Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 21, 2024

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) included a major—forthcoming—refresh for one of the biggest policy drivers of the nation’s clean energy transition to date: tax credits subsidizing the deployment of clean electricity resources. What’s “clean,” and how is it measured? These incentives aren’t just historically important.

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Electricity Clean Energy Greenhouse Technology 306

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

of the observed rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide and 52 percent of the rise in global average temperatures between 1880 and 2015. If they do, they will see the only truly robust forward course is the one that puts the accelerated transition to clean energy at its center.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The WMO’s GHG bulletin’s headline takeaways are stark: Atmospheric concentrations of three major heat-trapping gases, carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), methane (CH 4 ) and nitrous oxide (N 2 O) hit all-time highs in 2021 (see table below). ” Source: IEA World Energy Outlook 2022. Source: UNEP 2022 Emissions Gap Report.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 25, 2023

With an outsized credit for the lowest-carbon tier, the incentive’s aim is clear: Drive deployment of hydrogen production technologies that will be needed by, and aligned with , the nation’s overall clean energy transition.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Experts say a recent atmospheric river event in California didn’t improve drought conditions, CBSLA reports. Central Maine Power, having secured its state and federal permits, already started construction on New England Clean Energy Connect, a 145-mile-long, high-voltage transmission line stretching from the Canadian border to Lewiston.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

It’s an inclusive future with abundant clean energy, healthy soils, clean air and good food. Kira Davis: We are changing the atmosphere, and the planet is warming to an extent that desertification and warmer temperatures are causing migrations, extinctions, land loss as water levels rise.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 11, 2025

Summer Forecast According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the summer of 2025 is forecast to be hotter and wetter than normal, with an above-average Atlantic hurricane season already underway.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2025

Energy storage options like CAES are particularly important in the transition to clean energy, according to the researchers, because they help address the intermittent nature of renewable sources. By storing excess renewable energy and releasing it when needed, energy storage contributes to grid stability and reliability.

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Cresforum

JUNE 5, 2024

This award emphasizes the significant impact and quality of Breakthrough Energy’s work in accelerating clean energy development in the United States and around the world. Its recognition by the Webby Awards is a testament to the hard work and dedication of the Breakthrough Energy team.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2023

Heightened flood risk The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said in a recent outlook that about 44 percent of the United States is at risk of floods this spring, equating to about 146 million people. This includes most of the eastern half of the country, the federal agency said.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 3, 2022

Decarbonizing the power sector is also a linchpin of economy-wide efforts to cut emissions, through electrification of energy use for transportation, industrial purposes and in residential and commercial buildings. The West Virginia v. There is no time to waste.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2024

Wildfire forecast Atmospheric rivers doused California with such exceptional rainfall earlier this year that the threat of wildfire there has for now been greatly tamped down (though this also spurred the growth of vegetation that will fuel future fires). the clean energy transition and a modernized grid) and adaptation (e.g.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 24, 2023

In the 1960s, scientists were warning that the burning of fossil fuels was releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which could have catastrophic consequences for the planet. We still have a long way to go in terms of transitioning to a clean energy economy and mitigating the worst impacts of climate change.

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Physics World

MAY 17, 2022

In this webinar, Dr Reza Javaherdashti will discuss the relationship between the efficient management of corrosion protection and clean-energy strategies. Any factor that can assist “clean-energy-based strategies” has to be seriously considered. One of the most interesting of these factors is corrosion management.

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Clean Energy Carbon Dioxide Fossil Fuels Natural Resources 98

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Three years later, energy production emerges as a force to be reckoned with by fishermen, clean energy advocates, those focused on the endangered Right Whale, and everyone who depends upon the Gulf of Maine (hereafter referred to as “GOM”) and its future.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 21, 2022

That process sends a powerful shock wave inward, heating and compressing the fuel to extraordinarily high pressures and temperatures (a hundred billion atmospheres and millions of degrees) – just enough, it turns out, to coax deuterium and tritium, both isotopes of hydrogen, to fuse into helium as Eddington originally postulated.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 19, 2024

Billions of dollars in public money are beginning to flow to seven “hydrogen hubs” around the country — regional nerve centers for a potentially clean fuel that could someday rival solar and wind and cut carbon from the atmosphere.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 24, 2024

Seeing why our choices today matter for our kids and grandkids The amount of sea level rise expected between now and 2050 is fairly certain because it is largely dictated by how much global-warming pollution we’ve already dumped into the atmosphere. Limiting future warming to 1.5°C

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 21, 2022

While we are racing ahead in putting in place the clean energy and tech economy of the future many analysts argue that this will not be enough, we do need to remove carbon from the atmosphere. These might not be perfect, but they’re at least starting to make plans for a non-fossil-fuel industry world.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 12, 2021

This refers to the balance between the amount of greenhouse gases produced and the amount removed from the atmosphere – with net zero meaning that there are no net greenhouse emissions from the entire energy system. Indeed, nuclear allows the opportunity to decarbonize all energy, not just electricity.

