Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Although its track record has some complexities, this timeline of German actions shows just its early and sustained attention to clean energy policy: 1990. Renewable Energy Act sets fixed feed-in tariffs and gives renewables priority on the grid. trillion tons.] Fifteen percent of electricity is renewable.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 15, 2022

In 2021, 9 percent of US electricity came from those graceful kinetic sculptures, up from less than 3 percent in 2011. Wind is now the largest source of renewable energy in the country. Even more important, though, wind is an impressive piece of our electricity supply. And a lot more big-ness is coming.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2022

For example, in July 2022, Tulsa, OK saw 20 days with maximum temperatures above 100°F, and the next higher number of such days, 26, occurred in 2011.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Clean energy is sweeping across America. In 2020, America generated almost four times as much renewable electricity from the sun and the wind as in 2011, with wind and solar now producing 11% of the nation’s electricity. Download the document.

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Physics World

JANUARY 11, 2022

It is no longer whether hydrogen will be part of a sustainable energy system solution, but rather how large a role hydrogen will play in a clean, sustainable energy system for the planet.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The Guardian Pad B 6H shale gas well was drilled in February 2011 and then granted inactive status on September 7, 2012 that expired on September 7, 2017, according to the order. On January 21, the Department of Environmental Protection and Roulette Oil & Gas Co.,

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

He has publicly called for investments in clean energy, green technologies, and environmental research. Nelson has been supportive of municipal efforts to transition local government facilities to 100% clean and renewable energy. In 2011, Kraybill purchased his first electric car, a Chevy Volt.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Germany has six remaining nuclear reactors which are due to be closed down next year which will remove a huge source of zero-carbon electricity from the German economy unable to be taken up by other clean energy sources such as solar and wind.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

We saw a continued focus on incentivizing affordable and infill developments on the condition that the project pay prevailing wages (AB 2011), reducing barriers for specified sustainable transit projects (SB 922), and amendments akin to “pet project exemptions” that are targeted to solving a narrower set of concerns (SB 118 and SB 886).

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A Greener Life

JULY 30, 2021

The country’s struggle to reduce its reliance on coal was significantly helped by the purely ideological and populist decision to phase out all its nuclear power stations by 2022 (initially following the Fukushima accident in 2011 in Japan) . They also get renewable energy from other European neighbours, mainly Denmark.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 26, 2024

In 2011, my community experienced what was the second-largest oil spill in the province’s history – 4.5 While our world transitions to renewable energy from fossil fuels, we must be critical and aware of the impacts of “clean” energy so we do not replicate the same system of harms that have been perpetuated from the previous energy era.

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 19, 2023

These models have greatly accelerated the pace of scientific progress in developing clean energy technologies and reducing chemical waste from costly experimentation. 2011): 1239-1249. With the rapid pace of development in ML technologies, the future for sustainable science has never looked brighter! Hughes, James P.,

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 30, 2024

Warehouse Proposal In Northampton County, Some Express Concerns About Stormwater Runoff -- PittsburghUnionProgress.com: Pittsburgh Begins Landslide Mitigation Work On Mount Washington -- PA American Water Launches Interactive Online Map To Identify, Replace Lead Service Lines -- Renewable Energy Magazine: University Joint Authority Celebrates Groundbreaking (..)

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Protests by oil workers in Zhanaozen in 2011 , which resulted in a massacre of protesters by police, were precipitated by unfair wages, violation of worker rights and other issues. Likewise, China ’s announcement that it was ending investment in overseas coal was delivered alongside a statement that it would invest in clean energy.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2025

Well completed in 2011. Burke - Violations: Conventional Abandoned Well March 26, 2025 inspection of the BE Burke 122-3 conventional well in Jackson Township, Greene County found the well abandoned and not plugged. Well owner also failed to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports. Violations issued.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 7, 2022

On December 7, Clean Energy Fuels Corp. The recycling and refuse industry has long embraced natural gas to mitigate the impact of greenhouse gas emissions,” said Chad Lindholm, senior vice president, Clean Energy. “The For more information, visit the Clean Energy Fuels Corp website.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 28, 2022

But the country switched off most of its nuclear generators following the 2011 Fukushima disaster. Japan is the fifth-largest CO2 emitter in the world and has committed to being carbon-neutral by 2050. Therefore its coal consumption increased, making that target much harder to achieve.

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HumanNature

JANUARY 20, 2022

In particular, an aging population combined with widely dispersed communities makes it difficult for emergency responders to reach all those who need assistance (Lal, Alvalapati and Mercer 2011). Figure 1. Rural Americans are the future of the clean energy economy – policy makers much catch up. Lower expenditures are blue.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2024

Envirothon Team Get Hands-On Science Lessons In Canoes -- National Energy Technology Laboratory: Winners In Western PA, West Virginia Science Bowl Competed In National Science Bowl -- PA Solar Center Honors 5 Western PA Organizations Who Have Gone Solar [PaEN] -- Williamsport Sun: Eagle On The Mend Through Ashkar Students’ Efforts -- Reading Eagle: (..)

