A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This demand has caused gas prices to surge and caused a number of energy companies to go under, as well as customers facing a hike in bills. Despite the government`s big talk on climate action , the country has hardly made a dent in easing its reliance on gas in recent years. What happened to energy efficiency?

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Law Columbia

JUNE 27, 2023

Direct pay – which is already in effect as of January 1, 2023 – allows tax-exempt entities, including local governments, to claim the value of certain clean energy and other tax credits as a cash payment, rather than as an offset to tax liability that they do not have.

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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. While Germany has had a huge focus on renewable energy this has done little to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The Grohnde plant is one of the German nuclear power plants which is due to shut down at the end of 2021. A recent report has shed light on the scale of the climate cost of Germany decommissioning its nuclear power plants. Photo credit: Preussen Elektra. By Anders Lorenzen. Climate neutrality is far off.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Last week, on Monday November 14, as part of its Economic Outlook and Fiscal Review , the Ontario government officially announced it would be developing a voluntary clean energy credit (CEC) registry. But they should, because Ontario Power Generation is a crown corporation – the public should know how the profit is being spent.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 8, 2023

Department of Agriculture (USDA), Department of Energy (DOE), Department of the Interior (DOI), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)—to implement the IRA. The expanded renewable energy investment tax credit, for example, now supports investments in energy storage and microgrids.

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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. Nuclear is also capable of supporting the decarbonization of other sectors, such as heating and transport.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2024

Here are 94 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us.

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Environmental Europe

JANUARY 26, 2017

As one previous post on this blog detailed, the current political turmoil in Northern Ireland was sparked by a subsidy for renewable energy production. Though it is tempting to blame political carelessness, the ongoing RHI scandal prompts a broader reflection about renewable energy policy instruments.

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A Greener Life

JULY 23, 2021

Japan, a long-time supporter of nuclear power, now has serious hydrogen ambitions. The 2020 Tokyo Olympics will be powered by hydrogen. Hydrogen may have lost the race to fuel electric cars but it looks a likely contender to replace fossil fuels in trucks, ships, planes and heavy industry. By Fred Pearce.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 13, 2023

It plans to develop renewable hydrogen production facilities from renewable and nuclear electricity using both established and innovative electrolyzer technologies, where it can help reduce costs and drive further technology adoption. Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming), Majority Chair of the Senate Environmental Committee. “I

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 18, 2023

electric power supply, and other independent system operators, may impose steep tariff provisions to recover the costs related to interconnection study penalties previously issued by the old rule or whether utilities can even come into compliance with the new rule within 90 days.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2023

Getting there requires an all-of-society approach; getting there requires leadership at all levels of government. Governor Dan McKee’s January 3 inaugural address made no mention of climate change, but in a reference as brief as the state is small, McKee did check one renewable energy box: We have momentum. Inauguration Week.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

Investors and governments will be expected to refer to the Taxonomy in order to determine whether an activity they want to pursue can be considered sustainable, and under what conditions (screening criteria). For example, the replacement of nuclear power generation by fossil fuels would still be considered a sustainable activity.

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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. via Wikimedia.

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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. That means carbon emissions from electricity in Ontario will be rising back up again after years of decline. Ontario Energy Output by Fuel Type: 2020 .

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

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. A far more immediate and dangerous threat is insufficient energy supplies due to U.S.

