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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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Statement by Stephen Legault, Senior Manager, Alberta Energy Transition The Alberta governments 2025 budget threatens the future economic prosperity of the province by failing to take action to transition from a fossil fuel based economy to a renewable energy economy.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 24, 2025

The Role of Lightweight AI Models in Supporting a Sustainable Transition to Renewable Energy: A Systematic Review. Energies, 18(5). Kostecka, E., Kozlovska, P., Staude, M., & Sokoowska, S.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Statement by Stephen Legault, Senior Manager, Alberta Energy Transition The Alberta governments 2025 budget threatens the future economic prosperity of the province by failing to take action to transition from a fossil fuel based economy to a renewable energy economy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 28, 2022

Last week was a big one for clean energy in Michigan. First, Union of Concerned Scientists and the Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition released a new report on how Michigan and other states can achieve 100-percent renewable energy standards that benefit all communities. No new gas plants. Let’s get to work.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Since the summer of 2021, five Republican-controlled state legislatures have passed bills banning their state governments from doing business with financial institutions that they allege have divested from fossil fuel companies as a result of ESG investment policies. Another six statehouses are considering similar bills.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Our experts will be able to provide insight on the negotiations at COP29 – including on issues related to climate finance, the energy transition and fossil fuel subsidies. The next round is due in February 2025. At least $1 trillion per year is required to meet the immediate climate needs of developing countries.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2025

On March 6, the City of Reading announced it is now moving into the construction phase as part of a strategic partnership with Schneider Electric to implement a Guaranteed Energy Savings Act (GESA) project, reinforcing Reading's commitment to sustainability and energy efficiency. The completion of the project is slated for late 2026.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

On November 11, Energy Justice Advocates announced PECO has agreed to contract for 25 MW of solar energy as part of its default power procurement for electric customers from June 1, 2025 through May 31, 2029 as a result of a settlement recently approved by the Public Utility Commission. PECO serves nearly 1.7

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2025

In 2011, Tregs Independent Brewing worked with Solar Renewable Energy to install a rooftop solar array large enough to produce 15-20 percent of its annual electricity usage. The 1,628 panels, partnered with a new white roof membrane and added insulation, make the brewery more energy efficient while saving on their electricity bills.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 13, 2024

Paul Arbaje is an energy analyst in the Climate & Energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists and an expert on electricity policies and reforms that reduce fossil fuel use and reliance. There are benefits to installing these clean appliances that go far beyond just contributing less to climate change.

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Environmental Leader

JUNE 23, 2021

Volvo is collaborating with SSAB, a Swedish steelmaker, to manufacture cars using fossil fuel-free steel made with hydrogen by 2026. Mercedes-Benz also recently announced a new commitment to launch green steel in vehicle models by 2025, marking a significant step in the company’s efforts to decarbonize its supply chain.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 30, 2025

On April 30, the PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center and Evergreen Collaborative unveiled Renewable Energy Success Stories in the Keystone State. Pennsylvanians deserve an affordable, clean energy future, and these funds are making that future a reality.

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Scientific American

JANUARY 25, 2024

Renewable energy will surpass coal power by 2025 and, with nuclear energy, will account for nearly half the world’s power generation by 2026, the International Energy Agency forecasts

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 31, 2022

As California decarbonizes its economy, the state will build enormous amounts of renewable energy and energy storage to clean up the electricity sector. And to clean up buildings and industry, many residences and businesses will switch to electricity-powered heating systems (e.g., heat pumps !).

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Legal Planet

MARCH 31, 2022

There’s a lot of discussion of how the private sector is supporting renewable energy, but it’s almost all about power consumers like Apple and Walmart. It turns out that most of them are 50-60% reliant on fossil fuels, with a lot of the remainder coming from nuclear and hydro. Fossil Fuel Use. Carbon Goal.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 24, 2025

Planning law has proven to be a useful tool for climate activists seeking to block or challenge new fossil fuel developments. However, it has also been used to frustrate efforts to accelerate the renewable energy transition by delaying the construction of new renewable energy infrastructure (see here ).

