Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 23, 2025

The cost of other energy technologies matters as well. In its central decarbonization scenario, no new nuclear plants were built, indicating that its more cost-effective to utilize other zero-emission technologies. Second, as I mentioned earlier, the cost of other clean energy technologies matters too. There are three reasons.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

Working Group 3: Mitigation of Climate Change Evaluates pathways for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, sustainable development strategies, and the role of finance, technology, and policy in achieving net-zero emissions. Delegates questioned when (or if) the IPCC should develop methodologies for technologies with unclear risks.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 8, 2025

In a series of posts (beginning here , and ending here ) last month, I outlined an approach to climate policy that emphasizes the role of subsidies in building political support and technological progress for climate policy. In doing so, I drew heavily on existing political science research and case studies from North America and Europe.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 25, 2025

One growing conversation in the use or non-use of GenAI is the environmental implications of the technology in every step of its life cycle. The communities breathing polluted air near data centers or those experiencing increased energy costs are the ones at the frontline of the technology’s impacts and often last its benefits.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

On February 25, the Department of Environmental Protection posted environmental testing results from the SPS Technologies fire in Montgomery County online today. SPS Technologies is a manufacturing company that produces fasteners and other materials for the aviation industry. Visit DEPs SPS Technologies webpage for more information.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

Working Group 3: Mitigation of Climate Change Evaluates pathways for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, sustainable development strategies, and the role of finance, technology, and policy in achieving net-zero emissions. Delegates questioned when (or if) the IPCC should develop methodologies for technologies with unclear risks.

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New Scientist

JUNE 11, 2025

From geoengineering to anti-methane cow vaccines and green aviation fuel, meet the former nuclear physicist deciding which climate change technologies hold the most promise

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 23, 2024

SB 1420 , authored by Senator Anna Caballero, will streamline hydrogen production within California, as the state looks to this technology in our clean energy transition. This passage is another move toward protecting the health of disadvantaged frontline communities in California.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 29, 2024

There is little current, detailed information available about how even a limited nuclear war could affect social and economic systems, including how damage to industry, energy production, and financial systems would affect human well-being and what subsequent migration, conflict, and disease would result.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

For more than 50 years, we have pioneered new policies and ushered in new technologies to clean our air and protect our climate. Meanwhile, CARB staff is proposing several amendments that will update the program without undermining its fundamental features. The Board should adopt these proposals. But it’s never easy.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The future of Albertas energy-based economy depends on advancing wind, solar and battery storage technologies. Albertans understand this. Our government needs to stop impeding clean energy development. Lastly, the results show that only one third of Canadians 35 per cent place any degree of trust in oil and gas companies.

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New Scientist

JULY 11, 2025

Models suggest that meeting climate targets will be virtually impossible without steep emissions cuts paired with a huge expansion of carbon management technologies

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

9 people from groups affiliated with the oil and gas industry, such as Energy for a Secure Future, which runs massive advertising campaigns in Ottawa promoting fossil exports, as well as Petroleum Technology Alliance Canada.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2025

The rapid advances in wind turbine, solar panel, and battery technology in recent years mean that generation no longer needs to be confined to large, centralized power plants connected to transmission lines far from where energy is used. How is the grid changing? Data source: U.S. Energy Information Agency. Make this plot yourself.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2024

That in turn will be driven mostly by subsidies (or to a lesser extent, regulations) targeted at particular sectors to encourage investments in new carbon-free technologies, both building political support and advancing technological innovation. Those different policy goals will necessarily come into tension, at least to some extent.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 17, 2025

Today, the Slovenian researcher is on the cusp of the first major breakthrough … Continue reading Taking the heat off: breakthrough cooling technology tackles climate challenge “I wanted to work on breakthroughs, tackle something new that hasn’t been done before.”

