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). Today, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) projects that 50 percent of US passenger car sales could very well be electric by 2030.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 26, 2024

In 2013, I returned to university to complete a master’s degree with a research focus on energy transition. My journey in energy transition started as my attempt to protect my family and community – and other impacted communities – from the devastating environmental and human rights impacts of the fossil fuel industry.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 15, 2024

TAKE ACTION: SAVE ALBERTA’S CLEAN ENERGY FUTURE Not talking about the connection between climate change-caused natural disasters isn’t leading to long-term answers to these tragic challenges. It is hampering our efforts to find solutions. It simply perpetuates the crisis. But talk we must. After the 2017 Kenow Fire.

Climate Change 140

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Hoekstra represents the centre-right political spectrum and has been under scrutiny as between 2005-6 he worked for the fossil fuel giant, Royal Dutch Shell. In a newly established role, former Danish Climate, Energy and Utilities Minister, Dan Jørgensen, is appointed Commissioner for Energy and Housing.

Clean Energy 52

Clean Energy Fossil Fuels Politics 2004 52

Enviromental Defense

APRIL 1, 2023

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. So while it likes to talk about Ontario’s “clean energy advantage”, the government is actively dismantling it. It will be something to watch.

Clean Energy 52

Clean Energy Government Electricity 2017 52

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 28, 2023

On August 8, PJM Interconnection and other regional electric grid operators submitted comments on a proposed EPA regulation to cut greenhouse gas emissions from power plants expressing concerns the rule will accelerate retirements of fossil fuel plants without reliable renewable and electric storage technologies to replace them.

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Natural Gas Electricity Clean Energy Renewable Energy 83

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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Renewable Energy Paris Agreement 2015 2020 105

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

On February 12, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved the PJM Interconnection, Inc.s Reliability Resource Initiative (RRI) proposal to fast track natural gas power plants at the exclusion of renewable and other clean energy projects, leaving them stuck in the permitting queue.

Natural Gas 51

Natural Gas Clean Energy Pollution Control 2013 51

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

A Republican, he wrote the 2013 opinion that brought the ERA back to life. And then was approved by voters across the Commonwealth by a vote of four to one.” The Initiative will also be celebrating the Honorable Ron Castille , former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

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Natural Gas Fossil Fuels 2013 Electricity 72

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

But this announcement was seemingly at odds with another made just three days earlier, when coal minister Pralhad Joshi confirmed that India intends to increase production for the fossil fuel. From 2013 to 2014, Indian coal production was 565 million tonnes; from 2022 to 2023, that had increased by 58% to 893 million.

Fossil Fuels 52

Fossil Fuels Carbon Emissions Paris Agreement 2030 52

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.

Electricity 134

Electricity Fossil Fuels Government Carbon Emissions 134

Law Columbia

APRIL 11, 2022

Two notable climate litigation cases, the 2013 Athabaskan petition and the 2021 Cité Soleil petition , are still pending. The resolution also calls on countries to “move towards a clean and just energy transition.” This transition has already led to climate litigation.

Climate Change 69

Climate Change Paris Agreement Clean Energy Fossil Fuels 69

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 13, 2023

A decade ago, the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) estimated that, based on the available technology, the United States could get 80% of its electricity from renewables by 2050. Now NREL says the country has the potential to reach 100% clean energy by 2035.

Electricity 341

Electricity Clean Energy Fossil Fuels Climate Change 341

A Greener Life

MAY 28, 2023

A small town generating its own power, a city school equipping its rooftop with solar panels, and a company building solar water heaters that help to cut energy bills: small-scale initiatives across Argentina are showing the active role people can play in building a renewable energy-powered future.

Electricity 52

Electricity Fossil Fuels Renewable Energy Solar Power 52

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.

2016 40

2016 Climate Change Fossil Fuels Greenhouse 40

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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2013 Electricity Natural Gas Fossil Fuels 364

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 23, 2023

Lauren Connelly, of the Greater Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce , noted in April of 2022 the Allegheny Conference released a report outlining how accelerating decarbonization and a transition to clean energy sources are critical to the future competitiveness of the Pittsburgh Region. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

Natural Gas 98

Natural Gas Regulations Waste 2022 98

CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

California Clean Energy Committee v. Ultimately, cooperation between the parties ended, but real parties applied to County in 2013 for a specific plan and rezonings they believed were consistent with the agreement’s primary terms. League to Save Lake Tahoe, Mountain Area Preservation, et al./California County of Placer, et al.

