A Greener Life

OCTOBER 24, 2024

He worked on the carefully targeted ’50 by 30′ campaign that helped to normalise renewable energy targets in US states, and founded the youth democracy organisation Nextgen. We should direct our attention to what matters most, which is systemic change and politics, not little lifestyle changes.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Finance is the top priority for this COP and is the linchpin to help lower income nations transition from fossil fuels to clean energy, close the energy poverty gap, adapt to climate impacts, and address mounting loss and damage. trillion annually. trillion annually.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

We can expect a renewed energy strategy that ramps up and scales up fossil fuels, removes any fee on fossil fuel producers, removes the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) powers to regulate emissions, and revokes Biden’s ban on oil and gas production in environmentally sensitive areas.

Paris Agreement

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 2, 2024

I’m not including laws that simply incentivize clean energy or those that fund pure science, even though both are vitally important parts of climate policy. The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) , passed in 2022, contains hundreds of billions of dollars in funding for clean energy.

Law

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Degnan Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, will give the talk, “Repurposed Energy,” at 4:00 p.m. These obstacles include governance structures, political economy, decision-making dynamics and environmental justice concerns. on Monday, Nov. 4, in 112 Walker Building on the University Park campus.

Clean Energy

A Greener Life

APRIL 5, 2025

By Anders Lorenzen A leading energy think tank says that last month, less than half of the US electricity capacity came from fossil fuels. As a result, clean energy sources generated the largest amount of electricity in the US last month, 50.8%a Date showing US fossil fuel generation in March 2025. a new record.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

JULY 24, 2025

Infrastructure [PaEN] International/National Impacts On PA Natural Gas [ Energy Independence Means Renewables ] -- Reuters: US Natural Gas Firms EQT, Range Boost Output Plans For 2025 -- Bloomberg: Puerto Rico Ends New Fortress Talks On $20 Billion LNG Deal New Federal Administration -- The Appalachian Voice: EPA Plans To Roll Back Air And Water Protections (..)

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 17, 2025

Trumps executive orders also advance industry interests by making it easier to increase fossil fuel production while blocking clean energy development. The third is transition risk, or losses to fossil fuel-intensive industries resulting from the worlds transition to renewable energy sources.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Even so, if you’re someone who cares about energy and environment, there are some things to be thankful for this year Here are a few. Falling prices of renewable energy. Clean energy investment. Congressional politics.

Politics

Legal Planet

MARCH 31, 2025

But the administration is also, purposefully, impacting investments in critical clean energy infrastructure and manufacturing. Q: Renewables have seen a chill since the November election made chillier still by various Trump executive orders. A: Investment in renewable energy remains robust, at least for now.

Clean Energy

Legal Planet

MARCH 25, 2025

Thats true whether it is private investment in housing or renewable energy, or public investment in infrastructure. All of that uncertainty undermines the ability of the federal government to proactively encourage investments all kinds of investments, from oil and gas to renewable energy. Download as PDF

Government

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 8, 2025

With federal climate and clean energy policies likely to be stalled or rolled back, climate litigation is a key arena for progress in the United States.

Fossil Fuels

Yale E360

MARCH 26, 2025

Countries added a record amount of renewable power in 2024, according to an analysis from the International Renewable Energy Agency. Still, growth is not on pace to meet a global goal to triple renewable capacity by the end of this decade. Renewable energy is powering down the fossil fuel age,” said U.N.

Renewable Energy

Enviromental Defense

APRIL 1, 2025

So it should be no surprise to Canadians that recently, some of the wealthiest oil and gas companies operating in Canada urged political parties to jump on the same anti-environment bandwagon. We have the skills, people, and resources to lead the clean energy revolution. Canada could become a renewable energy powerhouse.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

JUNE 24, 2025

The budget bill still slashes clean energy funding. It looks like what Secretary of Energy Chris Wright envisions for American energy, writes Matthew Zeitlin for Heatmap News. If the Republicans pass a version that cuts clean energy funding, they will increase the average U.S. Energy Businesses canceled $1.4

Clean Energy

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The transformation to an economy fueled by clean energy – across sectors – has begun, and he can’t stop it. More than 40 percent of all global power in 2023 came from renewable sources. and the globe – will not abandon the transition to clean energy. The transformation is occurring both domestically and globally.

Clean Energy

Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2025

“The fossil fuel age is flailing and failing,” UN Chief António Guterres said in a speech last week, accusing coal, oil and gas of being “the greatest threat to energy security today.” California Six in ten Californians favor the state’s goals to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions and 100% renewable energy by 2045.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 29, 2025

Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- -- Gov. Shapiro Warns PA Members Of Congress Against Cutting Renewable Energy Funds -- Statewide Offices -- Inquirer: Some Top PA Republicans Want State Treasurer Garrity To Run Against Gov. Ohio- $3.00

Politics

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 30, 2025

The spirit of the innovators and the entrepreneurs who are creating new sources of clean energy right now in Pennsylvania. We need more of that in our politics. Those who came before us, who understood this hunger to be competitive, who had a desire to lead and to win, as I certainly do here in Pennsylvania.

