Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 4, 2023

The state’s grid reliability is also inextricably linked to issues of improving energy affordability and achieving California’s ambitious clean energy goals. It gained traction in California in 2018, although that particular effort fell short. This is the step that tripped up the 2018 grid regionalization push.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The United States supports Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) partners in meeting their clean energy goals. Over the last two decades, energy demand in Southeast Asia increased by an average of 3% annually, according to the International Energy Agency’s Southeast Asia Energy Outlook 2022.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 30, 2022

The combination of offshore wind turbines, floating solar panels and green hydrogen are some of the hybrid clean energy technologies currently under development off the Dutch coast. . The low-lying European country is using its expertise in water engineering to build up its next wave of clean energy infrastructure.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

An ambitious law that promises to accelerate the state’s clean energy transition, CEJA provides a detailed framework for greater utility transparency and accountability to update electricity distribution infrastructure to ensure a clean energy future. Illinois utilities contributed to that trend.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 25, 2022

These models are essentially designed to determine what resources need to be added to the grid to meet certain goals, such as clean energy or emissions reduction goals. Capacity expansion modeling helps determine how many clean resources, such as solar and wind, need to be added to the grid to meet clean energy goals.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 27, 2024

Douglas White, a long-serving member of Lower Providence’s Environmental Advisory Council , which had pushed for the clean energy resolution, agreed. Fully half of Montgomery County's population lives in communities committed to a fossil-fuel-free future. This is a collaborative, iterative process.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 23, 2024

For anyone who isn’t an energy expert this can make substantive participation in the process difficult, if not impossible. That’s a problem – not just for energy cost and reliability but for the future of the clean energy transition. That’s a concern because important energy decisions are made at the CPUC.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 3, 2025

Africa sits atop an enviable wealth of minerals crucial for the worlds clean energy transition. By Femi Akinrebiyo Africa sits atop an enviable wealth of minerals crucial for the worlds clean energy transition. The moment is ripe for Africa to seize its role as a vital player in the global clean energy revolution.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

It’s the same water-use target that Cape Town established during its Day Zero water crisis in 2018. Though the project would cut through 53 miles of forest in western Maine, most of the electricity would be destined for Massachusetts, in order to fulfill that state’s clean energy standard.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

You can read their insights from their experiences—including being denied the opportunity to take the floor—and their efforts to engage with Dr. Avery in 2017 , 2018 , and 2019. 1 capturing three seats on the board by successfully arguing that ExxonMobil was failing to adapt for the transition to clean energy.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 19, 2023

Going back in the compliance history of Nancy 13, a DEP inspection report dated December 20, 2018 noted the well was leaking brine, gas was venting from the well casing and the value used for fracking the well was still on the wellhead, but no violations were listed. [ Photos: top- Nancy 13 circa 2018, Nancy 13 2023; bottom- James R.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Economies of scale also come into play: for residential systems, LBNL found that an 8-to-9 kilowatt system in 2018 was on average 13 percent cheaper per watt than a 4-to-5 kilowatt one. But the happenings in the residential, commercial, and institutional market segments are really important for our vital move to clean energy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 30, 2024

This reduction in EV emissions has come largely from the increased use of clean energy sources like wind and solar and the marked reduction in coal-fired power generation.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Although its track record has some complexities, this timeline of German actions shows just its early and sustained attention to clean energy policy: 1990. It has helped to shape EU climate policy, while at the same time its own policies were shaped by the EU’s. trillion tons.] Renewables are a third of electricity consumption.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 18, 2023

In order for states in PJM to take full advantage of incentives under the federal Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), PJM must remove barriers to meeting the market and policy demand for cheap and clean energy. For context, there were 200 GW of clean energy resources operating in the entire U.S. Read more here.]

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Environmental Law Centre

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Since 2018, Alberta has had legislation which supports PACE programming via the Clean Energy Improvements Regulation (CEIP Regulation) and amendments to the Municipal Government Act (MGA).[1] 1] The amendments to the.

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Physics World

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Dr Ahmet Kusoglu is a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), working on polymeric and functional materials for hydrogen and clean energy applications. He is the recipient of the 2017–2018 ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship and 2016 ECS Srinivasan Young Investigator Award. Join the audience.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 27, 2022

Assembly Bill 2832 passed in 2018 creating the California Battery Recycling Advisory Group. And while there is currently no recycling requirement in the United States, California passed a bill that indicates recycling may be a priority for the state.

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Environmental Leader

JUNE 24, 2022

The post Nestlé Has Cut Greenhouse Gases by 4 Million Tons Since 2018. appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. Additionally, it is switching its global fleet of vehicles from those that run on fossil fuels to those that are sustainable.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

On September 29, the Senate Community, Economic and Recreational Development Committee amended and reported out Senate Bill 635 (Yudichak-I-Luzerne) which expands the Property-Assessed Clean Energy Program-- C-PACE-- to include multifamily buildings, indoor air improvements and resiliency measures.