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Nuclear Power Clean Energy Greenhouse Radiation 140

Circle of Blue

JULY 26, 2022

Extreme rain events are becoming heavier and more frequent across the Midwest as Earth’s atmosphere warms. WIND ENERGY: A wind farm has emerged as the latest energy flashpoint in New York, the Buffalo News reports. Why it matters: The risk assessments that were used to build Detroit’s infrastructure are starting to break down.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen The former Chief Scientist for the UK Government, Sir David King did not hold back the scientific reality of years of climate inaction when he addressed the audience at the Net Zero Festival in London, organised by Business Green, a clean energy publication.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 8, 2025

Over 1st Quarter 2024; Price Of Natural Gas Increased 218% Over 1st Quarter 2024 [PaEN] -- Erie Times Guest Essay: Understaffed DEP Can’t Uphold Law And Protect Public Health - By Rep.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 3, 2024

reduce its carbon dioxide (CO2) atmospheric levels. CO2 is the primary greenhouse gas emitted through human activities by burning fossil fuels and contributes to global warming by trapping heat in the atmosphere. The captured CO2 is then stored deep underground in geologic formations or used to make other products.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

One strategy is to counterbalance carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions that contribute to climate change by drawing an equal amount of carbon out of the atmosphere, such as through planting trees.

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Climate Change Carbon Dioxide Carbon Emissions Atmosphere 104

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 9, 2025

Over 1st Quarter 2024; Price Of Natural Gas Increased 218% Over 1st Quarter 2024 Susquehanna River Basin Commission Renews 2 Shale Gas Water Withdrawal Projects PA Senate Republicans Move Bills To Roll Back Any State Regulations, Laws, Guidance At The Request Of Industry PUC Chairman Stephen M.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 15, 2024

TAKE ACTION: SAVE ALBERTA’S CLEAN ENERGY FUTURE Not talking about the connection between climate change-caused natural disasters isn’t leading to long-term answers to these tragic challenges. It is hampering our efforts to find solutions. It simply perpetuates the crisis.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Professor Corinne Le Quéré, Royal Society Research Professor at UEA’s School of Environmental Sciences, who also took part in the study added what is required to make emissions decline rapidly: “ If governments respond by turbocharging clean energy investments and planting, not cutting, trees, global emissions could rapidly start to fall.”.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 8, 2023

Department of Agriculture (USDA), Department of Energy (DOE), Department of the Interior (DOI), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)—to implement the IRA. Similarly, other agencies have made significant progress towards implementing the IRA programs they administer.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

While this has moderated atmospheric and land temperatures to some degree, the ocean can’t keep this up, and its ability to regulate the climate becomes compromised as we continue to burn fossil fuels. As mentioned above, emissions of the latter, particularly in the Arctic, are significant to radiative heating of the atmosphere.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Other violations included venting natural gas to the atmosphere and failure to submit required production and waste generation and well integrity reports. in Pine Township, Allegheny County and found the well was venting natural gas to the atmosphere through multiple holes in the casing.

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Legal Planet

JULY 18, 2023

C of warming without removing carbon from the atmosphere – in other words, carbon capture (or, to use less controversial nomenclature: carbon removal) in some form. The issue is about what the transition to clean fuels and manufacturing looks like and how long it will take.

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Fossil Fuels Climate Change Natural Gas Deforestation 130

Clean Energy Law

JUNE 17, 2022

BOEM has identified a total of five proposed leases across two areas — the Humboldt Wind Energy Area (WEA) and the Morro Bay WEA.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2023

Details Plan To Draw Clean Energy Facilities Into Oil, Coal Communities -- York Dispatch Editorial: Climate Change Is Here; We Now Must Deal With It -- WITF: Why There’s An Ode To Natural Gas In The Pennsylvania Capitol Building -- WTAE: U.S.

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Washington Nature

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Watch the Video: Climate Short: How Climate Change Impacts Us and Our Well-being Carbon Sequestration or Carbon Storage The practice of capturing carbon dioxide that is already in the atmosphere, and storing it.

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Carbon Dioxide Climate Change Sea Level Greenhouse 97

Enviromental Defense

JULY 4, 2023

These sectors could become sustainable through electrification and pivoting from fossil fuels to renewable energy, but this will require a big shift that could have consequences on our economy and jobs if not dealt with correctly. This is dangerous.

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Fossil Fuels Government Renewable Energy Carbon Emissions 124

Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Burning waste—especially plastic waste—generates toxic and climate-warming gases that fill our air, our lungs and our atmosphere, warming the climate and making people sick. Ok, but can’t we make clean energy from burning waste? Sorry, but no again.

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