Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2023

For example, UCS, COPAL , and other project partners released a report last year that found achieving 100-percent renewable-electricity standards in US Climate Alliance states, including Minnesota, is feasible and would produce significant health and economic benefits. One area where the bill could do better?

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 6, 2022

But rather than ramping up the use of polluting fossil gas, this is the perfect moment for the province to transition to clean and safe renewable energy. But the agency was caught skewing information , suppressing modeling that supported renewable energy options and showed that their use would actually reduce consumers’ costs. .

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Environment + Energy Leader

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In the aftermath of major power outages, such as Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and Superstorm Sandy in 2012, the interest in microgrids increased significantly as a way to provide critical infrastructure and services with reliable and resilient power during emergencies.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

At the global level, however, Germany has its own claim to a leadership role, particularly in its early support for renewable energy. Although its track record has some complexities, this timeline of German actions shows just its early and sustained attention to clean energy policy: 1990. Renewables are 6% of power.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 2, 2022

Scotland set a 2020 goal of 100% renewable energy electricity generation. renewable energy generation (62% coming from onshore wind) A climate plan adopted in 2018 sets a binding target of net-zero emissions by 2045. In 2020, they just missed this goal, at 97.4% In 2019, the city declared a climate emergency.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

According to the forecast, while economy-wide CO 2 emissions decrease from 2022 to 2037 due primarily to the growth in renewable energy replacing retiring coal plants, emissions do increase after 2037 from increased usage of natural gas. Renewable energy generation increases faster than any other technology.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 31, 2022

There’s a lot of discussion of how the private sector is supporting renewable energy, but it’s almost all about power consumers like Apple and Walmart. NextEra Energy. 67% cut from 2005 by 2025. Carbon Reduction Goal : Reduce CO2 emissions rate by 67% by 2025 from an adjusted 2005 baseline. 2) Duke Energy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Last November, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) released an interdisciplinary study exploring the various pathways to meeting US goals to cut heat-trapping emissions economywide 50 to 52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 and achieve net-zero emissions no later than 2050. The good news?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 17, 2023

The earliest example is Texas, where legislation in 2005 for renewable energy zones led utilities to build 3,600 miles of new, high-voltage transmission lines—serving as a model today for other state legislatures, such as Illinois. But some states have taken significant steps.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

We need a major buildout of renewable energy. But if we lower demand for energy, including by creating more efficient transportation alternatives, this becomes a less challenging mountain to climb. The average Seattle resident drove just 6,150 miles a year in 2018, 17% fewer than in 2005.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

committed to cutting its emissions 50-52% below 2005 levels by 2030. A range of state and federal policies—including the Inflation Reduction Act—currently puts it on track to cut emissions about 32-43% below 2005 levels by 2030. In its last NDC, back in 2021, the U.S. For the next round of NDCs, the U.S.

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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. In 2023, Alberta led the country in renewable energy investment.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Under the 2015 Paris Agreement, the United States voluntarily pledged to reduce its global warming emissions at least 50 percent below their 2005 levels by the end of this decade and reach net-zero emissions no later than 2050.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 5, 2022

After having phased out coal and successfully decreased pollution between 2005 and 2017, emissions started to rise again in 2018 – when the current government came into power. That renewable energy could have helped reduce the province’s greenhouse gas emissions. Investing in renewable energy projects .

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

o C in 2100, relative to pre-industrial times, is still avoidable, but whether or not we are able to stay within these limits and avert catastrophic climate change depends on achieving our climate goals of emissions reductions at least 50 percent below 2005 levels in 2030, on the way to net-zero emissions in 2050.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Hurricane Ian, for its part, made landfall as a high-end Category 4 with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph, decimated western Florida communities, causing the second-largest insured loss after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and was the costliest disaster of 2022. The city of Fort Myers was hit by a record 7.26-foot

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Earlier this year, the MPSC approved a settlement agreement on Consumers Energy’s integrated resource plan that commits the company to retire all its remaining coal-fired power plants by 2025, construct no new fossil gas infrastructure, and build large amounts of new solar power between now and 2040. What’s in DTE’s proposed plan?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2022

Over the past year, precisely as our ability to identify the specific magnitude of action required to hit 2030 climate targets of 50-52 percent below 2005 levels has resolved into ever clearer view, the range of viable pathways for meeting those targets has consistently and considerably narrowed. No pivoting, just pivotal.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

Sharp r eductions needed in gas generation to meet US climate goals Under the Paris Agreement, the United States has committed to reducing heat-trapping emissions to 50-52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 and to reaching net zero emissions no later than 2050. These results are consistent with other decarbonization studies.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 3, 2022

Congress, too, must act quickly to pass the months-long stalled budget reconciliation bill—with critical climate and energy components. Every hindrance, every delay, is deeply problematic given the urgency highlighted by the latest science.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The era of renewable energy is knocking at the door. In this year’s edition of World Energy Outlook , the International Energy Agency showed that with the rapid roll out of renewable energy technologies, the demand for fossil fuels – gas, coal and oil – will peak this decade. What does this mean for Canada?

