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Gov. Shapiro Announces Commitment To Get 50% Of Electricity For State Government From Solar Energy Facilities In Pennsylvania

PA Environment Daily

By next year, Pennsylvania will get 50 percent of its electricity from ten new solar arrays around the Commonwealth – making Pennsylvania the first state in the country to commit to getting half of its energy from solar power.

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Something Stinks: California Must End Manure Biomethane Accounting Gimmicks in its Low Carbon Fuel Standard

Union of Concerned Scientists

Under the LCFS each fuel pathway gets a unique carbon intensity (CI) based on a lifecycle analysis of the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production and use of the fuel. The CI of an electric vehicle charged with solar power is zero, and most of the biofuels fall somewhere in the middle [i]. Pavlenko, Y.H.

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New York State Environmental Regulator Issues Draft Plan to Achieve GHG Emissions-Reduction Goals

E2 Law Blog

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.

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Environmental Defence Calls on the Alberta Government to Drop its Ideological Opposition to Clean, Renewable Energy

Enviromental Defense

Background Information Premier Smith’s decision to place a moratorium on Alberta’s renewable energy sector, while allowing industry players in the oil and gas business to continue to develop greenhouse gas (GHG) producing projects, demonstrates a government bias against wind, solar and geothermal energy production in Alberta.

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30 Major Climate Initiatives Under Biden

Legal Planet

The earliest action covered is Biden’s rejoining the Paris Agreement; the most recent is a burst of final actions taken around Earth Day 2024. March 6, 2024. March 28, 2024. April 4, 2024. April 22, 2024. March 20, 2024. March 29, 2024. March 27, 2024. April 12, 2024. April 19, 2024.

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Why Ontario needs to stop burning polluting gas for electricity

Enviromental Defense

The rest of our power comes from a mix of nuclear power, renewables like hydro, wind and solar power, and biofuel. The Pickering nuclear plant is scheduled to retire in 2024 (or later, depending on how long past its retirement date Ontario wants to push the aging plant!), Ontario Energy Output by Fuel Type: 2020 .

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Thursday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 3.23.23

PA Environment Daily

. -- DEP Offers 10 Point Plan To Improve Permit Reviews; Climate/Energy Work Group Co-Chairs Announced; Work Group Formed To Prevent New Oil & Gas Well Abandonments [PaEN] -- DEP Projects Over $1.5