Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 24, 2023

The progress in the numbers The new numbers are from the federal Energy Information Administration (EIA), which collects data from power plant operators from across the country. They offer a lot of good news about clean energy progress. Renewables up, coal down More renewable energy is desirable for a lot of reasons.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Despite being in the same political party that created it, the UK’s new prime minister, Liz Truss, is in the process of completely changing the country’s energy policy. Gone are the net-zero promises and focus on a rapid clean energy transition, and in its place is a new narrative that more fossil fuels will solve the country’s energy crisis.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 29, 2024

Climate policy has been boosted by dramatic changes in the economics of clean energy. Rooftop solar costs in 2020 were a third of what they had been in 2010. In 2020, the cost of single-axis utility scale solar was only a fifth of what it was in 2010. Wind power costs fell by half from 2008 to 2021.

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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.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2022

Just last month, wind energy for the first produced more electricity than coal and nuclear together in the United States over the course of a day. From 2020 to 2040, solar generation in these states grows nearly ninefold and wind generation more than sevenfold. In 2040, electricity generation in the USCA states is 73 percent renewable.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2022

We also evaluated the potential to accelerate the use of renewable energy dramatically through state-level renewable electricity standards, which have been major drivers of clean energy in recent decades. From 2020 to 2040, solar generation in these states jumps nearly ninefold and wind generation more than sevenfold.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Union of Concerned Scientists’ (UCS) research shows that top fossil fuel producers’ emissions are responsible for as much as half of global surface temperature increase. Updated analysis from 2020 shows that emissions traced to the 88 largest carbon producers contributed approximately 60 percent?of

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2023

Growing by over 30 percent-- to 92,773 jobs since the height of the COVID-19 economic crisis in 2020–clean energy jobs in Pennsylvania have proved their resilience. Increased investment in the clean energy sector can support the continued trajectory of this job market lifting up Pennsylvania’s communities.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2023

On January 26, the Minnesota House of Representatives passed House File 7 —the 100% Clean Energy Bill. Now, with climate and clean energy majorities in both chambers, Minnesota is poised to join other leading states in updating its clean energy policies equitably with benefits for all residents.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 19, 2021

Buried two-thirds of the way through a dense tax code bill, nestled between tax breaks for entertainment venues and expansion criteria for Keystone Opportunity Zones, was a major $320 million giveaway for a new fossil fuel facility. In 2012, the Legislature passed the largest corporate subsidy in its history—a 25-year, $1.65

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 16, 2023

According to 2020 polling , 72% of all Pennsylvanians supporting RGGI, particularly because RGGI will benefit their commonwealth by creating thousands of family-sustaining jobs and ensuring a safe and healthy future for generations to come. And they aren’t alone. billion in RGGI income.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2022

Wider repercussions, including the inequitable impacts of rising food and energy prices and the potential for a food crisis hitting vulnerable populations around the world, must also be urgently addressed by global leaders. Other countries are dependent upon these fossil fuels, they don’t make themselves free of them.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Despite the clean energy transition that is well underway in the United States, methane gas, or natural gas, remains the largest source of U.S. The rolling blackouts took place two nights in a row on August 14 and August 15, 2020. Gas plants were the most affected by outages and derates during the 2020 California heat wave.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The 2020 Maine Fishermen’s Forum was the last conference I and many others attended before the pandemic shutdown. GOM communities, not fossil fuel interests, should determine policies that affect GOM people. It was the first weekend in March, and I recall people even then were unsure of offering a handshake or a fist bump.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

There is still much we can do to bend that emissions curve sharply within this decade—but only if world leaders, especially leaders of richer countries and major emitting nations, take responsibility to act together quickly and fossil fuel companies are held accountable for their decades of obstruction and deception.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

In New England, the percent of people of color living near fossil fuel power plants is up to 23.5 Even as some parts of the country transition away from fossil fuel infrastructure, the retirement of gas plants has become another driver of inequity.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

While the epicenter of the war and its horrors has remained trained on and in Ukraine, Russia has also leveraged its position as a major fossil fuel exporter to fund its war efforts and to manipulate and threaten others, including countries across Europe that have long relied on Russian supplies of gas. Credit: U.S.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 17, 2022

As we’ve discussed before , multiple cities and towns in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts have tried to ban fossil fuel hookups for new buildings by zoning or other ordinance over the past few years. As we noted then, in order for municipalities to restrict or ban fossil fuel connections, [T]he legislature must move first.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 16, 2024

