PA Environment Daily

JUNE 11, 2025

"PITT OHIO's investments in renewable energy, power storage, and electric vehicles have enabled growth and hiring," said Justine Russ, Director of Sustainability and Business Intelligence at PITT OHIO. Both customers and employees support our renewable energy projects, notably our patented solar and wind-powered microgrid in Harmar, PA.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2024

By next year, Pennsylvania will get 50 percent of its electricity from ten new solar arrays around the Commonwealth – making Pennsylvania the first state in the country to commit to getting half of its energy from solar power.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 21, 2025

Reduce the dependency on fossil fuels It urges governments, companies, and individuals to reduce fossil fuel dependency and scale up sustainable alternatives. Earth Day takes place on 22 April and marks its 55th anniversary in 2025. The global energy transition The theme promotes a global transition to clean, renewable energy.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Dat Bike is one of numerous partners the US government works with to meet this rapidly growing demand for clean energy. 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.

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Frontiers

APRIL 24, 2023

Recent publications include When Governments Fail: Covid-19 and the Economy , Informal Women Workers in the Global South , and Demonetisation Decoded. Keeping with the topic of climate change, one part of the inequality is evident and it’s the discussion about carbon debt.

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A Greener Life

JULY 9, 2021

The region will need to change its industrial structure and energy mix to meet national carbon targets, requiring policy and financial support from central government. Energy authorities in Inner Mongolia are aiming to connect 50 gigawatts of renewable power to the grid by 2025. If it benefits, it has to help cut carbon.

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A Greener Life

JULY 23, 2021

There is talk that a global “hydrogen economy” can emerge to save the climate from carbon emissions. Hydrogen could power trucks, ships and planes and be used to produce everything from cement to steel and fertiliser. They have government backing too, with heavy spending on recharging networks.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 17, 2025

Reducing carbon emissions is another significant benefit of avoiding the burning of fossil fuels with offshore wind. In fact, in some parts of the country, offshore wind may become the largest zero-carbon generation source for cutting power plant carbon emissions and achieving net-zero carbon emissions across the economy.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 19, 2023

By Zofeen Ebrahim Progress towards the construction of a China-funded coal power plant in Gwadar raises questions about the climate pledges of both China and Pakistan. The environmental impacts of coal power – from local air and water pollution to carbon emissions – have made the project controversial. “We

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

However, several analyses—including a recent one by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)—have concluded that the IRA, even when coupled with the bipartisan infrastructure act and other federal and state climate policies, will not be enough to meet US carbon emission reduction goals. EN: We have already seen a great deal of progress.

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A Greener Life

MAY 23, 2024

This will become increasingly important as solar and wind power expands because these energy flows are more difficult to adjust than, say, coal power. According to Zheng, “more time and research are needed to find if demand response helps reduce carbon emissions when renewable energy isn’t available.”

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Cresforum

MARCH 10, 2022

Records were broken for renewable power, battery storage and sustainable transportation. And while emissions have slightly risen, the U.S. In 2021, solar and wind power were built at a record pace due to surging demand by companies, households and sound economics. The federal government is also taking notice.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Even the proposal’s main architect, former Secretary of State James Baker, acknowledged that he faces an “uphill slog” in convincing the federal government to act. Here in New York, for example, we already have three forms of more or less direct carbon pricing. That seems unlikely, however.

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

ERCOT also expected, during peak demand events in winter, to have power from wind represent about 27% of installed wind capacity. In its most severe appraisal of the loss of wind capacity, ERCOT expected 8% of wind power compared to capacity. 14] The average age of a unit of wind or solar is 6.3

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

In a separate but similar Ninth Circuit appeal, the federal government filed a brief on October 18 urging the court to overturn a district court decision vacating the listing of a ringed seal subspecies as threatened based on climate change threats through the end of the century. Circuit Court of Appeals.

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Legal Planet

JULY 22, 2021

Net metering policies are often criticized by economists as inefficient in terms of the money spent per unit of carbon emissions reduced. And it increases the political feasibility of decarbonization because if decarbonization is cheaper, it becomes less of a lift for governments to pursue.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

For instance, Iowa can generate more wind power than it can get to markets in Chicago and further east. The effort to build new transmission has been stymied, however, by resistance from utilities and state governments. That’s the first real non-military federal funding for climate change adaptation.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 6, 2023

But with the recent influx of government incentives for hydrogen production, new and improving production and storage technologies, and greater political will than ever before, H 2 ’s reputation is gaining favor. Because of this, a 30% hydrogen mix by volume delivers only a 10% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

19] France spends just over half as much per kilowatt-hour for electricity that produces one-tenth of the carbon emissions of German electricity. [20] 23] In response to Fukushima, the Japanese government shut down its nuclear plants and the cost of electricity went up. trillion. [25] as a whole. [52]

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 17, 2024

Fiedler Promotes Solar Energy Projects At Schools During Visit -- The Energy Age: Solar Energy News - 7 Tips On Buying Solar Panels; US Installs More Solar In 2023 Than Ever Before; Solar Panel Recycling; Community Solar -- The Energy Age Blog: The Latest On Wind Power -- The Energy Age Blog: The Latest On Heat Pumps -- WHYY - Susan Phillips: Environmentalists (..)

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Environmental Science

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Many are not aware that deserts are a net carbon sink, providing some relief from the increase in greenhouse gases. This will be problematic while carbon emissions continue to increase, and world governments will need to do something about it in the future. Deserts are also useful sources of wind power.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2022

In 2021 [PaEN] -- Scranton Times Editorial: At Least Pick Low-Hanging Fruit To Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions -- Inquirer - Andrew Maykuth: Why PA Natural Gas Might Not Be Poised To Come To Europe’s Rescue -- PA Insurance Dept., What’s Your Community Doing? Bipartisan Federal Infrastructure Law -- Gov.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 4, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen The two New England states Massachusetts and Rhode Island have approved three giant offshore wind projects which combined will have an installed capacity of 2.9 gigawatts (GW) equivalent to powering 1.6 Massachusetts aims to slash its power sector’s carbon emissions by 50% by 2030 and 100% by 2050.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The court said its August 2017 decision rejecting challenges under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and Natural Gas Act to DOE’s authorization of LNG exports at another Texas facility largely governed the resolution of the instant cases. The court addressed three narrow issues that remained in one or more of the cases.

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ESA

AUGUST 16, 2021

However, the world could avoid the more extreme scenarios in the report if governments sharply reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions. Biden earlier this year pledged to transition the current gas- and diesel-powered federal fleet to “clean energy” vehicles. Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs.

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