one energy news outlet put it, 2024 was a breakout year for the US nuclear power sector at least on paper. More recently, a 2023 bill would have exempted SMRs from the ban on new nuclear power plants, and a 2024 bill would have required a study on the feasibility and benefits of deploying SMRs. economy.

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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. percent of the country’s electricity supply (up 1.1 It supplied 10.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 25, 2022

I’m going to let you in on a little secret: Without power grid modeling tools, the transition to clean electricity would be an absolute mess. Luckily, we don’t have to resort to guesswork because we have sophisticated grid modeling tools that help guide the transition to clean electricity. Surely that would not end well.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 9, 2025

2024 had some bumps in the road for environmental protection. The world is moving away from fossil fuels in favour of things like new and improved heat pumps and renewable energy sources. Solar and wind energy has become much cheaper and solar is now the cheapest source of electricity on the planet.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 21, 2023

How would that change if I hopped on the electric bus route at the end of my block? The situation would indeed be much better if our gifts were delivered by a team of flying reindeer fueled by magic and apples instead of trucks running on polluting diesel fuel.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 19, 2023

That timing makes it a hugely important potential resource when winter hits hard and fossil fuels fail. And it will make it even more important when winter electricity demand increases because more households are using electric heat pumps. In the Northeast, for example, offshore wind is strongest in winter.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 17, 2025

By Kostantsa Rangelova and Yang Muyi Rising use of air con calls for more energy storage, electricity pricing reform and sturdier grid infrastructure, write two experts from think-tank Ember. What needs to change The northern summer of 2024 didnt just break records. Cooling demand doubled the year-on-year electricity demand growth.

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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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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

In December, 2024, the U.S. Meanwhile, it remains profoundly cheaper to produce electricity from solar than from new fossil fuel sources. Worsening PJMs gas dependence with the RRI also promises to lock in substantially higher energy costs.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

More efficient (and cleaner) gasoline cars are part of the reason why gasoline use is down, but the increasing number of electric vehicles being sold in the state will likely drive gasoline use down even further. But a growing share of the reductions is likely due to the increasing sales of electric vehicles (EVs).

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 24, 2025

Rising electricity demand from U.S. data centers risks deepening Americas reliance on fossil fuels and can put consumers and communities at risk, according to the report. The report shows that between 2021-2024, the number of data centers in the U.S. of the states energy use.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2024

In May 2024, Sen. Yaw announced the introduction of legislation prohibiting the distribution of Act 13 impact fees to any county “that is actively suing over fossil fuel use.” The IFO projects another $100 million drop in revenue in calendar year 2024 fee revenue from 2022 to $170 million. Read more here. Read more here.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Global spending on clean energy technologies and infrastructure is on track to hit $2 trillion in 2024. Much of this funding is slated to be put toward renewables, electric vehicles, low-emission fuels, storage solutions, nuclear power and other green technology.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

They just released their 2022 “Annual Energy Outlook” (AEO), which is a big deal: it tells us where electricity is headed over the next 30 years. Here are five key takeaways from this year’s AEO, focused primarily on the electricity sector: 1. Relying on market trends is nowhere near enough to do the job. Carbon emissions remain high.

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Natural Gas Renewable Energy Climate Change Electricity 291

Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Looking forward to 2024, we expect the federal government will make progress on efforts that are already underway and deliver real results. Here’s our list of the top 10 predictions for the environment in 2024 (in no particular order): 1.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

CARB has proposed to rapidly increase the stringency of the standard to increase demand for credits, but it should also address the supply of credits, to make sure the fuels supported by the LCFS help move California towards a clean transportation future. Each credit one metric ton of carbon dioxide equivalent pollution below the standard.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

On November 11, Energy Justice Advocates announced PECO has agreed to contract for 25 MW of solar energy as part of its default power procurement for electric customers from June 1, 2025 through May 31, 2029 as a result of a settlement recently approved by the Public Utility Commission. PECO serves nearly 1.7

