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What are the environmental impacts of artificial intelligence? 

Union of Concerned Scientists

electricity consumption and projections to 2028 fall within 6.7% All these estimates come from the 2024 United States Data Center Energy Usage Report. As GPUs are not perfectly efficient, a substantial portion of the energy is turned into heat. In 2023, it increased to 4.4% (176 TWh) of the total U.S.

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Promoting Coal, Trump Looks Backward

Circle of Blue

In China we found the Central Government building new clean energy plants to quadruple wind and solar generation. Clean energy generation increased. One target is Michigan’s climate law that requires 100 percent clean energy electrical generation for utilities by 2040. Coal production dropped. Much cleaner.

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Here Comes the Fossil Fuel Agenda

Union of Concerned Scientists

Not for the betterment of the US public, as these actions would freeze, repeal, or actively undermine critical public health and environmental protections. Not for the betterment of US energy abundance, as these actions sideline critical clean energy resources and threaten to stall the deployment of more.

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World’s Biggest Court Opinion on Climate

Legal Planet

“The fossil fuel age is flailing and failing,” UN Chief António Guterres said in a speech last week, accusing coal, oil and gas of being “the greatest threat to energy security today.” Dangerous Finding While the world affirms the right to a sustainable climate, U.S. billion in June alone, according to E2’s latest monthly analysis.

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Why is EPA at War with Its Own Employees?

Legal Planet

Illustration with Canva AI While many of us prepared to celebrate Independence Day last week, a group of employees from the Environmental Protection Agency were bravely speaking out about what they see as their boss “recklessly undermining the EPA mission” of protecting human health and the environment.

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How Will DTE’s Long-Term Plan Impact Michigan’s Clean Energy Future?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Additionally, long-term energy plans consider how utilities will operate their existing power generating facilities and what type of new facilities they might build and when. DTE’s goal is to reach “net-zero” emissions by 2050 while reducing its carbon emissions from 2005 levels 65 percent by 2028, 85 percent by 2035, and 90 percent by 2040.

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Here’s how North America’s first utility-scale solar recycling plant is ramping up for the clean energy boom

Environmental News Bits

We Recycle Solar is deploying new machinery and technology to quadruple its processing capacity to 522 million pounds per year by 2028.