A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The United States supports Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) partners in meeting their clean energy goals. Over the last two decades, energy demand in Southeast Asia increased by an average of 3% annually, according to the International Energy Agency’s Southeast Asia Energy Outlook 2022.

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Cresforum

MARCH 13, 2024

In the ever-evolving world of renewable energy, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) emerged as a piece of legislation aimed at accelerating the adoption of clean energy practices have become a point of contention among political parties. If that were the case, we would have done it a long time ago,” Hopper said.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 3, 2023

To no one’s surprise it contained zero funding to address climate change – not even for clean energy – which the document referred to multiple times. The current government acts like it’s somehow responsible for this feat. The current government acts like it’s somehow responsible for this feat.

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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. Nearly every part of a renewable energy grid can be circular, with all outputs circulating back as inputs in a regenerative cycle.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is chock-full of tax incentives for climate and clean energy projects. history during which entities that do not have federal tax liability – including local and state governments and agencies, nonprofit organizations, tribes and municipal utilities – can reap the benefit of these incentives.

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Environment + Energy Leader

APRIL 3, 2023

As the world shifts from fossil fuels to clean energy, Australia’s lithium sector is poised to match thermal coal’s importance within the next five years. According to government projections released on Monday, exports of the battery metal are expected to reach $13 billion by June 2028, matching the current financial.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 22, 2021

Yet one of the key findings of “A People-Centered Clean Energy Transition,” a new report co-authored by an advisory committee—of which I am a member—and the Union of Concerned Scientists, is the centrality of the electricity system in creating an equitable clean energy future.

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 1, 2024

Read the full story from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. The San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) has ambitious plans to make local progress toward California’s goal of carbon neutrality by 2045.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 1, 2023

To no one’s surprise it contained zero funding to address climate change – not even for clean energy – which the document referred to multiple times. The current government acts like it’s somehow responsible for this feat. The current government acts like it’s somehow responsible for this feat.

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E2 Law Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

8308)) includes two pivotal energy proposals: the Renewable Action Through Project Interconnection and Deployment Act and the Affordable Gas Transition Act. This post summarizes the key provisions of these proposals and discusses their potential impact on New York’s energy landscape.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The 2021 City Clean Energy Scorecard analyzes the efforts of 100 major U.S. cities to make buildings and transportation more energy efficient and scale up the use of renewable energy—and do so equitably. Read more →

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Last week, on Monday November 14, as part of its Economic Outlook and Fiscal Review , the Ontario government officially announced it would be developing a voluntary clean energy credit (CEC) registry. Now, the Ontario government is crafting an official Clean Energy Credit system that will presumably require transparency.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 7, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen Tenders for 250 gigawatts (GW) of clean energy by 2028 are set to be unveiled by the Indian government, according to a government memo. in 2022, the share of renewables has taken a huge leap forward in the same period from 9.4% Photo credit: Reuters / Amit Dave. in 2019 to 72.8%

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Law and Environment

JULY 2, 2021

On June 29, 2021, a cohort of New York local governments (including many where large-scale solar projects are currently proposed), community organizations, and avian interest groups filed a lawsuit in the New York State Supreme Court (the State’s trial-level court) against the Office of Renewable Energy Siting (“ORES”).

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Conventional pollution controls would have been seen as transition measures until the shift to clean energy, so the Clean Air Act would have been written differently. We would have started pumping money into renewable energy research. And we would have created incentives for clean energy sources.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 24, 2023

If applied with integrity, these new rules for government spending will effectively shut the door on the creation of new handouts of public money to the companies most responsible for the climate disasters being experienced today – and free up billions for climate solutions. With mounting climate disasters, there is no room for delay.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Read the full story from the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to address a distinguished group of researchers, scientists, government officials, and industry professionals at the 14th biennial Wind Wildlife Research Meeting alongside the U.S.