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Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

Worse than that, it might end up misdirecting the world’s clean energy efforts into dirtier than appreciated energy technologies because of the country’s ongoing dependence on coal-fired energy. The scale of the IPCC’s undercount shocks once applied to the EU’s “clean” energy plans. million cars to the road.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 11, 2023

[RGGI] -- Pittsburgh 2030 District Announces Significant Progress In Reducing Carbon Emissions - 44.8% From Baseline; Savings Of $59.7

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 18, 2021

But Ontario’s government still blocks new renewables from entering the grid, breaking the rules to dismantle wind farms , and releasing policy statements like this one : We are proposing to repeal three sets of legislative provisions in the Electricity Act…that promote and prioritize renewable energy generation projects.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 6, 2025

Clean energy solutions are readily available to help ensure that these failures dont reoccur, and long-range transmission lines are one of the key components of these solutions. Increasing the countrys long-range transmission capacity will allow much more renewable and energy storage capacity to come onto the grid.

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

As a result, California’s retail electricity prices rose eight times faster than the nationwide average in the 10 years between January 2011 and December 2020, due to its increased use of variable energy sources. In California, costs to the public have not been contained as they were in Texas before the February crisis.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

It was originally formed in 1968 by my father who passed away in 2011. The response said, in part-- ‘Charlemagne Investment Corporation is inactive and filed its final tax return as of 12-31-16. It had $64 in cash as of its final filing and has no other assets.” “It My mother inherited the shares and passed away in 2016.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 21, 2022

However, at the time the CLCPA was enacted, the process for siting major renewable energy facilities, then governed by Article 10 of the Public Service Law, was too slow for the state to meet its goals. Panel Suggestions on Further Improvements to the Siting Process in New York. Cullen Howe (NRDC).

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Over Last Year [PaEN] -- Scranton Times: 73-Acre Proposed Solar Farm To Produce Electricity In Scranton -- PA Solar Center Hosts Entertaining Dec. 9 Online PA Healthy School Summit - Recharging For A New Era In Environmental Health. 9 Online PA Healthy School Summit - Recharging For A New Era In Environmental Health.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

Summary: The expiry date on nuclear energy is baseless, arbitrary and serves no useful purpose. It will cause uncertainty and add unnecessary costs and deployment bottlenecks which could delay climate mitigation and the transition to a clean energy system of Member States.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Since 2011, there have been five extreme winter storms that threatened the reliability of the grid, and the issues that ensued in all five of those storms were very similar. Clean energy solutions are readily available to bolster winter grid reliability while mitigating climate change at the same time.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 20, 2023

In 2011 I invited Reagan-era economist Art Laffer to speak to a hall filled exclusively with New Hampshire Republicans, both leaders and rank and file conservatives. His address focused on corporate taxes, and he shared his expert opinion that a carbon tax had a legitimate place in our national revenue system.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 26, 2022

While agricultural burning declined between 2003 and 2011, reducing particulate pollution by more than 50%, California’s record-breaking drought has led to a tripling of the amount of waste burned , with some fearing further escalation of burning as drought persists.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Clean Energy. As the state transitions off fossil fuels, the importance of building a reliable and robust clean energy grid continues to increase. The Legislature also passed two budget trailer bills, AB 205 and AB 209 , to provide financial resources to effectuate the state’s clean energy goals. Conclusion.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The Zero Emission Credit (ZEC) program was established as part of the PSC’s proceeding to establish a Clean Energy Standard to achieve the statewide goal of obtaining 50% of New York’s electricity from renewable sources by 2030. The count to which the defendant pleaded guilty involved a request for reimbursement of $363,668.50

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

But in approving legislation this year to rebuild infrastructure and fund significant expansion of clean energy and electrified transportation to reduce climate-changing emissions, the U.S. Congress is displaying fresh resolve to fix systemic challenges. That once was the U.S.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

4] Meanwhile, many experts see in recent trends an inevitable transition away from coal and nuclear power plants, designed to function as baseload capacity, toward variable renewable energy sources with just-in-time natural gas back-up. California significantly expanded its use of renewable energy starting in 2011. 5] The U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 4, 2024

Similar extreme cold weather caused grid emergencies in 2011, 2014, 2018, and again in 2022. These are the very solutions that the Union of Concerned Scientists and other clean energy advocates have been talking about for years, but the gas industry has fought them every chance they get.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2024

A complete and prolonged cutoff of external power would lead to a disastrous meltdown similar to that of the Fukushima Daiichi plant in 2011. Once grid power is cut off, the plants must resort to onsite sources of backup power, such as diesel generators.

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