Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Today, climate change is the central, though by no means the only, concern in environmental law. I found only one relevant reference using the term “climate change” before 1985. In one sentence of a 1975 article, John Barton referred to “climate change” as a potentially severe long-term problem.

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Global Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Adding in the contributions of nuclear power plants could bring the total share of US electricity generated by “zero-carbon” sources up from 40 percent, where it is today, to almost 70 percent in 2030. Nuclear is by no means ideal, but it is serving to bridge the gap to a zero-carbon future.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 30, 2023

That lower-than-expected electricity demand also makes spring (and the other “shoulder” season, fall) the go-to seasons for fossil fuel and nuclear power plants to go offline for scheduled maintenance—or refueling, in the case of the nuclear plants. That means that there are fewer of them competing to supply demand.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Germany decides to phase out nuclear power, complicating efforts to decarbonize the power sector. Government adopts a sector-by-sector plan to reach 2050 climate goals. Germany has dragged its feet on EVs because of its powerful car industry. How much did ending nuclear power impede German climate progress?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2023

The public was thankfully not harmed by the Nebraska incident, but this was unfortunately not an isolated incident in terms of flood risks posed to the US nuclear power fleet. Spring in a warming world means a broadened focus The link between climate change and tornado activity is an active area of research.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

And this problem will only get worse as the impacts of climate change become more frequent and severe. While it’s clear we need to rapidly reduce gas generation to help limit the worst impacts of climate change, it’s less clear how much fossil gas capacity we actually need to maintain reliability in a future decarbonized grid.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 13, 2022

By Hilary Mercer , Shell Polymers/Pennsylvania Chemicals Project & Kevin Walker, President/CEO Duquesne Light This guest essay first appeared on TribLive.com May 11, 2022 -- Climate change demands that the world, including our region, transition its energy profile to a low-carbon one.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

On February 20, the Department of Environmental Protection presented six major legislative proposals to the Climate Change Advisory Committee it would like to see adopted to implement the 2024 PA Climate Action Plan. For available handouts and more information, visit DEP’s Climate Change Advisory Committee webpage.

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Legal Planet

MAY 30, 2022

Even more worrisome are Ukraine’s fifteen nuclear reactors. Eastern Ukraine, where heavy fighting has been taking place, is home to oil depots, coal mines and nuclear power plants. There are increasing grounds for concern that climate change can interact with other factors to increase the changes of war.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 8, 2022

Featured coverage from this week’s episode of What’s Up With Water looks at: In France, May was unusually warm, and that could limit operations at some of its nuclear power facilities. Most inland facilities cool their power-generating equipment with river water. More Water News.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

The Director of the IEA, Fatih Birol said: “The good news is that renewables and nuclear power are growing quickly enough to meet almost all this additional appetite, suggesting we are close to a tipping point for power sector emissions.” Asia also dominated the growth in demand.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 26, 2023

Coal-Fired power plants targeted at the case, taken by Attorney Shunsuke Sugit In March 2023, two important decisions regarding the operation of newly built coal-fired power plants were handed down by courts in Japan. Citizens’ Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant v.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 28, 2021

With the COP26 climate summit underway in Glasgow, Physics World Weekly is bringing you a two-part series on climate change. Last week’s episode explored how extreme heat will affect global health and the challenges faced by climate modellers. Today’s episode is focussed on climate solutions.

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Environment, Law, and History

JANUARY 12, 2022

In "The Origins of Climate Awareness in the Legal Academy" , Farber writes: The earliest clear references to climate change that turned up in my search. were in 1978 articles about nuclear energy. I suspect that there were several reasons why legal academics failed to focus more on climate change in this early period.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 28, 2022

At the same time, an audit of the subsidies found that purchasing energy and capacity from regional wholesale markets is cheaper than power from the OVEC plants. In addition, FirstEnergy—owner of the two uneconomic nuclear power plants H.B. Removing H.B.

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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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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This is because the Ontario Minister of Energy has directed the IESO to structure contracts with new gas plants to ensure they get paid even if they are forced to shut down due to federal climate change laws. . Ontario’s competitiveness depends on clean power. Regardless, this plan will be costly for Ontarians.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2023

Yaw Proposes Independent Energy Office To Promote Development Of PA’s Diverse Energy Portfolio - Natural Gas, Nuclear Power, Coal [PaEN] -- Penn State PA Technical Assistance Program Hosts March 23 TEC Talk On Trends On Industry Decarbonization At Hazleton Campus [PaEN] [Posted: March 9, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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Physics World

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Global solutions: What physicists can do to tackle the climate crisis. “A It’s easy to ignore such warnings as distant, vague and alarmist, something only of concern to policymakers and politicians at gatherings like next month’s COP26 climate summit in Glasgow. Is the answer to climate change lying beneath your feet?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2022

To help avoid the worst possible consequences of climate change, however, the alliance states need to reach that 100-percent objective much more quickly. Currently, the states in our analysis meet their electricity needs with a mix of different electricity sources, including fossil fuels, nuclear power and renewables.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 19, 2021

From physics to politics William D Magwood IV, director-general of the Nuclear Energy Agency, thinks nuclear power can help us meet net-zero targets. I fight,” answered Magwood, who at the time directed the Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology at the US Department of Energy (DOE). Courtesy: NEA).