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 10, 2025

Nudging through persuasive technology in social media to promote low carbon travel behavior in commuting and non-commuting situations. link] Abstract As transport is an important field in carbon emission reduction, practitioners have often adopted nudging measures, such as persuasive technologies, to reduce carbon emissions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2025

Behind climate models today lie decades of both scientific and computer technological advancement. I mention this briefly here because womens contributions to the advancement of computer technology and weather forecasting is often overlooked. But how exactly did climate models come to be?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

It underscored the importance of not only reducing carbon footprints, but actively working to reshape our policies, technologies, and societal structures to build a future where these irreplaceable wonders can endure, and where we can experience them.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 1, 2025

This group of women learns about specific adaptation technologies. They also receive training on digital and financial literacy because if the member asks what about the payment, how can I buy it, how do I afford it, she should be able to explain.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The bill mandates that the revised rule reflect new data and technology that would improve SCAQMDs oversight of these facilities and help reduce the negative impacts of pollution in adjacent communities. These common-sense measures draw on already available technology and solutions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 17, 2025

By examining possible trajectories for global economic development, technology adoption, and policy actions, the driving forces behind emissions, these scenarios help us assess a range of potential climate futures. levels of cooperation or competition among countries, technology adoption, and inequality) in terms of radiative forcing.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 13, 2025

Environmental Protection Agency announced $2,400,000 for 24 small businesses to develop technologies to address public health and environmental challenges. in State College to create an activated metal oxide technology to mitigate the environmental impact of phosphorus runoff into water bodies and enhance crop productivity.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Crucially, the funding would also go towards social science, governance, and systems research – an acknowledgment from the NASEM committee that public engagement on emerging technologies, and whether we can govern them effectively, must be an integral part of assessing whether they should move forward.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Electric vehicles (EVs) are a cleaner option than gasoline alternatives and are essential for reducing emissions that cause climate change and illnesses.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 29, 2024

A long-term PPA with a credit-worthy counterparty (which includes most utilities) is often considered the “gold standard” for new generation technologies looking to find debt financing at reasonable rates and conditions, since the bank has the assurance that the generator has locked in revenues via the PPA.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Renewable energy technologies are rapidly advancing, becoming increasingly competitive and, in many cases, becoming cheaper in cost and more efficient than fossil fuels. This progress will continue to outpace any efforts to sustain outdated and inefficient fossil fuel systems.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 26, 2025

The remaining 10% by 2040 could come from a wide range of low- and zero-carbon technologies, including nuclear power, large existing hydropower projects, and using so-called “clean” fuels like biomethane or hydrogen in thermal plants. The current bill would further increase the RPS targets to 90% by 2040.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 10, 2025

The growth in DER technologies by type over time. The report focuses on barriers to VPPs, but many of these also apply to DERs as the underlying technology that VPPs are built on.) DERs are more than just new technologies—they are a means to transform the grid from a system rooted in inequality to one that centers energy justice.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 17, 2025

In the rush to integrate artificial intelligence into the economy, fast-moving information technology companies are running into a problem: slow-moving electric utilities. In more ways than one, the electricity supply so vital to running a data center simply doesnt respond the way Silicon Valley and big investors want.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 13, 2025

Despite repeated claims to the contrary, the current approach is neither technology agnostic nor does it reflect that Ontarios peak demand is a maximum of six hours in any 24-hour cycle in both winter and summer.

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A Greener Life

JULY 10, 2025

The notice published by the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the National Energy Administration opens the first round of applications for industrial zones aiming to reduce their carbon footprint.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Countries that are early adopters of decarbonization may face different challenges from late adopters who may be able to take advantage of the reduced costs from innovation in carbon-free energy technologies. Again, the specifics will depend on the technology, politics, and economics. Download as PDF

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

As port throughput continues to grow, energy consumption is also on the rise, and some ports are struggling with the technology and policy involved, leading to slow progress in achieving zero-carbon goals. Despite this progress, decarbonising shipping faces many challenges. First published in Dialogue Earth

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Circle of Blue

MAY 20, 2025

The Great Lakes ground zero for data center growth With artificial intelligence and the demand for cloud computing set to grow in the years and decades ahead, technology companies are increasingly eying up the Great Lakes regions comparatively cooler climate and ample water resources. There are so many things we are concerned about.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The corporation’s “low carbon” roadmap relies heavily on technologies such as carbon capture and storage and hydrogen that cannot deliver steep emissions cuts in the critical period between now and 2030.

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