Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

Minnesotans are already experiencing the climate crisis, as well as health impacts, from burning fossil fuels. A recent Union of Concerned Scientists analysis found that Minnesota could meet its electricity demands with 100-percent renewable energy by 2035, which would provide significant economic and health benefits.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2024

Yaw announced the introduction of legislation prohibiting the distribution of Act 13 impact fees to any county “that is actively suing over fossil fuel use.” Million Settlement, Largest Of Its Kind, Over 2019 Philadelphia Refinery Explosion [Includes Copy Of Proposed Settlement] -- WHYY - Sophia Schmidt: EPA Reaches Historic $4.2

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Legal Planet

MARCH 31, 2022

It turns out that most of them are 50-60% reliant on fossil fuels, with a lot of the remainder coming from nuclear and hydro. This table shows how much power is generated from fossil fuels by the top ten utilities (ranked by market value). There was more fuel oil in use in some places than I expected. Carbon Goal.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 31, 2023

That will require a huge increase in the amount of electric generation, at the same time that we’re also replacing existing fossil fuel capacity with renewables and storage. And we need people who can address the electricity pricing issues that come along with basically revamping our power system.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Today, the fossil fuel industry is aggressively promoting a liquefied natural gas facility near Philadelphia, explicitly targeting the most overburdened and underrepresented communities in the area so that they can export more gas overseas. Million Settlement Over 2019 South Philly Refinery Explosion, Fire -- AP: EPA Reaches $4.2

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2023

Fuel transport – Spring floods can hinder the transportation of fuels like coal. While it is a heavily polluting fossil fuel that is set to continue declining as a fuel source for US electricity generation over the next decade, coal still accounted for roughly 20 percent of the country’s generation in 2022.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

US emissions went down by around 15% between 2007 and 2019, while GDP per person went up around 25%. Another is that the costs of renewable energy and electric vehicles have declined so greatly in the past ten years, making them more or less competitive with their fossil-fuel alternatives.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

By expanding renewable power, phasing out fossil fuels, electrifying as much of the economy as possible, and deploying other technologies, the U.S. But it requires ambitious policies, including nearly tripling renewable energy’s share of US electricity generation by 2030 (see graph below). degrees Celsius. million homes.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

It doesn’t make financial sense for many coal plants stay open due to competition from more affordable clean resources —such as wind and solar—as well as from other fossil fuel power plants, such as those fired by methane gas. That would be outrageous, wouldn’t it? But that’s exactly what’s happening right now.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 22, 2022

Over the past 25 years, hospitals have decreased fossil fuel use, but electricity use isn’t declining as much. According to a survey by Grumman|Butkus Associates, the average combined Btu/ft2 (electricity plus gas/steam) for participating facilities was 236,743 in this year’s survey, up from 233,491 in 2019.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

CARB has proposed to rapidly increase the stringency of the standard to increase demand for credits, but it should also address the supply of credits, to make sure the fuels supported by the LCFS help move California towards a clean transportation future. Each credit one metric ton of carbon dioxide equivalent pollution below the standard.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Although NRG Energy as a company does generate some electricity using some renewable sources like solar and wind, more than 80% of its fuel mix is from fossil fuels, according to a 2023 analysis of the top 47 investor-owned utilities.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Like many other public-serving institutions throughout society, electricity and gas utilities are facing calls to be more equitable in their operations, planning, and treatment of customers. In 2019 and 2020, I served as a member of a committee involved in the implementation of California’s Assembly Bill 617.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Coal mine reclamation has become a flashpoint in the partisan divide over fossil fuel use. In the late 1970s, a golden age for American coal, skyrocketing oil prices coupled with rising demand for electricity set off a boom in coal-fired power plants. Photo © Illinois Department of Natural Resources.

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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

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The Dutch court agreed, ruling in 2019 in favor of Urgenda and requiring the government to reduce global warming emissions. Such cases also play a pivotal role in challenging and diminishing the social license of powerful entities, notably the fossil fuel industry, that have historically operated with limited accountability.

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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 20, 2023

Because beyond the importance of cleaning up the power sector itself, we also need a clean electricity system to enable the decarbonization of so many other aspects of our economy, from vehicles to homes and businesses to industrial processes. One critical tool for forcing that reckoning comes from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 2, 2025

Ironically, Germany also imports nuclear-produced electricity from France. In 2024, the demand for coal reached new heights due to the worlds increasing appetite for more electricity capacity. China diversified its electricity sector in 2024 in line with the countrys long-term trajectory of adding more renewables and nuclear.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

With most energy investments still in fossil fuels, significant reform is needed to modernise the sector and meet Kazakhstan’s pledge to become net-zero by 2060. Social unrest related to fossil fuels is not a new phenomenon in Kazakhstan. An oil pump in a dust storm on the road to Aktau, Kazakhstan. By Kate Watters.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 30, 2023

But despite this, it did not shift the dominance of fossil fuels. ” The surge in renewables does not mean a reduction in emissions While this shows that investments in renewables are increasing, it is still evident that reducing reliance on fossil fuels is a huge challenge. Electricity generation was up at 2.3%

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Electric Vehicles. The federal government offers a $5,000 incentive towards electric vehicle purchases (both battery electric and plug-in hybrid). One other important statistic: Ontario used to have incentives for electric vehicles at a time when there were no federal incentives. MT in 2019. MT in 2019.

