Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

CO 2 emissions remain mostly level through 2050—nowhere close to meeting US climate goals. Carbon emissions remain high. Source: US Energy Information Administration, Annual Energy Outlook 2022 (AEO2022). Transformative change to our energy system is needed if we are to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 4, 2021

As the nation’s largest producer of emissions-free energy, Exelon Corporation has a long history of leadership on climate change, having met – and exceeded -- three previous emissions reduction goals spanning both our generation company and utilities division dating back to 2005.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Confirming initial projections when the law was passed, models now predict that IRA will significantly cut emissions by 2030. Despite the IRA’s substantial assist to emission cuts, we will need additional policies to push emissions 50% below 2005 levels. emissions 37-41% below 2005 levels.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In its Nationally Determined Contributions ( NDCs ), updated in 2022, India has made three major promises: a 45% reduction in its carbon emissions intensity (CO2 emissions per unit of electricity) based on 2005 levels, by 2030; 50% of installed electricity coming from non-fossil-fuel sources by 2030; and national carbon neutrality by 2070.

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Cresforum

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Introduction Hydrogen has been dubbed the “Swiss army knife” of clean energy, given its potential to become a tool to cut emissions in key sectors, as well as to assert U.S. global energy leadership and increase our nation’s competitive edge. CO 2 emissions by up to 10 percent from 2005 levels by 2050.

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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. How is that going to happen? trillion in avoided climate change-related damages.

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Cresforum

MARCH 10, 2022

In the Unites States’ march to transition to clean energy and reduce greenhouse gasses, resilience may be the most important word to summarize 2021. Nine months after the pandemic first upended lives and the economy, the market fundamentals for clean energy looked unstoppable. percent and energy use rebounded by only 4.3

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The petitioner in this case requests that the NPCC be updated according to the best available science and the IPCC’s sixth assessment report ( Climate Change 2021 ) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by the Brazilian government consistent with a 1.5 The targets are based on Brazil’s national inventories of emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Today’s choice to pass the most ambitious and transformative climate and clean energy investments in our nation’s history will reverberate throughout the generations that follow, making our air purer, our communities safer, our economy stronger, and our families and neighbors healthier.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2022

The law will provide $379 billion in subsidies to clean energy in the form of direct payments and tax credits. Subsidies aren’t the ideal way to cut emissions, because it’s impossible to target them to the precise behavioral changes you seek. reduce cumulative GHG emissions by about 6.3 get the U.S. to within ~0.5

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A Greener Life

JUNE 28, 2023

In China, government plans to peak and neutralise national carbon emissions, and for a wholesale green transition , have caused a boom in “green employment”. Yang also pointed out that this makes achieving zero carbon seem easier than it is. The share of green employment in the global total rose from 9.6% in 2015 to 13.3%

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Acknowledging that the United States is a leading contributor to carbon emissions, the Biden administration has committed to cutting US emissions 50 to 52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. Offshore wind turbines also have a relatively small footprint and are able to use much larger turbines than land-based projects.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2023

On January 26, the Minnesota House of Representatives passed House File 7 —the 100% Clean Energy Bill. Now it’s on to the state Senate, where the question is: Will this be the year Minnesota sets a path toward 100-percent carbon-free electricity? Removing trash burners’ ability to qualify as “renewable energy” facilities.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 21, 2024

Pennsylvania’s energy leadership with the sustained development of clean natural gas is generating substantial benefits for our environment, economy and, as this data shows, the well-being of our communities,” said MSC President, David Callahan. billion in NOx and $445.1 billion - $1.02 This is equivalent to removing 12.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2022

Quite the opposite: today’s high oil and gas prices are a fresh reinforcement, if we needed that, for why a rapid transition to clean energy is imperative. A rapid clean energy transition is (still) the best path forward. Multiple crises colliding with climate change.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 18, 2024

As EQT CEO Toby Rice argued in the slide deck Callahan provided, China needs US natural gas to reduce its dependency on the use of coal to generate electricity and reduce power plant emissions. EQT said "The only solution" to climate change is "unleashing US LNG" for China. Read more here. Read more here. Check this out. Read more here.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

19] France spends just over half as much per kilowatt-hour for electricity that produces one-tenth of the carbon emissions of German electricity. [20] 24] Some of the cost of variable renewable energy sources comes in the form of the transmission lines they require. trillion. [25] 18] Michael Greenstone et al., 27] Thomas V.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

So today I’m glad to share some good news: a new UCS study that gives me fresh hope and determination to keep fighting for necessary actions to drive deep cuts in US heat-trapping emissions. Our research makes tangible why the healthier, fairer clean energy future we want and need is directly linked to the choices we make today.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2024

Yaw- “Furthermore, while most states are cutting CO2 simply by slashing generation and importing energy from other states, including from Pennsylvania, we increased electric generation and reduced overall CO2 emissions from 2018-23. "In That should be praised. NewsClips: -- AP: PA Gov.

