A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

By Anders Lorenzen The British oil and gas giant BP , which, until recently, has been one of the oil and gas giants with the most ambitious clean energy plans, has joined the chorus of fossil fuel giants moving away from net zero. Why are fossil fuel giants abandoning net-zero? Will BP stay the course?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 15, 2022

And US wind jobs, currently totaling more than 100,000, should grow right along with the technology and the market. From 2010 through 2020, the cost of electricity from wind fell more than 60 percent, according to the Department of Energy. Flickr/Lance Cheung. Wind power is a bargain. J Rogers/UCS. We can do wind power right.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 29, 2024

Rooftop solar costs in 2020 were a third of what they had been in 2010. In 2020, the cost of single-axis utility scale solar was only a fifth of what it was in 2010. I don’t mean to imply that technological progress will automatically fix things. Wind power costs fell by half from 2008 to 2021.

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A Greener Life

JULY 7, 2021

New research from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) confirms renewables are continuing to outpace fossil fuels on cost. They found that the share of renewable energy that achieved lower costs than the most competitive fossil fuel option doubled in 2020. C climate pathway.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

That’s a far cry from just six years ago, when EVs were considered a niche technology (and the fossil fuel baron Charles Koch and his minions wanted to keep it that way). Since 2010, the state’s clean vehicle rebate program has issued half a million rebates totaling $1.2 California is also a leader in EV tax incentives.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

In order to reduce emissions, we must phase out fossil fuels—oil, coal and gas—and move towards renewable energy and less plastic and petrochemical production since these products, so dangerous as ocean pollutants, are made from oil. By 2050 they could represent 20% of oil demand by 2050.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

In its early years, between 2005 and 2010, the RFS helped launch the massive scaleup of corn ethanol that established 10 percent ethanol as the de facto standard for US gasoline. After 2010, bio-based diesel fuels (biodiesel and renewable diesel) have been the main beneficiary of the RFS.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 29, 2021

But the United Nations has just said that the latest commitments of the 192 parties of the 2015 Paris agreement will equate to a 16% rise in global greenhouse-gas emissions in 2030 compared to 2010. So we need to deliver on all of the wonderful words written down and deploy the technologies that we have. C by the end of the century.

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Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

According to the report , average net annual human-caused GHG emissions were at their highest levels in human history between 2010 and 2019, with urban areas responsible for an increasing proportion of the emissions. Technological Innovation Offers Hope. Technological Innovation Offers Hope. C by the end of the century.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Taking advantage of new technologies will be essential if the world is to achieve its net-zero goals. While solar and wind energy might be the first clean-energy technologies that spring to mind, they are not the only low-carbon options. All technologies have advantages and disadvantages.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 11, 2022

They pointed to the fact that since 2010 the cost of solar, wind and battery technology has decreased by up to 85%. However, in an effort to offer some positives, the IPCC , which represents the world’s best climate scientists, said we have seen evidence of accelerating action against climate change.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

of the world’s total carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion, many airlines are considering carbon-capture-and-storage technologies and electric-powered planes. Sustainable aviation fuels (or SAFs), however, are an immediate tool that could help airlines kick-start their green transition. “The

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Barr co-founded Save Our Streams PA in 2010 to try and help; her work became all the more urgent when methane from abandoned wells caused two homes in a nearby county to explode. Carbon capture and storage, or CCS, has long been controversial, often seen as a distraction or a crutch for fossil fuel companies.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 24, 2023

Question: Some people claim EVs are worse for the environment than gasoline cars Answer: Battery-Electric vehicles (BEVs) have on average two thirds lower lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions than gasoline cars today, and this will improve as electricity grids get cleaner by cutting out fossil fuels.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

By Karen Ellas, Climate Reality Project, Susquehanna Valley PA Chapter This guest essay first appeared in the Lock Haven Express September 13, 2021 -- The technology known as Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is currently being discussed in Congress as part of President Biden’s infrastructure bill.

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Law Columbia

JULY 22, 2025

While greenhouse gas removal cannot substitute for emissions reductions, it is likely a necessary complement to them, required to offset residual emissions for which there are no feasible control technologies. agriculture and fossil fuel production), as well as from natural sources (e.g.,

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 24, 2023

York HACC Campus, 2010 Pennsylvania Ave. Offers Free Solar Sprint Student Competition Teacher Training Jan. 13 -- PA Farm Link: Jan. 23 Farm Succession Workshop. to 2:30 p.m. -- Save The Date! North Branch Land Trust To Hold Annual Dinner May 1 Programs/Information -- PAcast: Santa’s Reindeer Cleared For Christmas Travel By PA Dept.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Last week, I joined my colleagues at COP28 in Dubai , as negotiators and civil society push for a fossil fuel phaseout to meet climate goals. The industry is pushing a narrative that misleadingly calls out emissions , not fossil fuels as the problem. Source: IPCC Sixth Assessment Report.

