A Greener Life

JULY 10, 2025

This year’s Government Work Report also listed the programme as a key task within China’s “dual carbon” goals to peak carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060. According to the notice, industrial-park-construction projects can access support including existing public and local government funding channels.

Carbon Dioxide

Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Statement by Stephen Legault, Senior Manager, Alberta Energy Transition The Alberta governments 2025 budget threatens the future economic prosperity of the province by failing to take action to transition from a fossil fuel based economy to a renewable energy economy.

2025

Enviromental Defense

JUNE 6, 2025

In 2021, The Government of Canada made a bold and necessary commitment to limit and reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from the oil and gas industry – the largest source of GHG pollution in Canada. It’s time for the new federal government to follow through on its promise and finalize the oil and gas emissions cap.

Climate Change

Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Statement by Stephen Legault, Senior Manager, Alberta Energy Transition The Alberta governments 2025 budget threatens the future economic prosperity of the province by failing to take action to transition from a fossil fuel based economy to a renewable energy economy.

2025

A Greener Life

APRIL 10, 2025

The Swiss public gives the final nod to boosting renewable energy With 97% of its broad gauge lines now transitioned, India has the second highest electrification rate of any major rail network in the world. It was in 2014 that the government ramped up ambitions and committed the funds for a fully electric railway.

Electricity

A Greener Life

JULY 6, 2025

However, recent efforts have focused on reversing this trend, with the government implementing stricter enforcement of environmental regulations and bolstering sustainable initiatives, such as promoting conservation efforts and enforcing land-use restrictions. This decline marks a notable shift after years of rising deforestation rates.

2025

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 24, 2025

Installed at Gifford Pinchot State Park in York County, the project reinforces DCNRs commitment to clean energy and cost-saving innovation, as well as the Commonwealths progress as a national leader in renewable energy. Click Here for video/photos from the event.

Climate Change

A Greener Life

APRIL 3, 2025

Africa needs to push beyond resource extraction For Africa to capture more of the value from its natural endowment, governments and businesses must prioritise industrial policies and investments that push beyond resource extraction. Yet renewable energy offers a transformative solution. That paradox must be reversed.

Clean Energy

Law Columbia

MAY 6, 2025

Lithium has become a cornerstone of the global energy transition, powering technologies central to decarbonization efforts, such as electric vehicle batteries and large-scale renewable energy storage. Initially, this restriction was based on lithiums potential use in nuclear energy.

Politics

A Greener Life

JANUARY 30, 2025

This is the goal we at the World Bank have set for Mission 300 to halve the number of people on the continent without reliable electricity by 2030. But with 2030 fast approaching and amid the continent’s rapid population growth, we must shift from discussion to decisive action and ignite a movement.

2030

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Source: Olamide Martins Ogunlade The conference brought together representatives from local communities, grassroots leaders, civil society organizations, government officials, women’s groups, youth movements, environmental advocates, and international allies, toward the goals of advancing a just energy transition and building climate resilience.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

APRIL 24, 2025

It’s a tribute to the significance of state climate policies that Trump devoted an entire executive order to excoriating them as “fundamentally irreconcilable” with his own, fossil-fuel promoting, energy policy. MINNESOTAThe utility commission approved an Xcel Energy plan to achieve 100% clean power by 2035.

Fossil Fuels

Vermont Law

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Reforming Oceanic Governance: A Department of Oceans by Joseph Lepak Current federal ocean governance is spread across a myriad of federal agencies in different departments and the time has come to bring them all together. Governing this vast area, four agency mandates prioritize oceans, while other mandates involve oceans.

Ocean

Physics World

JUNE 3, 2025

The US Department of Energy is also working to address this question. This includes one led by the National Renewable Energy Lab , measuring how long carbon in buried biomass remains stored under different conditions. DAC has not managed to reach this magical price point.

Waste

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 8, 2025

Chris Wright, Trumps nominee for Energy Secretary , has denied the well-established connection between climate change and extreme weather events. Liberty Energy, the fracking corporation he heads, describes its Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) focus as delivering secure, reliable, affordable access to energy.

Fossil Fuels

Enviromental Defense

JULY 25, 2025

In the face of the accelerating climate crisis and increasingly urgent warnings from scientists, you’d think that Canada would be pulling out all the stops to slash emissions and accelerate the transition to renewable energy. CCS has become an industry darling for oil and gas companies.

Fossil Fuels

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 24, 2025

Several conservative-led jurisdictions have proven that supporting renewable energy doesnt mean abandoning careful money management. Let’s take a hike through three jurisdictions, each with a conservative-leaning government, and see how they are approaching this issue.

Government

Legal Planet

JUNE 24, 2025

Thom Tillis of North Carolina, have opposed or criticized the current version of the bill citing renewable energy and Medicaid cuts. Curtis argued in a recent Deseret News op-ed , that the bill must not end all clean energy tax credits because “we simply cannot afford to treat good policy ideas as guilty by political association.”

Clean Energy

Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2025

Driving a dagger into the heart of the climate change religion,” which is weirdly what Zeldin says he’s doing, is not a way to govern. Here’s what else to watch for this week… Good News Congress may save the energy-saving program Energy Star from senseless Trump cuts. state and keeping a lid on prices.”

