Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 26, 2023

There’s no question that the US electricity transmission system has to be modernized to enable a transition to an equitable clean energy economy, but how to do it is up for grabs. Yes, transmission system investments are decades behind in keeping up with the transition to newer, cleaner and cheaper energy technologies.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 30, 2022

The combination of offshore wind turbines, floating solar panels and green hydrogen are some of the hybrid clean energy technologies currently under development off the Dutch coast. . The low-lying European country is using its expertise in water engineering to build up its next wave of clean energy infrastructure.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Lithium-ion batteries are essential for decarbonizing transportation through electric vehicles and building a resilient, renewable energy grid through energy storage batteries. By 2050, battery recycling could supply 22 to 27% of lithium, 40 to 46% of nickel, and 45 to 52% of cobalt needed for electric vehicles in the US.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 23, 2023

The Air & Waste Management Association will hold its 15th annual Symposium on Electric Power Transformation - Energy, Environment, Policy, Technology September 26-27 in Pittsburgh.

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Technology Technology Electricity Waste 96

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Since the beginning of 2022, electric vehicle sales in the United States have been downright electrifying. Last year, US drivers bought more than 800,000 new electric vehicles (EVs), 65 percent more than in 2021, even as overall car sales declined. billion to help California drivers switch from gasoline to electricity.

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Electricity Air Pollution Clean Air Act 2030 299

A Greener Life

MAY 19, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen The Biden Administration has set up an $11 billion grant to encourage rural clean energy projects. Rural energy companies, co-operatives as well as other providers of energy , will soon be able to apply for funding in the shape of grants and loans to fund clean energy projects.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The legislation committed nearly $400 billion to support, among other things, wind and solar power, battery storage, electric vehicles, and other clean energy technologies that will make a significant dent in US heat-trapping emissions. How is that going to happen? Their report, however, comes with a warning.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Gas, which now generates 40 percent of US electricity, is considered by some to be critical to maintain grid reliability. For example, Dominion Energy, an electric and gas utility in Virginia, is planning to build a mammoth 1,000-megawatt gas plant in an area with a high percentage of residents who are people of color and low-income.

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Clean Energy Nitrogen Oxides Fossil Fuels Electricity 319

Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

As more companies jockey for position and federal funding on both clean hydrogen and CCUS, the announcements are timed to provide critical guidance on these emerging areas of opportunity. Clean Industrial Sector Fact Sheet. These new initiatives include: Accelerating Clean Hydrogen. Responsibly Advancing CCUS Technologies.

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Law and Environment

MAY 11, 2023

The fact sheet provides an endorsement of the Building American Energy Security Act of 2023, establishes several major objectives for permitting reform, provides several recommendations to streamline federal permitting processes, and urges Congress to include the objectives and recommendations as part of bipartisan permitting reform legislation.

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Cresforum

DECEMBER 21, 2023

It’s time for the United States to expand its energy infrastructure, but due to regulatory barriers imposed by both federal and state governments, many companies are being forced to delay projects that would help advance the clean energy transition. Watch the full discussion here.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 18, 2024

By John Quigley, Kleinman Center For Energy Policy , University of Pennsylvania The challenge of decarbonizing the electricity grid while ensuring its reliability is acute in Pennsylvania. The Commonwealth is the nation’s third-largest electricity producer , and exports more of it than any other state.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

New UCS study shows how we can accelerate US clean energy ambition An interdisciplinary team of UCS experts set out to explore how the US can meet its goals to cut heat-trapping emissions 50%-52% below 2005 levels by 2030 and achieve net zero emissions no later than 2050.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2024

We could also see up to 623,000 electric trucks on the road in this time period, with zero-emission trucks making up over one third of all new truck sales by 2032, according to our analysis…but that number is highly dependent on manufacturer compliance strategy and complementary policies. And if so, where?

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2027 Electricity Greenhouse Technology 245

A Greener Life

OCTOBER 24, 2021

They suggest the only thing that will lead to enough of a change of direction would be an unmistakable signal of ambition and action when governments meet in Glasgow in a few weeks time. It further explores what the pledges to reduce emissions made by governments so far mean for the energy sector and the climate. degree C world.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Beyond the climate harms of fossil fuels, they also impose a terrible toll on human health, as numerous recent studies show—including the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change , a BMJ study on global deaths from air pollution caused by fossil fuels, and a study on US deaths attributable to coal-fired electricity generation.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2024

On March 7, the Independent Fiscal Office issued its latest Pennsylvania Electricity update that reports the electricity grid is dependent on one fuel for 59% of the state’s electricity generation-- natural gas-- followed by nuclear power-- 31.9%, coal-- 5.4% from other sources. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The right-wing approach to energy in this critical 2024 election is straightforward: The U.S. should prop up fossil fuels, constrain renewables wherever possible, and claw back the federal government’s historic investments in clean energy, while reinvesting in nuclear energy and new nuclear weapons.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 8, 2024

