Environmental News Bits

JUNE 16, 2025

GOP cuts could crush similar efforts. 438) Local government (438) Public lands (54) National parks & forests (45) State government (182) U.S. 438) Local government (438) Public lands (54) National parks & forests (45) State government (182) U.S.

Recycling

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

In a recent column , Paul Krugman argued that cutting carbon emissions doesn’t have to mean an end to economic growth. Carbon emissions and growth aren’t joined at the hip. The numbers are really clear about the disconnect between the trajectories of GDP and emissions. He’s right about that.

Carbon Emissions

PA Environment Daily

JULY 13, 2022

On July 13, Pittsburgh-based PNC Bank announced a long-term renewable supply agreement with Constellation to power nearly 50 percent of its legacy operations in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware, District of Columbia, and parts of Illinois with renewable electricity.

Renewable Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 3, 2023

It’s not surprising to see companies lobbying to try to optimize this lucrative credit for their profits rather than ensuring the produced hydrogen is genuinely low-carbon, but it is astounding to see regulators at risk of following suit. This won’t be a problem in the future when renewable energy predominates.

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

A closer look at the facts shows that big banks and investment firms are still financing the fossil fuel industry to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars a year. (No surprise, the fossil fuel industry is a major sponsor of the Republican Attorneys General Association.). A good example would be screening out tobacco company stock.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The US also works with electric vehicle manufacturers VinBus and VinFast, as well as Vietnam’s largest electric utility, to support the country’s goal of achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. The US Agency for International Development works with Vietnamese electric vehicle manufacturers, such as VinFast, to reduce emissions.

Clean Energy

Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Canadians will demand that financial institutions invest in a climate-safe future It is hard to create a zero-carbon economy if banks and pension funds are still investing in expanding oil and gas extraction. Learn more and take action at stopthe413.ca. Read more about the bans here.

2024

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Despite a significant uptake of renewable energy, India still relies on coal plants for more than half of its installed electricity supply. By Rejimon Kuttappan Along with a major expansion of renewable energy, India is also pushing for big increases in its coal production, casting doubt on its climate commitments.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

For Ana Lia Rojas, executive director of the Chilean Association of Renewable Energies (ACERA), Huepe’s immediate challenge as minister will be to confront the country’s stretched electricity system. In any case, renewable energy companies may look favourably at the new government and its commitment to decarbonisation. “We

Government

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Powering my home with renewable energy through solar is a dream come true! I can now reduce carbon emissions and save on my electric bill at the same time." Philadelphia's new green bank, is providing loan loss reserves and a revolving fund for the solar renewable energy credits generated by the projects.

Renewable Energy

Edouard Stenger

MAY 24, 2017

Part of this revolution is the meteoritic growth of green bonds, which were started in 2007 by the World Bank and the European Investment Bank. Green bonds can be issued by multilateral development banks (MDB) which issued the first ones. Water and Waste make up 14 and six percent, respectively.

Climate Change

Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 2, 2022

We must hasten the transition to renewable energy, end fossil fuel subsidies and investments in related projects and invest in coastal restoration and protection. You can also look into your bank or investment accounts to see if they are invested in fossil fuel companies and choose options that support greener companies.

Ocean

A Greener Life

JULY 9, 2021

Yang Fuqiang thinks it is unreasonable to make energy-producing provinces such as Inner Mongolia solely responsible for cutting carbon emissions. If it benefits, it has to help cut carbon. There is huge potential for developing renewable energy in Inner Mongolia, which could be used to power other industries.

Renewable Energy

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

This effort, he said , would be based on “promoting the sustainable use of land and water, energy efficiency, electrification, and the large-scale use of eco-friendly and renewable energy sources, among others”. According to the World Bank, Kazakhstan is one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases in Europe and Central Asia.

Fossil Fuels

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Thanks to the leadership of Barbados, the text includes calls for global development banks to scale up funding and align with climate ambition, and to fill the gap for climate-vulnerable countries who face heavy debt and low access to capital. The hard work of limiting temperature rise to 1.5

Fossil Fuels

Enviromental Defense

MAY 24, 2023

Roughly half of production emissions come from carbon-intensive input materials and metals, and the other half is due to the coal-burning electricity mix of manufacturing countries like China, Korea and Japan where most batteries are made. Most of the carbon emissions from cars come from fuelling them up with gas and driving them.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2023

These Allegheny River Towns are building on a strong collaborative history to promote sustainable community development through the shared lenses of: Equity, Food, Water, Energy, Air Quality, and Mobility.

2023

A Greener Life

JULY 12, 2023

We want to generate renewable power in the desert for other mining operations as well as the railway line that is in the pipeline; our solar project will offset carbon emissions from the coal that is being mined and used to fire the two power plants [in Block 2],” Cheng added. How can a solar project neutralise carbon emissions?”

Carbon Emissions

A Greener Life

MARCH 19, 2023

The plant was recently reported to have secured financing from the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), China’s largest commercial bank. The environmental impacts of coal power – from local air and water pollution to carbon emissions – have made the project controversial. “We

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Attorney’s Office said that the defendant did not perform work under a cooperative agreement, which required his company to conduct field studies and drill wells; instead, the defendant transferred millions of dollars to his personal bank account. Opponents of EPA Carbon Standards for New Coal-Fired Power Plants Filed Initial Briefs.

