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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).
Enviromental Defense
DECEMBER 29, 2023
Earlier this month at COP28 countries committed to transitioning off of fossil fuels and massively scaling up renewable energy instead. So you’re excused if, like me, you’re baffled by Minister Freeland’s first move in the wake of COP28: a giant new fossil fuel subsidy, via the new Canada Growth Fund.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 22, 2022
Minnesotans are facing concurrent crises of climate change, high energy prices and inflation, and the inequitable public health impacts of fossil fuel air pollution. Renewable energy will help with all of that—but we need a grid that is designed for wind and solar instead of having to rely on expensive coal and gas plants.
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. That includes: 1 Stop approving fossil fuel projects, and plan for their phase out.
Union of Concerned Scientists
OCTOBER 27, 2022
There is still much we can do to bend that emissions curve sharply within this decade—but only if world leaders, especially leaders of richer countries and major emitting nations, take responsibility to act together quickly and fossil fuel companies are held accountable for their decades of obstruction and deception.
A Greener Life
FEBRUARY 3, 2023
We know what a fossil-fuelled economy looks like, and the politics of fossil fuels. How would solar be different? At its core would be an energy source that cannot be enclosed or privatised, and that cannot be used up. Solar politics is the antidote to extractivism, suggests Timofeeva.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 20, 2023
All across the country, coal- and gas-fired power plants are still running, still polluting, and still showing signs of staying relentlessly online. Through the Clean Air Act , and as affirmed—and reaffirmed—through multiple legal sagas, EPA is statutorily obligated to address carbon pollution from fossil fuel-fired power plants.
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