A Greener Life

APRIL 5, 2025

The country where President Donald Trump has waged wars on the leading renewable energy sources, solar and wind, hit a new electricity generation low for fossil fuels in March 2025, data from the global energy think tank Ember reveals. Date showing US fossil fuel generation in March 2025.

Clean Energy

Law Columbia

JUNE 30, 2025

While federal policy can have a significant impact on renewable energy development, local policy—and local sentiment—can be just as consequential. Between 2018-2023, at least 30% of utility-scale wind and solar projects were cancelled during the siting process, largely because of community opposition, local ordinances, and zoning.

Law

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2025

Data Centers And Cryptocurrency Mining Energy Use Needs A Clear Disadvantage - By Karen Elias, Climate Reality [ PDF of Article ] -- Axios: Recently Upgraded Twin Ridges Wind Power Facility In Somerset County Could Help With A.I. Data Center Energy Needs -- Financial Times Visual Story: Inside The Relentless Race For A.I.

Conservation

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 24, 2025

Several conservative-led jurisdictions have proven that supporting renewable energy doesnt mean abandoning careful money management. Not all conservative-leaning governments treat the development of renewable energy the same. When Ford first took office, he made a controversial decision about renewable energy.

Government

PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2025

4 Webinar - Rewild Your Yard: How Meadows Support Pollinators And Clean Water [PaEN] -- Call For Posters: Alliance For The Chesapeake Bay 2025 Chesapeake Watershed Forum Nov. Posted: July 6, 2025] PA Environment Digest 23 Hard-To-Recycle Collection Events In Allegheny County [PaEN] -- Interfaith Partners For The Chesapeake Bay: Sept.

Natural Resources

PA Environment Daily

JULY 2, 2025

Of Justice Agreement -- Interfaith Partners For The Chesapeake Bay: Sept.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

MAY 7, 2025

But in 2025, everything must be re-litigated. So, the Trump administration is killing the Energy Star program that handy, blue-sticker certification that tells you whether a fridge, dishwasher or other home appliance is energy efficient. For the first time, fossil fuels provided less than half of U.S. ” Journalists!

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 16, 2025

Renewable energy in the United States has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years. Here’s the clean energy momentum at stake, the threats to that momentum, and why there is still reason for hope. Changing winds So… about that momentum. So much momentum. In so many ways. Even so, there are bright spots to keep in mind.

Clean Energy

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

When Donald Trump returns to the Oval Office in January 2025, his second presidency will have widespread implications for the energy industry, especially new investments, but not necessarily in the ways his supporters might expect. Renewable Energy Vs. Fossil Fuels Renewables or fossil fuels?

2025

PA Environment Daily

JULY 2, 2025

“We especially thank Senators Ernst, Grassley, Murkowski, Curtis, and others for their courageous leadership preventing an onerous tax on wind and solar power from becoming reality and tempering the abrupt phase-out of critical tax provisions for homegrown American renewable energy.

Renewable Energy

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2025

Its outrageous that PJM has the gall to ask federal officials to turn a blind eye to illegal air pollution from the regions dirtiest power plants. We have renewable energy projects ready to break ground and get constructed throughout the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest states PJM serves.

Clean Air Act

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.

Renewable Energy

Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 6, 2022

But rather than ramping up the use of polluting fossil gas, this is the perfect moment for the province to transition to clean and safe renewable energy. One is that gas plant contracts signed (or renewed) before 2025 will be able to evade meeting the national CERs beyond 2035 which is when the regulations are supposed to kick in. .

Renewable Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Earlier this year, the MPSC approved a settlement agreement on Consumers Energy’s integrated resource plan that commits the company to retire all its remaining coal-fired power plants by 2025, construct no new fossil gas infrastructure, and build large amounts of new solar power between now and 2040.

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 25, 2022

The 18 projects approved by MISO in Tranche 1 address reliability needs in the Upper Midwest while helping ensure utilities can transition from older, more expensive-to-run coal plants to cleaner, affordable wind and solar power. Source: MISO. What’s in it for Michigan?

Solar Power

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In June, SPP issued a $3 million grant to the ASEAN Centre for Energy (ACE) to increase renewable energy in the region’s power systems. The cooperation has resulted in the installation of 10,000 megawatts of new energy capacity, enough to power nearly 8 million homes. Japan and other partners.

Clean Energy

A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen The former Soviet state of Kyrgyzstan is to build the first-ever wind farm in the country. The Central Asian country of just seven million people will construct the 100-megawatt (MW) wind farm, which is to be constructed by Rosatom Renewable Energy JSC.

Wind Power

Energy and Climate Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

With a view to traditional media outlets, the discourse is dominated by the Covid-19 crisis, and frequently disregards other themes, such as climate and energy policy. Opinions on that matter differ significantly, especially when it comes to nuclear energy and different sources of renewable energy.

