Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Earlier this year, UCS experts worked with community groups to produce a report, On the Road to 100 Percent Renewables , which shows that two dozen states can reliably meet 100 percent of their electricity needs with renewable energy. The same solutions will fix the energy crisis and the climate crisis.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In the Nile River basin last week, a political power shift in Sudan could turn up the heat on a long-simmering dispute over a major dam in the region. In that decade, the federal government created the U.S. And state governments began to secure those same rights for individuals in their constitutions.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

Throughout his career, Minott and the Clean Air Council earned a reputation for holding government agencies and fossil fuel companies accountable. Mr. Minott holds two degrees in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. In 2011, Kraybill purchased his first electric car, a Chevy Volt.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 5, 2021

electricity. With some notable exceptions, they’ve tended to drag their feet on the energy transition. The proposed Clean Energy Standard is one effort to deal with this problem. That doesn’t seem to be politically feasible at the national level, at present. Another hybrid policy involves corporate governance.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2022

Quite the opposite: today’s high oil and gas prices are a fresh reinforcement, if we needed that, for why a rapid transition to clean energy is imperative. A rapid clean energy transition is (still) the best path forward. Multiple crises colliding with climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 16, 2024

Much of our electricity system is 50 to 70 years old, yet current plans for domestic manufacturing, electric vehicle fleets, community solar gardens and more clean energy all depend on a modern grid. New demands for electricity and the need to reduce climate-changing emissions are driving new grid planning efforts.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Like many other public-serving institutions throughout society, electricity and gas utilities are facing calls to be more equitable in their operations, planning, and treatment of customers. How are energy equity and energy justice connected? Energy equity lives under the umbrella of energy justice.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

Climate Envoy Kerry: No Rolling Back Clean Energy Transition PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- Inquirer: 100 Days: A Look At Shapiro’s ‘Common Ground’ Approach To Governing One Of The Nation’s Most Politically Divided States -- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: Pennsylvania’s House Takeover - A Tale Of Two Speakers - By Fmr Rep.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

SB 1145 requires CARB to create and maintain an online dashboard providing the public with information about the state’s progress on meeting its climate change goals, increasing government accountability. Clean Energy.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 17, 2024

Solar PV Project in Cuba (Photo credit: IRENA ) Today, the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) jointly published a new report titled Building a Cleaner, More Resilient Energy System in Cuba: Opportunities and Challenges. policy also has a significant impact on Cuba’s energy sector.

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A Greener Life

JULY 30, 2021

Germany has recently experienced fatal and apocalyptic climate- fuelled floods , after which the country’s Chancellor, Angela Merkel, promised the government would do more to tackle climate change. Ironically, the country already gets a lot of its electricity supply via interconnectors from France – produced through nuclear energy.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 19, 2024

Embrace political advocacy Photo by Kempton via Flickr Creative Commons Political action and advocacy is crucial to climate action, because changing the larger system is the greatest opportunity to reduce emissions, and changing the way our economy and society operate requires government action.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 21, 2021

In a remarkable new report, the International Energy Agency (IEA) finds that in order to limit warming to 1.5 The IEA is the world’s foremost authority on energy, relied upon by governments and the private sector around the world. So what do we need governments to do? This is a huge deal. Starting now.

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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. All this is not to say there is no place for hydrogen in a clean energy future.

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Inside Climate News

APRIL 4, 2024

By Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune This article was first published by The Texas Tribune , a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans—and engages with them—about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2023

Barrow is an alumna of the University of Georgia with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Spanish. Prior to her career at the Commission, Barrow spent time working as a Law Clerk for the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board in Harrisburg. She received her law degree from the University of Georgia School of Law.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

On September 12, former DEP Secretary Patrick McDonnell was appointed President & CEO of PennFuture , a statewide advocacy organization dedicated to protecting public health, restoring and protecting natural resources, and moving Pennsylvania toward a clean energy future.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In political terms, this seems like a lost opportunity to showcase the government’s achievements; it’s also a disservice to those in the policy community who are tracking implementation. Announcing $400 million in grant funding available for school districts to purchase electric or low-emission school buses. Opening Oct.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Courts in the Czech Republic and the United Kingdom have provided oversight of government climate mitigation actions. The Czech Republic joins the Netherlands, France, Germany and other EU countries in determining a government’s duty to mitigate climate change. See a detailed analysis of the decision here.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

have long demonstrated leadership on climate change, with more than 170 of them having set targets to phase out fossil energy and many others committing to net zero greenhouse gas emissions. Cities Climate Law can help local governments move from pledges to action by demystifying the legal context in which they develop climate policy.

