Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

Multiple lines of analysis make clear that regardless of how cheap wind and solar power get, without directly addressing pollution from coal and gas plants, the country’s clean energy transition will not happen fast enough. But to bring those solutions fully to bear, we also need to force a reckoning with the problem itself.

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A Greener Life

JULY 26, 2021

In order to make their portfolio more sustainable and respond to lower fossil fuel demand, oil majors are increasingly snapping up renewable energy projects as the pressure grows to take action on climate change. BP and Total are also leading the way in terms of upcoming solar power capacity.”. Wind and solar growth.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 19, 2024

Since then, the Conservative government has made a series of U-turns on its own net zero policies, attacked Labour’s green spending plans, and doubled down on its support for new fossil fuel projects, approving more than 100 new North Sea oil and gas licences. This comes as DeSmog and Democracy for Sale reveal that £6.8

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 23, 2023

All told, it will be $4 billion spent on a make-work project for power plant developers and the fossil fuel industry. The government knows that these plants will have to close in 2035 when federal climate laws come into effect. Why spend $4 billion on fossil fuel infrastructure that may or may not be used?

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 26, 2024

The pipeline owner – Plains Midstream Canada ULC – later faced three charges under provincial law. I then launched Sacred Earth Solar , an Indigenous-led organization that works with communities protecting their homelands by bringing solar power to the frontlines of the climate crisis. The transition will be huge.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Similarly, a study from the Netherlands based on long-term testing also showed the country’s newest facility is emitting much higher levels of dioxin and furans than is allowed by European law. The world is trying to get away from burning fossil fuels for energy because it’s a major source of air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 21, 2024

Industry is clamoring for the inclusion of wide-ranging loopholes all in service of just one aim: enabling polluting power plants to suddenly count as “clean.” Treasury and the IRS must set rules that do just that. Clean must mean clean, meaning no polluter loopholes, and no polluter giveaways.

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Vermont Law

OCTOBER 16, 2017

By Michael Hervey, 3L Staff Editor, Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. Lots of environmentalists have difficulty balancing our need to provide efficient energy with reducing the effects of climate change. The slow shift from fossils fuels, like oil and coal, to more green sources of energy hasn’t been exactly met with a.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 15, 2024

Environmental Defence and West Coast Environmental Law, represented by West Coast lawyers Anna Johnson and Andrew Gage, are one of 11 groups of intervenors. We think that this misses the point: the Ontario government, through its laws, policies and actions, is actually contributing to climate change. What’s the case about?

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Law Columbia

APRIL 26, 2021

Wind and solar energy facilities emit no air pollution and have minimal environmental effects as compared to fossil fuel plants, but like all types of development, renewable energy projects do have impacts. However, misinformation sometimes leads those impacts to be misunderstood or exaggerated.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 9, 2022

On June 30, 2022, the State of California joined the State of New York in adopting legislation that allows state authorities to bypass local laws in permitting large-scale renewable energy projects. Law § 94-c(2)(h). Credit: New York Office of Renewable Energy Siting. b)(1) (emphasis added); and. emphasis added). 94-c(5)(b); and.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 8, 2025

Over 1st Quarter 2024; Price Of Natural Gas Increased 218% Over 1st Quarter 2024 [PaEN] -- Erie Times Guest Essay: Understaffed DEP Can’t Uphold Law And Protect Public Health - By Rep.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2022

Enshrine our GHG reduction targets, and interim targets, into law, using a carbon budgeting process to ensure 2030 and 2050 targets are met. Restoring the powers of the Environment Commissioner of Ontario. Levelling the playing field by redirecting subsidies away from fossil fuels. . Transition the electricity supply.

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Acoel

MAY 18, 2021

The state boasts cleaner water and air than many other states, significant and beautiful natural features, and progressive environmental laws. Yet Mainers are questioning whether to accept a new 145-mile electric transmission line that will bring hydropower from Quebec into the New England power grid, removing 3.0 and worldwide).

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 16, 2022

PFAS Hazardous Site Cleanup Investigation In Centre County [PaEN] -- EPA: New Drinking Water Health Advisories Set For 4 PFAS Chemicals; $1 Billion In Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funding Available For Cleanup [PaEN] -- Courier Times: EPA Finds No Safe Level For 2 Toxic PFAS Chemicals Found In Many U.S. What’s Your Community Doing?

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 2, 2023

Opportunities to learn more about environmental and energy issues affecting Pennsylvania for students and adults-- -- Senate Overwhelmingly Confirms Richard Negrin As Secretary Of DEP [PaEN] -- Environmental Quality Board Meets July 11 To Consider Changes To Water Quality Standards; DEP Reports Law Limiting Its Authority To Change Conventional Oil (..)

