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A Cap on Vegetable Oil-Based Fuels Will Stabilize and Strengthen California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard

Union of Concerned Scientists

The CI is determined through a lifecycle analysis of the global warming pollution associated with the production and use of gasoline, diesel, biofuels, electricity, or other alternative fuels. California may seem like an unlikely driver of deforestation from soybean and palm oil biofuels. LCFS credit generation.

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Singapore Unveils Blueprint for Sustainable Air Hub

Clean Energy Law

The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore will also launch 12 key initiatives, including a levy on sustainable aviation fuel and low-carbon electricity imports. By the end of 2023, Changi Airport generated approximately 4% of its 2019 electricity consumption [ii] through solar power deployment. Davies , Farhana Sharmeen , Michael D.

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EPA Announces Proposed RFS for 2023-2025, Will Hold Public Hearing in January

Brag

The RFS “Set” proposal requests public input on required volumes of biofuel for the next one to three years and on a series of modifications intended to strengthen and expand the program. EPA states that this proposal includes steady growth of biofuels for use in the nation’s fuel supply for 2023 , 2024 , and 2025.

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

E2 Law Blog

The CLCPA also established renewable procurement mandates: 70% renewable energy by 2030, 9,000 MW of offshore wind by 2035, 3,000 MW of energy storage by 2030, and 6,000 MW of solar by 2025. The CLCPA established the Council, a 22-member committee tasked with determining how to meet these statutory goals.

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U.S. Pushes Farmers to Develop A New Crop: Energy

Circle of Blue

When the plant begins production, scheduled for 2025, it qualifies for a $1.75 Federal law to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is encouraging livestock feeding operations, like this one in Cochise County, Arizona, to convert manure to methane for electricity and transportation fuel. That’s not all.

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What’s in the Reconciliation Bill?

Legal Planet

300 billion in tax credits for renewable power, biofuels and energy efficiency. billion for electric bikes. billion for electric bikes. The bill also contains a fee on methane leaks that would start lower and rise to $1500 per ton in 2025. Here’s a partial list that I’ve compiled from various sources.

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Testimony of Michael D. Shellenberger Founder and President, Environmental Progress For the House Oversight Committee August 5, 2020

Environmental Progress

US electricity sector emissions decreased 34 percent from 2005 to 2019, including an astonishing 10 percent in 2019, which is the largest year-on-year decline in history. Subsidies and mandates for renewables result in higher electricity prices and the net transfer of wealth from lower to upper income citizens.

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