Legal Planet

MAY 7, 2025

electricity generation for a whole month March 2025 thanks to record-high solar and wind power, according to data released by energy think tank Ember. Electricity! For the first time, fossil fuels provided less than half of U.S.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2024

18 Planet Philadelphia Radio Program Provides Updates On Wind Power, Local Green Energy Efforts -- Community Advocates For Clean Energy Host Nov. 22 In Washington County -- Mon Valley Clean Air Fund Sets 3 Outreach Sessions Starting Oct. Million Settlement Over 2019 South Philly Refinery Explosion, Fire -- AP: EPA Reaches $4.2

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JULY 2, 2025

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Renewable Energy

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2025

Its outrageous that PJM has the gall to ask federal officials to turn a blind eye to illegal air pollution from the regions dirtiest power plants. Photos: Keystone and Conemaugh power plants.)

Clean Air Act

Ocean Conservancy

MAY 27, 2022

While a wind-powered cargo vessel may seem like a 19 th Century idea, the Grain de Sail may be a herald of a greener future rather than a nostalgic nod to the past. Building more vessels that travel at this slower speed regardless of using wind power or conventional engines will also lead to quieter oceans and less air pollution.

Wind Power

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 20, 2024

Over its lifetime, a gasoline, diesel, propane or natural gas school bus will be responsible for more than 800 metric tons of global warming pollution. An electric school bus on the other hand drastically reduces climate pollution by well over 80 percent. But lower climate emissions aren’t the only benefit.

Electricity

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 22, 2022

Minnesotans are facing concurrent crises of climate change, high energy prices and inflation, and the inequitable public health impacts of fossil fuel air pollution. Renewable energy will help with all of that—but we need a grid that is designed for wind and solar instead of having to rely on expensive coal and gas plants.

Renewable Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Investing in renewable and battery storage: Under DTE’s proposed plan, the company would add 15,400 megawatts (MW) of new solar and wind power by 2042, which it says is enough to power approximately 4 million homes. DTE currently has 3,000 MW of existing and approved solar and wind resources.)

Clean Energy

Law Columbia

APRIL 26, 2021

Wind and solar energy facilities emit no air pollution and have minimal environmental effects as compared to fossil fuel plants, but like all types of development, renewable energy projects do have impacts. However, misinformation sometimes leads those impacts to be misunderstood or exaggerated.

Renewable Energy

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

By Leigh Hartman When Son Nguyen lived in the US, he saw rapidly advancing electric vehicle technology and heard stories from back in Vietnam about air pollution. The company sells electric motorbikes in Danang, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City and is exploring the reuse of electric batteries and how to power its factory with green energy.

Clean Energy

Edouard Stenger

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Local air pollution (and global climate change) ; 4. Meanwhile, Lazard, a leading financial advisory and asset management firm, reports that wind power costs were down 66 percent from 2009 to 2016. Wind power costs could drop another 50%. Biking could solve or help solve a laundry list of issues such as: 1.

Climate Change

Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

To avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis, it’s crucial that we shift energy production away from the unsustainable fossil fuels that cause climate change and towards those that release little to no greenhouse gases (GHG), such as solar and wind power.

Clean Energy

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2023

And while the construction of wind turbines generates small amounts of greenhouse gas emissions , DOE has recognized that–like solar PV–wind energy significantly reduces greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution emissions in the long term.

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

IRA clean energy investments also will protect public health by cutting key toxic air pollutants, such as nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide, by more than 50 percent by 2050, and drastically reduce fine particulate matter, which will save hundreds of billions of dollars in 2035 alone from avoided premature deaths.

Carbon Emissions

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2022

From 2020 to 2040, solar generation in these states jumps nearly ninefold and wind generation more than sevenfold. Our analysis also demonstrates renewables’ power. Emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides from power plants in alliance states drop 88 percent and 77 percent respectively by 2040.

Electricity

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

pollution, which are particles with diameters of 2.5 In 2019, air pollution more broadly was responsible for about 6.7 GW of gas capacity set to retire, but also slightly outpacing the planned additions of wind power. micrometers or less. million deaths globally.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

JANUARY 31, 2022

Research published in 2017 on the burden of disease arising from coal power in Southeast Asia estimated that if all the coal plants in PDP7 were built by 2030, then Vietnam would face almost 20,000 extra deaths that year due to the resulting air pollution. The biggest opportunity lies in offshore wind.

2010

Edouard Stenger

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Solar photovoltaic (PV) and wind power have become in recent years the cheapest sources of electricity and now account for 8 percent of global electricity. Transportation needs a revolution too as cities worldwide are suffocating from air pollution and traffic congestion. PSEG, a large utility in New Jersey will spend $2.8

Deforestation

PA Environment Daily

JULY 3, 2025

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Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 17, 2024

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Conservation

Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

While solar PV and wind power are grabbing headlines, another clean energy revolution is silently taking place. The World Health Organization estimates that four million people die every year from indoor air pollution from cooking on inefficient and unhealthy stoves using firewood, coal, kerosene, or animal dung.

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 24, 2022

Weighs Lifting Summer Smog Rules To Lower Gasoline Prices -- WSJ: Cost Of Ethanol Gasoline Additive Outpaces Crude Oil This Quarter -- Reuters: Texas Repeatedly Raises Air Pollution Limits For Cheniere LNG Natural Gas Terminal American Rescue Plan Funding -- Lancaster County Approves $3.4 Billion, $6.24

Natural Gas

Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 24, 2021

There’s so much we could do with that taxpayer money to protect our ocean and communities and fight climate change: Double existing funding to help build enough offshore wind to power 10 million homes: $5 billion. Offshore wind power is a key ocean-based climate solution that we need to invest in.

Climate Change

Science Blogs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

EPA: air pollution rule should be delayed – despite its effect on children. Trump attacks wind power in state that gets nearly third of energy from wind. Federal court blocks Trump EPA on air pollution. If elected governor, Graham says Florida would stick with Paris climate accord. . 2017.06.14.

Climate Change