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Shapiro, State Lawmakers To Do More To Curb Emissions -- PA Interfaith Power & Light 10th Annual Conference- No Faith In Fossil Fuels - Nov. 5: Virtual Keynote & Panel Discussion, 5 Regional Workshop Locations [PaEN] -- Pittsburgh-based Contemporary Craft Oct. 17 And Aquatic Invasive Species Nov.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 1, 2024

Renewable energy projects face significant disadvantages in the siting process compared to fossil fuel projects due to a three-year-old state law that allows counties to block large solar and wind projects—but not large fossil fuel projects. Smaller projects are permitted at the county level.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

A recent National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) study shows that it would take less than 1 percent of the land in the Lower 48—that’s an area comparable to or even smaller than the fossil fuel industry’s current footprint. Stringent policies and safeguards are needed to avoid, minimize and mitigate these impacts.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The Energy Co-op’s 100 percent wind and solar renewable electricity is (1) wholesale electricity from that grid bundled with (2) wind and solar renewable electricity certificates— state-law regulated credentials that confirm that your electricity was generated with clean wind and solar resources. What can we do together?

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Columbia Climate Law

AUGUST 6, 2015

Hillary Clinton’s climate change plan , released last week, centers on two goals: installing 500 million solar panels by 2021, and, relatedly, adding enough electric generation capacity from renewable sources to supply all residential electricity needs. But there are other issues that she has yet to address.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

However, as explained below, siting decisions for pipelines and transmission lines are governed by different laws, and while both are subject to environmental review, their environmental impacts are not comparable. In contrast to the natural gas permitting scheme, no federal law provides a specific approval process for siting oil pipelines.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 6, 2014

For these reasons, today Columbia Law School’s Center for Climate Change Law is launching the President’s Climate Action Plan Tracker. 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.

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Columbia Climate Law

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Congress enacted PURPA to “encourage the development of cogeneration and small power production facilities.” [3] The combination of standard rates for QFs up to two megawatts and term lengths up to 20 years will create new opportunities to develop solar energy facilities in Michigan. Jeffrey graduated from Columbia Law School in 2016.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

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. In the absence of federal action, many states are stepping in.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2022

Wolf Announces Aggressive Push To Secure Clean Hydrogen Hub In PA [PaEN] -- Gov.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 28, 2024

Evolution of law in India Environmental rights gained traction in India soon after independence in 1947. The Court held, “it has emerged in the course of the hearing that there is no basis to impose a general prohibition in regard to the installation of transmission lines for the distribution of solar power” in the previously defined area.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 23, 2022

24 EarthTalks Highlights Agricultural Integration And Solar Facilities - Agrivoltaics In Context [PaEN] -- Penn State To Host Virtual International Symposium Nov. 24 EarthTalks Highlights Agricultural Integration And Solar Facilities - Agrivoltaics In Context [PaEN] -- Penn State To Host Virtual International Symposium Nov.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2024

In a report this year to its shareholders, New Fortress Energy leadership stated its plan to replace the aging generating fleet in Puerto Rico with methane gas units, saying that solar power and storage would be complementary to the generation mix. Fossil fuels account for 94% of electricity generation in Puerto Rico.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Congress wound up passing a landmark bipartisan infrastructure bill and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which includes some $370 billion in incentives for everything from electric vehicles to solar panels. Sam, can you give us a brief overview of the highlights of the infrastructure law and the IRA?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 17, 2022

A 2021 report by the US Department of Energy’s Solar Futures Study estimates that as much as 1,600 GW of storage could be available by 2050 in a decarbonized grid scenario if solar power ramps up to meet 45 percent of electricity demand as predicted. Currently only 4 percent of US electricity comes from solar.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2023

The state-specific fact sheet, On the Road to 100 Percent Renewables for Minnesota , outlines how it could meet its electricity needs completely and equitably with renewable energy by 2035 and dramatically reduce fossil fuel use in vehicles and buildings.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 4, 2022

A recent report has shed light on how we can wean ourselves off Russian fossil fuels faster than the EU and other countries are aiming for in ways that would also accelerate climate action. . An immediate embargo on Russian fossil fuels.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 24, 2024

We’re witnessing an increase in costly damages thanks to fossil-fueled climate change , which has increased the intensity and frequency of some extreme events , and also thanks to more buildings and people in risky areas. As temperatures rise, so too does the demand for energy as more people turn to AC to keep cool.

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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. Solar as of 2020 represented less than 1 percent of electricity produced in New York.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

DOE Hosts March 30 Webinar On Repurposing Fossil Energy Assets [PaEN] -- Senate Republicans File To Intervene To Oppose The DEP Lawsuit To Publish Final RGGI Carbon Pollution Reduction Regulations [PaEN] [To help with today’s energy prices? -- Feb. What’s Your Community Doing? Of Interior Announces Over $1.5

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 8, 2025

Is Nuclear The Hot New Clean Power Source? Greg Vitali (D-Delaware), Chair House Environmental & Natural Resource Protection Committee -- PennLive Guest Essay: Pennsylvania Failing To Properly Regulate Its Oil & Gas Industry - By Rep.

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