Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

When it comes to climate action, it can be difficult to understand what makes a strong climate plan that puts us on a pathway to zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions – and what new policies and tools are actually dangerous distractions from real solutions. The vast majority of projects never get off the ground.

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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.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 19, 2024

If you’re ready to get more involved in fighting climate change and looking for ideas on how you can meaningfully contribute to climate solutions, then you’re in the right place! Have you checked out our guide to six easy ways to get involved in climate action? We know the solutions to fight climate change.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

To decarbonize our energy system, electrify transportation and buildings, and drastically reduce our contribution to climate change, we’ll need to develop and deploy significant wind, solar, and other renewable energy generating facilities as quickly as possible. One in particular is the state of our electric grid.

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E2 Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

11, 2023, the City Planning Commission approved amendments to the New York City Zoning Resolution, called “City of Yes for Carbon Neutrality,” proposed by Mayor Adams’ administration to advance the city’s climate goals, including an 80% reduction in carbon emissions by 2050.

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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.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2024

Josh Shapiro joined Department of General Services Secretary Reggie McNeil, Constellation President & CEO Joseph Dominguez, and Lightsource bp Senior Vice President Alyssa Edwards to unveil the Commonwealth’s renewable energy initiative, the Pennsylvania Project to Utilize Light and Solar Energy (PA PULSE).

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 22, 2022

We all know that to successfully address climate change we need to phase out fossil fuels and switch to electric power. For wind and solar energy to be available irrespective of weather conditions, they must be combined with storage systems that make electricity available anytime, especially during peak demand periods. .

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

As noted at the end of last year, 2021 was significant for climate litigation, with several decisions worldwide providing a fresh look at stakeholder responsibility for climate change. A landmark decision recognizing the impacts of climate change on human rights. In September this year, the U.N.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 7, 2021

South Asia is home to nearly a quarter of the world’s population , and to some of the countries most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. South Asia is home to nearly a quarter of the world’s population , and to some of the countries most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. The net-zero debate.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The people that run the General Assembly have not offered any help to these communities and workers, but one potential solution is the final regulation putting in place a Carbon Pollution Reduction Program covering power plants consistent with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative that are now inching toward final publication.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

.” -- Article I, Section 27 Pennsylvania Constitution [It’s Not A Suggestion] Click Here To View Or Print The Entire February 19 PA Environment Digest 105 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA Weekly List Of PA Environment & Energy Articles & NewsClips By Topic Sen.

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Law and Environment

JANUARY 26, 2022

The White House has taken a strong stance in expanding the production and use of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) to reduce carbon emissions in the aviation industry. The Administration has identified the aviation industry as a climate priority in its push to reduce the country’s carbon footprint.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 2, 2022

The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report released this week details how future climate impacts are going to affect our society, and many of us may be wondering what the future holds. We need bold plans and execution at all levels of government to combat climate change. In the U.S.,

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 4, 2021

A climate crisis is happening before our eyes. It is caused by human activity and carbon emissions. According to Pennsylvania’s recently released 2021 Climate Impacts Assessment, average annual temperatures in the commonwealth will rise by 5.9°F percent to the Energy Communities Trust Fund; -- 12.5

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Vermont Law

JUNE 29, 2020

For years, legislators, policymakers, and business – Dominion Energy – have been avoiding the writing on the wall that climate change is having a substantial impact on Virginians, whether it be the fate of our historic sites in Williamsburg, the crop yield in the Shenandoah Valley, or an even more miserable pollen season in.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 30, 2021

This is especially critical given all the noise coming from the oil and gas sector – and the institutions propping them up – suggesting that the only way to tackle climate change is by paying the very companies fueling the climate crisis to lower their emissions! The window for keeping global warming to 1.5

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

With the effects of Climate Change an imminent threat to the world and with cities contributing to more than 60% of Global Greenhouse Gas emissions (United Nations, 2021), future cities will also need to secure sustainable development. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, to stay within 1.5-degree

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 23, 2023

clean hydrogen industry that creates good-paying jobs, while also reducing carbon emissions. The Treasury Department’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) provides definitions of key terms in the statute, including lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions, qualified clean hydrogen, and qualified clean hydrogen production facility.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The agreement provides Microsoft ongoing Clean Energy Credits so it can claim to be using low carbon electricity. But it actually just gives the company an excuse to continue its regular operations, without decreasing its own greenhouse gas emissions. We lose our claim to clean electricity .

