Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 21, 2023

According to the National Retail Federation , around 20 percent of shopping occurs during November and December. How would that change if I hopped on the electric bus route at the end of my block? The holidays are the peak shopping time for US consumers. Holiday shopping has grown consistently over the past decade at around 3.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

At the Union of Concerned Scientists, we’ve been looking into the benefits rural drivers could enjoy from switching from a gasoline vehicle to an electric vehicle. The lack of an accessible outlet to charge an EV at home is one such challenge faced by drivers when considering switching to an electric vehicle.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Rhodium reported that “the most rapid investment growth has been in clean technology manufacturing—with annual investment growing 125% year-on-year to $39 billion—and particularly within electric vehicle and solar manufacturing. They also show that cuts in electricity emissions lead the way. climate pledge.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

“Today marks an important step in the process of allowing flexible, distributed resources to participate in the reliability of the electric system through markets at PJM,” noted PUC Vice Chair Kimberly Barrow this morning, in a joint statement with PUC Chairman Stephen M. Documents related to this rulemaking can be found at PUC Docket No.:

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Rate design has been a site of experimentation and contestation since the earliest days of electricity provisioning. In the earliest days of electricity provisioning, fixed charges were common in residential rates due to the limits of metering technology. Regulators and policymakers began to reevaluate their approach to rate design.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

On November 22, the Public Utility Commission alerted consumers and small businesses that most utilities will be adjusting their price to compare for electric generation on December 1st – with potentially large winter energy cost increases in some areas for non-shopping (default service) customers. cents to 7.98 cents to 7.98

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Legal Planet

MARCH 30, 2023

But when it comes to the recent surge in natural gas prices that jolted electricity and gas bills this winter, the next step is murkier. Regulators at the California Public Utilities Commission say they have opened an investigation. Why is the CPUC investigating when it doesn’t regulate natural gas producers? I sure hope so.

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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.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Lithium-ion batteries are essential for decarbonizing transportation through electric vehicles and building a resilient, renewable energy grid through energy storage batteries. By 2050, battery recycling could supply 22 to 27% of lithium, 40 to 46% of nickel, and 45 to 52% of cobalt needed for electric vehicles in the US.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Our team cooperatively handled an impressive number of filings, complaint calls, electric and safety inspections, telephonic and in-person hearings and many other important duties on a daily basis for the Commonwealth and its utility customers.” Thirty electric and pipeline incident investigations were handled by the divisions.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

16 PA Bulletin [PaEN] -- The Allegheny Front: Groups Say ‘Clean’ Hydrogen Projects Lack Transparency And Fear Climate, Safety Impacts -- Better Path Coalition, Partners Host PA Climate Convergence Sept. 1-2 In Harrisburg With In-Person, Online Events [PaEN] -- PA Solar Center Sept.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The law mandates availability of protective equipment during poor air quality events, and directs Cal/OSHA, the state’s labor regulator, to consider additional high heat protections. SB 1205 protects water access by requiring the state to develop regulations considering climate change effects on water availability for water rights permits.

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

Some have argued that weather-dependent energies would, paradoxically, make electricity even more reliable. Adding more variable energy sources to electricity grids, all else being equal, might not in itself make electricity less reliable. But all else is not equal. GW of wind produced at a rate of 0.65

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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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Columbia Climate Law

JULY 9, 2015

Recently, two competing plans to reform California’s four-tier electricity rate structure of the three investor-owned utilities (IOUs) [1] have emerged from the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). Under the current tariff system, customers who use more electricity are charged significantly higher rates per kilowatt-hour (kWh). [4]

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Cresforum

AUGUST 2, 2021

Considering recent summer and winter weather-induced blackouts, accomplishing this critical goal while reducing carbon emissions and maintaining affordable electricity prices is challenging states, regulators, investor-owned utilities, and retail power providers alike.

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Greenbuilding Law

OCTOBER 15, 2023

This of course begs the question of scenarios where electric utilities will charge noncustomer landlords for the data. If both of these conditions are satisfied, the regulated utility will send the building owner the data. Newly enacted laws (. Newly enacted laws (.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 21, 2013

On August 21, CCCL released a new white paper that evaluates the legal workability and constitutionality of regulating imports into the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or “RGGI” (for background on RGGI, the Northeastern states’ cap-and-trade program for carbon dioxide, see prior posts ).

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Renewable + Law

JULY 14, 2020

841 and 841A, which established a framework for electric storage resources’ (“ESRs”) participation in wholesale markets. 841 directly regulates those distribution systems.” Circuit”) upheld the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (“FERC”) Order Nos. Nothing in Order No.

