A Greener Life

APRIL 10, 2025

The Swiss public gives the final nod to boosting renewable energy With 97% of its broad gauge lines now transitioned, India has the second highest electrification rate of any major rail network in the world. It was in 2014 that the government ramped up ambitions and committed the funds for a fully electric railway.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

Change #1: 100% clean energy goals have spread At the beginning of 2018, the only state in the country with a 100% clean or renewable energy goal was Hawaii. Now, 22 states plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico have 100% clean energy goals on the books. billion dollars since the market began.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

By 2050, gas plants operate at less than 6 percent of their rated capacity during the year compared to more than 38 percent for all gas plants in 2022, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA). These results are consistent with other decarbonization studies.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 13, 2022

PNC Bank will receive approximately 148 million kilowatt hours of energy per year through its retail agreement with Constellation, with that energy matched by Green-e® Energy Certified Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) sourced from other renewable facilities located throughout the U.S. “At

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

One component of that goal is renewable energy procurement for its facilities. FedEx will draw from its own experiences with renewable energy at its facilities and apply those learnings for school staff and facilities eager to make the same transition. Solar on U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 19, 2023

announced it has begun work to connect a pair of solar energy projects in Fulton and Franklin counties to the electric grid. The University of Pennsylvania signed an agreement in April 2020 with Community Energy, later acquired by AES Corporation, to construct the two solar facilities in Franklin and Fulton counties.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

To see this, one need only look at other energy policies in the very states that have prohibited local restrictions on natural gas. Many of those states have also taken steps to block development of renewable energy—giving lie to the notion that pro-natural gas legislators are concerned about “energy choice.”.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

SB 605 (2014) took the first step in methane-specific policy, directing the state’s Air Resources Board to create “a comprehensive strategy to reduce emissions of short-lived climate pollutants” such as agricultural methane. Cap-and-Trade Programs. Current AMMP projects are anticipated to reduce GHG emissions by about 1.1

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Construction began in 2014. What is clear is that cost-benefit analyses increasingly show that power-exporting countries like Cambodia and Vietnam lose ecosystem services from dam projects to a far greater extent than they gain in hydropower benefits, especially as the cost of renewable energy technologies like solar continue to drop.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 5, 2024

This is a very different business model than renewable energy, where it costs money upfront to build the initial infrastructure, but the sources of power, like sun and wind, flow freely and require only small amounts in ongoing costs for routine maintenance.) In contrast, its lending to renewable energy was just $5 billion in 2023.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 30, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen The renewable energy sector experienced record growth in 2022 of 1%. They still account for 82% of the global energy supply according to the industry’s Statistical Review of World Energy released this week. to its highest level since 2014. Photo credit: Reuters / Louisa Off.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

CCS is a multi-billion dollar boondoggle that doesn’t come close to the hype, has significant safety risks, and is a substantial distraction from real climate solutions, such as building more renewable energy, increasing electricity transmission infrastructure, and developing and using storage technology. Want proof?

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Edouard Stenger

JANUARY 10, 2022

My first foray in cleantech took place years later, in 2014, when I landed a contract in Colombia for the biogas industry. My five-month internship as an energy advisor for the healthcare sector taught me so much. I am now much more knowledgeable about green buildings and how renewable energies can be harnessed.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 27, 2023

Natural gas had the same problems during a cold weather event in 2014 and the polar vortex in 2018.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 13, 2023

It is a slightly modified version of a CPUC principle dating to 2014, which has been applied to evaluate rate design proposals ever since. On the other end of the spectrum, Clean Coalition, a renewable energy organization, shifts fewer costs out of the volumetric charge, resulting in fixed charges ranging from $0-$18.51.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Rural Energy for America Program Deadline: March 31, 2024 (also June 30, 2024, and September 30, 2024) The Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) provides grants and loans to farmers and rural businesses interested in making energy efficiency improvements. Apply here ; additional details for applicants here.

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A Greener Life

JULY 9, 2021

billion) over the three years 2014–16. Coal-chemical plants, for example, could switch to using hydrogen from renewable energy for producing chemicals such as methanol and alkenes. There is huge potential for developing renewable energy in Inner Mongolia, which could be used to power other industries.

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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. Church was an elementary school counselor in Philadelphia until 2014.

