A Greener Life

JULY 26, 2021

In order to make their portfolio more sustainable and respond to lower fossil fuel demand, oil majors are increasingly snapping up renewable energy projects as the pressure grows to take action on climate change. BP and Total are also leading the way in terms of upcoming solar power capacity.”.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 2, 2023

The country will also target 5,000 kilometres of new transmission lines, an 8% reduction in overall energy demand, and one gigawatt (GW) of distributed generation, with the government putting the plan’s estimated costs at US$86.6 These targets represent a potentially significant shift in Argentina ’s energy mix.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 21, 2021

In a remarkable new report, the International Energy Agency (IEA) finds that in order to limit warming to 1.5 The IEA is the world’s foremost authority on energy, relied upon by governments and the private sector around the world. That includes: 1 Stop approving fossil fuel projects, and plan for their phase out.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 19, 2024

It was a sign of how much has changed since 2021 when the UK hosted the flagship COP26 UN climate summit with a promise “irrefutably to turn the tide and to begin the fightback against climate change”. million has been given to pro-fossil fuel think tanks by Tory donors since the 2019 general election.

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A Greener Life

MAY 20, 2022

Perched at 3,730 metres above sea level in the community of Ancotanga, the Oruro solar power plant is one of the flagship projects in Bolivia’s energy transition. When its second phase was inaugurated in February 2021, President Arce highlighted the importance of the project for the country’s energy transition. “We

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Last year, Congress passed the most ambitious climate bill ever enacted, the Inflation Reduction Act. 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.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 1, 2023

And we know that until we really tackle the climate crisis, these disasters will keep getting worse. We know that fossil fuels are causing the climate crisis. And we know that to avoid more climate destruction, the world must stop digging up and burning fossil fuels.

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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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Electricity Renewable Energy Fossil Fuels Radiation 134

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

But gas power plants have also played an important role in helping to maintain the overall reliability of the electricity grid by meeting peak power demands, such as on hot summer days when people turn on their air conditioners. And this problem will only get worse as the impacts of climate change become more frequent and severe.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2023

The state-specific fact sheet, On the Road to 100 Percent Renewables for Minnesota , outlines how it could meet its electricity needs completely and equitably with renewable energy by 2035 and dramatically reduce fossil fuel use in vehicles and buildings. One area where the bill could do better?

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

For Canada’s major oil and gas producers, Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is a get-out-of-jail-free card, which allows them to keep on polluting while appearing as though they are taking the threat of climate change seriously. Real solutions, not dangerous distractions, are needed Fossil fuels are causing the climate crisis.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Statement by Julia Levin, Associate Director, National Climate Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – New analysis released today from the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) demonstrates that the Government of Canada is still intent on providing massive subsidies to fossil fuel companies.

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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. 16 Webinar: Why Should We Care About, Advocate For A Climate-Friendly Federal Farm Bill? 16 Webinar: Why Should We Care About, Advocate For A Climate-Friendly Federal Farm Bill?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The hypocrisy of the world’s biggest banks on climate change keeps mounting. The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns that all scenarios to meet the Paris Agreement ’s targets for holding planetary temperatures under 1.5 It was another corporate spit in the face of science.

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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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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 19, 2024

If you’re ready to get more involved in fighting climate change and looking for ideas on how you can meaningfully contribute to climate solutions, then you’re in the right place! Have you checked out our guide to six easy ways to get involved in climate action? We know the solutions to fight climate change.

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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. Recently that has changed. Taking a national average of 25.1

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Electricity Climate Change Fossil Fuels 2030 98

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The GIANT Company recently announced a long-term renewable supply agreement with Constellation to power its Pennsylvania operations including select stores, fuel stations and perishable distribution centers with renewable energy. Photo: The GIANT Company rooftop solar installation at their Carlisle Headquarters.)

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 22, 2022

We all know that to successfully address climate change we need to phase out fossil fuels and switch to electric power. A s we transition our homes and vehicles to electric power, it’s imperative that the electricity sector be clean. Take Action: Tell Ontario to phase out polluting gas power.