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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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PA Environment Daily

JULY 13, 2022

PNC Bank will receive approximately 148 million kilowatt hours of energy per year through its retail agreement with Constellation, with that energy matched by Green-e® Energy Certified Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) sourced from other renewable facilities located throughout the U.S. “At

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 13, 2022

We already have so many of the foundational technological building blocks of the clean energy transition at hand: renewables, energy efficiency, energy storage, and pathways to electrifying a vast array of energy end uses. Now we need to rapidly accelerate the clean energy momentum already underway.

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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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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Department of Energy announced on Feb. 27 the availability of about $18 million for local and tribal governments to pursue a broad range of clean energy projects.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2024

Josh Shapiro joined Department of General Services Secretary Reggie McNeil, Constellation President & CEO Joseph Dominguez, and Lightsource bp Senior Vice President Alyssa Edwards to unveil the Commonwealth’s renewable energy initiative, the Pennsylvania Project to Utilize Light and Solar Energy (PA PULSE).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 3, 2023

Last year’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) included a clean hydrogen production tax credit (known as “45V”) that is one of a slew of new incentives intended to help catalyze the next and necessary phase of advancing the nation’s clean energy transition as a whole. The framing is consequential.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 8, 2024

Some years ago, I began to feel the most important thing I could do was learn how to replace fossil fuel with renewable energy. For 30 years I have been an advocate for offshore wind development off New England’s coast and for the creation of institutions to support a transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 4, 2023

And, while renewable energy is growing fast too, it’s not happening fast enough—and can never happen fast enough if its outpaced by fossil fuel expansion. These climate, health and justice imperatives are the reason the world needs to phase out fossil fuels and transition to clean energy rapidly.

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 17, 2022

Government agencies are tasked with setting policies to reduce the impacts of climate change. The latest State of Climate Tech report says these startups saw a … Continue reading MN’s clean-energy tech enters the Shark Tank. Read the full story from Public News Service.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

At the global level, however, Germany has its own claim to a leadership role, particularly in its early support for renewable energy. Although its track record has some complexities, this timeline of German actions shows just its early and sustained attention to clean energy policy: 1990. Renewables are 6% of power.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 3, 2024

Achieving the United States’ ambitious emissions reduction goals depends in large part on the rapid adoption of wind and solar energy and the electrification of consumer vehicles. However, misinformation and coordinated disinformation about renewable energy is widespread and threatens to undermine public support for the transition.

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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. Not only does this not align with the global momentum to move beyond oil and gas, it’s yet another black mark for the Government of Canada’s promises to end fossil fuel subsidies.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 11, 2023

The Pennsylvania Solar Center hosts an August 18 Renewable Energy Policy Webinar - Time To Take Action -- from 12:30 to 1:30. Join the Pennsylvania Solar Center for a free action-oriented webinar that will offer tools, resources and activities that everyone can use to build support to pass this important clean energy bill.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

Back in 2018, California legislators were considering a bill that would have created an independent governance structure for California’s grid operator , the California Independent System Operator (CAISO). Now, 22 states plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico have 100% clean energy goals on the books.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

to Noon. -- May 18: Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG): What Small Businesses Need To Know Webinar. The Corner LaunchBox, New Kensington, Westmoreland County. to Noon. -- May 24: Southeastern PA Industry Roundtable: Pollution Prevention For Food Manufacturing.

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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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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 26, 2024

I had to figure out how to bridge the silos that existed in our society – between the renewable energy sector, climate organizations, government policy-makers, project financers, utilities, labour, engineers – the list goes on. to usher in the inevitable and desperately needed transition to renewable energy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2023

First, CAISO would need a new governance and decisionmaking system for this Western RTO. As it’s currently organized, CAISO differs from the other RTOs in that California’s elected officials appoint and confirm its governing body, and thus CAISO policies are often aligned with California state policies. What happens next?

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Cresforum

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

With the doors closed on 2023, the new year offers the chance to look back at the progress the United States has made in emissions reduction and clean energy deployment. The 2024 Sustainable Energy in America Factbook found a combination of natural gas (43 percent) and renewable energy (23 percent) provided the majority of U.S.

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