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Physics World

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Those findings might surprise physicists, who will be aware that the energy density of nuclear fission is so high that just a fingertip of uranium has an energy equivalent of 5000 barrels of oil. The COP26 climate talks that will be held on 1–12 November in Glasgow offer a perfect opportunity to do so. Young support.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 23, 2023

NewsClips: -- AP: Hydrogen Tax Credit Rules Give Most Credits To Projects With Clean Energy Sources; Meaningful Credits Still Going To Fossil Fuel-based Projects -- Reuters: US Unveils Clean Hydrogen Plan, Nuclear Power Role Uncertain -- Bloomberg: Hydrogen Tax Credits Worth Billions Includes Strict Environmental Safeguards -- Bloomberg: Hydrogen Tax (..)

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Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2022

Japan , their case challenging the legality of a governmental approval that allows for the construction and operation of new coal-fired power plants. This will be the first climate change case heard before the Supreme Court. Japan’s climate change context. Civil law cases. Kobe Steel Ltd.,

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2024

Thank you for your leadership! -- Feature- Remembering March 28, 1979 At The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant - The Accident No One Thought Would Happen [PaEN] -- PennLive - Charles Thompson: 45 Years After Infamous Accident, Why Are They Still Cleaning Up Three Mile Island?

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Law Columbia

MARCH 8, 2023

The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and Environmental Defense Fund have just launched IRAtracker.org. Source: iratracker.org The IRA is this country’s largest climate investment to date.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

The House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing November 13 on hydrogen hubs and climate change. Witnesses expected to present testimony include-- -- Illinois State Senator David Koehler , Assistant Majority Leader -- Colorado State Rep. Read more here.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 4, 2021

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. While studying at the University of Birmingham, UK, Canavan was inspired by a nuclear-physics professor to go into nuclear power. “I

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Law Columbia

MAY 27, 2021

In 1978, during a phase of the Cold War when relationships between East and West began to relax, the United States and 4 other nuclear powers (China, France, the Soviet Union and the UK) made unilateral declarations granting security assurances to non-nuclear- weapon states. By Christoph Schwarte* .

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Vermont Law

JUNE 29, 2020

For years, legislators, policymakers, and business – Dominion Energy – have been avoiding the writing on the wall that climate change is having a substantial impact on Virginians, whether it be the fate of our historic sites in Williamsburg, the crop yield in the Shenandoah Valley, or an even more miserable pollen season in.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 16, 2023

1 Deadline Sustainable Pittsburgh Now Accepting Grant Applications From Businesses, Groups, Municipalities Looking To Earn Sustainability Certification In 7 Western PA Counties PA GreenGov Council Launches PA Climate Change Mitigation & Resilience Network EEN Action - Evangelical Environmental Network Delivered Over 51,000 Signatures To Gov.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

Another reliability benefit of grid regionalization is that a western RTO would be much better positioned to coordinate the response to extreme weather conditions, which are becoming much more frequent as the West increasingly feels the impacts of climate change. The list goes on, but you get the point.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2024

Shapiro’s plan introduces the Pennsylvania Reliable Energy Sustainability Standard (PRESS), which will attract federal investments in the Commonwealth and keep utility costs low in the long-term by building out the reliable, affordable fleet of power sources we will need for the decades to come.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

As 42% of the UK’s electricity is generated by gas power plants, it is urgently necessary to make the country better protected against future gas crises by scaling up both renewables and nuclear power.

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 16, 2017

These days the United States’ federal government is promoting coal and backtracking on climate ambition and the European Union is no longer cutting its greenhouse gases emissions. So, who is leading the fight against climate change ? China, India and South Korea are. . The country has 53 coal-fired plants.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 23, 2022

to avoid potentially dangerous global climate changes. CCUS, hydrogen and nuclear power). . -- If we do nothing, the region is likely to match the current U.S. trajectory, which will fall short of what has been estimated to be required in the U.S. This would make our region less and less attractive for global investment.

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Maryland has enacted the most rigorous state law in the country reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and otherwise addressing ESG stewardship including climate change. Maryland has enacted the most ambitious GHG emission reduction controls in the nation coupled with an assemblage of other climate change and ESG mandates.

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