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A Greener Life

JULY 23, 2021

Hydrogen may have lost the race to fuel electric cars but it looks a likely contender to replace fossil fuels in trucks, ships, planes and heavy industry. The Tokyo Olympics will be powered by a fuel with ambition – hydrogen. And it has a head start in organising imports of the fuel. By Fred Pearce.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 15, 2022

This most polluting fossil fuel accounted for over 40% of the overall growth in global CO2 emissions – reaching an all-time high of 15.3 Emission from natural gas also rose well above 2019 levels to 7.5 Coal-burning was by far the largest contributor to the increase. billion tonnes. billion tonnes.

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

For years, grid parity – the time when solar and wind would be cost-competitive with fossil fuels and nuclear – was the holy grail of renewables energy, a target to reach in a distant future. This is absurdly cheap and this won’t stop there as analysts believe that solar could be $1 cent per kWh in 2019.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The fossil fuel industry repeatedly claims that reducing its pollution to fight climate change is just too costly or difficult, but is that really the case? Canada needs to have a real conversation about a fair and equitable phaseout of fossil fuels. Absolutely not!

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

The 2021 climate audit by the Auditor General is the follow-up to one produced in 2019, which provided 22 recommendations for the province to improve its climate outcomes. For example, the province could phase-out the use of gas plants (which utilize fossil fuels) to generate electricity for the province.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 23, 2023

Outspoken climate denier Joe Oliver is retiring from his position as Chair of the Board of Directors of Ontario’s Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) which operates Ontario’s electricity system and manages power generation. There are other pro-fossil gas members on the IESO’s board as well.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 2, 2023

Fossil fuels currently account for around 60% of electricity generation , a share that it aims to reduce to 35% by 2030 through the expansion of renewables, including hydropower, and in particular wind and solar. The transition away from fossil fuels has, however, been an elusive goal for Argentina to date.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 18, 2023

Berkeley’s so-called “natural gas ban” was the first local ordinance in the country to effectively require all-electric construction of new buildings. Local governments have structured or are considering structuring all-electric construction policies in a variety of ways, some of which remain untouched by the Ninth Circuit ruling.

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Clean Energy Law

MARCH 11, 2021

In October 2019, the TCI published a Framework for a Draft Regional Policy Proposal, which described the TCI-P’s key design elements. In December 2019, the TCI issued for public comment a draft MOU that laid out the program’s framework. Affected Fuel” is defined as “the fossil fuel components of motor gasoline and on-road diesel fuel.”

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 28, 2023

On August 23, the PJM Interconnection Critical Issue Fast Path Resource Adequacy stakeholder group heard testimony and suggestions on the issue of making electricity market changes to address nonperformance of natural gas and other generators during emergencies and events like Winter Storm Elliot in December. Read more here. Read more here.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 27, 2025

City of New York , plumbing and building trade groups challenged New York Citys Local Law 154 of 2021 , a piece of legislation that prohibits fossil fuel combustion in most new buildings. This natural gas ban was the first local ordinance in the country to effectively require all-electric construction of new buildings.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The applicants sought an injunction declaring that Shell is legally bound to reduce its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 45% below 2019 levels by 2030. electricity, steam or heat) for business activities. Therefore, there is no room for new investment in fossil fuel supply and a need to decommission existing assets.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 21, 2023

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events -- TribLive: DEP Declares TODAY Code Orange Air Quality Alert For Liberty/Clairton, Allegheny County = -- FERC Approves PJM $1.25 Gas Explosions -- WPXI: Major Natural Gas Leak At Ross Twp.,

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Frontiers

JUNE 9, 2022

The Covid-19 pandemic not only caused a global health and economic crisis but also significantly reduced global CO2 emissions in 2020 by 6 to 7%, compared to 2019. To recover economically, many governments worldwide have invested in recovery plans to stimulate the economy and support employment.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The other company that will close coal assets by 2040 is HK Electric, which unfortunately plans to replace all its units with gas-fired power plants. Replacing one fossil fuel with another is the wrong solution, but one seen in many countries where coal plants are being retired or new coal power projects dropped.

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