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Acoel

MAY 18, 2021

Based on project approvals, construction has begun on the New England Clean Energy Connect (NECEC) project, which would add 54 miles of new transmission corridor to connect to Canada, which in the U.S. Note also that the hydropower is a “base-load” contribution, not an intermittent source like solar or wind power. Stay tuned.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 9, 2023

Congress is investing huge sums in agriculture, and this money should be directed to help farmers mitigate and adapt to climate change by paying farmers to reduce emissions, on-farm renewable energy, and research on soil health. As the Farm Bill is negotiated, climate change must be a priority.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 23, 2023

All told, it will be $4 billion spent on a make-work project for power plant developers and the fossil fuel industry. The government knows that these plants will have to close in 2035 when federal climate laws come into effect. Why spend $4 billion on fossil fuel infrastructure that may or may not be used?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 21, 2022

This LRTP’s first portfolio of projects, known as “tranche 1,” includes some of the most urgent projects that would enable utilities and states to meet their clean energy commitments. Grid upgrades enable clean energy industries to flourish. The wide range of estimated benefits for these two metrics ($1.2 billion to $11.6 Photo: NREL.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged on September 21 that his country would no longer finance coal-fired power plants abroad, making a high-profile commitment to move away from some forms of fossil fuel infrastructure less than six weeks before a pivotal global climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland. It is already 1.1

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

“Why pay for polluting energy from a dirty power plant hundreds of miles away when Pennsylvanians can just soak up the sun on our rooftops?” Small-scale solar energy, of which rooftop solar is the largest component - is growing rapidly in the United States, producing 10 times as much power in 2022 as a decade earlier.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Our national overreliance on gas is evidently undermining energy access, not strengthening it, as some fossil fuel industry players would want you to believe. Likewise, pipeline giant Williams Companies now refers to its gas projects as “clean energy” projects. Don’t believe the industry spin.

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Legal Planet

JULY 25, 2024

In 2010, a major climate change law passed by the House died in the Senate, but 12 years later, a major climate law passed both Houses. In the meantime, there had been a revolution in energy economics. In 2010, the cost of onshore wind was almost twice that of the cheapest fossil fuel generation.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 12, 2024

So let’s turn to another subject: climate change. I’ll start with this: “I’m skeptical of the idea that climate change is caused purely by man. The climate’s been changing, as others have pointed out, for millennia.” The climate’s been changing, as others have pointed out, for millennia.”

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A Greener Life

MAY 12, 2023

With our children already paying a terrible price for climate change, we must act to protect their future, urges an IPCC scientist. When heatwaves disrupt our children’s education, it is time to demand climate action. I am writing this as a climate scientist and a mother of two young children.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 3, 2022

is a serious blow to the EPA’s ability to fight climate change—and could have dangerous repercussions beyond this case. The timing of the decision feels especially harsh, as the nation is in the throes of the “ Danger Season ” for hazards such as heat waves, drought, wildfires and hurricanes, all worsened by climate change.

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Earthava

APRIL 20, 2021

In other words, you get more savings by installing a solar power plant if you are charged with high electricity rates. The payback period of solar power plants to connections with high electricity rates is shorter as compared to those with low electricity rates.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Critics of wind and solar routinely raise concerns about how much land would be required to decarbonize the US power sector. And when wind and solar projects are responsibly sited, the environmental and public health impacts would be far less harmful than those from extracting, producing, and burning fossil fuels.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 24, 2023

There’s good news in the recently released official data on electricity generation in the United States in 2022: renewable energy has continued to grow, coal power has continued to drop, and renewables are now firmly ahead of coal for the first time ever. It supplied 10.5 percent of the country’s electricity supply (up 1.1

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 17, 2024

We really can have our cake and eat it too when it comes to addressing climate change and affordability. As we move away from polluting fossil fuels, investing in renewable energy is key to a cleaner and more affordable future. The research was published in Nature in April of this year. Shifting that $4.8

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

How do higher natural gas prices impact The Energy Co-op’s renewable energy programs? Regardless of whether electricity is generated by wind turbines, solar panels, natural gas, nuclear, coal, or other sources, it is all delivered over the same grid. But that still doesn’t change the fact that we’re in for a tough winter.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 19, 2023

Pakistan’s energy sector is dominated by fossil fuels. According to the country’s Finance Division , as of April 2022, just under 60% of total installed generation capacity used fossil fuels, including gas, oil and coal. Just 3% of generated electricity in the 2022 fiscal year came from non-hydropower renewables.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Last week the Sabin Center and the American Bar Association held an event on addressing landowner concerns in renewable energy siting. Wind and solar farms often spark siting battles between local residents who welcome renewable energy projects and their neighbors who are concerned about visual or other impacts.

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