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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.

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Statement in Response to Parliamentary Budget Office’s Costing of the Carbon Capture and Hydrogen Investment Tax Credits

Enviromental Defense

The PBO estimates that these two tax credits will collectively provide over $11 billion to carbon capture and hydrogen projects by 2028. Though the PBO was not able to release information on the specific projects, the majority of the projects that have been proposed to date are in the energy sector. billion by 2035.

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Meeting a challenge called Alberta 

Enviromental Defense

The first part of our plan is to understand what Albertans want, and what motivates them when it comes to climate change solutions. Note: According to the International Energy Association, global growth in demand will be cut in half to 1 per cent in 2024-26, and to just.5 At Environmental Defence, we’re up to the challenge.

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As the Climate Crisis Worsens, the Federal Government in Canada Continues to Give Billions in Funding for Fossil Fuels.

Enviromental Defense

It is ten times what the government has invested in climate change adaptation since 2015. The climate pollution created by oil and gas companies has massive costs, including health costs, property damage from extreme weather events, and decreased agricultural productivity due to changing weather patterns.

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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. Carbon neutrality by 2028. In 2020, they just missed this goal, at 97.4% 2030 net-zero plan.

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BLM Approves the TransWest Express Transmission Project; This Is Good News and We Need More of It

Law and Environment

TransWest estimates project completion by the end of 2028. According to EnergyWire (subscription required), the notice to proceed was issued a mere 18 years after the project was first initiated. Suffice it to say that that’s a long time. That would mean that it will have taken 23 years from initiation to completion.

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Senate Republicans Reject Gov. Shapiro’s Offer To Work On Legislation To Make The Electric Grid More Reliable, Diversify Our Energy Sources, Lower Energy Costs For Ratepayers, Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

PA Environment Daily

[Returning stability and reliability to Pennsylvania's electric grid is the centerpiece of his proposals to diversify and promote new and innovative forms of energy. PJM said the new generation capacity includes almost all investor-driven renewable energy and storage-- 50.8% Read his proposal here.] Read more here.