Environment + Energy Leader

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The group aims to turn waste from manufacturing into renewable natural gas. The post Farm Powered Strategic Alliance Grows, Turns Food Waste to Renewable Energy appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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New Scientist

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Coal waste separation might sound deathly dull, but the waste from abandoned coal mines might be where we can find some of the rare elements needed for clean energy tech, discovers Graham Lawton

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2023

Growing by over 30 percent-- to 92,773 jobs since the height of the COVID-19 economic crisis in 2020–clean energy jobs in Pennsylvania have proved their resilience. Increased investment in the clean energy sector can support the continued trajectory of this job market lifting up Pennsylvania’s communities.

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Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 31, 2022

The company has been striving to reduce its environmental footprint by setting bold energy, emissions, waste, and water targets. The post Mandarin Oriental Sets Energy, Emissions, Waste, and Water Reduction Targets appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Environment + Energy Leader

JUNE 6, 2023

Masdar’s Renewable Energy portfolio holds investments from at least 40 nations. It just signed a deal to develop 2 gigawatts of solar and wind projects and 500 megawatts of battery energy storage in Central Asia.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2024

Department of Energy (DOE) to develop and assess advanced separation technologies for the extraction and recovery of rare earth elements and other critical materials from coal, coal wastes, acid mine drainage and coal by-products. Rare earths and other critical minerals and materials are key to our nation’s defense and to U.S.

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Environmental Leader

JULY 5, 2022

As Starbucks has grown into one of the world’s premier coffee stores, it has been challenged to deal with its carbon footprint, waste, and recycling. The post Starbucks Runs 66% of its Stores Globally With Clean Energy. The Goal is 100% appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. How is it doing?

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Environmental Leader

JULY 30, 2021

Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded $127 million to small businesses working on clean energy technology, representing a total of 110 projects in 26 states. Funding is provided by DOE’s science and energy program offices, the Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, and the Office of Environmental Management.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 29, 2022

A unique project in Toronto’s Rouge National Urban Park is recycling manure and inedible food waste into renewable clean energy and fertilizer.

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Environment + Energy Leader

JULY 22, 2022

The post PepsiCo Issues Green Bond with Focus on Regenerative Ag, Plastic Waste, Water Impacts appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. The sustainability financing will go toward initiatives outlined in the company's pep+ agenda.

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Greenbuilding Law

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Solar panels provide clean energy from the sun, and their prevalence as an energy source has been growing dramatically. However, like any energy source, there are unintended consequences like waste that needs to be safely disposed of when solar panels reach their end of life. By 2050, the U.S. By 2050, the U.S.

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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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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 23, 2023

The Air & Waste Management Association will hold its 15th annual Symposium on Electric Power Transformation - Energy, Environment, Policy, Technology September 26-27 in Pittsburgh. Visit the Pittsburgh-based Air & Waste Management Association website for more information on programs, initiatives and other upcoming events.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 28, 2022

In part from converting oat waste into clean energy, two Oatly production facilities in the United States transitioned to using 100% renewable electricity in 2021.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2023

On January 26, the Minnesota House of Representatives passed House File 7 —the 100% Clean Energy Bill. Now, with climate and clean energy majorities in both chambers, Minnesota is poised to join other leading states in updating its clean energy policies equitably with benefits for all residents.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 12, 2023

Under DOE’s Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office the nine organizations— eight regional and one national— will establish a network of Technical Assistance Partnerships to accelerate the integration and deployment of clean energy technologies.

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Brag

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Department of Energy (DOE) announced the availability of $54 million in seed funding for U.S. small businesses to research, develop, and create commercialization action plans for new technologies that accelerate the national transition to a clean energy economy. million in follow-on funding.

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Environmental Leader

JULY 30, 2021

Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded $127 million to small businesses working on clean energy technology, representing a total of 110 projects in 26 states. Funding is provided by DOE’s science and energy program offices, the Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, and the Office of Environmental Management.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 25, 2024

Department of the Treasury (Treasury) to carefully implement multiple new Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) tax credits, including the Section 45V Credit for Production of Clean Hydrogen (“45V”). The December proposal makes clear that Treasury understands the critical importance of getting implementation guidance right from the start.

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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 costs will be too great otherwise.