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Acoel

JUNE 29, 2022

EPA’s latest proposed rule targeting NOx emissions from fossil-fueled electric generating units (EGUs) is a classic study of diminishing returns. The 2005 Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR) provided smaller but significant air quality improvements following its implementation in 2010. Posted on June 29, 2022 by Eugene M.

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

In his recent testimony to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, the coauthor of Princeton University’s Net-Zero America study noted that just because an energy technology is not reliable does not mean that it has no role in a reliable system. [8] percent of the grid’s power. link] [24] In re Erving Industries, Inc.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

Fossil fuel power plant owners are facing increased accountability for their air and water pollution, including from a new round of environmental and public health protections that are being rolled out by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). We’ve heard these lazily disingenuous narratives before.

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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. It also will save US consumers money because they will spend less on fossil fuels.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Healey issued the CID in connection with an investigation into unfair or deceptive acts or practices in trade or commerce with respect to fossil fuel products and securities. The appellate court agreed with the Superior Court that the students had failed to demonstrate special standing to challenge management of charitable funds.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

That 2013 headline resulted from the first effort to quantify emissions from the ‘carbon majors’ —fossil fuel companies and cement manufacturers whose businesses have contributed an outsized amount of heat-trapping gases to the atmosphere. Nearly two-thirds of industrial heat-trapping emissions can be traced to just 90 entities.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 22, 2022

A paper published in Science in 2010, by a team led by Zhang Fusuo of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, found that over the course of 20 years, pH levels in China’s arable soils had fallen by an average of 0.5, Rapid acidification. meaning a 2.2-fold fold increase in acidity. And so a new soil survey is both necessary and keenly awaited.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 18, 2023

A proposed offshore wind procurement bill in Maine would go a long way to enable the state to meet its climate and clean energy targets and become a national leader in floating offshore wind technology. While the costs of floating offshore wind projects are currently higher than fixed-bottom projects, they are projected to be similar by 2035.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Lest one thinks this disconnect is a failure of the global climate architecture, the failure lies much closer to home—in the domestic politics in the US and many other countries that continue to favor the interests of the rich and powerful , and fossil fuel companies, at the expense of the health and safety of everyone else and the planet.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JUNE 14, 2023

17 Precision irrigation technologies may provide “more crop per drop,” but they do not necessarily lead to an overall reduction in water use. This practice helps farmers replace or retrofit fossil-fuel burning combustion engines and systems with cleaner and/or more renewable options. What is Combustion System Improvement?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

As we now know, fossil fuel companies lied about it for decades to protect their profits. Now that there is a desperate need to slash global warming emissions worldwide to avoid the worst consequences of climate change, it is critical to rapidly phase out the use of all fossil fuels. What accounts for that?

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Last year, the Environmental Working Group, a Washington-based research organization, counted 476 harmful blooms in 41 states, five times higher than in 2010. . In Michigan the number of reports about blooms received by the state Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy has increased six-fold since 2010. Saginaw Bay, Lake St.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

Ethanol consumption grew rapidly between 2000 and 2010 but after 2010 biodiesel took over as the major source of biofuel growth before being eclipsed by renewable diesel after 2016. While ethanol remains the largest US source of biofuel, biodiesel and more recently renewable diesel have accounted for most of the growth since 2010.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 27, 2022

On March 25, the United States and the European Commission came to an agreement on how to address Europe’s need for natural gas through the next two winters by diversifying liquefied natural gas supplies “in alignment with climate objectives” to end Europe’s dependence on Russian fossil fuels. Read more here. Read more here.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

JULY 11, 2021

And this change comes in part from increasing diffusion of fossil fuels. Take a look at David Sattherthwaite's 2010 tough review of my 2010 Climatopolis book. If economic growth accelerates, then GHG emissions will accelerate (given current technologies). People who used to hoe by hand now use tractors."

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Legal Planet

JULY 25, 2024

In 2010, a major climate change law passed by the House died in the Senate, but 12 years later, a major climate law passed both Houses. If cellphone prices had dropped as fast since 2010 as the cost of power from solar panels, you could buy a new iPhone for about thirty bucks today. But the overall picture is consistent.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2024

On March 7, the Independent Fiscal Office issued its latest Pennsylvania Electricity update that reports the electricity grid is dependent on one fuel for 59% of the state’s electricity generation-- natural gas-- followed by nuclear power-- 31.9%, coal-- 5.4% In 2010, the mix was 48% coal, 34% nuclear, 15% gas and 2% renewables.

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Arnold Porter

JULY 16, 2021

the uncertain timing and magnitude of government policies, technological innovation and consumer demand that will accelerate the transition to lower-carbon economy). As of the date of this Advisory, this bill’s path to law through the US Senate is challenging as it is highly unlikely to garner enough votes to overcome a filibuster.

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

A 2010 US study showed that stopping burning coal could be done by 2030 with renewables and energy efficiency. Demand response technologies. Ending fossil fuels subsidies and divesting away from coal will put the final nails in the coffin.

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