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Washington Nature

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The political roadblocks to passing the ambitious federal policies we need to address the climate crisis are significant. This is an essential moment for companies and investors, especially those who have made climate and equity commitments, to match those pledges with consistent actions and advocacy.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The government had abruptly stopped subsidies, dramatically increasing the price for consumers. These protests, triggered by an issue in Kazakhstan’s energy sector, have rapidly expanded to cities all over the country and have broadened to include political demands and tense standoffs between protesters and the police.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 30, 2023

This political rollercoaster ride was also unfolding across last year’s Danger Season , stressing the urgency of the need to act big, and act now. The same partisan politics that delayed the IRA’s passage also carved some flaws into the bill. Then, suddenly, we learned that the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) had passed the Senate.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

Here are 68 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us. 27 Released 1.1 27 Released 1.1 27 Released 1.1

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2022

The law will provide $379 billion in subsidies to clean energy in the form of direct payments and tax credits. With enough money on the table, industry and other interest groups start exerting strong pressure on these laggard governments to shift policy. Federal subsidies create new national political dynamics.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 4, 2023

The state’s grid reliability is also inextricably linked to issues of improving energy affordability and achieving California’s ambitious clean energy goals. Interconnections and regional entities (Source: North American Electric Reliability Corporation). What is Western grid regionalization?

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Dylan White , and Sam Wong As countries around the world accelerate the transition to clean energy, the race to gain shares in the electric vehicle (EV) manufacturing market is intensifying, with global sales of EVs rising 31% in 2023. [1] News, Global Electric Car Sales Rose 31% in 2023 – Rho motion (Jan. 18741(a)(5). [5]

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

This post was originally published on the Law and Political Economy blog as part of a symposium on inflation. Energy prices have been much in the news over the past several months, occupying a prominent place in mainstream discussions of inflation. How then do we explain what is currently happening with energy prices?

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

Investors and governments will be expected to refer to the Taxonomy in order to determine whether an activity they want to pursue can be considered sustainable, and under what conditions (screening criteria). Having an expiration date creates political investment uncertainty and risk, which is precisely what the Taxonomy intended to remove.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2023

Getting there requires an all-of-society approach; getting there requires leadership at all levels of government. Governor Lamont’s January 4 inaugural acknowledges energy costs and points his finger at utilities. Inauguration Week. Maura Healy is New England’s new governor (all the others are reelected). Let me be clear about this.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 7, 2022

Over the past few years, there has been a push in both Europe and the United States for a “Green New Deal” in which decarbonization efforts would be pushed by aggressive, direct government investments in clean energy technology and infrastructure. This chart didn’t make it into our published paper for space reasons.).

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Legal Planet

MARCH 13, 2024

So, China plays an outsized and even paradoxical role in deploying clean energy technologies to address the climate crisis. Joanna Lewis’ recent book, “Cooperating for the Climate” does that by examining the motivations, science, and politics behind international clean energy technology collaboration with China.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 18, 2023

electric power supply, and other independent system operators, may impose steep tariff provisions to recover the costs related to interconnection study penalties previously issued by the old rule or whether utilities can even come into compliance with the new rule within 90 days. But despite producing enough food to support its 1.3

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A Greener Life

JUNE 28, 2023

In China, government plans to peak and neutralise national carbon emissions, and for a wholesale green transition , have caused a boom in “green employment”. ESG covers environmental issues such as climate change and biodiversity, as well as companies’ social impact and governance mechanisms. in 2015 to 13.3%

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2021

There are echoes here of the energy and economic crisis of the 1970s, a global shock that has reverberated in global politics and economics for much of the last half century. The parallels are obvious: dramatic and sustained energy price shocks, a global food crisis, rising inflation, and the possibility of economic stagnation.

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Vermont Law

JUNE 29, 2015

Just look at the increasing amount of tension and war-like conditions currently developing between local communities and their government over water supply in politically unstable areas such as the Middle East. Nuclear Energy and Drought: A Recipe for Disaster. Image credit to cleantechnica.com. appeared first on.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 28, 2022

It provides funding for new hybrid-electric ferries, electric vehicle charging stations, 25 transit electrification projects, and free fares for young people on public transportation. Like California, Washington is finding that a market-based mechanism can be a powerful engine for funding clean energy. States in the U.S.

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