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2025

On May 8, the Pittsburgh 2030 District , a project of the Green Building Alliance , released its 2024 Progress Report , revealing the District property partners reached a 52.3% Property partners in the Pittsburgh 2030 District also achieved a 25.6% reduction in energy usage, saved $44.2 energy reduction 33.3%

Carbon Emissions

Legal Planet

APRIL 15, 2025

Ann Arbor, Michigans City Council approved plans last week to create a sustainable energy utility (SEU) to help local residents use less energy, part of its goal of net-zero emissions by 2030, which the NYT Climate Fix newsletter wrote about.

Law

Enviromental Defense

MARCH 26, 2025

And, forget that the US is well on its way to being energy independent , with a stated goal of being so by 2030. According to the Canadian Energy Regulator, The United States (U.S.) Meanwhile, investment in and demand for renewable energy is rising dramatically. What happened?

Renewable Energy

PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2025

Million In Energy Costs In 2024 [PaEN] -- PennLive - Charles Thompson: Critics Slam Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant For Not Reporting Fire In Damaged Unit 2 Reactor Building Feb. 11-13 In State College -- Penn State Master Gardeners: Ken & Mee Park In Montgomery County Recognized With Pollinator Habitat Of Merit Award; Aug. And Saved $44.2

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MAY 19, 2025

Meeting Higher Demand Requires New, More Efficient Energy Mix Evan Vaughan, Executive Director, Mid-Atlantic Renewable Energy Coalition , said, Consideration of HB 501 is timely, as a decades-long era of flat electricity demand growth has come to an end. Click Here for the Mid-Atlantic Renewable Energy Coalition.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

MAY 12, 2025

GW Of Power-- 7 In PA With Power Potential Of 1.2 And Saved $44.2 GW Of Power-- 7 In PA With Power Potential Of 1.2 And Saved $44.2 GW Of Power-- 7 In PA With Power Potential Of 1.2 And Saved $44.2

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2025

Here are 134 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us. And Saved $44.2 GW Of Power-- 7 In PA With Power Potential Of 1.2

Conservation

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 25, 2025

Here, we still want to cut global warming emissions by replacing polluting cars with clean vehicles and ramping up renewable energy to phase out fossil fuel powerplants. Electricity for all (of the Western United States) California has always led in creating and achieving necessarily ambitious renewable energy goals.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

JUNE 6, 2025

China’s expertise in energy planning, market investment and clean-energy technology could help them redraw their plans and roadmaps for the energy transition and economic development, and in doing so, deepen China’s cooperation with Africa and the Southeast Asian nations. billion originally pledged in 2022.

Paris Agreement

National Law Center

JULY 21, 2025

Currently, the federal government pays fully for the cost of SNAP benefits, and the USDA and states split the costs of administering the program. Beginning in fiscal year 2028, if a state’s payment error rate is less than 6 percent, then the state will pay 0 percent, and the Federal government will pay 100 percent of the costs of benefits.

2013

Energy and Climate Law

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

It has been the central backbone of Germany`s energy turnaround, the Renewable Energy Act (Erneuerbare Energien Gesetz). Now the german government decided to, once again, amend the EEG to accelerate the faltering energy turnaround. This way of amending laws is a standard procedure in the German legal system.

Renewable Energy

Environment + Energy Leader

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action has set a 2030 deadline for the energy sector to deploy smart meters nationwide, with a view to have the digital infrastructure for a close-to zero-energy supply. The post German Government Accelerates Smart Meter Rollout appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

Government

Legal Planet

JUNE 2, 2022

In another respect, though, there’s more similarity: in both countries, subnational governments play a key role in climate policy. Regional governments. Although ultimate power remains in the national Parliament, the national government has devolved certain powers to regional governments in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.

2030

A Greener Life

AUGUST 2, 2023

The country’s new energy transition plan targets an estimated US$7.4 billion of hydropower investments by 2030. By Fermín Koop New government plan says US$86 billion of spending needed to boost energy transition – while backing natural gas too. The Agua del Toro dam in Mendoza, Argentina. Are its goals realistic?

Renewable Energy

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

At the global level, however, Germany has its own claim to a leadership role, particularly in its early support for renewable energy. Although its track record has some complexities, this timeline of German actions shows just its early and sustained attention to clean energy policy: 1990. Renewables are 6% of power.

Nuclear Power

Real Climate

AUGUST 17, 2022

As you can see there are tax credits and subsidies for electric vehicles, renewable energy, nuclear energy, transmission, hydrogen, air pollution reduction, energy infrastructure, climate resilience, rural development, residential buildings, etc. The biggest unknowns are the geopolitical implications.

Paris Agreement

Law and Environment

JULY 2, 2021

On June 29, 2021, a cohort of New York local governments (including many where large-scale solar projects are currently proposed), community organizations, and avian interest groups filed a lawsuit in the New York State Supreme Court (the State’s trial-level court) against the Office of Renewable Energy Siting (“ORES”).

Renewable Energy

A Greener Life

JULY 26, 2021

In order to make their portfolio more sustainable and respond to lower fossil fuel demand, oil majors are increasingly snapping up renewable energy projects as the pressure grows to take action on climate change. from 2020 to 2030. A significant portion of this will be fulfilled by renewable power generation.

Renewable Energy