2016

Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

4] Meanwhile, many experts see in recent trends an inevitable transition away from coal and nuclear power plants, designed to function as baseload capacity, toward variable renewable energy sources with just-in-time natural gas back-up. While energy sources across all categories failed in mid-February, they didn’t all fail equally.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 3, 2021

“There is no better place to do [both carbon capture and storage] than right here in Pennsylvania,” Denise Brinley, executive director of the Pennsylvania Office of Energy, told state senators at a March meeting. Critical questions The practice of carbon storage is hotly debated. Some scientists and energy experts say the U.S.

Carbon Dioxide

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 11, 2021

Sometimes referred to as “Over the River” territory, or “OTR” for short, the island’s northern parts also go by the name written on a sign that juts from the sprawling landform’s parched banks: “Carib Country.” The move comes amid India’s push to reduce their own carbon emissions.

2021

Physics World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

More than 130 nations have so far promised to become “net-zero” carbon emitters by 2050 to try to limit global warming to 2?°C But as world leaders meet on the banks of the Clyde in Glasgow for the COP26 summit , they will have to turn talk into action. Overall, cement accounts for 3% of the world’s carbon emissions.

Cooling

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The IRA provides $369 billion for climate and clean energy programs, the largest investment of its kind ever passed by Congress. It could shrink the country’s carbon emissions by roughly 40% by 2030. The bi-partisan IIJA is a nearly $1 trillion package that includes billions for clean energy infrastructure.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The hypocrisy of the world’s biggest banks on climate change keeps mounting. For the world to truly be on a path to net zero carbon emissions by 2050, the IEA says clean energy spending needs to soar to $4.5 Nearly every major bank these days claims to have net zero financing and operations policies.

Fossil Fuels

Environmental Progress

JULY 29, 2020

The High Cost of Renewables House Democrats propose spending hundreds of billions of public and ratepayer money on renewable energy, new transmission lines, energy efficiency, mass transit, electric vehicles, carbon capture and storage, and advanced nuclear energy. I am honored to address the Committee.

2020

Edouard Stenger

OCTOBER 29, 2018

LED bulbs are just one example among many on how doing more with less has a lot of potential as it is estimated that 570 million tons of carbon emissions have been prevented in 2017 alone by the adoption of more efficient lights. Other renewable energy sources could help complement that all that.

Deforestation

Environmental Progress

AUGUST 3, 2020

But in Apocalypse Never I show that, for Malthusians, making the world a “better place” has meant letting the poor starve, keeping poor nations dependent on wood fuel, and diverting World Bank funding from dams, roads, and fertilizer for development to charitable endeavors like solar panels for rural villagers aimed at making poverty sustainable.

Fossil Fuels

Environmental Science

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Ancient Egyptian society began along the fertile banks of the River Nile which is buffered on both sides by hot & dry desert (8) which they saw as vital to their culture. Many are not aware that deserts are a net carbon sink, providing some relief from the increase in greenhouse gases. Australasia: Gibson Desert (Semi-Arid).

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Bills remain in the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee. -- Increase Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards Renewable Energy Goals: House Bill 100 and Senate Bill 872 would require Pennsylvania to reach 100 percent renewable energy generation by 2050. Read more here.

2022

PA Environment Daily

MAY 21, 2023

. -- TribLive: We Must Be A Climate Leader - By Patricia Oliver, North Huntingdon -- Land Conservancy Of Adams County Partners With Smith Family To Preserve Nearly 10 Acres Of Meadow, Woodlands, Historic Home [PaEN] -- WeConservePA: Clifford Twp, Susquehanna County Protects 11 Acres, 1,000 Feet Of Tunkhannock Creek With Park Purchase -- York Daily (..)

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Scavello Introduces Bill Authorizing Community Solar Projects; $2 Billion Worth Of Projects Waiting For It To Pass -- Business, Environment, Energy Groups Praise Introduction Of Bipartisan Bills Increasing Solar Energy Mandate From 0.5% Check Out C-SAW -- Trout Unlimited, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers New R.I.S.E

Conservation

Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Brett Walton 2021-08-13 15:37:34 2021-11-29 20:52:34 The Colorado River Basin’s Daunting New Math Amid Dire Colorado River Outlook, States Plan to Tap Their Lake Mead Savings Accounts 1 Comment / June 2, 2021 Arizona and California intend to draw on water they banked in the big reservoir, even as water levels drop. Brett Walton. And the U.S.

2021

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 12, 2022

House passed compromise legislation that would make the largest federal investment-- $375 billion-- in climate change fighting strategies, including investments in renewable energy production, tax rebates for consumers for energy efficiency and electric vehicles and more. on a path to significantly reduce carbon emissions.

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The international meeting yielded no breakthrough on phasing down emissions nor on the unconscionable levels to which banks and asset managers continue to bankroll oil, gas and coal. Five years ago, the World Bank said it would end investments in oil and gas extraction by 2019. Banking against science.

Fossil Fuels

Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

In recent years, states in New England and the mid-Atlantic region have made significant progress in reducing climate change-inducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the electricity generation sector. [1]. emissions in the RGGI region would have been approximately 24 percent higher in 2015 but for the program, which took effect in 2009.

Greenhouse