Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 23, 2024

Prompted by a state law, California’s utility regulator has proposed to change the way electricity is billed by adding a fixed monthly charge to all rate plans and making a corresponding reduction to the cost for each unit of electricity used. The transition to clean transportation and clean energy is underway and we have to get it right.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The 2008-era slogan is shorthand for the Trump campaign’s energy policy, but we know much more about current conservative thinking on the subject thanks to Project 2025 , the 920-page transition plan for the next administration by policy strategists from the Heritage Foundation. That’s the crux of Project 2025’s energy chapter.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 1, 2023

To no one’s surprise it contained zero funding to address climate change – not even for clean energy – which the document referred to multiple times. So while it likes to talk about Ontario’s “clean energy advantage”, the government is actively dismantling it. It will be something to watch.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 2, 2024

Who will be President in 2025? The two couldn’t be more different in their views of climate and energy policy. The IRA devoted $369 billion to clean energy. What will happen with mandatory corporate climate disclosures? We will face some important forks in the road in 2024 in terms of environmental law.

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Law and Environment

JULY 5, 2022

EPA need look no farther than Massachusetts, which issued its Clean Energy and Climate Plan for 2025 and 2030 the same day that the Supreme Court extended its crusade against the modern world by limiting EPA’s authority to regulate in the absence of a clear delegation by Congress. First, the goals.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 14, 2024

Who will lead the Senate in 2025? That makes the question of who will replace Mitch McConell as GOP leader all the more important for climate and energy policy. In 2021, Barrasso said, “We all believe climate change is real. The odds are that it will be a Republican. Here are two top possibilities.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2022

To get an assessment of the progress thus far, as well as an idea if what has to happen next, I turned to two of my colleagues in the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) Climate & Energy Program: Principal Climate Scientist Rachel Licker and Transmission Policy Manager Sam Gomberg. Will we see any progress in Congress?

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Clean Energy Law

MARCH 15, 2024

In response to climate change, the Guidelines mandate the disclosure of Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, while the reporting of Scope 3 GHG emissions remains voluntary. The authors would like to thank Yuxuan Chen for her contribution to this blog post. [1]

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

By: Deborah Klenotic, Deputy Communications Director Climate change is a major challenge facing Pennsylvania, and the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is leading many efforts to fight back and protect communities. Find more materials at DEP’s Climate Change webpage.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Thank you for the opportunity to present Governor Shapiro’s proposed Fiscal Year 2024- 2025 budget for DEP. DEP safeguards Pennsylvania’s Environmental Rights Amendment, which affirms Pennsylvanians constitutional right to clean air, pure water, and preservation of natural resources.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Governments are being asked to commit to more ambitious emission reduction commitments for 2030 and beyond by 2025, as part of the regular cycle of updates in line with the latest science called for in the Paris Agreement, as well as to boost climate finance commitments from rich nations.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2022

On May 13, Department of Labor & Industry Secretary Jennifer Berrier announced four Clean Energy Workforce Development grants for projects that will identify individual employer and collective industry workforce needs, while also developing solutions to those needs.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2022

As with many environmental issues, when it comes to climate change and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, this is no ordinary election. . For the past four years, Ontario has been failing on climate change. Foster climate change resilience. Electrify all municipal transit fleets by 2040.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Together, the story they tell is of a world that seems hell-bent on heedlessly careening toward climate disaster, even as the necessary and beneficial solutions are within our reach. Yes, not just coal, but also fossil gas and oil must be rapidly turned down, even as we ramp up renewable energy and energy efficiency.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

With the clean energy transition already under way, the US electricity mix is set to continue changing this year. Solar power is expected to make up about half of all additions of US electric generating capacity in 2023, according to data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). I’ll start off with the good.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 17, 2023

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is set to release its synthesis of the Sixth Assessment Report early next week. Among the thousands of questions the report addresses by summarizing the latest climate research, one of the most hotly debated is this: Is it still possible to limit future global warming to 1.5°C

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 22, 2022

Minnesotans are facing concurrent crises of climate change, high energy prices and inflation, and the inequitable public health impacts of fossil fuel air pollution. Renewable energy will help with all of that—but we need a grid that is designed for wind and solar instead of having to rely on expensive coal and gas plants.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Although the Governor proposed slashing $6 billion from the climate package, in the end, the cuts totaled less than half that. And 2023 was a high-water mark in terms of bill introductions, with lawmakers considering upwards of 2,600 bills; scores of them covered climate change, energy, and environment-related topics.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 3, 2024

This agenda was facilitated by the Heritage Foundation—the conservative think tank that also has a dark money-fueled activist wing called Heritage Action —under the name Project 2025: Presidential Transition Project. A recent Yale survey found that 78% of registered voters support generating renewable energy on public land in the U.S

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 22, 2024

It’s also worth noting that while the IRA will make a massive difference in our fight against climate change, it alone won’t be enough to help us meet the US’s Paris Climate Agreement commitment of reducing its economy-wide emissions by 50% to 52% by 2030. It is made up of $4.75 Will you join me?