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Cresforum

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

As we celebrate innovation through National Clean Energy Week, we are keenly aware that there is a great deal of work that must be done to get us to a zero-carbon, clean energy future. electricity comes from carbon-free sources, including nuclear energy, hydropower, and wind and solar energy.

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Acoel

APRIL 8, 2022

The bipartisan infrastructure law funds clean energy demonstration projects to improve energy storage, advanced nuclear technology, carbon capture from fuel burning as well as direct carbon capture from the atmosphere. These proposals have garnered extensive support from the business community.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 15, 2025

We predicted expenditures much higher than originally forecast by the Congressional Budget Office and Joint Committee on Taxation, and we also expected to see a lot of emissions reductions but not enough to get to a 50% cut. The US Nationally Determined Contribution is a 50% reduction from 2005 levels by 2030}.

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Legal Planet

MAY 11, 2023

still does not limit carbon emissions from existing power plants, which generate 25 percent of our greenhouse gases. On June 2, 2014 , this blog led with an almost-identical sentence about EPA releasing its rule to regulate climate change-related carbon emissions from existing power plants, known as the Clean Power Plan.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Challenge to Settlement in Utility Rate-Setting Case in New Mexico Cited Failure to Quantify Coal Plant’s Carbon Emission Risks. Stanford Professor Sued Scientific Journal and Article Authors Who Critiqued His Work. Attorney General of New York , No. __ (N.Y. million rate increase. In re Public Service Company of New Mexico , No.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Several factors¾including the effects of the economic recession, shifts in energy markets from coal to natural gas and renewable energy sources, and carbon pollution mitigation and clean energy programs like renewable portfolio standards¾have been identified as principal drivers of these reductions. [2].

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 14, 2023

Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed new power plant carbon pollution standards that, if strengthened, would go a long way to help meet the Biden administration’s goal of slashing carbon emissions in half from 2005 levels by the end of this decade. What would they accomplish? Not even close.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Oregon Court Reinstated Clean Energy Ballot Initiatives. An Oregon Circuit Court set aside the Oregon Secretary of State’s decision to reject two clean energy ballot initiatives and allowed the measures to be processed and circulated for the November 2020 election. Golden State Environmental Justice Alliance v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

In my retelling of the show, I quickly pointed out that the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had by then concluded that “most” of the increase in average global temperatures since 1950 was “very likely” due to the increase in human-made carbon emissions. ExxonMobil is still funding those folks, big time.”

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ESA

OCTOBER 25, 2021

could cut emissions 80 percent below 2005 levels by 2050. But the Biden administration has embraced a zero-emissions-by-2050 commitment in line with what scientists say is required to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. would meet Biden’s commitment to cut emissions 50 to 52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 12, 2023

Perhaps most importantly, the federal government has invested billions of dollars in clean energy. should not enter into any climate agreement that fails to limit emissions from developing countries. 2005 Congress passes first tax credit for solar. 2005 Congress passes first tax credit for solar.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Here are a few of the notable developments: North Carolina and Illinois both passed major new climate and clean energy policies in surprisingly bipartisan fashion. Oregon required the elimination of all carbon emissions from its electricity system by 2040. Unfortunately, that does not seem to be the world we’re living in.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 20, 2022

He took the US back into the Paris Agreement, and pledged to slash 2005 carbon emissions in half by 2030. Along with the EU, he also pledged to cut global methane emissions in half. North Carolina and Illinois both passed major new climate and clean energy policies in surprisingly bipartisan fashion.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

Circuit Decision Vacating Affordable Clean Energy Rule. Circuit’s January opinion vacating EPA’s repeal and replacement of the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan regulations for controlling carbon emissions from existing power plants. States and Coal Company Sought Review of D.C. No More Freeways v.

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