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New York State Environmental Regulator Issues Draft Plan to Achieve GHG Emissions-Reduction Goals

E2 Law Blog

Enacted in 2019, the CLCPA transformed the state’s earlier clean energy standard efforts from administrative fiat to law and sets more aggressive goals to reduce statewide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions economy-wide to 60% from a 1990 baseline by 2030, and 15% from a 1990 baseline by 2050.

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A Global Biogas Revolution Is Taking Place

Edouard Stenger

While solar PV and wind power are grabbing headlines, another clean energy revolution is silently taking place. Capturing and putting to good use these methane emissions from our many waste streams could limit climate change drastically. Food waste from producers, retailers and consumers.

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Challenges and Opportunities in Mining Materials for Energy Storage Lithium-ion Batteries

Union of Concerned Scientists

When the sun isn’t shining or the wind isn’t blowing, batteries help store clean energy to continue supplying electricity to the grid and to customers consistently and reliably. A fossil fuel energy grid extracts and expends finite resources. It is wasteful by design. A 2021 study by Bamana et al.

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Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults

PA Environment Daily

Shapiro On Republican Reaction To His Energy Plan: They’ve Done Nothing And Power ‘Plants Have Closed On Their Watch;’ They’re ‘Used To Doing Nothing;’ ‘Doing Nothing Is Not Acceptable’ [PaEN] -- Senate Republicans Reject Gov.

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The U.S. Government Gets Serious on Climate Change

Acoel

Congress 24 more years to pass major legislation to cut greenhouse gas emissions. In last year’s blog , I touted the climate and energy provisions of President Biden’s proposals for what became the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. And then there is the big challenge of permitting new clean energy projects. See [link].

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120 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA

PA Environment Daily

Shapiro On Republican Reaction To His Energy Plan: They’ve Done Nothing And Power ‘Plants Have Closed On Their Watch;’ They’re ‘Used To Doing Nothing;’ ‘Doing Nothing Is Not Acceptable’ [PaEN] -- Senate Republicans Reject Gov.

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November 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

A federal bankruptcy court in Missouri enjoined San Mateo and Marin Counties and the City of Imperial Beach (the plaintiffs) from pursuing their climate change lawsuits against Peabody Energy Corporation (Peabody). Circuit Stayed Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Truck Trailers. Resolute Forest Products, Inc. 3:17 -cv-02824 (N.D.

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