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2022

“As part of our commitment to create a clean energy future for all in the Pittsburgh region, DLC is increasing opportunities for customers and communities to experience the many benefits of electric mobility while addressing one of our area’s largest sources of carbon emissions and air pollution —?transportation,”

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

According to the International Energy Agency (IEA) , renewable energy sources are to become the first electricity source by 2025, surpassing dirty coal. Renewables surpassing fossil gas then coal for electricity generation will have many implications. Good news everyone !

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Physics World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Mainstream journalists seemed more interested in Greta Thunberg’s trans-Atlantic journey to the conference by low-carbon catamaran than in demanding action. Long term, climate change is a greater threat than the COVID-19 pandemic. Without human-induced climate change, that heat would be at least 150 times rarer.

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E2 Law Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Enacted in 2019, the CLCPA transformed the state’s earlier clean energy standard efforts from administrative fiat to law and sets more aggressive goals to reduce statewide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions economy-wide to 60% from a 1990 baseline by 2030, and 15% from a 1990 baseline by 2050.

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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”. Chinese investments fuel Kazakhstan’s energy economy. share in Kazakh oil production.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The hypocrisy of the world’s biggest banks on climate change keeps mounting. Some of HSBC’s dealings were on behalf of Saudi Aramco, the world’s second-ranked company in Fortune’s Global 500 and often dubbed the world’s biggest polluter for being the largest corporate emitter of greenhouse gases. degrees Celsius, or 2.7

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Cresforum

MARCH 10, 2022

In the Unites States’ march to transition to clean energy and reduce greenhouse gasses, resilience may be the most important word to summarize 2021. Nine months after the pandemic first upended lives and the economy, the market fundamentals for clean energy looked unstoppable. All this new clean energy means that as the U.S.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Underpinning these processes is the sense of urgency from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) most recent report , which made it clear that time has run out for incremental approaches to zeroing out greenhouse gas emissions. Never miss an update. Sorry, but we failed to add you to the list. In the U.S.,

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E2 Law Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

16, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) released its updated 2 022 Scoping Plan to outline policies and actions California proposes to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels and to achieve carbon neutrality by 2045 or earlier. Continue reading the full GT Alert.

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Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

The past two years have yielded unprecedented executive and regulatory engagement in the climate change discussion. to reducing their carbon emissions. which will implement national standards to govern carbon pollution from power plants. international climate change agreement. social cost of carbon.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2023

2023 is forecast to be an eventful year for climate litigation: legal actions aiming to hold polluters accountable for their role in climate change, ensure that international treaties and agreements are followed, and protect human rights that are being negatively impacted by climate change.

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Law Columbia

JULY 31, 2015

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors’ move to ban utility-scale wind turbines and to impose severe restrictions on utility-scale solar in unincorporated areas of the county is not compatible with averting the worst impacts of climate change. We all need energy, and so far there is no way to produce it with zero impacts.

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Edouard Stenger

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Earlier this month, the scientists of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published a report on limiting global warming to 1.5C. A 2C warming is the upper limit we should not reach as beyond that Mankind and life on Earth would face a very real risk of runaway climate change.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

By Penn State News With a goal of achieving 100% greenhouse gas emissions reduction by 2035, Penn State – under the direction of President Neeli Bendapudi -- is moving forward with several of the recommendations presented by the University’s Carbon Emissions Reduction Task Force in Spring 2022.

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E2 Law Blog

AUGUST 18, 2021

Some in Congress are advocating a proposal to establish a carbon tax on certain imports to fight climate change and protect domestic production. A more specific carbon border tax plan has also been proposed by Sen. The proposals come shortly after Europe announced its proposal for the world’s first carbon border tax.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

Much of the cradle-to-grave carbon intensity data that governments depend on to guide in photovoltaic arrays are instead based on modeling assumptions that are likely to have grossly under-estimated — if not made-up — solar’s carbon emissions because they cannot get insights from Chinese manufacturers. million cars to the road.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Second Circuit Rejected Challenges to Connecticut Renewable Energy Programs.

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