Vermont Law

DECEMBER 18, 2023

VJEL Newsroom Announcing VJEL's 2024 Top 10 Environmental Watch List By VJEL December 18, 2023 The Vermont Journal of Environmental Law (VJEL) is pleased to announce the publication of its 2024 Top 10 Environmental Watch List. But these vehicles are killing our planet.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 2, 2024

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Nuclear Power 65

Nuclear Power 2024 Clean Energy Renewable Energy 65

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

23 Webinar On Solar Energy For Municipalities And Water Authorities [PaEN] -- PUC Invites Comments On Williams Natural Gas Pipeline Co. Proposal To Construct 2 Solar Energy Facilities To Provide Electricity To Compressor Stations In Columbia, Wyoming Counties [PaEN] -- DEP Approves PennEnergy Resources 1.5

Natural Gas 101

Natural Gas Climate Change Fossil Fuels Carbon Emissions 101

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2024

Louie Krak, DEP’s Infrastructure Implementation Coordinator, told DEP’s Environmental Justice Advisory Board on February 21-- “DEP plans to submit a $500 million implementation grant application” under the federal Priority Climate Action Plan program. Read more here.

Natural Gas 101

Natural Gas Clean Energy Electricity Renewable Energy 101

Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 1, 2023

These new rules should also free up billions for climate solutions, such as building more renewable energy, electrifying public transit and making our homes and buildings more energy efficient. Ending fossil fuel subsidies is a really big deal. This would rule out any spending on new oil, gas or coal projects. That’s too late.

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Fossil Fuels Renewable Energy Government Climate Change 93

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.

Fossil Fuels 69

Fossil Fuels Renewable Energy Natural Gas Climate Change 69

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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Fossil Fuels Electricity Renewable Energy Government 105

Enviromental Defense

MAY 15, 2024

Methane is responsible for 30 per cent of the current global temperature rise to date globally, and over 14 per cent of Canada’s annual greenhouse gas emissions. “A Background: The Federal Government reaffirmed its commitment to deliver a sustainable finance taxonomy, as recently as the 2024/25 Federal Budget.

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Fossil Fuels Natural Gas Climate Scientist Climate Change 115

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 27, 2024

The US Department of Education honored 55 schools with 2024 Green Ribbon Schools recognition to highlight schools, districts, postsecondary institutions, and early learning centers’ cost-saving, health promoting, and performance-enhancing sustainability practices.

Recycling 83

Recycling Greenhouse 2024 Renewable Energy 83

Greenbuilding Law

MARCH 10, 2024

Last Wednesday by a 3 to 2 vote the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted long awaited rules to enhance and standardize climate related disclosures, including for the first time requiring greenhouse gas emission disclosures by public companies and in public offerings. Make no mistake, this is huge.

Climate Change 52

Climate Change Renewable Energy Greenhouse Regulations 52

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

So far in 2024, we're up to 34 wells plugged, 24 of those from the IIJA funding. You could do a microgrid installation for Community Energy Resilience. You could do a brownfield redevelopment project or a workforce development program for occupations that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and air pollutants.”

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Clean Energy Air Pollution Greenhouse Electricity 90

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

This is a little different than other similar sounding policies like Renewable Energy Standards, which can create some confusion. But while a Renewable Energy Standard treats all sources of qualifying renewable energy equally, the LCFS has a more complicated approach, based on lifecycle analysis.

Fossil Fuels 279

Fossil Fuels Regulations Renewable Energy Carbon Dioxide 279

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2024

Josh Shapiro joined Department of General Services Secretary Reggie McNeil, Constellation President & CEO Joseph Dominguez, and Lightsource bp Senior Vice President Alyssa Edwards to unveil the Commonwealth’s renewable energy initiative, the Pennsylvania Project to Utilize Light and Solar Energy (PA PULSE).

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Electricity Government Clean Energy Renewable Energy 110

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

20 To Review 2024 Climate Impacts Assessment, PA Greenhouse Gas Inventory, Climate Action Plan Ohio River Valley Institute Feb. Email: PaEnviroDigest@gmail.com [Posted: February 19, 2024] PA Environment Digest Million In Tax Credits To Subsidize Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County; Total Expected To Be $1.17

Natural Gas 79

Natural Gas 2024 Recycling Climate Change 79

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2024

These proposals were based on the Governor’s RGGI Working Group , which brought together labor leaders, environmental advocates, and industry to evaluate the merits of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). General Richard Zilmer, USMC (Ret.), General Richard Zilmer, USMC (Ret.),

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Electricity Natural Gas Clean Energy Renewable Energy 115

A Greener Life

AUGUST 5, 2022

What if scientists could turn back the clock on greenhouse-gas emissions – just a little? A new process could lock carbon dioxide below the ocean floor, allowing valuable time to reduce the atmospheric greenhouse gases driving climate change. Humans urgently need to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and scale down reliance on carbon.

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Carbon Dioxide Ocean Atmosphere Fossil Fuels 98

Law and Environment

DECEMBER 5, 2022

According to the 2050 Roadmap, on-site combustion of fossil fuels in the residential and commercial building sectors presently accounts for about 27% of statewide greenhouse gas emissions, and the use of these fuels for building heat is the largest end-use contributor to emissions in the building sector.

Fossil Fuels 130

Fossil Fuels Clean Energy Electricity Natural Gas 130

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

In a previous blog post , I briefly reviewed some of the innovative strategies to reduce methane emissions from agricultural livestock and rice operations, which have the potential to combat a significant source of global greenhouse gas emissions. Cap-and-Trade Programs.