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CEQA Developments

JUNE 8, 2023

Likewise, while the continuing validity of local all-electric reach codes is questionable given the Ninth Circuit’s recent decision in California Restaurant Association v. Not surprisingly, BAAQMD remains focused on climate-related impacts, which the all-electric threshold is intended to address. City of Berkeley (9th Cir.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

One gigawatt is sufficient to meet electricity demand for about one million average homes in the state, according to the CEC ). After AB 525 was signed into law, the CEC set offshore wind state planning goals in 2022 (2 to 5 gigawatts (GW) by 2030 and 25 GW by 2045).

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The Blue Book suggests filling stations are threatened by a combination of weaker consumer demand, itself spurred by the pandemic and high oil prices, and the quickening shift from conventional to electric vehicles (EVs). Around 77% of those were all-electric, with plug-in hybrids comprising roughly 22%. Last year, 6.9 Last year, 6.9

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The process of converting to all-electric buildings – or, in other words, of phasing buildings off of gas and other fossil fuels – involves two spheres: the appliances and building systems inside of a building, and the energy system outside of it. Each of these spheres is regulated at the federal, state, and local levels.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Committee Meetings House September 12 -- House Consumer Protection, Technology, Utilities Committee holds hearing on House Bill 1578 (Mullins-D-Lackawanna) training and bonding retail electric and natural gas energy suppliers. EPA Read more here. Click Here for full Senate Bill Calendar. Room G-50 Irvis Building.

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Greenbuilding Law

APRIL 25, 2021

Maryland has been described as having more pages of environmental statutes and regulations on a per capita basis than any other state. Finally, the bill adds the People’s Counsel as a member of the Maryland Commission on Climate Change and the Maryland Zero Emission Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Council. Drinking Water.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 15, 2021

In approving the Order, the Commission once again stipulated that suppliers engaging in door-to-door, public event, and in-person sales and marketing activities must continue to comply with relevant orders and guidance of the Governor and the Secretary of Health as well as all applicable PUC regulations and orders.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2022

You know of our immense potential, yet the State has been hamstrung by regulation, bans, time-intensive permitting, RGGI, and further taxation while you support energy means that cannot possibly power the needs of the 21st century.” Wolf have all called on the General Assembly to toughen laws regulating pipelines to no avail.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 11, 2024

Uber Fined $59 Million After Stonewalling Investigation Into Sexual Violence Edward Ongweso Jr | Vice | December 17, 2020 After a year spent refusing to give California regulators detailed information on sexual assault and harassment claims made by drivers and riders, Uber is being fined $59 million.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 21, 2021

18 At Lehighton Outdoor Center. 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. -- Penelec Installs Equipment On Power Lines To Protect Eagles In Crawford County [PaEN] Hurricane Ida -- Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

Republicans said the final regulations will increase the cost of electricity for individuals and businesses, have a negative impact on jobs and will not significantly reduce carbon pollution. And in those states RGGI energy efficiency investments of $2.8 billion have produced nearly $13.5 for every dollar invested.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Uber Fined $59 Million After Stonewalling Investigation Into Sexual Violence Edward Ongweso Jr | Vice | December 17, 2020 After a year spent refusing to give California regulators detailed information on sexual assault and harassment claims made by drivers and riders, Uber is being fined $59 million.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

“There were families who did not know about it, because they were living without electricity, so they didn’t hear the story,” Smith recalls. Blindsided by the announcement, the poor, majority-Black neighborhood of Junction began a desperate scramble to keep everyone safe. . Children who could not bathe.”.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Since our last two advisories in February and early March 2021, additional ESG developments have continued to make industry headlines on a near-daily basis, reaffirming that climate-related disclosures and other ESG considerations should be an increasingly critical focus area for financial regulators, federal and state lawmakers, and investors.

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Greenbuilding Law

MARCH 12, 2023

And increasing numbers of businesses are taking steps to reduce or eliminate their use of PFAS, including last week outdoor retailer REI that had been the subject of a more than year long public campaign by its customers to drop PFAS products announced upcoming hard ban. The webinar is complimentary, but you must register here.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 2, 2022

Retail Electricity Prices Rose At Fastest Rate Since 2008, Driven By Natural Gas And Energy Commodities [Whose Price Is Determined By Foreign Energy Markets And Despots] -- NPR: U.S. Oil Companies Not Pumping More Oil Despite High Prices -- AP: U.S.,

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Columbia Climate Law

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Net metering, which requires utilities to purchase, at retail rates, the solar energy its customers send back to the grid, has been hailed as instrumental in encouraging the growth of rooftop solar across the country. In the regulators’ 3-2 vote, they agreed with the utilities that a cost shift was occurring and imposed the $0.70

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2022

Renewable Gas Demand Seen Jumping 45% To Cut Emissions -- Bloomberg: Occidental Will Sell ‘Net-Zero Oil’ To Korean Refiner; Emissions Offset By Carbon Removal -- WSJ: High Gasoline Prices Have Consumers Thinking Electric Vehicles -- WSJ: Koch Industries, Built On Oil, Bets Big On U.S. Batteries -- Bloomberg: VW Sees $7.7

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