Legal Planet

JUNE 2, 2022

Scotland set a 2020 goal of 100% renewable energy electricity generation. renewable energy generation (62% coming from onshore wind) A climate plan adopted in 2018 sets a binding target of net-zero emissions by 2045. The last coal plant in Scotland closed in 2016. In 2020, they just missed this goal, at 97.4%

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Automotive giant GM announced today that it plans to achieve its goal to source 100% renewable energy to power its U.S. sites by 2025, five years of its prior 2030 target, and significantly ahead of its initial 2050 goal, first set in 2016. Read the full story at ESG Today.

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

Importantly, that number can be reduced in many ways: greater solar panel efficiency (possibly through new materials like perovskites ), panels on waste sites , panels on aqueducts , agrivotaics (solar and agriculture combined), roof-top solar, off-shore wind, and increased and improved energy storage (often co-located with renewables).

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Environment + Energy Leader

JANUARY 3, 2023

billion gallons annually since 2016. . appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. American Water Works is committed to sustainability by reducing its CO2 releases and saving water. The company says that, on average, the conservation and efficiency measures have enabled residential customers to save 3.4

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Environment + Energy Leader

JANUARY 3, 2023

billion gallons annually since 2016. . appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. American Water Works is committed to sustainability by reducing its CO2 releases and saving water. The company says that, on average, the conservation and efficiency measures have enabled residential customers to save 3.4

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 3, 2022

For residential systems, their share rose from 41 percent in 2016 to 98 percent in 2021. What’s different now is the prevalence of energy storage that can make the systems themselves more resilient. From 2016 to 2021 storage leapt from 0.1 Source: LBNL 2022. And the warranties for most panels lengthened to 25 years a while back.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 20, 2024

Citi is underwriting climate devastation through its continued funding of fossil fuels, including $396 billion since the Paris Agreement in 2016. This campaign, which will be active all summer, demands action from Citigroup and other big banks and insurers to stop enabling fossil fuel pollution.

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2023

In 2016 Monterey County voters passed Measure Z, a citizen initiative intended to bar the drilling of new oil and gas wells in the county and ban the use of fracking technology for existing wells in Monterey County. Later this month the justices will hear arguments in Chevron U.S.A.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

Vertical dotted lines mark 1992, when the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was established, and 2016, when the Paris Agreement was ratified. After decades of these negotiations, the Paris Agreement was adopted in 2015 and ratified in 2016 (to read more about this history check out my peer-reviewed research here ).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 9, 2024

A word about CCS : this technology has existed for decades but is only used at a handful of fossil energy facilities. Why do Exxon’s greenwashed graphs matter? While ExxonMobil’s strategies have changed, its output of disinformation continues.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The wind is in our sails on the voyage towards a clean energy future. Wind energy is currently the largest renewable energy source in the US, and the industry is growing fast. The World Bank predicts that the demand for neodymium for energy technologies in 2050 will be 37% of total 2018 neodymium production.

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E2 Law Blog

JULY 1, 2021

On June 29, 2021, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released Notice 2021-41 (the “Notice”) granting additional relief for certain renewable energy projects planning to claim the U.S. In general terms, the amount of PTC or ITC available for a renewable energy project depends on when the construction of the project begins.

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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. Also discussed is how this vision is being made economically more viable by shifting cost structures and environmental driving forces.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 28, 2023

The ARA is comprehensive, science-based legislation that covers many topics related to environmental and climate concerns in agriculture, including conservation on both agricultural and pasture land, renewable energy, and food loss and waste.

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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. Also discussed is how this vision is being made economically more viable by shifting cost structures and environmental driving forces.

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Environmental Europe

JULY 1, 2020

Deploying renewable energy technologies is a key way to reduce emissions, but the EU’s own Environment Agency warned in late 2019 that current policy efforts are insufficient to reach the 2030 and the 2050 (net zero) emissions targets. insufficient renewable energy targets) or “delivery gaps” (i.e.,

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2025

Air Quality Permits - Comments -- Montour LLC - Natural Gas-fired Montour Power Plant: DEP invites comments on the renewal of a Title V Air Quality Permit for the facility located in Derry Twp., PA Bulletin, page 2016 ) -- CNX Gas Co. PA Bulletin, page 2016 ) -- Eastern Gas Transmission & Storage, Inc. Montour County. (

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 6, 2023

However, it’s a disappointment to the initiative’s proponents and to a larger group of environmental advocates who seek to promote California’s quick transition from reliance on heavily-polluting and climate-damaging fossil fuels to renewable energy resources.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

This is a little different than other similar sounding policies like Renewable Energy Standards, which can create some confusion. But while a Renewable Energy Standard treats all sources of qualifying renewable energy equally, the LCFS has a more complicated approach, based on lifecycle analysis.