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A Greener Life

MAY 20, 2022

Currently, both plants are operating satisfactorily, contributing a great deal of renewable energy, ” said Rodrigo Corrales, general manager of ENDE Guaracachi, the state-owned electricity company that operates the complex. We are making progress in changing the energy matrix towards clean and renewable energy.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 28, 2023

At the same time, PJM reported it has approved at least 35,000 MW of renewable energy generation that have not yet been connected to the electric grid throughout its operating region. PJM said in July 95% of the 260,000 MW of electricity projects in its project queue are renewable energy generation, battery storage or a hybrid of both.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 4, 2021

Between 2000-2014 alone, there have been over 1,276 spills across the entire Enbridge pipeline system that have dumped over 35 million liters of oil into the environment. All of this is happening at a time when we should be prioritizing a just transition to renewable energy rather than burning more fossil fuels.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 20, 2022

Energy Information Administration reported-- in our January Short-Term Energy Outlook , we forecast that rising electricity generation from renewable energy resources such as solar and wind will reduce generation from fossil fuel-fired power plants over the next two years. On January 18, the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 4, 2023

. -- Natural Gas In Homes: Over half of Pennsylvania households use natural gas as their primary home heating fuel, and the state’s 48 underground gas storage sites–the most for any state–help meet regional heating demand in winter. -- Electricity Exporter: Pennsylvania is the second-largest net supplier of total energy to other states, after Texas.

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Renewable energy sources and electric vehicles are progressing so fast around the world that according to a new study coal and oil use could peak worldwide in as little as three years. To put these figures in context, the recent 2014-15 oil price collapse was the result of a two mbd (2%) shift in the supply-demand balance.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 19, 2025

Data collected in 2014-2016 documented levels of 1,4 dioxane exceeding acceptable health exposure levels and identified wastewater treatment plants in the upper Cape Fear River Basin as the likely source: …four areas of high 1,4-dioxane concentration were identified.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 9, 2014

March 7, 2014. You proposed investing in renewable energy. Approving the Keystone XL is not investing in renewable energy or clean technology. She submitted this comment to President Obama on March 7, 2014. I am not a list of nine Nobel Peace Prize Laureates. I am only myself. I am an Oklahoman.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2023

There were no representatives of renewable energy generators on the panel of witnesses. Natural gas will continue to play a key role as more and more renewable energy and other zero-carbon power generation technologies get added to the grid. Click Here to watch video of the hearing and for copies of all written testimony.

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Edouard Stenger

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

These days if you read renewable energy news, everything is shining for solar photovoltaic: it is fast becoming the cheapest energy source, technology is getting better every year and it is wildly successful from the US to Asia, from Europe to Africa.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

In the early days of the current price shocks, fossil fuel boosters blamed clean energy and climate policy. One columnist from the Wall Street Journal asserted just before the Glasgow climate summit that it was time to ask “ some big boy questions ” about our rush to renewable energy.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 16, 2023

In 2014, we saw how much damage a severe algae bloom can have on society when the presence of microcystin (a potent toxin and possible human carcinogen produced by algae blooms) left nearly 500,000 residents in Toledo, Ohio and Pelee, Ontario, without access to safe drinking water for days. Source of renewable energy.

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Edouard Stenger

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

But Puerto Rico can retrieve electricity access quickly, cut its energy costs and lower its carbon footprint significantly in the same time. Switching to renewables could enable a factor ten cut in emissions coming from electricity. Years ago, energy storage via batteries would have proved uneconomical. — Solar and wind.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The counterargument to that is that steel is a critical component of many renewable energy technologies such as wind turbines. The project which is a long-running saga was first proposed in 2014 and has since been kicked back and forth before finally being approved by the government. Strong pushback.

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Montrose

JULY 6, 2021

Transaction expands Montrose’s biological consulting services, including fire mitigation and support of renewable energy projects in the Southwestern U.S. The addition of EI to the Montrose platform will also strengthen our exposure to renewable energy projects throughout Southern California. IRVINE, Calif.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Despite a significant uptake of renewable energy, India still relies on coal plants for more than half of its installed electricity supply. By Rejimon Kuttappan Along with a major expansion of renewable energy, India is also pushing for big increases in its coal production, casting doubt on its climate commitments.

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Edouard Stenger

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Years ago the Big Apple made headlines for having its famous Empire State Building undergo a $20 million retrofit that enabled a 40 percent energy consumption reduction. The average American uses 10 percent less energy than in 2007, and the nation’s energy consumption per unit of GDP has fallen by 14 percent.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Prior to joining the Sabin Center, Martin specialized in renewable energy and infrastructure finance at Milbank LLP’s New York office. Louis in 2014. Griffith University Service Award. Felix Martin Lockman joins the Sabin Center as the 2022-2021 Climate Law Fellow. From 2021-2022, Martin clerked for the Honorable Cynthia M.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

When Rhoads Industries Inc.acquired Building 57 in 2014, it required substantial rehabilitation to become a state-of-the-art manufacturing and testing facility. The energy efficiency renovations of A & B Bays of Building 57 is being financed with private capital from CCG PACE Funding , enabled by the City of Philadelphia’s C-PACE program.

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