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Election 2024: Climate Action vs. Radical Deregulation

Legal Planet

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. The think tank has published this game plan ahead of presidential transitions since the 1980’s.)

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Ask a Scientist: In Moments of Despair, Climate Progress Can Keep Hope Alive

Union of Concerned Scientists

It’s due to a combination of factors, including tremendous demand for clean energy from states, utilities and consumers; federal regulations to reduce toxic air pollutants; and—most important—the simple fact that renewables and natural gas are now the cheapest options to meet our electricity needs. percent; natural gas, 38.3

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Pittsburgh 2030 District Announces Significant Progress In Reducing Carbon Emissions - 44.8% From Baseline; Savings Of $59.7 Million In Utility Costs

PA Environment Daily

C carbon budget set forth in the 2015 Paris Agreement, countries must reduce CO2 emissions in the entire [existing] built environment by 50-65% by 2030 and reach zero carbon by 2040. Individually, Chatham University has pledged to reach carbon neutrality by 2025, and the University of Pittsburgh by 2037.

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Dutch Elections: Energy and Climate Considerations

Energy and Climate Law

Although as an industry association, Energie-Nederland is not neutral by nature, they give a broad overview on the viewpoints of the different parties on the different parts of the energy sector. They are against climate targets, want to withdraw from the Paris Agreement and stop the Dutch Climate Agreement.

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Good News—and Bad—about Fossil Fuel Power Plants in 2023 

Union of Concerned Scientists

The EPA’s Social Cost of Carbon was adjusted to 2025 to align with the emissions year of the NO x and SO 2 estimates.) Modeling has shown that if the United States is going to live up to its Paris Agreement targets aimed at limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, coal power should be entirely phased out by 2030.

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Ontario Election 2022 Issue Guide: How Each of the Political Parties Would Tackle Climate Change

Enviromental Defense

Reduce Ontario’s GHG emissions by at least 50 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030 and achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, targets consistent with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the most ambitious aspects of the Paris Agreement. Restoring the powers of the Environment Commissioner of Ontario.

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Carbon Capture and Sequestration in 2021: The Path Forward

The Energy Law Blog

As part of this pursuit, the Department of Energy will enter into cooperative agreements with industry and other stakeholders for the construction and operation of six demonstration projects for carbon capture at coal electric generating facilities, natural gas electric generating facilities, and industrial facilities.

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