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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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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

In a separate but similar Ninth Circuit appeal, the federal government filed a brief on October 18 urging the court to overturn a district court decision vacating the listing of a ringed seal subspecies as threatened based on climate change threats through the end of the century. Circuit Court of Appeals.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 22, 2023

Utilities Commission (NCUC) to “take all reasonable steps” to achieve a 70% reduction in carbon dioxide ( CO 2 ) emissions from electric generating units (EGUs) by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality for the utility generation system by 2050. The reduction goals apply to electric utilities that are: 1.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 18, 2022

It will include funding to address abandoned wells, abandoned mine lands, improvements to drinking water and wastewater systems, Superfund site cleanups, and expanding electric vehicle networks, and many other areas,” said Ziadeh. “So the funding we're anticipating is certainly once in a generation federal investment.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

Congress took questions relating to the security of America’s electricity supply seriously before more than a dozen states experienced energy shortages last month, but those events make this hearing all the more urgent. electrical grids were increasingly “complex and vulnerable.” [2] Shellenberger. 5] The U.S. 5] The U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2023

The grant program, “Solar for Schools,” would issue grants to schools for solar energy projects, including costs related to equipment, installation and maintenance of solar energy systems. With the savings, local governments can reduce taxes and schools can invest in more teachers. Fiedler said.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 7, 2022

The government has also reversed a policy of military minimalism that dates back to the end of World War II, as new Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced the goal of building “a powerful… armed forces that can be relied upon to protect us.” While 66% supported them even if they lead to an increase in energy prices and the cost of living.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 29, 2020

The High Cost of Renewables House Democrats propose spending hundreds of billions of public and ratepayer money on renewable energy, new transmission lines, energy efficiency, mass transit, electric vehicles, carbon capture and storage, and advanced nuclear energy.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2023

THURSDAY 1:00: Senate Transportation Committee hearing on charging electric vehicles. Room 8E-A East Wing Capitol Building. University of Pittsburgh, Alumni Hall, Room 121, Pittsburgh. Click Here to watch live. -- March 6 PA Environment Digest Now Available [PaEN] -- Sen.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Even the proposal’s main architect, former Secretary of State James Baker, acknowledged that he faces an “uphill slog” in convincing the federal government to act. The others, established through New York’s Clean Energy Standard, compensate renewable generators and nuclear plants for their low-carbon attributes.

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Environmental Progress

AUGUST 3, 2020

The ideas of Thomas Malthus (center) were used by British governments to justify the Irish Famine, 1845-1848 (left) and Bengali Famine, 1943-1945 (right) before becoming the basis for 20th Century environmentalism. The whole point of referring to Hiroshima was to raise the specter of nuclear weapons explosion. Ehrlich agreed. “In

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2022

What’s Your Community Doing? 2020 -- AP: Republicans Fear Far-Right Candidate Sen.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 4, 2023

Yaw did not mention renewable energy in this announcement.] Yaw's Energy Beliefs You can get a better understanding of Sen. Yaw's energy beliefs by reading a transcript of the comments he made at the February 27 joint hearing on electric grid reliability by the Senate Environmental and Consumer Protection Committees.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 27, 2022

“Immediate reductions in gas demand can be achieved through energy efficiency solutions such as ramping up demand response devices, including smart thermostats, and deployment of heat pumps. “ The REPowerEU plan estimates that reductions through energy savings in homes can replace 15.5

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

Governments and farmers have known what “biosecurity” measures to take for decades, and enacted them, partly, in response to the 2005 avian flu (H5N1) epidemic. US electricity sector emissions decreased 34 percent from 2005 to 2019, including an astonishing 10 percent in 2019, which is the largest year-on-year decline in history.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2022

The European Union is set to unveil an energy plan this week to accelerate a transition to clean, renewable energy and to “reduce permanently our dependence on imports of natural gas.” Why not determine our own future through True Energy Independence? Does Europe Want Our Gas? And they meant all natural gas imports.

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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

MAY 5, 2024

Here are 166 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2022

Penn’s Cave & Wildlife Park , Centre Hall, PA. to 4:00 p.m. What’s Your Community Doing? Other States/National/International -- Post-Gazette: More Research Links Air Pollution Exposure And COVID Risk -- The Guardian: ‘Everything Was Orange,’ U.S.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

“A conservative president must be committed to unleashing all of America’s energy resources and making the energy economy serve the American people, not special interests,” it reads. Department of Energy, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

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