These owners understood both the need for a supply of energy, and the value and reliability of clean energy. A significant fraction of the clean energy built in the US was financed on the commitments by such high profile, public data companies. Data centers’ total energy demand is challenging to meet.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 31, 2022

Paul in a special session to pass the climate and energy funding they agreed on, Minnesota will miss out on significant federal support for clean energy infrastructure as federal programs start and other states vie for funding. Minnesota has the tools to build a clean energy future. Unless legislators return to St.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 31, 2022

It issued five Flex Alerts in 2020, eight in 2021, but there’s only been one so far this year. For example, the two rotating blackouts in August 2020 occurred during energy supply shortages that happened at 6:38 to 7:40 p.m. When grid conditions are tight, California’s grid operator issues Flex Alerts. and 6:28 to 6:48 p.m.

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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. billion to $2.2

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 15, 2022

From 2010 through 2020, the cost of electricity from wind fell more than 60 percent, according to the Department of Energy. Wind power is now cheaper than fossil fuels—even existing coal plants—in many parts of the country. Wind power is a bargain. J Rogers/UCS. We can do wind power right.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

But solar is the big winner here, with it’s share of total US capacity increasing from 7% in 2020 to 29% in 2050. Without additional climate or clean energy policies, gas (and to a lesser degree, coal) will both provide electricity and will be used to balance the grid with growing levels of variable wind and solar generation.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

Notably, in the same proposal, the Commission has also included screening criteria for gaseous fossil fuels. Their inclusion appears to be the result of a political compromise with Member States rather than of scientific appraisal as in the case of nuclear energy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The bankruptcies were set in motion even before 2020. High energy burdens can result from a variety of factors, including earning lower average salaries, residing in older, less-efficient buildings, and having insufficient access to energy efficiency programs. Don’t believe the industry spin.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 14, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen Despite trying to position itself as one of the leading countries in the world when it comes to climate action and diversifying to clean energy, the US remains the world’s largest oil producer for the sixth year running. million barrels per day (bpd). .”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Once the battery looks up to code, it is off to the grid to power our renewable energy future! Battery energy storage is powerful and growing. Battery energy storage can help store clean energy for the grid. From 2020 to 2021, large-scale US battery storage system installations tripled from 1.4

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 31, 2023

2020 went well above the forecast, with a record 30 named storms, 14 of which turned into hurricanes, seven becoming major hurricanes. However, if an El Niño does not develop soon or strongly enough, sea surface temperatures are already so high (similar to those of the record-breaking 2020 season) that 2023 may end up very busy.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

Throughout his career, Minott and the Clean Air Council earned a reputation for holding government agencies and fossil fuel companies accountable. Since assuming elected office in 2020, Rep. He has publicly called for investments in clean energy, green technologies, and environmental research.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen When Bernard Looney took over the helm of oil and gas giant BP (British Petroleum) in 2020 it was with the objective to, once and for all, change its image to one without hydrocarbons. This has worried clean energy investors in BP.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Despite the climate crisis and the pledges made by global oil and gas companies to start moving their operations away from hydrocarbons and invest more heavily in low-carbon energy technologies, the reality is often different. All whilst releasing net-zero strategies declaring their commitment to tackling the climate crisis.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Over the course of the reform process, energy experts have described the newly adopted changes as “a slow-moving train wreck.” But other experts have called them “a big step forward for clean energy.”. And what does it mean that hardly anyone outside of the wonkiest energy circles even noticed? Which is it?

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Law and Environment

MARCH 14, 2023

The states’ approach aligns thematically with their 2020 Vision for a Clean, Affordable, and Reliable 21 st Century Regional Electric Grid which, in part, recognizes the need to integrate significant levels of new offshore wind resources at the lowest cost possible in order to achieve a decarbonized system in New England.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 24, 2024

The way to do that is by slashing heat-trapping emissions—by phasing out global fossil fuel use and ramping up clean energy. These spreadsheets contain: Data for assets at risk in 2020 and 2030 as well as in 2050 and 2100. Limiting future warming to 1.5°C Filterable lists of all the assets at risk.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Governmental agencies and utilities involved in the energy sector can pair an energy justice framework with meaningful community engagement to assess their actions and decisions and realize the benefits of energy equity for their constituents.

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