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The EIA Just Released a 30 Year Energy Outlook. It’s… Not Great

Union of Concerned Scientists

Source: US Energy Information Administration, Annual Energy Outlook 2022 (AEO2022). According to the forecast, while economy-wide CO 2 emissions decrease from 2022 to 2037 due primarily to the growth in renewable energy replacing retiring coal plants, emissions do increase after 2037 from increased usage of natural gas.

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Analysis: Russia’s slow progress on climate action set to pick up speed

A Greener Life

After seven years of sanctions and accusations of malign activities by all sides, political relations between Russia and both the US and the EU are at their worst since the mid-1980s. Public support for President Putin is strong and on the current trajectory he would comfortably be re-elected in March 2024, should he wish to stand again.

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Analysis: Can Germany wean itself off Russian oil and gas??

A Greener Life

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (left) visits a hybrid power plant where “green” hydrogen is made using wind power and fed into the gas grid. Germany is not doing all it can to cut back energy use and increase economic pressure on Russia, argues Arne Jungjohann. Germany will be fully renewable by 2035.

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Windmills are Killing Our Donuts! And It’s All Biden’s Fault!

Legal Planet

Donuts, it seems, are threatened by renewable energy and depend on fossil fuels. Donald Trump has been talking a lot about donuts lately. Maybe because he’s heard that they’re cooked in oil? Trump’s knowledge of cooking is likely pretty minimal, given that it’s unlikely he’s ever been inside a kitchen.

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The Bumper Crop of New State Climate Policies Since July.

Legal Planet

The 2024 initial phase will apply only to new commercial buildings over 100,000 square feet. In addition, the Energy Commission adopted a new “virtual power plant” rule, allowing consumer-owned batteries to be aggregated and treated as power plants when they deliver power to the wholesale electricity market.

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Cornhuskers Go Green

Legal Planet

The elected board members who run these utilities did little or nothing about renewables until the past decade. During the 2010s, wind power went from 1% of generation to 20%. In 2019, the Utah State Legislature passed the Community Renewable Energy Act (HB 411). gigawatts of wind and 3 gigawatts of solar by 2024.

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Thursday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 3.14.23

PA Environment Daily

Shapiro Calls For PA Carbon Cap-And-Trade Market, Plus Higher Clean Energy Requirements -- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Gov. Million Gallons Of Water For Fracking For 22 Days Without Permission [PaEN] -- TribLive: Friends, Neighbors Remember Victims Of Crescent Twp.