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Now the Prime Minister needs to chart the pathway to reduce the industry’s emissions – which account for 26% of Canada’s domestic emissions and increased by nearly 20 per cent from 2005 to 2019 – all of this while most other sectors have reduced theirs. The 2030 goal for the emissions cap needs to be a 60% reduction from 2005 levels.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 28, 2023

The ways in which the IIJA and IRA address the need for new transmission capacity will be the subject of the second panel in our symposium, Transmission Case Study: Remaking our Power Grid for Renewable Energy. As a result, transmission development is a crucial consideration for large-scale renewables planning.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 3, 2024

The 2024 current environmental issue focused on-- Renewable Energy for a Sustainable Future. Pennsylvania won the International Envirothon competition in 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2009 and 2017 and frequently places in the top 10 finishers. Click Here for the complete announcement.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 22, 2023

Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Superstorm Sandy in 2012, Hurricanes Harvey and Irma in 2017, and Hurricane Irma in 2021 were all accompanied by the same question. should take steps toward being carbon neutral by 2050 and should prioritize renewable energy over expanding fossil fuel exploration. Will this smoke alarm wake us up?”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), signed into law in August, will also turbocharge new clean energy, clean vehicle, and clean building infrastructure. Overall, the law is a $369-billion investment in climate and energy solutions, and is expected to reduce economy-wide emissions by 40 percent below 2005 levels.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 28, 2024

The 2024 current environmental issue focused on “Renewable Energy for a Sustainable Future.” Pennsylvania won the International Envirothon competition in 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2009 and 2017 and frequently places in the top 10 finishers.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 12, 2023

It’s encouraging that this zero-emission energy source is becoming a major contributor to our energy mix and will only continue to grow in popularity.” This has contributed to the reduction of pollution via the deployment of renewable and alternative energy technologies that have lowered the emission of greenhouse gases.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Ontario does have a target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030. Instead of expanding fossil gas use, we could expand renewable energy sources to meet our electricity needs. Especially Ontario, which is the second most polluting province in Canada.

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The Energy Law

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Status of Wind Energy in the Gulf of Mexico. Interior’s authority to regulate offshore wind comes from the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which amended the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to expressly authorize Interior to issue leases for renewable energy projects in federal waters. 585.107(a). 585.107(a).

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A Greener Life

APRIL 7, 2023

India is looking to cut its emissions by 45% from 2005 levels by 2028. India missed its target to install 175 GW of renewable energy by 2022, and is now trying to make up for that by boosting solar, wind, nuclear, hydropower and bio-power to 500 GW by 2030. This is to be followed by bids for 10 GW in the next two quarters.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Wind turbines and solar panels made up a tiny fraction of our energy infrastructure 10 years ago. Today, they are everyday parts of America’s energy landscape. The number of homes heated with clean, efficient electric heat pumps increased by 28% in a decade from 2005 to 2015. Just a few years ago,… Read more →

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 3, 2023

As a result, between 2005 and 2017 greenhouse gas pollution from Ontario’s electricity system dropped by 93 per cent. In fact, the current government is actively making our energy grid a lot dirtier. Early in its first term, it canceled over 750 renewable energy projects , some of which had already been built.

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Environmental Leader

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

In 2005, Schneider Electric became one of the first companies to highlight its goals on people, the planet, and profit. In the intervening years, the company has saved its customers 120 million tons of CO2 emissions while giving energy access to 30 million more people.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2023

Comments By Award Winners “At Eaton, we’re simplifying the energy transition and accelerating sustainable energy systems to power our operations, customers and communities.” We have been in the solar industry since 2008 and recognize how critical renewable energy is to our future in so many ways.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

So it’s up to governments to choose and procure renewable energy sources for their grids. Trading schemes like the one being proposed (well, already being used), do almost nothing to increase investments in renewable power or drive down greenhouse gas emissions. . corporations, or any other bidders. .

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The Energy Law

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Prior to the Act’s passage, OCSLA (as amended by the Energy Policy Act of 2005) authorized the United States Department of Interior to issue leases in federal waters for certain types of renewable energy projects. However, these provisions did not directly address leasing for carbon sequestration.

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