A Greener Life

JULY 9, 2021

The National Development and Reform Commission’s Department of Resource Conservation and Environmental Protection said in a statement that energy intensity increased 9.5% between 2016 and 2019, and total energy consumption also rose far more than permitted by the 13th FYP targets. If it benefits, it has to help cut carbon.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 25, 2016

The amount that the Senate has proposed diverting from the RGGI fund for FY 2017 is more than 80% of the total value of RGGI auction proceeds earned by New York in FY 2016 (which totaled approximately $166 million ). More information about the program is available here.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

For Ana Lia Rojas, executive director of the Chilean Association of Renewable Energies (ACERA), Huepe’s immediate challenge as minister will be to confront the country’s stretched electricity system. In any case, renewable energy companies may look favourably at the new government and its commitment to decarbonisation. “We

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A Greener Life

JULY 23, 2021

The upcoming Olympics will leave a hydrogen society as its legacy,” Yoichi Masuzoe, then governor of Tokyo, declared in 2016. Japan, once a passionate advocate of nuclear energy , now has serious hydrogen ambitions. There is talk that a global “hydrogen economy” can emerge to save the climate from carbon emissions.

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Edouard Stenger

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Any energy use entails carbon emissions, some more than others. When a city like New York unveils a plan to tackle its buildings’ energy consumption, you know the story is big. 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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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 4, 2023

. -- Electricity Exporter: Pennsylvania is the second-largest net supplier of total energy to other states, after Texas. Yaw did not mention renewable energy in this announcement.] Yaw noted the IEO would be modeled after Pennsylvania’s Independent Fiscal Office , which was created by Act 120 of 2010, and Act 100 of 2016.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

Much of the cradle-to-grave carbon intensity data that governments depend on to guide in photovoltaic arrays are instead based on modeling assumptions that are likely to have grossly under-estimated — if not made-up — solar’s carbon emissions because they cannot get insights from Chinese manufacturers.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 13, 2024

The Paris Olympics has made an ambitious climate pledge this year, to halve its carbon footprint relative to previous Summer Games. For comparison, the 2012 London Olympics and 2016 Rio Olympics emitted 3.3 million tonnes of carbon. What drives emissions from ‘big sport’? million tonnes and 3.6 million people to 1.58

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 24, 2017

From a mere three billion USD in 2012 it has grown to $81 billion in 2016 and could reach $150 billion this year. The money will be allocated to energy efficiency and renewable energy solutions, among many others. If growth was slow from the first green bond issuance to 2012, things have accelerated since.

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Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

to reducing their carbon emissions. which will implement national standards to govern carbon pollution from power plants. Two steps forward, one step back: In February 2016, the Supreme Court issued a. the Paris Agreement) that will require periodic, rigorous accounting and management of total national emissions.

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E2 Law Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Enacted in 2019, the CLCPA transformed the state’s earlier clean energy standard efforts from administrative fiat to law and sets more aggressive goals to reduce statewide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions economy-wide to 60% from a 1990 baseline by 2030, and 15% from a 1990 baseline by 2050.

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A Greener Life

JULY 12, 2023

We want to generate renewable power in the desert for other mining operations as well as the railway line that is in the pipeline; our solar project will offset carbon emissions from the coal that is being mined and used to fire the two power plants [in Block 2],” Cheng added. How can a solar project neutralise carbon emissions?”

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A Greener Life

MARCH 19, 2023

The Gwadar coal power plant was first conceived in 2016, with an estimated cost of USD 542.32 The environmental impacts of coal power – from local air and water pollution to carbon emissions – have made the project controversial. “We Just 3% of generated electricity in the 2022 fiscal year came from non-hydropower renewables.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2023

. -- Shamokin Creek Restoration Alliance for the Veterans Memorial Field Improvements: Prior to 2016 the recreation complex was underutilized; the walking track needed repair, the stream channel had no vegetation, and the site lacked amenities.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a West Virginia federal district court had erred in concluding that it had jurisdiction to consider the coal company Murray Energy Corporation’s and its affiliates’ lawsuit that sought to compel EPA to conduct evaluations of the Clean Air Act’s employment effects. 451962/2016 (N.Y.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2021

This 2015 regulation aimed to move state power grids away from coal and toward renewable energy. When fully implemented, the Clean Power Plan was intended to cut carbon emissions 30% below the 2005 level by 2030. The rule required states to submit initial compliance plans in 2016, with final implementation plans in 2018.

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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. While energy sources across all categories failed in mid-February, they didn’t all fail equally.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The International Energy Agency said the world last year saw record growth in solar power, adoption of electric vehicles, and global clean energy investments that outstripped fossil investments last year by $1.74 trillion into fossil fuel projects since the Paris agreement went into effect in 2016. trillion to $1 trillion.

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Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

United States: Hundreds of Tesla Workers Walk Off Job in Nevada Labor Dispute NBC News | February 29, 2016 Hundreds of union construction workers walked off the job at Tesla Motors' battery manufacturing plant in northern Nevada on Monday to protest what union organizers say is the increased hiring of out-of-state workers for less pay.

