Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 17, 2024

With access to transmission so vital to enabling competition, and because of the obvious inherent conflict of interest, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued Order 890 in 2007 and recognized that planning for transmission needs to be done separately from the owners of power plants.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen The former Chief Scientist for the UK Government, Sir David King did not hold back the scientific reality of years of climate inaction when he addressed the audience at the Net Zero Festival in London, organised by Business Green, a clean energy publication.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

How then do we explain what is currently happening with energy prices? In the early days of the current price shocks, fossil fuel boosters blamed clean energy and climate policy. But these prices are still way below their highs in 1979-80 and 2007-08. The Capacity Story.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2023

18 Webinar On New Research On Community Exposures To Oil & Gas Development & Groundwater Contamination In Beaver, Greene & Washington Counties [PaEN] -- Lock Haven Express Letter: Who Does Senator Yaw Represent?

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 29, 2022

The mayfly was selected as the symbol for this award because its presence in a stream signifies clean water. The tradition of giving out the “Mayfly Award” started with the 2007 Conference and the list of Awardees has grown to represent a group of distinguished individuals. Read more here about previous winners.]

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Finally, the market is ready and historic opportunities available through the federal Inflation Reduction Act will help to build and develop clean energy projects in our communities and re-establish Pennsylvania as a diverse energy leader.” million each year to rural landowners that host clean energy projects on their property.

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

As per the World Investment Report 2023, much of the growth in international investment in renewable energy, which has nearly tripled since the adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015, was concentrated in developed countries. Developing countries need renewable energy investments of about US$1.7

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

I think when you look back from 2007 until now, there was a very long period of time where there was no additional investment and if anything, additional cuts to the department. Shirley responded, “I would just say that we fully acknowledge that the department has been significantly under invested in over a long period of time. “I

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Encore Renewable Energy is a community-scale renewable energy project developer. Founded in 2007 as Encore Redevelopment, their team specializes in the design and construction of solar and energy storage projects on open land. Reprinted from The Bucknellian.)

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Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Upon starting my internship, I was immediately brought into a long process that had been ongoing since 2007. I looked into what states like Connecticut and New York were doing, such as creating Green Banks and Clean Energy Investment Finance mechanisms, to provide the DEM with recommendations moving forward. By Allen Smith.

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

Germany, which has deployed more variable renewable energy than any other nation in Europe, has used various regulatory mechanisms and subsidies to prevent utilities from going bankrupt, [12] and its electricity prices rose 50 percent in the 15 years after 2007.

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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? Their report, however, comes with a warning.

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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, with climate and clean energy majorities in both chambers, Minnesota is poised to join other leading states in updating its clean energy policies equitably with benefits for all residents.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 18, 2022

A transition to 100% clean energy is an urgent priority worldwide to mitigate the worst impacts of climate change and preserve a livable planet. For example, engineers have lowered the amount of silver needed in each solar cell by 67% from 2007 to 2016, and it is expected to drop further. By 2010, the US had installed 2.6

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 20, 2023

When I met former Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson, I asked about his clean energy solutions and explained that his predecessor Governor Mike Huckabee spoke at a New Hampshire climate conference I organized in 2007, where he affirmed his support for mandatory limits on carbon emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 1, 2025

Read more here ] [ Read more here ] DEP field inspectors are historically understaffed, and though the DEP cited conventional and unconventional operators 102,652 times for violations between 2007 and 2023, these citations have not deterred operators from continuing to pollute, often at will.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 17, 2022

His last bill-- Senate Bill 137 -- was given a hearing by the Senate State Government Committee in May of 2007, but never saw action before his tragic death in 2008. Matthew Brouillette of the Commonwealth Foundation said in testimony at that 2007 hearing-- Senate Bill 137 would “. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2025

Laws Covered Laws covered by the order-- Department of Energy-- Atomic Energy Act of 1954; National Appliance Energy Conservation Act of 1987; Energy Policy Act of 1992; Energy Policy Act of 2005; and Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

20] Electricity prices in Germany have risen 50 percent in the 15 years since 2007. [21] Guardian, September 15, 2017, [link] In 2018, according to the US Energy Information Agency, 134 million residential electricity accounts used about 11,000 kilowatt-hours per year, or 1.25 Accessed March 5, 2020. [26] 27] Thomas V. 1103-115.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Californians have experienced far too many oil spills, from the Santa Barbara oil spill in 1969 and the Cusco Buson spill in 2007 to the Refugio oil spill in 2015 and now the Huntington spill today. We must prevent any new offshore oil and gas activity and accelerate a just and equitable transition to clean energy alternatives.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 30, 2019