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 8, 2025

By Anders Lorenzen There will still be some fossil-fuel-driven cars on the roads in Norway in the years and decades. However, their current status as dominating the car market will soon be a thing of the past, with electric vehicles heading the market. are fully electric.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The Washington & Jefferson College Center for Energy Policy and Management will host a free March 19 webina r on PJM Interconnections role as the Mid-Atlantic regional electric transmission organization in meeting increasing electric demand and ensuring reliable service while the amount of available generation capacity continues to tighten.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 30, 2025

We urge Pennsylvanias congressional delegation to defend this important funding that is allowing Pennsylvanians across the state to save money and build a clean energy future. Click Here to go to the PA investment map. Click Here for the PennEnvironment announcement.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 18, 2024

By Patrick McDonnell, CEO of PennFuture , Former Secretary of DEP This guest essay first appeared in the Observer-Reporter on October 17, 2024 Politicians often speak out against higher taxes, grocery bills, or utility rates, promising to work hard in office to prevent you from paying more.

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Natural Gas Toxic Substances Control Act Fossil Fuels 2019 109

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 18, 2024

Today, hydrogen is overwhelmingly produced through a heavily polluting fossil fuel-based process. But hydrogen can be cleanly produced and, with the right guardrails in place, that clean hydrogen can then be used to clean up polluting parts of the economy that can’t readily convert to running on renewable electricity.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 31, 2024

On July 30, the PJM Interconnection announced the results of its 2025/26 capacity auction, which revealed that costs will be roughly seven times greater than in 2024/25. Related Articles This Week: -- PJM Electricity Auction Price 9 Times Higher Than Previous Auction-- $269.92/MW-Day Read more here.] billion to about $14.7

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Now that I have reached the extent of my white-water rafting knowledge, here is a recap of our very productive session: Electric vehicle directionality stalled but will return UCS co-sponsored Senator Nancy Skinner’s Senate Bill 233 (SB 233) which would have required all electric vehicles to be bidirectional by 2030.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Such cases also play a pivotal role in challenging and diminishing the social license of powerful entities, notably the fossil fuel industry, that have historically operated with limited accountability. States’ written submissions are due to the ICJ in January 2024, the first step in the formal process.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 2, 2025

By Anders Lorenzen In 2024, the UK, the birthplace of the industrial revolution and powering modern civilisation, became the first developed economy to have completely weaned itself off coal. Ironically, Germany also imports nuclear-produced electricity from France. billion tonnes in 2024. billion tonnes in 2024.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 12, 2024

It highlights the most active fossil fuel companies and industry associations, as well as the Members of Parliament, ministries and ministers targeted for lobbying. Big Oil has a long history of denying climate change and promoting disinformation to greenwash the fossil fuel industry.

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Edouard Stenger

OCTOBER 31, 2023

This is exactly what is taking place with solar, electric vehicles, heat pumps and similar technologies. As a result, the IEA believes that “We are on track to see all fossil fuels peak before 2030” , and even much sooner. Fossil fuel peaks being driven by the “unstoppable” growth of low-carbon technologies.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

On November 21, the Public Utility Commission announced it will hold a technical conference on the adequacy of electricity supplies in Pennsylvania Monday, November 25 from 9:00 a.m. M-2024-3051988. Resource Links - Electric Grid: -- Gov. to 4:00 p.m. More information about the comment period can be found at Docket No.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Although NRG Energy as a company does generate some electricity using some renewable sources like solar and wind, more than 80% of its fuel mix is from fossil fuels, according to a 2023 analysis of the top 47 investor-owned utilities. for the Portland Thorns.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

On February 27, the PJM Interconnection announced the results of its latest electricity capacity auction. PJM said the auction secured adequate resources to meet demand for the 2024/2025 Delivery Year. MW-day for the 2023/2024 auction in May 2022, at a total cost of $2.2 The auction produced a price of $28.92

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 18, 2024

By John Quigley, Kleinman Center For Energy Policy , University of Pennsylvania The challenge of decarbonizing the electricity grid while ensuring its reliability is acute in Pennsylvania. The Commonwealth is the nation’s third-largest electricity producer , and exports more of it than any other state. per year over the next ten years.

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Law and Environment

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The report seeks to establish a framework for a long-term reduction in emissions from heating fuels, to align with the Commonwealth’s emissions reduction target of net zero by 2050 and the 2050 Decarbonization Roadmap.

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