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A Hot Summer for Clean Energy in Michigan

Union of Concerned Scientists

It’s Danger Season right now for climate impacts around the United States and the world. While we confront extreme heat, wildfires, and intense storms, crucial work to reduce global warming pollution and mitigate the worst effects of climate change continues. million customers for the next 20 years.

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Accelerating Electric Vehicle Adoption in 2022

Law and Environment

This past year represents a real turning point in the transition to electric vehicles, demonstrated by new major incentives and regulatory activities at both federal and state government levels and several notable accomplishments in the private sector. Post Office plans to deploy over 66,000 EVs by 2028. First, the U.S.

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Subnational Climate Action in the UK

Legal Planet

Scotland set a 2020 goal of 100% renewable energy electricity generation. renewable energy generation (62% coming from onshore wind) A climate plan adopted in 2018 sets a binding target of net-zero emissions by 2045. This covers electricity, heating, transportation, etc., In 2019, the city declared a climate emergency.

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DEP Awards $15+ Million In PA Electric Grid Resilience Grants To Prevent, Shorten Power Outages In Rural Electric Systems; Fall Grant Round Planned

PA Environment Daily

On July 30, the Department of Environmental Protection announced the award of more than $15 million in grants to electric distribution companies to improve electric grid reliability and resilience through 2024 Pennsylvania Grid Resilience Grant funding. Another grant round will open in Fall 2024.

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China’s oil demand could peak in 2025

A Greener Life

The forecast also predicts that Chinas overall fossil fuel demand will peak in 2028, coinciding with the peak in energy-related carbon emissions. Key factors driving this transformation include the rapid adoption of electric vehicles (EVs), LNG trucks, and high-speed rail, said Wu Mouyuan, deputy director of ETRI.

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Proposed Electrolyzer Requirements for the Hydrogen Tax Credit: Strengths and Risks

Union of Concerned Scientists

But hydrogen can be cleanly produced and, with the right guardrails in place, that clean hydrogen can then be used to clean up polluting parts of the economy that can’t readily convert to running on renewable electricity. Otherwise, hydrogen will slow the clean energy transition, not speed it. the “three pillars”).

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Statement: Environmental Defence Urges the Government to Strengthen the Clean Electricity Regulations

Enviromental Defense

These changes, if adopted, will allow more gas plants to burn more gas further into the future. The current proposal, if adopted, will come up short of the Prime Minister’s net-zero electricity commitment, made at COP 26 in 2021. Clean electricity is an absolutely crucial element of a credible climate strategy.