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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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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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

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. It also will save US consumers money because they will spend less on fossil fuels.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 13, 2022

We already have so many of the foundational technological building blocks of the clean energy transition at hand: renewables, energy efficiency, energy storage, and pathways to electrifying a vast array of energy end uses. The actual barriers to progress. We must turn our attention there first.

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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. Their agendas are filling up fast, and we need you to keep the sun shining bright on Pennsylvania solar policy!

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 23, 2023

How would you feel if I told you that the Ontario government is going to blow another $4 billion on another environmentally destructive and indefensible act? Ontario is poised to unnecessarily spend over $4 billion on polluting gas plants that the federal government is in the process of phasing out. How do we know? MW/business day.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

California’s LCFS is causing problems for other states and the federal government. The LCFS is designed to hold fuel producers accountable for their supply chain emissions The LCFS and related Clean Fuel Standard policies are performance standards for transportation fuel based on lifecycle analysis.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Last month, the British-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) reported that London-based HSBC, one of the world’s top-10 biggest banks, has helped raise $47 billion for the fossil fuel industry since its 2022 announcement that it would not finance new gas and oil infrastructure. degrees Celsius, or 2.7

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 21, 2022

Industry and government experts have long recognized that investing in our electric transmission system can provide a wide range of benefits , and MISO’s Long-Range Transmission Planning (LRTP) process is designed specifically to identify investments that capture those benefits for ratepayers. for every dollar invested. billion to $11.6

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 1, 2023

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. Wind and solar power, paired with energy storage and energy savings, can almost entirely replace fossil fuels – and leave our communities better off.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 22, 2022

In the next two years, Bhutan plans to harness 300 megawatts of solar energy, Minister for Economic Affairs Lokhnath Sharma has told The Third Pole. Currently, the country’s installed renewables capacity (excluding hydropower) is about 9 MW. Photo credit: Department of Renewable Energy, MoEA Bhutan.

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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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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. 76% of Pennsylvania voters agree that government should encourage farmers to use climate-friendly practices.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 28, 2022

A solar power field in Kawasaki, near Tokyo. Last week, regulators in the local assembly of Tokyo , the capital of Japan , ruled that all new homes constructed by large-scale homebuilders after April 2025 must install solar panels to cut emissions. Poor solar uptake. Photo credit: Reuters / Toru Hanai. By Anders Lorenzen.

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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. As the U.S.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 19, 2024

Embrace political advocacy Photo by Kempton via Flickr Creative Commons Political action and advocacy is crucial to climate action, because changing the larger system is the greatest opportunity to reduce emissions, and changing the way our economy and society operate requires government action.

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A Greener Life

JULY 23, 2021

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. The Tokyo Olympics will be powered by a fuel with ambition – hydrogen. Japan, once a passionate advocate of nuclear energy , now has serious hydrogen ambitions.

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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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Law Columbia

APRIL 1, 2024

Opponents emphasized visual impacts (or, as they put it, “the inconsistency of the industrial solar facility with the rural character of the area”), as well as concerns about the loss of farmland. million of annual revenue to local government and schools. Notwithstanding this opposition, Oak Run also found significant local support.

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A Greener Life

MAY 12, 2023

I was a member of the team that wrote the latest climate report released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ) in March 2023, which was endorsed by 195 governments including India. What can governments, civil society, and we as individuals do to ensure a liveable future for our children?

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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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Solar Power Electricity Renewable Energy Technology 85

A Greener Life

MAY 28, 2023

A small town generating its own power, a city school equipping its rooftop with solar panels, and a company building solar water heaters that help to cut energy bills: small-scale initiatives across Argentina are showing the active role people can play in building a renewable energy-powered future.

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A Greener Life

JULY 9, 2021

The region will need to change its industrial structure and energy mix to meet national carbon targets, requiring policy and financial support from central government. Energy authorities in Inner Mongolia are aiming to connect 50 gigawatts of renewable power to the grid by 2025. By Gao Baiyu. The Kubuqi desert.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The Premier had made it very clear in past statements that she is biased against renewable energy, and instead favours projects that cause pollution, limit Alberta’s future economic growth, and contribute to global climate change. Wind and solar energy are the least expensive sources of energy in Canada.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 19, 2023

By Zofeen Ebrahim Progress towards the construction of a China-funded coal power plant in Gwadar raises questions about the climate pledges of both China and Pakistan. Pakistan’s energy sector is dominated by fossil fuels. 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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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 19, 2023

That timing makes it a hugely important potential resource when winter hits hard and fossil fuels fail. It also makes offshore wind an important seasonal complement to the region’s abundant and growing solar power capacity. Power everywhere. The US offshore wind map.

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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 16, 2022

A business that generates renewable energy, say, with solar panels, but sells the Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) for that renewable energy may not then claim it “uses” renewable energy. Businesses have choices when determining to use renewable energy.

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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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Electricity Natural Gas Carbon Emissions Renewable Energy 52

Environment Blog

MARCH 25, 2020

Recent estimates suggest that China’s energy system is still primarily powered by coal – in fact, nearly 50% of the country’s electricity is generated using coal. It is worth noting that Bitcoin is just one of more than a thousand different cryptocurrencies, and each one has its own mining and energy requirements.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Later in the hour, Tillerson told Rose that the federal government should end subsidies for renewable energy. “I It was a bogus argument that fossil fuel proponents would repeat ad nauseum over the next 10 years, so when Rose failed to provide some needed context, I jumped in. His reply ?

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Circle of Blue

MAY 19, 2022

Financed by one of the world’s richest private equity firms, The Blackstone Group, the CHPE is championed by its supporters as essential to unwind New York’s reliance on carbon-spewing fossil fuel and meet a 2040 target of emissions-free electricity. Transmission constraints limit the flow of upstate renewable sources to the city.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 30, 2023

Republicans have an iron grip on Texas government. Which seems a little hard to square with the state’s reliance on renewable energy. It’s not as if the state’s extensive use of wind power is just a historical fluke, either. The state will soon get more power from renewables than natural gas.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The mining company claims the spill was not toxic, while the Angolan government says it is still investigating the matter. _. On September 21, Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged that his country would no longer finance coal-fired power plants abroad. Climate campaigners applauded the carbon-reducing benefits of fewer new coal plants.

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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.” Or could it perhaps boost the transition to a renewables-based economy?

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