Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) and Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) announced that proposed amendments to the state’s Clean Energy Standard (CES) were finalized earlier this month without substantive changes from draft language initially proposed by the agencies in April 2022.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

Back in 2018, California legislators were considering a bill that would have created an independent governance structure for California’s grid operator , the California Independent System Operator (CAISO). The 2018 bill did not pass, but the idea never faded. The list goes on, but you get the point.

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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. What is Western grid regionalization? It’s not a new concept.

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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. By Leigh Hartman When Son Nguyen lived in the US, he saw rapidly advancing electric vehicle technology and heard stories from back in Vietnam about air pollution. © Zul Kifli / AFP / Getty Images.

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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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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

JULY 27, 2022

As electric vehicle (EV) sales continue to increase, questions about how these cars and their batteries will be disposed of have been top of mind for current owners, future buyers, policymakers, and many experts in the automotive industry. Assembly Bill 2832 passed in 2018 creating the California Battery Recycling Advisory Group.

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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. The Associated Press reports that the environment commissioner in Maine suspended a permit for a high-voltage electricity transmission line intended to cross the state.

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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. A just, equitable, and clean energy future will take all of us.

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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. Without reliable electricity, industrialisation sputters. Photo credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 27, 2024

On August 27, Ready for 100% Montgomery County announced nearly one-third of the communities in Montgomery County committed to a gradual transition to 100 percent clean, renewable energy in its electricity usage by 2035 and in all sectors (heat, transportation) by 2050. This is a collaborative, iterative process.

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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. Fifteen percent of electricity is renewable. Renewables are a third of electricity consumption. Renewables are 42% of electricity. trillion tons.]

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The BOS, or balance of system, is the equipment other than the module and the inverter, the piece that converts the DC power from the modules to AC for the home and the electricity grid. 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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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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A Greener Life

JUNE 27, 2022

In March, start-up BasiGo became the first company to launch an electric passenger bus in Kenya. We selected BYD because they are the largest manufacturer of electric buses globally and they are known for battery technology that is state-of-the-art,” BasiGo co-founder and CEO Jit Bhattacharya told China Dialogue. million in funding.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 2, 2024

Whatever the weather in March and beyond—in-like-a-lion blustery or out-like-a-lamb sunny—spring tends to be a season of strong electricity production from solar and wind in particular. Spring is also a glorious time for taking stock, since the official data on the previous year’s US electricity generation become available.

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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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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 22, 2022

We all know that to successfully address climate change we need to phase out fossil fuels and switch to electric power. A s we transition our homes and vehicles to electric power, it’s imperative that the electricity sector be clean. One company has developed a system for storing energy using compressed air.

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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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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 20, 2021

DEP’s Climate Change Advisory Committee is scheduled to meet August 24 to review the latest Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventory for Pennsylvania and hear an overview of DEP’s Energy Office Clean Energy Program Plan. million tons in 2018. million tons in 2018-- 47.88 percent natural gas in 2018. million tons.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2022

A wind turbine includes a foundation, a tower, electrical wiring, a nacelle between the blades, and the blades themselves. 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. Blade materials are special.

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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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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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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The new Driving PA Forward Truck and Bus Fleet Grant-funded projects will take 42 old diesel trucks and buses off the road, replacing them with electric, propane, compressed natural gas, and new clean diesel vehicles. The projects are located in high-population areas with dense traffic and high air pollution levels.

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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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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 17, 2022

The extensive new 543-kilowatt solar installation will produce enough electricity to power 30–40% of CCAC North Campus’s electrical energy needs. CCAC’s first two arrays of solar panels, installed in 2018, were 15 and 64 kilowatts, and are located at West Hills Center and the Allegheny Campus, respectively.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 18, 2021

But what you probably haven’t heard is that our grid is getting dirtier again, with fossil fuels increasing in our electricity supply from burning natural gas. That means carbon emissions from electricity in Ontario will be rising back up again after years of decline. Ontario Energy Output by Fuel Type: 2020 .

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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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Circle of Blue

MAY 22, 2023

The Clean Energy Minerals Reform Act would update national mining laws that date to 1872. Baltimore has not done that for two such reservoirs, despite agreeing to do so by the end of 2018. This includes coal ash storage pits that are no longer receiving waste or pits at electric-generating facilities that are no longer active.

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Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 13, 2020

On November 21, 2019, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) passed Resolution 19-27 , approving several amendments to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) program designed to foster stability in the LCFS market and promote access to electric vehicle (EV) transportation for disadvantaged and low-income communities in California.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 20, 2023

Opportunities to learn more about environmental and energy issues affecting Pennsylvania for students and adults-- -- PennLive: PennLive Outdoors Reporter Marcus Schneck Honored With Posthumous Award From PA Parks & Forest Foundation -- Pine Creek Headwaters Protection Group Asks DCNR To Protect State Forest Land From Seneca Shale Gas Drilling (..)

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 21, 2023

Acquires PA-Based Plants & Goodwin Well Plugging Firm To Create Methane Emission Offsets House Environmental Committee Holds May 22 Hearing On Hydrogen Hubs & Climate Change PUC Alerts Consumers To Electricity Price Changes Coming June 1-- From 20.7%

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

As a large state and an energy giant, Pennsylvania is one of the biggest generators of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. We emitted about 269 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2018 (the latest year for which data are available), with industry, electricity production, and transportation the largest sources.

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Columbia Climate Law

JULY 9, 2015

Recently, two competing plans to reform California’s four-tier electricity rate structure of the three investor-owned utilities (IOUs) [1] have emerged from the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). Under the current tariff system, customers who use more electricity are charged significantly higher rates per kilowatt-hour (kWh). [4]

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 4, 2023

Yaw's Energy Beliefs You can get a better understanding of Sen. Yaw's energy beliefs by reading a transcript of the comments he made at the February 27 joint hearing on electric grid reliability by the Senate Environmental and Consumer Protection Committees. We didn't have any reliability issues at all.” "And What's the backup?

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Clean Energy Law

MARCH 11, 2021

In December 2018, after having successfully reduced greenhouse gas emissions from the power sector by 53.3%, a majority of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) jurisdictions announced plans to design a program to address carbon emissions from the combustion of transportation fuels. Background.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

17 to 23 -- 7 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Defective Casing From 2018; Mariner Pipeline Drilling Mud Breakout; Additional Shell Air Penalties; Water Supply Investigation Protect PT Hosts Feb. 27 Online Lunch & Learn With Laurie Barr About Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells DEP: Shell Petrochemical Plant Pays Additional $2,671,044.75

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