Renewable Energy 147

Renewable Energy Regulations 2030 2014 147

Environmental News Bits

JUNE 5, 2024

Jul 16, 2024 10 am CDTRegister here. Decarbonizing heating systems in multifamily buildings can seem insurmountable without the right information.

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2024 Renewable Energy Greenhouse 40

A Greener Life

JUNE 10, 2021

A recent study in Nature concluded Bitcoin operations in China are on track to produce 130 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions in 2024 – more than the entire economy of the Czech Republic. For example, Chia uses less processing power than Bitcoin and so produces fewer greenhouse gas emissions. Photo credit: AP.

Climate Change 97

Climate Change Fossil Fuels Electricity Greenhouse 97

A Greener Life

JULY 19, 2023

Colombia’s Minister of Mines and Energy, Irene Vélez, discusses renewable energy projects with Wayuu Indigenous communities in the northern department of La Guajira. Elsewhere, other renewable energy projects have been unable to connect and deliver power to the grid, the National Interconnected System.

Wind Power 40

Wind Power Renewable Energy Ocean Government 40

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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Renewable Energy Government Fossil Fuels Wind Power 72

E2 Law Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Enacted in 2019, the CLCPA transformed the state’s earlier clean energy standard efforts from administrative fiat to law and sets more aggressive goals to reduce statewide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions economy-wide to 60% from a 1990 baseline by 2030, and 15% from a 1990 baseline by 2050.

Regulations 52

Regulations Clean Energy 2030 Climate Change 52

Brag

MAY 24, 2021

A “Green Rewarding Mechanism” could be introduced to the JTF for distribution of additional funding to member states if the EP decides to increase the fund’s resources after December 31, 2024. Member states that succeed in reducing industrial greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions will receive additional funding.

2027 40

2027 Renewable Energy 2021 Greenhouse 40

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.

Electricity 77

Electricity Law Renewable Energy 2016 77

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2024

I was excited to learn about investments in the green hydrogen-powered Constellium aluminum facility in the Ravenswood area, which offers incredible opportunities for a local manufacturing renaissance using clean energy and far cleaner fuels, in addition to creating well-paying union jobs with great benefits that sustain families and communities.

Fossil Fuels 109

Fossil Fuels Natural Gas Waste Technology 109

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In one podcast segment titled “The Real Cause of Climate Change, ” he says he’s been trying to convince friends and family that natural “solar cycles” are behind global warming, not greenhouse gas emissions from humans. He adds, “That’s what I’m starting to wonder what is really going on, as they try to tell us we’re creating it.

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Climate Scientist Climate Change Renewable Energy 2016 363

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

.” The Times article focuses on the alarming intersection of three current environmental crises–water supply shortages, groundwater contamination, and excessive greenhouse gas emission levels–that threaten California and other states across the nation.

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Fossil Fuels Climate Change Greenhouse Regulations 219

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Colombia accounts for 0.4 % of the global greenhouse gas emissions (“GHG”). Law 1715 of 2014 on non-conventional renewable energy sources. Resolution 40807 of 2018 of the Ministry of Mines and Energy on the Climate Change Management Plan for the Energy Sector. of the national total.

Climate Change 77

Climate Change Law Sustainable Development 2018 77

Law Columbia

MAY 20, 2024

In April 2024, the U.S. Both the NCIF and CCIA were established by the IRA’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) , and are referred to as “green bank” programs, meaning that the entities they fund are expected to “provid[e] an immediate pathway to deploy projects” and “mobilize private capital at scale.”

Renewable Energy 68

Renewable Energy Government Clean Energy 2024 68

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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2023 Renewable Energy Electricity Fossil Fuels 206

Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

In its most recent report , the IEA predicts that China will continue to dominate solar energy production, delivering over 50 percent of solar PV projects globally by 2024. This is when the highly reflective properties of dark-coloured solar panels lead to an increase in the greenhouse effect.

Electricity 140

Electricity Fossil Fuels Government Carbon Emissions 140

Law Columbia

AUGUST 22, 2022

cities move toward their greenhouse gas reduction goals via a cleaner national electric grid, increased vehicle and building electrification, and new distributed renewable energy resources. economy and to significantly contribute to its greenhouse gas reduction efforts. Still, how does a local government tap in?

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2026 Clean Air Act Air Pollution Greenhouse 117

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 22, 2024

.” -- Article I, Section 27 Pennsylvania Constitution [It’s Not A Suggestion] Click Here To View Or Print The Entire January 22 PA Environment Digest 101 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA Weekly List Of PA Environment & Energy Articles & NewsClips By Topic DEP Awards $101.1 DEP Sets Feb.

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2024 Natural Gas Natural Resources Conservation 93

Enviromental Defense

MAY 22, 2024

In Alberta, the future of our country’s effort to cut our greenhouse gas emissions is on the line. Note: According to the International Energy Association, global growth in demand will be cut in half to 1 per cent in 2024-26, and to just.5 Albertans see “talk of an energy transition virtually synonymous with economic transition.”

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Climate Change Clean Energy 2028 Politics 92

Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

The Regulation’s proposed criteria for gaseous fossil fuels (which includes both conventional natural gas, and synthetic gas derived from coal gasification) allow investment in their consumption without restriction in function, scale, or time period, as long as greenhouse gas emissions are no higher than 100 gCO2eq/kWh (see §4.29-31

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Fossil Fuels Regulations Waste Technology 52

PA Environment Daily

MAY 28, 2024

. -- Include a sophisticated analysis of fuel displaced by LNG, including the potential for competition with renewable energy as well as sectoral and geographic nuances. -- Consider the economic impacts of climate change using the social cost of greenhouse gases.

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Natural Resources Fossil Fuels Natural Gas Electricity 80