Renewable Energy 98

Renewable Energy Clean Energy 2013 Conservation 98

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The term ‘ Loss and Damage ’ refers to the extreme edge of those impacts, those human-caused and fossil fuel-driven disasters that are occurring on a scale and with an intensity and frequency that far outpaces ordinary adaptation measures. Within the U.S., The blame lies squarely with richer nations like the U.S.,

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Fossil Fuels Climate Change Paris Agreement Sea Level 274

Environmental Progress

JULY 29, 2020

In 2013, the Obama administration gave the wind industry permission to kill condors, an endangered species. Apex Clean Energy, based in Virginia, claimed on its 2017 application to the New York Electric Generation Siting Board that there were no known bald eagle nests where it planned to build.

2020 52

2020 Climate Change Carbon Emissions Renewable Energy 52

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Comitta To Introduce Bill Investing RGGI Proceeds In Helping Communities & Workers In Clean Energy Transition, Environmental Justice Areas, Promote Energy Efficiency -- Rep. -- Natural Lands, Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership Host Feb.

Conservation 48

Conservation 2021 Natural Gas Climate Change 48

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2023

Energy choices are key to climate resilience—but there’s resistance within state government Science tells us the extent and degree of future flooding depends on how fast we can reduce heat trapping emissions from the burning of fossil fuels. It cannot be a plan that reflects the opinions and interests of the powerful.

Climate Change 246

Climate Change Fossil Fuels 2014 Government 246

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

A federal bankruptcy court in Missouri enjoined San Mateo and Marin Counties and the City of Imperial Beach (the plaintiffs) from pursuing their climate change lawsuits against Peabody Energy Corporation (Peabody). Stanford Professor Sued Scientific Journal and Article Authors Who Critiqued His Work.

2017 40

2017 Clean Air Act Climate Change Clean Water Act 40

Legal Planet

MAY 11, 2023

The EPA is proposing a new standard for fossil fuel-fired power plants to avoid 617 million metric tons of carbon dioxide through 2042. Back in 2013, the first Zero Emission Vehicle Action Plan (ZEV) was released as a roadmap for how to get 1.5 Read the announcement here and the full text here.)

Clean Air Act 247

Clean Air Act Carbon Emissions Greenhouse Fossil Fuels 247

Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Fourth Circuit Declined to Stay Remand Order in Baltimore’s Climate Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies; Companies Sought Stay from Supreme Court. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule repealing the Clean Power Plan and finalizing the final Affordable Clean Energy rule in its place. FEATURED CASE.

2019 40

2019 Endangered Species Act Climate Change Greenhouse 40

Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Oregon Court Reinstated Clean Energy Ballot Initiatives. 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. Golden State Environmental Justice Alliance v.

2020 40

2020 Climate Change Greenhouse Fossil Fuels 40

Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Several factors¾including the effects of the economic recession, shifts in energy markets from coal to natural gas and renewable energy sources, and carbon pollution mitigation and clean energy programs like renewable portfolio standards¾have been identified as principal drivers of these reductions. [2].

Greenhouse 40

Greenhouse 2015 2017 Regulations 40

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

I first wrote about ExxonMobil in March 2013 after I saw the company’s then-CEO, Rex Tillerson, on the Charlie Rose talk show, who provided me with fodder for perhaps my favorite of two dozen ExxonMobil-related columns. “I I’m not aware of anything the fossil fuel industry gets that I would characterize as a subsidy.”

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Fossil Fuels Climate Change 2007 Carbon Emissions 352

Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

The federal district court for the Eastern District of California denied a motion for a preliminary injunction in a case challenging federal and state reviews and authorizations of a logging project and biomass energy facility on public forestland that burned during the 2013 Rim Fire.

2020 40

2020 Endangered Species Act Climate Change Greenhouse 40

ESA

AUGUST 16, 2021

Advances in attribution science since the last report was issued in 2013 have allowed experts to connect individual events to climate change with more certainty. billion for electric vehicle charging infrastructure and $27 billion for clean energy research, development, demonstration and commercialization. Chair : Sen.

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2021 Clean Energy Climate Change Fossil Fuels 98