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Clean Energy Law

MAY 17, 2019

2018 Year in Review: Public agencies prevailed in 65% of CEQA cases analyzed. Over the course of 2018, Latham & Watkins lawyers reviewed all 57 California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) cases, both published and unpublished, that came before California appellate courts. Read the full CEQA Case Report Year in Review 2018.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2025

For nearly seven years-- since July 18, 2018 when the spills were first discovered-- DEP has been trying to work with Benko to get the multiple spills at the site cleaned up. A March 28, 2019 DEP inspection report found no change in site conditions from the original July 18, 2018 inspection. Violations continued.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 2, 2024

And, this spring, that clean energy production is looking more impressive than ever. The United States now has more than 73,000 utility-scale wind turbines in service, 26 percent more than it did in 2018. In 2023, for example, taken together, they accounted for two thirds of the total new megawatts installed.

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Law and Environment

JULY 22, 2021

Public Utility Regulatory Authority decisions are statutorily guided by the state’s energy strategy. As part of their 2018 climate bill , Connecticut’s legislature formally tied the state’s energy strategy to the state’s climate targets.

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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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Vermont Law

APRIL 26, 2019

This legislation was introduced on July 10, 2018. Less than a year later, on January 18th Mayor Muriel Bowser signed the Clean Energy D.C. Omnibus Amendment Act of 2018. Mayor Bowser’s Office has projected that this historic legislation will further support her “Clean Energy DC plan”. come from renewables.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Glasgow — Today at COP26, Canada, US, Mali, UK, and 20 other countries and institutions from both developed and developing countries launched a joint statement committing to end direct international public finance for unabated coal, oil and gas by the end of 2022 and prioritize clean energy finance.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Driving PA Forward launched eight grant programs in 2018 with the goal of permanently reducing nitrogen oxides in Pennsylvania by replacing a large number of older diesel vehicles and equipment and promoting cleaner transportation technologies with funding from the Commonwealth’s $118.5 Annually the project will remove 3.9

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Research shows that if countries follow through on their Glasgow commitment, this will directly shift $38 billion a year out of fossil fuels and into clean energy, an amount that is more than double the signatories’ international clean energy finance. times less than its support for fossil fuels.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Beirne Green Hills Farms Unit A1H (2018) -- Chief Oil & Gas LLC (now Chesapeake Appalachia LLC) - Asylum Twp. Beirne Green Hills Farms Unit A2H (2018) -- Chief Oil & Gas LLC (now Chesapeake Appalachia LLC) - Asylum Twp. Beirne Green Hills Farms Unit A4H (2018) -- Chesapeake Appalachia LLC - Albany Twp. Ridgebury Twp.

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Clean Energy Law

MAY 17, 2019

With the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear the case, the Ninth Circuit’s September 2018 ruling that Oregon’s CFP does not unconstitutionally favor in-state fuels over out-of-state fuels stands.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The energy research firm Wood Mackenzie estimates that the number of blades using PET as their core material instead of balsa will increase from 20% in 2018 to 55% in 2023. Additionally, INCA Renewtech invented BioBalsa, a durable blade material made of hemp hurd cellulose. Can wind turbine blades be recycled?

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 15, 2024

When the current Ontario government came to power in 2018, one of the first things they did was introduce a bill that canceled the cap and trade program and weakened Ontario’s climate target, which had been enshrined in law. What’s the case about? This move set back climate ambition in Ontario, and Canada, significantly.

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

As was the case in 2018 and 2019, the Sixth District was the only district in which the public agency prevailed in all cases. Overall, public agencies prevailed in 23 of the 34 cases, or 68% of the time, down slightly from a 71% win rate in 2019 but consistent with the 65% win rate in 2018.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 18, 2022

1 Million Acre-Feet : Loss of storage capacity in Lake Powell between 1986 and 2018 due to sediment buildup, according to the U.S. The other report is an analysis of how breaching the dams would affect the electric grid and the region’s clean energy goals. By the Numbers. Geological Survey. News Briefs.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 22, 2022

Storage costs decreased almost 70 per cent between 2015 and 2018 and are expected to keep falling significantly. Combining renewable energy sources with storage systems can provide steady power at prices that are lower and more reliable than gas generation. Use Water Power Imports. Hydroelectric Power, Shawinigan, Quebec.

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Washington Nature

JULY 3, 2023

Our journey began with 2016’s Initiative 732 and expanded with 2018’s Initiative 1631. These experiences led TNC Washington to join the Climate Alliance for Jobs and Clean Energy—a diverse coalition of environmental nonprofits, Tribes, BIPOC-led environmental justice organizations, and labor.

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