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Pearce , and Guy Jack Mathews The Resource Conversation and Recovery Act (RCRA) mandates a two-part “corrective action” regime: Permits for any “solid waste management unit” (SWMU) at a “treatment, storage or disposal facility” (TSDF) must require “corrective action” for all releases of “hazardous waste” or “hazardous constituents,” “regardless of (..)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 18, 2024

But hydrogen can be cleanly produced and, with the right guardrails in place, that clean hydrogen can then be used to clean up polluting parts of the economy that can’t readily convert to running on renewable electricity. Otherwise, hydrogen will slow the clean energy transition, not speed it. the “three pillars”).

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 23, 2023

The Department of Energy (DOE) is funding six research and development projects that will repurpose domestic coal resources for high-value graphitic products and carbon-metal composites that can be employed in clean energy technologies. Earlier post.)

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Cresforum

JANUARY 19, 2024

Microsoft’s ’ Vice President of Energy Bobby Hollis said, “Our expanded agreement with Qcells is designed to drive large-scale domestic production of solar modules essential to advancing resilient U.S. supply chain and clean energy economy.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 31, 2023

Instead he favors support for clean energy production. An investigation by the non-profit news site CalMatters found that California send a large portion of its hazardous waste to facilities in other states that have weaker environmental rules. The waste includes well-known hazards such as asbestos.

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Clean Energy Law

MARCH 15, 2024

As for waste management and ecosystems, Regulated Entities shall disclose the contingency plan for major environmental incidents, and the specific circumstances and administrative penalties, if any. The Guidelines encourage but do not require Regulated Entities to involve third-party verification institutions to audit the data.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 28, 2022

6 is still driving up Ohioans’ electricity bills—and undermining the state’s prospects for a clean energy future. Instead of providing lower-cost energy, the utilities with a stake in OVEC are using the subsidies to protect their bottom line and their shareholders. The Union of Concerned Scientists opposed H.B. Since H.B.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 9, 2022

“Some of the earliest memories I have are of protestors standing in the road, blocking semi-trucks hauling nuclear waste.”. — Mikhail Childs, Prairie Island Indian C ommunity member. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has declared the plant to be safe, tribe members remain worried about their proximity to nuclear waste. While the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2022

The November 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), also referred to as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, or BIL, includes an $8 billion “regional clean hydrogen hubs” program that charges the Department of Energy (DOE) with the development of at least four hydrogen hubs to advance the nation’s clean hydrogen sector.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 19, 2023

Richer nations, which are most responsible for heat-trapping emissions, must provide low- and middle-income countries the funding they require to transition to clean energy and better withstand worsening climate extremes. And we must invest in protecting critical ecosystems too.

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Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 3, 2023

The joint venture will help recover valuable reusable materials from batteries as electric vehicles and clean energy use increase in the region.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 8, 2024

After years of federal, state, and local efforts supporting the required environmental, engineering, and business plans to transition this region to clean energy, the arrival of wind farms out at sea is a reason to celebrate, yet the distortions and oil-driven conflicts continue.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 11, 2023

And that’s great, because we don’t have a moment to waste. Download as PDF And AB 631 (Hart) increases statutory penalties for violations of state oil and gas regulations and provides new authority to CalGEM to refer those violations for prosecution by the State, giving the agency robust enforcement support to increase penalty recovery.

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

This also aligns with the Energy Market Authority’s plans to reduce Singapore’s national grid emission factor. Waste-to-energy resource circularity – CAAS will work with stakeholders to determine if Changi Airport can accommodate an on-site waste-to-energy facility.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 20, 2024

The agenda includes these sessions-- 9:00 - 9:30 am Registration & Continental Breakfast 9:30 -10:30 am Welcome by Father Woods / Opening Keynote Speakers 10:45 -11:30 am Breakout Sessions / Roundtables (Choose One) -- Advocacy Training: Strengthen Your Organizing and Citizen Lobbying Skills (Section 1) -- Plastic Reduction: Keeping Plastic Pollution (..)

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

“We congratulate CCRRA for having the vision and resolve to achieve this milestone and move the Authority into the clean energy economy.” “It It has been a privilege to help such a stalwart of the community forge a path forward to clean energy – and save about $2 million that will be better spent serving Centre County.”

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Circle of Blue

MAY 22, 2023

The EPA orders Baltimore to protect its drinking water reservoirs from animal waste. The Clean Energy Minerals Reform Act would update national mining laws that date to 1872. Environmental Protection Agency is seeking to protect water bodies from contamination by coal waste at legacy sites. In context: U.S.

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