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. In Germany, fossil fuels are king. In Germany, fossil fuels are king. Quitting coal.

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Global Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Yes, in some cases, fossil fuels are burned to generate the electricity used to charge electric cars, but this highlights two of electric vehicles’ many advantages. They are much more efficient than gas powered vehicles and the electrical grid is getting greener. EVs will continue to get greener as the power grid gets greener.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 13, 2022

What matter most is ending fossil fuels , and breaking the power of the corporations that keep us addicted to them. Over the course of the book, Razzouk takes on plastic, flying, nuclear power, offsets, green finance, and a variety of other solutions and non-solutions. Sometimes this leads to a contradiction.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

Notably, in the same proposal, the Commission has also included screening criteria for gaseous fossil fuels. Their inclusion appears to be the result of a political compromise with Member States rather than of scientific appraisal as in the case of nuclear energy.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This is a signal not only of the country’s unhealthy reliance on fossil fuels but also a failure to move away from gas in a way that other countries have done successfully. In addition, they should rapidly phase out gas for electricity, but of course only if the electricity is produced by nuclear or renewable energy.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Renewable energy sources are perhaps the most obvious of these, and the transition to them is already under way. “I Among the main reasons to choose a career in renewables, Davies cites the growth that the sector is experiencing due to the increased focus on climate change and demand for clean energy.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 23, 2023

EarthJustice released a statement applauding the proposed hydrogen tax credit justice saying-- “Producing hydrogen by splitting apart water molecules uses a tremendous amount of energy, and the benefits of hydrogen are negated when that energy does not come from new renewable energy that is delivered alongside hydrogen production.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2024

Updating Renewable Energy Standards - PRESS Twenty years ago, Pennsylvania led the nation by establishing the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards (AEPS), which successfully promoted new and innovative forms of energy in the Commonwealth. General Richard Zilmer, USMC (Ret.),

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Energy and Climate Law

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

In a nutshell, the European Commission acknowledges that the transition towards a climate-neutral economy will have economic and social impacts, especially on regions that rely on fossil fuels extraction and treatment (e.g. refineries) or on highly carbon-intensive industries (such as cement plants or smelters).

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A Greener Life

APRIL 29, 2023

The German nuclear power plant Grafenrheinfeld before it was decommissioned in 2015. By Anders Lorenzen As Germany completed its nuclear phase-out earlier this month, it becomes clear that Europe’s economic and industrial powerhouse is further away from climate action than almost every single EU member country.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE.

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

I share this committee’s concern with climate change and misinformation. It is for that reason that I have, for more than 20 years, conducted energy analysis, worked as a journalist, and advocated for renewables, coal-to-natural gas switching, and nuclear power to reduce carbon emissions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 25, 2022

Here are a couple examples of recent UCS studies that have used capacity expansion models: Federal Clean Energy Tax Credits utilized the ReEDS model to evaluate several federal tax credit policies, assessing their impact on the buildout of renewable energy resources and power sector global warming emissions.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 18, 2021

But what you probably haven’t heard is that our grid is getting dirtier again, with fossil fuels increasing in our electricity supply from burning natural gas. The rest of our power comes from a mix of nuclear power, renewables like hydro, wind and solar power, and biofuel. Source: IESO [link].

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

Advocates of renewable energy have argued since the 1970s that the variable, weather-dependent nature of sunlight and wind is a modest obstacle at best to relying on 100 percent renewables. Some have argued that weather-dependent energies would, paradoxically, make electricity even more reliable.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 22, 2023

For example, the NCUC has asked for information on the impact of federal subsidies and tax incentives (such as those in the Inflation Reduction Act) that may reduce some renewable energy costs. The order also directs Duke Energy to further evaluate both onshore and offshore wind projects.

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Environmental Science

AUGUST 7, 2018

Responsible for nuclear physics which has given us nuclear power, and nuclear medicine which has opened up new avenues of medical treatment for such things as cancer. It's fundamental to the Earth sciences such as meteorology and is vital in our understanding of this generation's most pressing problem - climate change.

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Environmental Progress

AUGUST 3, 2020

We know we must now work to both cut greenhouse gas emissions to reduce the severity of climate change and at the same time work to adapt to the impacts we can no longer avoid. Gleick disagrees and defends the Malthusian notion that future food surpluses are highly uncertain due to climate change, and argues that I ignore such risks.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2023

Tony Seiwell, Business Manager for the Laborers' District Council of Eastern PA said he believes that renewable energy jobs should be well-paid and provide great benefits to workers in this field. It will not only help schools to reduce energy costs, but it will also help to set the standard for solar energy construction jobs.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 7, 2022

At the same time, Germany is having to find ways to reduce its reliance on Russian fossil fuels and readjust its long-planned energy transition. Do the war and its consequences threaten the coalition’s ambitious plans for Germany to become climate-neutral by 2045? Dependence on Russian fossil fuels.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2023