Renewable Energy

A Greener Life

JUNE 6, 2021

This would expose the extent to which the existing infrastructure of the Moorburg location can be used for the production of energy from renewable sources; this also includes the necessary logistics chains and storage options for hydrogen. ” The future meets the past.

Wind Power

Edouard Stenger

MAY 30, 2023

I previously noted that renewables are to become first global electricity source by 2025. Renewables are indeed on an exponential, as “By 2024, renewable energy capacity is expected to be twice that of the total cumulative installed capacity in 2019.

Wind Power

A Greener Life

JULY 9, 2021

The region will need to change its industrial structure and energy mix to meet national carbon targets, requiring policy and financial support from central government. Energy authorities in Inner Mongolia are aiming to connect 50 gigawatts of renewable power to the grid by 2025. The Kubuqi desert.

Renewable Energy

Cresforum

JANUARY 16, 2024

Increased electrification in both the industrialized and the developing world is projected to help meet emissions reduction goals, and nuclear power could provide much of the future needs for electricity. Moving the Ball Forward on U.S.

Nuclear Power

Law Columbia

JULY 30, 2024

In light of this attrition, New York Governor Hochul announced in October a 10-Point Action Plan to affirm the State’s commitment to and provide clear benchmarks for renewable energy development , including an expedited competitive solicitation process announced by New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) in November.

2023

A Greener Life

JULY 23, 2021

Some countries already see themselves as potentially the “Saudi Arabia of hydrogen”, mass producing the fuel using cheap renewable energy. Iceland also has geothermal energy. Morocco is rapidly developing solar power in the Sahara desert and has designs on hydrogen production. Production is set to begin in 2025.

Fossil Fuels

E2 Law Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Enacted in 2019, the CLCPA transformed the state’s earlier clean energy standard efforts from administrative fiat to law and sets more aggressive goals to reduce statewide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions economy-wide to 60% from a 1990 baseline by 2030, and 15% from a 1990 baseline by 2050.

Regulations

A Greener Life

MARCH 19, 2023

The environmental impacts of coal power – from local air and water pollution to carbon emissions – have made the project controversial. “We Just 3% of generated electricity in the 2022 fiscal year came from non-hydropower renewables. The NDC also states: “From 2020, new coal power plants are subject to a moratorium.”

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Gannoum estimates that, if it is approved this year, this will allow areas to be auctioned off in 2025, licences to be granted in 2028 and power plants to begin operating between 2031 and 2032. Brazil has great potential to produce cheap green hydrogen, and offshore wind energy will contribute significantly to this,” said Gannoum. “We

Fossil Fuels

Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

4] Meanwhile, many experts see in recent trends an inevitable transition away from coal and nuclear power plants, designed to function as baseload capacity, toward variable renewable energy sources with just-in-time natural gas back-up. 7] Nuclear plants are among the most reliable components of America’s power grids.

Electricity

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 11, 2023

During the critical peak hour on Christmas Eve, Vineyard Wind would have delivered more than 700 megawatts to the grid—enough to eliminate the reserve shortage and create a “capacity surplus.”

Electricity

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

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.) GW of gas capacity set to retire, but also slightly outpacing the planned additions of wind power. GW of new gas capacity is planned to come online in 2023, outpacing not only the 4.8

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JULY 3, 2025

Related Articles This Week: -- Solar Business Owners: PA Will Lose $156 Million If PA Senate, House Fail To Unlock Solar For All Funding [PaEN] -- Spotlight PA: Costs Of Amazon’s $20 Billion Promise To Build Data Centers In PA Unknown: Impact On Electricity Supply, Power Costs To Consumers, Tax Revenue Forfeit -- PJM Interconnection Grid Operator Issues (..)

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 9, 2025

Repeatedly, often entirely illegally, and fully unmoored from what would actually help the energy system, President Trump and his administration have gone to bat for their team of fossil fuel donors while abandoning families and businesses. Permits for renewable energy projects? Research and innovation backing?

Clean Energy

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. Cornyn’s Senate website emphasizes expansion of fossil fuel production but also touts Texas as a “trailblazer in renewable energy.” John Thune (SD).

Renewable Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 16, 2024

For all that President-elect Donald Trump trashed renewable energy on the stump, much of his ranting may very well become a murmur when he returns to the Oval Office. That is because the renewable energy industry is growing jobs more than twice as fast as the overall economy. were owned by people of color or women.

Clean Energy

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

On January 20, 2025 otherwise known as Day One of Trump 2.0 the president signed a barrage of Executive Orders, including one declaring a national energy emergency. Note that congressional legislation, not unilateral executive order, was the legitimate, democratic response to national concerns about energy independence.)

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

In my city of Los Angeles, the cost of the January 2025 wildfires is estimated to exceed $250 billion. Offshore wind is an important component of the global response. As people got used to wind turbines, they did not mind the sight of them as much. Wind power would do well in such a comparison with fossil fuel energy.

Fossil Fuels