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Legal Planet

JULY 5, 2023

At CLEE, we are evaluating what the International Monetary Fund might do to promote investment in renewable energy and end fossil fuel investments. At the top of that list is JPMorgan Chase, the largest funder of fossil fuels cumulatively since the Paris Agreement on climate change was signed in 2016, according to the report.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

24, 2016); Alaska Oil & Gas Association v. Murray Energy Corp. The court cited Healey’s participation in the AGs United for Clean Power Press Conference in March 2016 and her attendance at a pre-press conference closed-door meeting with a climate change activist and a lawyer with a “well-known global warming litigation practice.”

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Launched in December 2021, the USAID Southeast Asia Smart Power Program (SPP) aims to mobilize $2 billion for clean energy projects across the region. In June, SPP issued a $3 million grant to the ASEAN Centre for Energy (ACE) to increase renewable energy in the region’s power systems. Japan and other partners.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

As of 2016, half of its total emissions are from the power sector, with 20% from industry and 15% from transportation, and. According to the Energy Information Agency , South Korea’s power sector is heavily reliant on fossil fuels. It has also gone from being a military dictatorship to a robust democracy.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 22, 2022

A report commissioned by the Ontario Power Authority (now the Independent Electricity System Operator) identified 64 potential offshore wind power sites in the Great Lakes that could produce nearly 35,000 MW of electricity which is 50 per cent more than our current energy demand. This is completely doable. And it would cost a lot less too.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

It’s worth noting that the shareholder proposal requesting the nomination of a climate expert to ExxonMobil’s board received just over 20 percent support in 2016. Avery was a respected climate scientist—although she had also sparked controversy with her decisions at WHOI to accept major funding from oil and gas corporations.

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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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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

SB 1383 (2016) explicitly mandated a 40% reduction in methane released as a product of manure management in the dairy and livestock sectors alongside a 40% reduction in overall methane emissions statewide (including, e.g., from oil and gas and other agricultural sources) by 2030. Cap-and-Trade Programs.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

They have deployed energy-saving technologies such as low-carbon building materials including recycled cement, and what they call smart snowmaking which uses 20% less water than traditional technologies. Fully powered by renewable energy. But there is no mention of whether the hydrogen used at the Games will be green hydrogen.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Jacob Elkin rejoined the Sabin Center as a Renewable Energy Legal Defense Initiative (RELDI) Fellow. His work focuses on supporting utility- and community-scale renewable energy, along with associated transmission and storage, through legal research and engagement. from the University of Chicago in 2016.

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Environmental Leader

JULY 29, 2022

From a 2016 baseline, it has vowed to reduce water intensity by 15%, carbon intensity by 30%, and waste-to-landfill by 45% by 2025. The post Marriott Reduces Water and Energy Use by Double-Digits appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. Marriott is an environmental leader.

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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. There were no improvements in 2020.

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Environmental Leader

JULY 29, 2022

From a 2016 baseline, it has vowed to reduce water intensity by 15%, carbon intensity by 30%, and waste-to-landfill by 45% by 2025. The post Marriott Reduces Water and Energy Use by Double-Digits appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. Marriott is an environmental leader.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 12, 2022

Energy Information Administration released its latest Short-Term Energy Outlook which projects solar and wind renewable energy’s share of electricity generation will keep rising and lead to a decline in natural gas generation. ‘We We forecast that the annual share of U.S. We estimate that the U.S.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Across the continent of Africa, there has been a rapid growth of investment in renewable energy projects. The country already generates more than 70% of its power from renewable energy sources and has recently received a commitment from the UK to support further expansion of renewables. . In 2016, the 60.8

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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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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

times more than G20 support for renewable energy, which averaged $26 billion per year. times more support for fossil fuels than renewable energy. The estimate of a direct USD 15 billion shift is based on annual average public finance for fossil fuels from the participating countries and institutions from 2016-2020.

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

I came across several articles on my home country lately and thought it was the occasion to keep everyone updated on how the French energy transition is going on. First thing first, I am very disappointed that the Socialists running the country did so little on renewable energy sources during their mandate. click to enlarge.

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