Room 8E-A East Wing Capitol Building. Click Here to watch online. Click Here to read more on the agenda. TUESDAY 11:30: Governor’s Budget Address. Click Here to watch online. . -- March 6 PA Environment Digest Now Available [PaEN] -- Sen.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 13, 2023

15] -- PA Interfaith Power & Light, Jewish Earth Alliance Aug. 16 Webinar: Why Should We Care About, Advocate For A Climate-Friendly Federal Farm Bill? PaEN] -- Citizens Voice: Susquehanna Nuclear Power Plant To Test Emergency Sirens Thursday, Aug. 17 -- PA Solar Center Hosts Aug. Potter County To Sept.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 29, 2020

I am an invited expert reviewer of the next assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a regular contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post, Forbes , and other publications, and a Time Magazine “Hero of the Environment.” Renewable energy projects raise serious environmental justice issues.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The most direct of these is imposed on certain fossil fuel power plants by requiring them to purchase carbon dioxide emissions allowances as part of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. In the absence of federal action, many states are stepping in.

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

As background, I am an invited expert reviewer of the next assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and a Time Magazine “Hero of the Environment.” My name is Michael Shellenberger, and I am Founder and President of Environmental Progress, an independent and nonprofit research organization.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 4, 2023

Yaw did not mention renewable energy in this announcement.] Read more here The key to affordable electricity prices and reliability is more diversification, not less, and that means increasing the renewable energy part of the electricity generation pie chart in Pennsylvania. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Shapiro In Support Of Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative [PaEN] -- Spotlight PA: Shapiro Isn’t Sold On RGGI Climate Program, His Working Group Isn’t Either - What’s Next? -- York Daily Record Guest Essay: Gov. Shapiro, Let’s Hold The Fossil Fuel Industry Accountable Via RGGI - By Rev.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2024

Spoiler - Yes] -- Centre Daily Times: Climate Watch: Winter Wildfires, Green Power Growth And Other Climate Topics Making News -- PennLive - Charles Thompson: Winter 2023-24 Is One Of Central PA’s Warmest, Wettest -- Erie Times: What Winter?

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2023

25 to March 3; More Well Plugging Sites Inspected PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - March 4 Independent Fiscal Office Reports 4th Quarter 2022 Natural Gas Production Decreased 1.6%; Average Price Increased By 82.5%

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 5, 2023

Below are examples of going the WRONG WAY on environmental and energy issues from last week’s articles and NewsClips-- -- Senate Committee Meets March 8 To Consider Bill Allowing General Assembly To Kill Regulations By Doing Nothing [PaEN] -- Senate Committee Meets March 6 On Bill Prohibiting Elected Officials In Local Governments From Moving To Cleaner (..)

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 5, 2023

Yaw Proposes Independent Energy Office To Promote Development Of PA’s Diverse Energy Portfolio - Natural Gas, Nuclear Power, Coal [PaEN] -- Post-Gazette: Smoke Stacks From Closed Hatfield’s Ferry Coal-Fired Power Plant Demolished, Closing Chapter In PA Industrial History In Greene County : ‘I’m Ecstatic.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 29, 2020

The attacks on me appear designed to distract attention from the concerns I am raising with renewables and nuclear energy. I have advocated for renewables in the past, but 20 years of experience and research have led me to conclude that renewable energy sources cannot power our high-energy civilization.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

That’s crucial to the state’s decarbonization effort, given that over half of Illinois’s power generation is nuclear. There’s also $340 million for renewables, and $180 million to soften the economic impact on communities of closing fossil fuel plants.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2022

1:00 to 2:30 p.m. -- Guest Essay: Climate Change Demands Southwestern PA Transition To A New Low-Carbon Energy Reality - By Hilary Mercer , Shell Polymers/Pennsylvania Chemicals Project & Kevin Walker, President/CEO Duquesne Light [PaEN] -- Pittsburgh Business Times: McKinsey Report Outlines Steps Southwest PA, U.S.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The 2008-era slogan is shorthand for the Trump campaign’s energy policy, but we know much more about current conservative thinking on the subject thanks to Project 2025 , the 920-page transition plan for the next administration by policy strategists from the Heritage Foundation. goal of decarbonizing the economy by 2050.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 14, 2024

Cornyn’s Senate website emphasizes expansion of fossil fuel production but also touts Texas as a “trailblazer in renewable energy.” This is part of the cult, or religion, of renewable energy.” In 2021, Barrasso said, “We all believe climate change is real. John Thune (SD).

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Science Blogs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

The Trump War on Science: Daring blindness, Denying climate change, Destroying the EPA and other daily disasters. The last couple of months have seemed especially apocalyptic, with Nazis marching in the streets and nuclear war suddenly not so distant a possibility. EPA head met with multiple energy execs in his first weeks.

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