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Legal Planet
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Although its track record has some complexities, this timeline of German actions shows just its early and sustained attention to clean energy policy: 1990. Germany decides to phase out nuclear power, complicating efforts to decarbonize the power sector. trillion tons.] Fifteen percent of electricity is renewable.
Inside Climate News
APRIL 4, 2024
A nuclear power plant hasn’t been built in Texas in decades because of cost and public fears of a major accident. Now the governor wants to find out if smaller reactors could meet the state’s growing need for on-demand power.
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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.
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.
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
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 10, 2023
Getting there requires an all-of-society approach; getting there requires leadership at all levels of government. Let’s together get control over our energy supply chain so Putin and the Saudis can no longer control our destiny and our wallets. Inauguration Week. Maura Healy is New England’s new governor (all the others are reelected).
Vermont Law
JUNE 29, 2015
However, what is often overlooked is the impact of nuclear power on our water systems, especially in drought prone areas. Many leading energy experts often deem nuclear an acceptable form of sustainable energy. Nuclear Energy and Drought: A Recipe for Disaster. Is it sustainable? By Allen Smith.
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