Law Columbia

JULY 31, 2015

Voters in Los Angeles County recognized the critical need to address climate change when they overwhelmingly rejected Proposition 23 — the 2010 ballot measure that would have suspended California’s landmark global warming law. We all need energy, and so far there is no way to produce it with zero impacts.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 29, 2024

Fourteen states now have net-zero emissions targets for the economy as a whole, and sixteen have zero-carbon targets for the grid. New California legislation will require corporations to disclose their carbon emissions. Climate policy has been boosted by dramatic changes in the economics of clean energy.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 24, 2023

Electric vehicles (EVs) play an important role in reducing carbon pollution from transportation. But there are some false and half true claims being made about electric vehicles. Here we will separate fact from fiction about electric vehicles. Question: Do Electric Cars work in cold weather?

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

Advocates of renewable energy have argued since the 1970s that the variable, weather-dependent nature of sunlight and wind is a modest obstacle at best to relying on 100 percent renewables. Some have argued that weather-dependent energies would, paradoxically, make electricity even more reliable.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2023

Since 2010, WCU has cut energy costs by millions of dollars, lowered per capita carbon emissions by more than a third, and significantly reduced the environmental impacts of its campus operations. The campus also features ground and roof solar arrays, and WCU purchases renewable energy credits.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

In its papers supporting the order to show cause, the attorney general said that PwC had served as Exxon’s independent auditor since before 2010 (the time period covered by the subpoena), a role in which PwC examined whether Exxon’s financial statement disclosures were supported by evidence. Coalition for Competitive Electricity v.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

Congress took questions relating to the security of America’s electricity supply seriously before more than a dozen states experienced energy shortages last month, but those events make this hearing all the more urgent. electrical grids were increasingly “complex and vulnerable.” [2] Shellenberger. 5] The U.S.

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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. Renewables,” I added, “have gotten peanuts in comparison.”

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Environmental Science

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Salts have also proven a great resource for the Chilean economy although today its lithium resources have also taken prominence on the world stage as battery development increases for better power storage and production in the new generation of electric cars (28). Sponsored Content. No other desert has as much abundant salt as this desert.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

In recent years, states in New England and the mid-Atlantic region have made significant progress in reducing climate change-inducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the electricity generation sector. [1]. emissions from the electricity generation sector. [21]. budget trading program limits emissions of CO.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

States, Electricity Providers Allowed to Intervene in Case Concerning Management of Glen Canyon Dam. The plaintiffs alleged among other things that the defendants the two projects’ cumulative impacts on carbon emissions. 2:19-cv-120 (N.D. The case was filed in the Hague Court of Appeals.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

It was also mentioned recently by Senator Casey, who proposed that natural gas — fitted with CCS technologies — be used, along with renewables, to increase clean electricity. CCS would seem to be an easy fix for our carbon woes. CCS would seem to be an easy fix for our carbon woes.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 4, 2023

Note: Sen. . -- Electricity Exporter: Pennsylvania is the second-largest net supplier of total energy to other states, after Texas. Yaw did not mention renewable energy in this announcement.] Yaw's Energy Beliefs You can get a better understanding of Sen. We didn't have any reliability issues at all.” "And

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 31, 2022

The committee followed up that hearing —during which the executives disingenuously denied funding such a campaign—with another hearing on February 8 focusing on the oil companies’ inadequate plans to cut their carbon emissions. Likewise, Koch subsidiaries have jumped into smart grid and electric vehicle charging technologies.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Mensch Introduces Bill To Encourage Development Of Clean Vehicle Infrastructure- Electric, Natural Gas, Hydrogen -- 35 Senate, House Democrats Urge Gov. Wolf To Investigate Health Impacts Associated With Natural Gas Fracking -- EPA Honors Energy-Efficient Bimbo Bakeries USA, Inc.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

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. The Ninth Circuit found, however, that the plaintiffs had not established the redressability requirement for standing.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2016

in domestic or international efforts to reduce carbon emissions. Instead Mr. Ebell seems perfectly suited to eviscerate the efforts of the Obama Administration to reduce carbon emissions as part of the international cooperation to spare the globe from looming catastrophe.

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