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Does California Need New Nuclear Power Plants?

Union of Concerned Scientists

At present, California effectively has a ban on new nuclear power plants, but some California legislators are interested in rolling that back ostensibly to advance California towards its clean energy goals. The California Energy Commissions SB 100 report examined various scenarios that reach 100% clean electricity in California.

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Ask a Scientist: It’s Getting Easier for US Car Owners to Go Electric

Union of Concerned Scientists

Since the beginning of 2022, electric vehicle sales in the United States have been downright electrifying. Last year, US drivers bought more than 800,000 new electric vehicles (EVs), 65 percent more than in 2021, even as overall car sales declined. billion to help California drivers switch from gasoline to electricity.

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Ontario is selling our Clean Energy Credit out from under us

Enviromental Defense

Last week, on Monday November 14, as part of its Economic Outlook and Fiscal Review , the Ontario government officially announced it would be developing a voluntary clean energy credit (CEC) registry. Now, the Ontario government is crafting an official Clean Energy Credit system that will presumably require transparency.

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The Ontario government boasts about a “clean energy advantage” while dismantling it

Enviromental Defense

To no one’s surprise it contained zero funding to address climate change – not even for clean energy – which the document referred to multiple times. As a result, between 2005 and 2017 greenhouse gas pollution from Ontario’s electricity system dropped by 93 per cent.

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What’s Up With Water – November 1, 2021

Circle of Blue

Dernbach said that Pennsylvania’s courts did not take the environmental rights amendment seriously until 2013, when they invalidated parts of a state law that encouraged oil and gas development. This hotly contested referendum is focused on the future of electric power in the region. Groups who support a ban do so on several grounds.

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A Handy New Chart Shows Clean Energy’s Remarkable Progress

Union of Concerned Scientists

Whatever the weather in March and beyond—in-like-a-lion blustery or out-like-a-lamb sunny—spring tends to be a season of strong electricity production from solar and wind in particular. Spring is also a glorious time for taking stock, since the official data on the previous year’s US electricity generation become available.

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There are no coincidences in climate science

Enviromental Defense

TAKE ACTION: Tell the Alberta government it’s time to turn the power back on for Alberta’s clean energy future! So, let’s take a crack at connecting these dots. Sound about right? Of course, these are just three examples that happened to cross my desk within an hour of each other. Unfortunately, there are more.