Climate Change

Enviromental Defense

MARCH 19, 2025

For the first time ever, Canadas emissions are going down while clean investments and renewable energy jobs are growing. We have the skills, people, and resources to lead the clean energy revolution. Weve seen this tactic before, for example, in the industrys secret response to the devastating COVID pandemic.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

AUGUST 14, 2025

A new constitutional reform package passed earlier this year opens the door to greater private investment in Mexico’s clean energy. By Adam D Williams President Sheinbaum’s sweeping reforms attempt to steer state-owned energy giants towards a greener future amid private-sector scepticism. Photo credit: Jon G.

Renewable Energy

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

This is an area where state-level action and grassroots politics could help push back. Pausing funding for environmental and clean energy projects. These are not normally considered environmental, but could have a large impact on the clean energy sector. Political action is key here. It gives the U.S.

Paris Agreement

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2025

Data Centers - By John Quigley, Senior Fellow, Kleinman Center for Energy Policy [PaEN] -- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: Pennsylvania May Not Have Enough Electricity For A.I.

Conservation

Legal Planet

JUNE 19, 2025

Cimate change provides a compelling reason to support clean energy. You might begin by pointing out that clean energy isn’t just a liberal thing. Here are some talking points to follow up with: Clean energy investments create jobs and economic growth. clean energy sector. in this arena.

Clean Energy

Enviromental Defense

APRIL 17, 2025

It reads like an attempt to outdo even the most regressive policies and the most transparently false political pretexts of the Trump Administration. This Bill represents a direct attack on species at risk, clean and healthy communities, clean energy and the rights of Indigenous peoples.

Clean Energy

Legal Planet

APRIL 30, 2025

Sabotaging US Manufacturing: In the first three months of this year, firms have abandoned plans to build nearly $8 billion worth of clean energy projects, Canary Media reports , noting they are mostly factories that would have produced everything from grid batteries to electric vehicles. Download as PDF

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

MARCH 20, 2025

The sector is already losing the first two markets, Gore says, with the vast majority of new electricity generation installed worldwide last year made up of renewable energy sources and electric vehicles gaining market share. Solutions to the unemployment crisis that many countries fear they’re facing.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

MAY 7, 2025

This milestone, achieved in March 2025, represents a turning point in the evolving energy mix of the worlds largest economy, writes Robert Rapier. The BBC did a story on what most of us ignore but shouldnt: that people living near renewable energy like solar fields dont actually mind it that much. ” Journalists!

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 16, 2025

Renewable energy in the United States has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years. Here’s the clean energy momentum at stake, the threats to that momentum, and why there is still reason for hope. An appreciation of all the recent progress with clean energy has to be viewed in the context of 2025’s reality.

Clean Energy

Legal Planet

MAY 7, 2025

During President Trumps first term, for example, Congress rejected his proposed deep cuts to environmental programs and clean energy initiatives. Unsurprisingly, therefore, climate and clean energy programs are particularly hard-hit in the President’s budget.

Renewable Energy

A Greener Life

MARCH 10, 2025

On paper, he also signals vast progress in advancing action on climate change. Carney is a centrist who strongly supports global institutions like central banks and financial entities.

2025

Law Columbia

APRIL 3, 2025

EPAs administrator, Lee Zeldin, has been on the attack for weeks now, making unsubstantiated allegations that EPAs clean energy programs, like SfA, are rife with waste, fraud, and abuse. Adapting SfA offerings in a challenging political landscape may play an important role in the programs success. As a general matter, 2 C.F.R.

2025

A Greener Life

JANUARY 21, 2025

And in a series of executive orders targeting Bidens clean energy strategy , the Trump administration will end new leases to offshore wind farms. More fossil fuels The president says he will declare an energy emergency. The government will also remove the funding to UN climate efforts.

Clean Energy

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Nonetheless, potential policy changes in three areas could undercut new energy investment under a second Trump administration: protectionist trade measures and deglobalization; regulatory uncertainty and political risk; and fiscal and monetary policy. Renewable Energy Vs. Fossil Fuels Renewables or fossil fuels?

2025

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2025

[PaEN] -- City Of Reading Begins Energy Efficiency, Solar Energy Project To Save $13.3

Natural Gas

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

By Anders Lorenzen The British oil and gas giant BP , which, until recently, has been one of the oil and gas giants with the most ambitious clean energy plans, has joined the chorus of fossil fuel giants moving away from net zero. The energy sector’s volatility makes it hard to answer this with any convincing argument.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

APRIL 10, 2025

This week saw a flurry of stories at the intersection of federal actions, tariff policy, and rule of law concerns How Trumps on-again, off-again tariff threats will raise the costs of building renewable energy projects in the U.S. Politicos Climate California took a look at how its affecting EVs.

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