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. The costs of wind and solar power have been dropping like a stone.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2023

Fossil gas, which is used for heating, electricity, and industrial processes, is responsible for one third of Ontario’s greenhouse gas emissions and is harmful to human health. It seems obvious that we should remove the middle process and use solar and wind power for our electricity needs directly.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 26, 2021

In order to achieve the greenhouse gas reductions needed to sustain a livable climate, we must scale up renewable energy capacity at a rapid pace.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 9, 2021

Hydropower generation across California and the American West has declined in this extremely dry year, meaning that electricity providers will lean more heavily on natural gas, solar, and wind power. President Biden’s goal is to cut the country’s greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030, and to reach net zero emissions by 2050.

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A Greener Life

MAY 24, 2023

Energy is also one of the areas presenting an opportunity to make a big break from Russia, by moving away from fossil fuels, in order to embrace the EUs desire for more clean energy. During last winter countless horrifying stories circulated about how Ukrainians were freezing in sub-zero temperatures with heating cut off.

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Vermont Law

JUNE 22, 2020

Roughly 9 percent of the United States’ greenhouse gas emissions come from the agriculture sector. [1]. Some activities within agriculture emit greenhouse gases inherently – for example: cows burping. [2]. In a place like Texas, where wind power is cheap and plentiful, that has worked out in renewable energy’s favor. [22].

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

As per Inhabitat : Injecting reflective particles into the high atmosphere could reduce the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth’s surface, counteracting the greenhouse gas effect. In the meantime, we need to keep on decreasing global greenhouse gases emissions, and do it much faster than what we are currently doing.

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Ocean Conservancy

MAY 27, 2022

While a wind-powered cargo vessel may seem like a 19 th Century idea, the Grain de Sail may be a herald of a greener future rather than a nostalgic nod to the past. By the end of the week one thing seemed likely, a price on shipping fuel’s carbon emissions even if it doesn’t end up being the exact levy proposed by the Marshall Islands.

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Acoel

MAY 18, 2021

Perhaps predictably, the large energy companies NextERA and Calpine oppose it, and are funding the opposition: the companies own fossil fuel and other power plants that will become less economical, and stand to lose many millions when the less expensive hydropower enters the grid.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Healey issued the CID in connection with an investigation into unfair or deceptive acts or practices in trade or commerce with respect to fossil fuel products and securities. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP , No. 451962/2016 (N.Y. Massachusetts Appellate Court Affirmed Dismissal of Divestment Action Against Harvard. Sierra Club v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Regionalizing the grid could allow California to take advantage of renewable energy in other states such as wind power from Wyoming and hydropower in the Pacific Northwest. But it also would require California to give up some of its energy autonomy.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 6, 2014

The most prominent of the initiatives in the Climate Action Plan aims to use Section 111 of the Clean Air Act to limit greenhouse gas emissions from coal and other fossil-fueled power plants. These facilities account for around 40% of all carbon pollution in the United States.

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Law Columbia

JULY 31, 2015

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors’ move to ban utility-scale wind turbines and to impose severe restrictions on utility-scale solar in unincorporated areas of the county is not compatible with averting the worst impacts of climate change. And let’s not forget the many local benefits associated with wind energy development.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Placing restrictions on solar, wind, and geothermal power that don’t apply to climate change causing oil and gas development will put Alberta’s burgeoning renewable energy industry at risk, and cost Albertans more for their energy. In 2023, Alberta led the country in renewable energy investment.

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Edouard Stenger

JUNE 13, 2023

Reduce methane emissions Methane essentially comes from the decay of vegetation, animals’ digestion and the exploitation of fossil fuels, methane is a greenhouse gas with a massive footprint, 80+ times more potent than carbon dioxide in the first 20 years. This was mentioned in an article in The Guardian.

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 24, 2021

The Power of Making Smart Investments. UN Secretary-General António Guterres stated that we’re in a “ code red for humanity ” and called for an end to fossil fuel production and exploration, along with a massive transition to renewable energy, to mitigate climate change. That’s not helping our ocean or Americans.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

To avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis, it’s crucial that we shift energy production away from the unsustainable fossil fuels that cause climate change and towards those that release little to no greenhouse gases (GHG), such as solar and wind power.

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

While solar PV and wind power are grabbing headlines, another clean energy revolution is silently taking place. According to the IPCC, this greenhouse gas is 86 times more potent than carbon dioxide over a twenty-year period (and 34 times more potent over a century). Over a third of global food production , 1.3

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Generating and storing clean energy is a lifeline for the planet’s future; burning coal, oil, and gas fossil fuels causes 75% of greenhouse gas emissions. A fossil fuel energy grid extracts and expends finite resources. Energy from the sun and wind never runs out and is used again and again.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 17, 2024

Shapiro On Republican Reaction To His Energy Plan: They’ve Done Nothing And Power ‘Plants Have Closed On Their Watch;’ They’re ‘Used To Doing Nothing;’ ‘Doing Nothing Is Not Acceptable’ [PaEN] -- Senate Republicans Reject Gov.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

There has been much talk in recent weeks about pricing carbon to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The most direct of these is imposed on certain fossil fuel power plants by requiring them to purchase carbon dioxide emissions allowances as part of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. That seems unlikely, however.

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Acoel

MARCH 8, 2023

Congress 24 more years to pass major legislation to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Fossil fuel interests may also oppose categorical exclusions for competitive renewable energy infrastructure. The date of this appearance was October 26,1998! Alas, it took the U.S. See [link].

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

Supreme Court denied fossil fuel companies’ petition for writ of certiorari seeking review of the Ninth Circuit’s decision reversing the district court’s 2018 denial of Oakland’s and San Francisco’s motions to remand their climate change nuisance cases to California state court. DECISIONS & SETTLEMENTS. On June 14, 2021, the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 3, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency show that CO2 accounts for the vast majority of heat-trapping greenhouse gases emitted by the U.S. Concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere have risen approximately 47 percent since 1750, mostly from the burning of fossil fuels for energy. from 1990–2019. A definite maybe Biden’s $2.2

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The plaintiffs alleged that Peabody (and a number of other fossil fuel companies) caused greenhouse gas emissions that resulted in sea level rise and damage to their property. Circuit Stayed Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Truck Trailers.

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A Greener Life

MAY 19, 2021

The offshore wind strategy is part of President Biden’s wider and ambitious climate plan to cut US greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at a speed never before seen in the country. Part of the route to achieve this goal will be to open up new areas for development, to accelerate permits and to boost public financing for projects.

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Science Blogs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Meet the fossil fuel all-stars Trump has appointed to his administration. Trump attacks wind power in state that gets nearly third of energy from wind. NOAA erases ‘human activity’ from news release on soaring greenhouse gases. Trump Caps Infrastructure Week By Tossing Binders on Ground. 2017.06.13.

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ESA

AUGUST 16, 2021

However, the world could avoid the more extreme scenarios in the report if governments sharply reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions. But a major question is whether Manchin, a backer of fossil fuels, will go along with an effort that could eventually lead to less coal production in West Virginia. 13, 2021.

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