Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
California Sues Fossil Fuel Polluters California’s climate accountability lawsuit is groundbreaking in several ways: California is the first major fossil fuel-producing state to file a climate accountability lawsuit. California Gov.
Law and Environment
AUGUST 11, 2022
The legislation covers a wide range of policy changes focused on electrifying vehicles and transit, reducing fossil fuel connections in new construction, and revamping policy related to solar, offshore wind, and other carbon-free energy sources. GW by 2027. Reduction of Fossil Fuels. Renewable Energy.
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PA Environment Daily
MAY 18, 2023
The new NRDC report, Waiting Game: How the Interconnection Queue Threatens Renewable Development in PJM , shows that even under ongoing reform proposals, the pace of renewable development in PJM just barely meets minimum clean energy demands of state RPS laws through 2027. Read more here.]
Enviromental Defense
AUGUST 23, 2023
If we assume the same price, but that these plants operate for 13 years (from 2027 to 2040), that’s another $3.2 All told, it will be $4 billion spent on a make-work project for power plant developers and the fossil fuel industry. Why spend $4 billion on fossil fuel infrastructure that may or may not be used?
Legal Planet
MARCH 14, 2023
Yet this Administration, along with others before it, has deliberately blinkered its review of the climate impacts of massive fossil fuel extraction projects like this one, in a way that allows federal agencies to conclude that these projects won’t jeopardize species.
A Greener Life
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
Despite a significant uptake of renewable energy, India still relies on coal plants for more than half of its installed electricity supply. By Rejimon Kuttappan Along with a major expansion of renewable energy, India is also pushing for big increases in its coal production, casting doubt on its climate commitments.
Environmental Progress
JANUARY 20, 2022
Notably, in the same proposal, the Commission has also included screening criteria for gaseous fossil fuels. Their inclusion appears to be the result of a political compromise with Member States rather than of scientific appraisal as in the case of nuclear energy.
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