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 24, 2022

Lost amid the more high profile items in Massachusetts’ recently enacted Act Driving Clean Energy and Offshore Wind is a requirement that the Department of Energy Resources establish a program requiring large buildings across the Commonwealth to report energy usage on an annual basis.

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Acoel

APRIL 30, 2024

Before considering several key requirements of the CPRG program, let’s give credit where it is due and thank the Climate XChange and its partners for undertaking the review, and for offering their preliminary observations on the various measures proposed by the states to address climate change and advance a clean energy economy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 25, 2022

These models are essentially designed to determine what resources need to be added to the grid to meet certain goals, such as clean energy or emissions reduction goals. Capacity expansion modeling helps determine how many clean resources, such as solar and wind, need to be added to the grid to meet clean energy goals.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Tom Wolf announced the Pennsylvania Climate Action Plan 2021 and called for statewide action on climate change by all sectors: legislative, government, industry, business, agriculture, and community organizations. “As Pennsylvania Climate Action Plan 2021 is where to start. Tom Wolf. “The Where to start?” Read more here.]

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

. $29 billion for a green development bank, the Clean Energy and Sustainability Accelerator. $30 30 billion for a 300,000 member Civilian Climate Corps. The bill also contains a fee on methane leaks that would start lower and rise to $1500 per ton in 2025. billion for electric bikes.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2023

One way to think about it is as an approach to leverage public and private investment in the same way as governments do through clean energy and green industrial policies. In essence, the call-to-action for New Forest Economy Funds is an all-of-the-above strategy with respect to financing tools.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2023

This year’s annual UN climate talks, COP28 , concluded in Dubai earlier this month with nations agreeing to the UAE Consensus. After 30 long years, we finally have a global agreement that addresses a transition away from fossil fuels , the primary driver of human-caused climate change. Who will pay?

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 11, 2023

Pollution and climate change in India’s Ladakh region are jeopardizing local shepherds’ long-standing, sustainable ways of life. Climate change is a global mismanagement, while pollution is a local mismanagement. Construction would begin in 2025, and last for five years. Christian Thorsberg, Interim Stream Editor.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The EPA proposes increasing the amount of biofuels in the nation’s energy supply through 2025. The EPA is proposing to increase the amount of ethanol and other biofuels in the nation’s energy supply through 2025, when the target will be 10 percent larger than today. Biofuels Targets Rise. Studies and Reports.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 16, 2024

As my colleague Julia Stein noted in this lookback post , recent bills tackled some of our toughest environmental challenges in the areas of climate disclosures, single-use plastics, and housing. Funding to begin implementation of SB 253 and SB 261 , which go into effect January 2025, was notably absent in the proposed budget.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2023

Now is the time for our legislators to bolster that progress, particularly given that Pennsylvania lags behind other states in offering incentives for energy and emissions reductions, and our building codes do not include the most updated standards for energy efficiency.

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Manning Law

DECEMBER 14, 2023

UN Climate Change News, 13 December 2023 – The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) closed today with an agreement that signals the “beginning of the end” of the fossil fuel era by laying the ground for a swift, just and equitable transition, underpinned by deep emissions cuts and scaled-up finance.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

One year ago, UCS worked in coalition with many other organizations to help pass the landmark Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), a law with historic climate provisions that includes numerous programs, policies, and a $369 billion investment that will drive significant cuts in heat-trapping emissions across our economy.

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In addition, the solar power deployment will have a combined generation capacity of 43 megawatt peak (MWp) once completed in 2025. The installation of additional solar photovoltaic systems is estimated to generate an additional 6% of Changi Airport’s 2019 electricity consumption through solar power deployment.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

nds to midnight. : “For over four decades the threat of climate change to “future generations” has been ruefully noted. Yet—climate change impacts are outpacing development of p. the Investment and Production Tax Credits (ITC PTC) for, in part, OSW, but projects must begin construction by January 1, 2025. .

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 13, 2022

“At PNC, we strive to be good stewards of the environment, not only because it is the right thing to do, but because it is essential to supporting a high quality of life for our employees, customers and communities,” said Kate Zettl, VP and Energy Manager with PNC Bank’s Realty Services. billion directly into renewable energy projects.

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Legal Planet

MAY 11, 2023

On June 2, 2014 , this blog led with an almost-identical sentence about EPA releasing its rule to regulate climate change-related carbon emissions from existing power plants, known as the Clean Power Plan. million electric cars in use by 2025. If this all feels like deja vu, that’s because we’ve been here before.

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