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 21, 2025

Community solar would allow thousands of Pennsylvanians, like me in the Lehigh Valley, and across the Commonwealth who do not have the property to handle solar panels to receive the benefits of clean energy, said Rep. Pennsylvania residents can't enjoy these benefits because the fossil fuel industry has blocked any such legislation.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 24, 2025

data centers risks deepening Americas reliance on fossil fuels and can put consumers and communities at risk, according to the report. Maximizing energy efficiency, generating clean power on-site, and ensuring that data centers pay the full cost of necessary grid upgrades can help reduce the impact on consumers.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 28, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen The consumption of coal, the most climate polluting fossil fuel, is predicted to peak by 2025 in China, the world’s highest emitting country. Analysis by Sinopec, expects coal consumption to peak around 2025 at 4.37 billion metric tons (BMT). billion metric tons (BMT).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 30, 2023

Consumers Energy will close its remaining coal-fired power plants by 2025 and add 8,000 megawatts of solar by 2040. Michigan’s clean energy future agenda Taken together, the resolution of the DTE and Consumers Energy resource plans represents a solid foundation for a clean economy powered by renewable energy.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2025

Kate Harper (R), former member of PA House, and former Congressman Conor Lamb (D) are Co-Chairs of Energy Future PA Related Articles: -- PUC House Budget Hearing: We Arent Going To Build Our Way Out Of Electric Generation Shortfalls On PJM Grid; We Need To Diversify Our Generation Sources [PaEN] -- Frozen Hoping For A Thaw: Eastern PA Coalition For (..)

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

By Liu Lican On November 8, China issued its first Energy Law , which aims to support the development and utilisation of renewable energy and increase the proportion of non-fossil energy consumption. However, the law also states that there will be “rational development and clean and efficient use” of fossil fuels.

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Legal Planet

JULY 5, 2023

A 2022 Rainforest Action Network repor t found that “fossil fuel financing from the world’s 60 largest banks has reached USD $4.6 trillion in the six years since the adoption of the Paris Agreement, with $742 billion in fossil fuel financing in 2021 alone.” The biggest US bank investors in fossil fuels? “At

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 22, 2024

At UCS, we’re working to ensure effective and equitable implementation of key clean energy and clean transportation provisions. The IRA also includes some less than ideal fossil-fuel supporting incentives that will need continued monitoring. It is made up of $4.75

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2025

By Matthew Carroll, Penn State News Moving from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources like wind and solar will require better ways to store energy for use when the sun is not shining or the wind is not blowing. Thats a big barrier against further expansion of most of the renewable energy that is available to us.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 25, 2022

This much-needed set of 18 projects will improve electricity reliability, address overloaded wires , and help unlock more lower-cost wind and solar power to replace costly, polluting fossil fuel plants in Michigan and many other states in the Midwest (including Illinois and Minnesota ).

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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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PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2025

The Better Path Coalition is a frontline- and grassroots-led statewide coalition forging a better path to a clean renewable energy future and a government that is responsive to its people. Yaw Wants A Program Like This In PA] -- John Quigley: Are Merchant Fossil Fuel Plants Uneconomical?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 25, 2022

Here are a couple examples of recent UCS studies that have used capacity expansion models: Federal Clean Energy Tax Credits utilized the ReEDS model to evaluate several federal tax credit policies, assessing their impact on the buildout of renewable energy resources and power sector global warming emissions.

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Edouard Stenger

OCTOBER 31, 2023

It’s an annual event for the energy and sustainability crowds, the latest World Energy Outlook by the reputed International Energy Agency is out. For years, this publication was lowballing renewable energy sources. Fossil fuel peaks being driven by the “unstoppable” growth of low-carbon technologies.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 19, 2025

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Environmental Leader

JUNE 23, 2021

Volvo is collaborating with SSAB, a Swedish steelmaker, to manufacture cars using fossil fuel-free steel made with hydrogen by 2026. Mercedes-Benz also recently announced a new commitment to launch green steel in vehicle models by 2025, marking a significant step in the company’s efforts to decarbonize its supply chain.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 2, 2025

IEA analysts expect this amount to remain relatively stable until around 2027, when consumption levels will start to level off as renewable energy sources start to play a more significant role, particularly in China – the worlds largest coal consumer and producer. billion tonnes in 2024.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

At the same time, the amount of available electric generation is tightening as fossil-fuel fired plants that provide around-the-clock electricity are retiring due to policy and economic pressures, and the number of new generation projects joining the grid is not keeping pace due to a number of factors.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 18, 2023

Without changes to its queue processing pace, PJM will likely force states to fall short of state renewable targets, even after the reforms it approved last year.” As of September 2022, there were over 202 gigawatts (GW) of renewable energy resources waiting in the PJM queue, over 95% of the total queue. Read more here.]

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Britain’s Octopus Energy has joined the Italian solar and wind developer Nexta Capital Partners in an ambitious project that aims to produce 1.1 gigawatts (GW) of new onshore wind and solar farms in Italy by 2025. Onshore wind and solar are some of the cheapest forms of energy – and Italy can generate it right on their soil.

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