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Climate leadership is now in Asia

Edouard Stenger

These days the United States’ federal government is promoting coal and backtracking on climate ambition and the European Union is no longer cutting its greenhouse gases emissions. Recently India has unveiled working on having only electric cars on the roads by 2030. So, who is leading the fight against climate change ?

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How the Tides have Shifted for Virginia Energy Policy in 2020

Vermont Law

greenhouse gas emissions. Today the energy sector accounts for 30% of the carbon dioxide emissions in. which set a 30% renewable energy goal by 2030 and a 100% carbon-free goal by 2050 for Virginia. Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. to reduce statewide electric carbon emissions by 30 percent by 2030. [1].

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Guest Essay: Climate Change Demands Southwestern PA Transition To A New Low-Carbon Energy Reality

PA Environment Daily

Driven by emissions from power generation and industrial activity — activity that generates jobs and economic opportunity for southwestern Pennsylvania — our greenhouse gas emissions, on a per capita basis, are about 50% higher than elsewhere in the state or country.

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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

Law Columbia

The attorney general said that PwC also served from at least 2008 to 2013 as global advisor and report writer for the Carbon Disclosure Project, a non-profit organization that functions as a global disclosure system for environmental information, including greenhouse gas emissions, from companies including Exxon. 451962/2016 (N.Y.

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Right on Energy: Section 45V Hydrogen Production Tax Credit  

Cresforum

It has the potential to greatly reduce emissions in hard-to-decarbonize industrial applications such as steelmaking, cement manufacturing, trucking and aviation, as well as power generation and energy storage. hydrogen market is also estimated to result in an additional 27,000 jobs by 2030. Growth in the U.S. Source: U.S.

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Climate Choices Part II — Session Law 2021-165 (Carbon Reduction Plan)

Smith Enviorment

Utilities Commission (NCUC) to “take all reasonable steps” to achieve a 70% reduction in carbon dioxide ( CO 2 ) emissions from electric generating units (EGUs) by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality for the utility generation system by 2050. A 2021 North Carolina law requires the N.C. The Reduction Goal.

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Will the Senate Take Bold Action on Climate Change?

Acoel

The bipartisan infrastructure law funds clean energy demonstration projects to improve energy storage, advanced nuclear technology, carbon capture from fuel burning as well as direct carbon capture from the atmosphere. These proposals have garnered extensive support from the business community. appeared first on ACOEL.