Back to North Carolina developments in late 2018: Executive Order on Climate Change and Clean Energy: On October 29, 2018, N.C. Governor Roy Cooper issued an executive order on climate change and clean energy. Reduce energy use per square foot in state-owned buildings by 40% from 2002-2003 levels.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In 2007, FERC issued Order No. is to achieve its clean energy ambitions. a state with authority to approve the project has “withheld approval for more than 1 year” or “conditioned its approval in such a manner that the proposed [project] will not significantly reduce transmission congestion. or is not economically feasible.:

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ESA

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) originally created the committee in 2007 and then revived it in 2019 when Democrats retook control of the House. Four States Just Got a ‘Trifecta’ of Democratic Control, Paving the Way for Climate and Clean Energy Legislation – Inside Climate News. Apply for the 2023 Katherine S. International.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Smoke, Mirrors & Hot Air: How ExxonMobil Uses Big Tobacco’s Tactics to Manufacture Uncertainty on Climate Science (Union of Concerned Scientists, January 2007). Private Empire: Exxon Mobil and American Power by Steve Coll (Penguin Press, 2012). The History of the Standard Oil Co. by Ida Tarbell (1904).

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Smoke, Mirrors & Hot Air: How ExxonMobil Uses Big Tobacco’s Tactics to Manufacture Uncertainty on Climate Science (Union of Concerned Scientists, January 2007). Private Empire: Exxon Mobil and American Power by Steve Coll (Penguin Press, 2012). The History of the Standard Oil Co. by Ida Tarbell (1904).

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Environmental Progress

JULY 29, 2020

They have caused electricity prices to rise 50 percent in Germany since 2007, the first year it got more than 10 percent of its power from subsidized wind, solar, and biomass. Renewables have the same impact everywhere in the world. By 2019, German household electricity prices were 45 percent higher than the European average.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2025

1 Abandoned Shale Gas Well Apex Energy (PA) LLC - Violations: Abandoned Shale Gas Well March 6, 2025 inspection of the Marian Laskowski 6 shale gas well in Hempfield Township, Westmoreland County found the well abandoned and not plugged. Drilled in 2007. Wise held 4 permits. No emergency plan on site. Violations issued.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 17, 2025

This Bill represents a direct attack on species at risk, clean and healthy communities, clean energy and the rights of Indigenous peoples. repeal Ontario’s Endangered Species Act, 2007 marking the end of most meaningful provincial protections for endangered, threatened and special concern species in Ontario.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 28, 2025

The current program offers heavy industrial carbon emitters a choice of ways to reduce GHG emissions that simultaneously save them money while investing in clean energy technology. TIER helps industrial facilities find innovative ways to reduce emissions and invest in clean technology to stay competitive and save money.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Back in 2007, the Supreme Court reached a landmark judgment in Massachusetts et al. establishing that heat-trapping emissions (or greenhouse gas emissions) are air pollutants covered by the Clean Air Act. Those harms will worsen rapidly as global warming emissions, primarily from burning fossil fuels, increase.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 21, 2025

Hes working out how to evade the 2007 Supreme Court decision that enabled EPA to limit carbon dioxide emissions. Hes c ancelling grants, incentives, and levying tariffs intended to squelch production and sales of clean energy generating equipment and electric vehicles. They also are helping the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 27, 2024

The shift helped the United States to drop its share of fossil fuels in the energy mix from 67 percent in 2015 to 59 percent last year. The shift, combined with the huge shift from ultra-dirty goal to more-moderately dirty gas helped cut our power sector carbon dioxide emissions by 41 percent from a peak in 2007. degrees Celsius (2.7-degrees

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Back in 2007, the Supreme Court reached a landmark judgment in Massachusetts et al. establishing that heat-trapping emissions (or greenhouse gas emissions) are air pollutants covered by the Clean Air Act. Those harms will worsen rapidly as global warming emissions, primarily from burning fossil fuels, increase.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 14, 2023

The Clean Power Plan was the culmination of years of legal and technical haggling over EPA authority and obligations, including the landmark Massachusetts v. It sets a framework for states and utilities across the country to fully reckon with their power plants’ carbon emissions.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Harpole turned the podium over to Dr. Joe Lyou, who served from 2007 to 2019 as the Governors appointee to the SCAQMD Governing Board and now leads the Coalition for Clean Air.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

Following the 2007 landmark Supreme Court case Massachusetts v. EPA , the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has regulated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. 497 (2007), the Supreme Court reversed EPA’s denial. billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

The genesis of ExxonMobil’s brazen hypocrisy can be traced back to 2007. In 2007 alone, the company gave $2 million to 37 denier groups, including the American Legislative Exchange Council, Heartland Institute and Manhattan Institute. Charles Koch, Koch Industries CEO from 1967 to the present.

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