State governments began cutting emissions at a time when the federal government was essentially doing nothing about climate change. The Commission also issued new rules governing the state’s 18 most polluting facilities, including the world’s largest maker of mozzarella cheese. State climate policy is a big deal.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 7, 2022

What the federal government will do. Authorize use of the Defense Production Act (DPA) to accelerate domestic production of clean energy technologies, including solar panel parts” —plus building insulation, heat pumps, equipment for making “clean electricity-generated fuels”, and “[c]ritical power grid infrastructure like transformers.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

With the clean energy transition already under way, the US electricity mix is set to continue changing this year. Solar power is expected to make up about half of all additions of US electric generating capacity in 2023, according to data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Ahead of COP26, the UK government has signalled its support for climate action by announcing a £265 million renewables support scheme. . The Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme is the preferred government method to incentivise investment in renewables and other low-carbon energy technologies. By Anders Lorenzen.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 13, 2024

China is the world’s largest producer of both CO2 emissions and green technology to cut those emissions. So, China plays an outsized and even paradoxical role in deploying clean energy technologies to address the climate crisis. China Clean Energy Research Center, or CERC. Walsh School of Foreign Service.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2022

Climate Alliance (USCA) can meet all of their electricity needs with renewable energy—while decarbonizing other sectors of the economy and ensuring equitable benefits to all communities. States have technically feasible and highly beneficial paths to achieving 100 percent renewable energy. by 2035 is needed. by 2035 is needed.

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Cresforum

APRIL 25, 2024

Attendees gained insights into the process of harnessing geothermal energy, which involves tapping into underground water reservoirs or high-pressure steam with temperatures ranging from 200-700°F. Geothermal power plants employ various technologies to capture this energy and drive turbines, thereby producing clean, reliable electricity.

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Clean Energy Renewable Energy Technology Technology 81

A Greener Life

JUNE 27, 2022

In March, start-up BasiGo became the first company to launch an electric passenger bus in Kenya. We selected BYD because they are the largest manufacturer of electric buses globally and they are known for battery technology that is state-of-the-art,” BasiGo co-founder and CEO Jit Bhattacharya told China Dialogue. “We

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 16, 2023

But solar’s growth, especially in large arrays, has made it much more visible in communities and landscapes across the country, sparking a lot of conversations about land use, technology options, community engagement, and how best to site the many more megawatts of solar we need. Single projects can be hundreds of megawatts.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 30, 2023

It’s outrageous and counterintuitive, for example, that the IRA allows for some new fossil fuel infrastructure, while the rest of its policies aim to eliminate the need for polluting technologies. And that figure doesn’t include all the law’s programs including consumer tax credits for electric vehicles , on which UCS was a leading champion.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 31, 2022

They included Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt and White House Legislative Affairs Director Marc Short. The Koch network, with its toxic anti-government bias, will likely cast a long shadow over Washington for years to come. Rick Scott.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 1, 2023

To increase awareness in Ontario about eco-friendly solutions like heat pumps, electric stoves, solar panels and more, Environmental Defence is launching #MyGreenFlags. links Ontario residents to information about government programs that offer financial incentives for residential retrofits. The website GreenFlags.ca

Technology 52

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The federal government is now supporting that role with federal funding for states. Last month, DOE solicited applications from states to develop clean energy projects. A key provision (IRA § 60114) appropriates $250 million to support emission reduction planning by state governments. climate policy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2023

A bill recently introduced in the California Legislature, Assembly Bill (AB) 538 , would open a pathway for the California Independent System Operator (CAISO), which oversees the state’s electric grid , to expand to more states in the West, a process known as grid regionalization. But let’s assume California legislators pass AB 538.

Clean Energy 190

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 8, 2023

At the time, the Inflation Reduction Act was estimated to include $369 Billion in tax credits and other funding for climate and clean energy programs. I asked some of the UCLA Emmett Institute’s resident experts to share their top thoughts on how the IRA is performing, especially in the area of clean energy and electric vehicles.

Clean Energy 130

Clean Energy Electricity Fossil Fuels Government 130

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. Napoleon Nelson with the Champion of the Environment Award for his commitment to environmental justice and green technologies in Philadelphia and across the state.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

While cities may be the front lines of climate action, the federal government and the state of California have committed historic levels of support during the past two years. Specific programs within the IIJA will provide new funding for local governments focusing on reducing emissions from the transportation sector, including $89.9

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Acoel

MARCH 8, 2023

Posted on March 8, 2023 by Leslie Carothers During a pandemic paper purge, I found a corporate newsletter showing me and my boss, George David, then CEO of United Technologies Corporation, at the Earth Technologies Forum admiring a display captioned “Why is UTC a Leader on Climate Change?”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 14, 2023

percent of US electricity and utility-scale solar generated 3.4 In 2012, coal generated 37 percent of US electricity. Coal’s decline and the rapid growth of renewables helped cut the US electricity sector’s carbon emissions by 24 percent over the last decade. Last year, wind generated 10.2 Add hydropower’s contribution of 6.2

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