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Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

United States: Hundreds of Tesla Workers Walk Off Job in Nevada Labor Dispute NBC News | February 29, 2016 Hundreds of union construction workers walked off the job at Tesla Motors' battery manufacturing plant in northern Nevada on Monday to protest what union organizers say is the increased hiring of out-of-state workers for less pay.

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Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

United States: Hundreds of Tesla Workers Walk Off Job in Nevada Labor Dispute NBC News | February 29, 2016 Hundreds of union construction workers walked off the job at Tesla Motors' battery manufacturing plant in northern Nevada on Monday to protest what union organizers say is the increased hiring of out-of-state workers for less pay.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

United States: Hundreds of Tesla Workers Walk Off Job in Nevada Labor Dispute NBC News | February 29, 2016 Hundreds of union construction workers walked off the job at Tesla Motors' battery manufacturing plant in northern Nevada on Monday to protest what union organizers say is the increased hiring of out-of-state workers for less pay.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 11, 2023

United States: Hundreds of Tesla Workers Walk Off Job in Nevada Labor Dispute NBC News | February 29, 2016 Hundreds of union construction workers walked off the job at Tesla Motors' battery manufacturing plant in northern Nevada on Monday to protest what union organizers say is the increased hiring of out-of-state workers for less pay.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 1, 2023

United States: Hundreds of Tesla Workers Walk Off Job in Nevada Labor Dispute NBC News | February 29, 2016 Hundreds of union construction workers walked off the job at Tesla Motors' battery manufacturing plant in northern Nevada on Monday to protest what union organizers say is the increased hiring of out-of-state workers for less pay.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

United States: Hundreds of Tesla Workers Walk Off Job in Nevada Labor Dispute NBC News | February 29, 2016 Hundreds of union construction workers walked off the job at Tesla Motors' battery manufacturing plant in northern Nevada on Monday to protest what union organizers say is the increased hiring of out-of-state workers for less pay.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Scavello Introduces Bill Authorizing Community Solar Projects; $2 Billion Worth Of Projects Waiting For It To Pass -- Business, Environment, Energy Groups Praise Introduction Of Bipartisan Bills Increasing Solar Energy Mandate From 0.5% Check Out C-SAW -- Trout Unlimited, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers New R.I.S.E

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

By contrast, the Obama administration’s proposed carbon regulation of the power sector, the “Clean Power Plan,” proposed emissions reductions of 32 percent — by 2030. Carbon emissions are thus following the same trajectory as other air pollutants. Like taxes on food, taxes on energy are regressive.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Energy Conservation. We live in an age of dwindling fossil fuels and inaction on renewable energy. That's one aspect of energy conservation - efficiency of the resource. The second aspect is making our electrical devices, vehicles, buildings and so on far more energy efficient. Energy Conservation.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The plaintiffs alleged that Peabody (and a number of other fossil fuel companies) caused greenhouse gas emissions that resulted in sea level rise and damage to their property. Peabody, a coal company, filed for bankruptcy in April 2016 and emerged from bankruptcy under a plan that became effective on April 3, 2017. Foster , No.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 2, 2022

A year ago, GFANZ said all its members “must align” their portfolios to the UN’s Race to Zero “stringent criteria” aimed at halving global emissions by 2030 and bringing net carbon emissions to zero by 2050. Scientists say such targets would help keep the average global temperature increase under 1.5

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

In recent years, states in New England and the mid-Atlantic region have made significant progress in reducing climate change-inducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the electricity generation sector. [1]. emissions in the RGGI region would have been approximately 24 percent higher in 2015 but for the program, which took effect in 2009.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

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. UN Human Rights Committee Views Adopted on Teitiota Communication , CCPR/C/127/D/2728/2016 (UN Human Rights Committee).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Rex Tillerson, ExxonMobil CEO from 2006 to 2016. Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images) Rose asked Tillerson open-ended questions on a range of subjects, including climate change and national energy policy. Later in the hour, Tillerson told Rose that the federal government should end subsidies for renewable energy. “I

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

The Supreme Court sharply limited the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to slash carbon pollution from power plants. The justices told EPA that it can set carbon emissions standards based only on interventions at individual power plants.

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Acoel

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

42-43) Later in the hearing, Senator Ed Markey asked Mr. Zeldin to confirm comments made in 2016 by then-Congressman Zeldin that the U.S. must reduce its reliance on fossil fuels and pursue clean, green energy. Wouldnt we be better off pursuing clean, green renewable energy sources?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 31, 2022

The committee followed up that hearing —during which the executives disingenuously denied funding such a campaign—with another hearing on February 8 focusing on the oil companies’ inadequate plans to cut their carbon emissions. On the rare occasion when reporters broach the topic, he responds with … disinformation.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

Circuit’s January opinion vacating EPA’s repeal and replacement of the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan regulations for controlling carbon emissions from existing power plants. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants’ environmental assessment understated traffic levels as well as carbon emissions. filed Apr.

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