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Progress Possible at COP 28 Despite Fossil Fuel Industry Deception

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Last week, I joined my colleagues at COP28 in Dubai , as negotiators and civil society push for a fossil fuel phaseout to meet climate goals. The industry is pushing a narrative that misleadingly calls out emissions , not fossil fuels as the problem. Source: IPCC Sixth Assessment Report.

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Five Grid Plans to Cut Fossil Fuel Dependence

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2022

Replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy from wind and solar will depend on upgrading the electric power grid, which is currently plagued by planning delays and gridlock. The 2021 law allows, but does not require, PJM to plan ahead because various fossil fuel plants must reduce and then cease emissions by a specific date.

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Ask a Scientist: How Close Are We to a Clean Energy Transition?

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 15, 2024

After the hottest summer on record, the world continues to witness extreme weather fueled by the burning of fossil fuels. We need to stop burning fossil fuels immediately. Thankfully, we are in the midst of a much-needed transition away from fossil fuels and towards a future powered by more renewables.

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Modernizing the Energy Charter Treaty - EU wants to stop investment protection for fossil fuels

Energy and Climate Law

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The aim of the EU is to try to stop fossil fuel companies suing states over climate action. So far there have been two rounds of negotiations over a new text between the EU and the Energy Charter Treaty and a third round of negotiations is running until 6 November 2020.

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Ask a Scientist: Two Dozen States Can Meet 100 Percent of Electricity Demand with Renewables by 2035

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2022

Nearly all of the alliance members have a renewable electricity standard (RES), which requires utilities in their jurisdiction to increase their use of renewable energy to a particular percentage by a specific year. From 2020 to 2040, solar generation in these states jumps nearly ninefold and wind generation more than sevenfold.

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Renewables smash fossil fuels at cost

A Greener Life

JULY 7, 2021

New research from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) confirms renewables are continuing to outpace fossil fuels on cost. They found that the share of renewable energy that achieved lower costs than the most competitive fossil fuel option doubled in 2020. Beyond the tipping point of coal.

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Minnesota: Will This Be the Year for a 100-Percent Carbon-Free Electricity Policy?

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2023

Now it’s on to the state Senate, where the question is: Will this be the year Minnesota sets a path toward 100-percent carbon-free electricity? Minnesota can join other leading states By enacting a standard for 100-percent carbon-free electricity by 2040, Minnesota can join other leading states who have updated their clean energy policies.

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Renewables take top spot as power source in EU, surpassing fossil fuels for first time

Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The European Commission reported today that renewables generated more electricity than fossil fuels in Europe for the first time in 2020, generating 38% of EU’s electricity, compared to 37% of fossil fuel-powered energy. Read the full story at ESG Today. Read more →

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Coming soon to Massachusetts cities and towns: all electric buildings

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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GERMAN ELECTRICITY TO GET DIRTIER IN 2022, NEW ANALYSIS FINDS

Environmental Progress

JANUARY 4, 2022

Germany is expected to increase its fossil fuel consumption for electricity generation in 2022, if its weather conditions and electricity demand are similar to 2021, a new analysis from Environmental Progress finds. With its 2021 and 2022 electricity generation profile, Germany would have missed its targets.

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Climate Policy and the Audacity of Hope

Legal Planet

APRIL 29, 2024

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. The Department of Energy estimates the cost of an electric vehicle lithium-ion battery pack declined 89% between 2008 and 2022.

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A 100% Renewable Energy Future is Possible, and We Need It

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2022

Climate Alliance (USCA) can meet all of their electricity needs with renewable energy—while decarbonizing other sectors of the economy and ensuring equitable benefits to all communities. And we’re already seeing the prominent role that renewables are starting to play in our electricity mix. by 2035 is needed.

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Our Overdependence on Methane Gas is Costly: We Need Policymakers to Pass Clean Energy Legislation Now

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 31, 2022

Rising prices of methane gas used for power and heating, exacerbated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, are contributing to soaring electric and heating bills across the country. And such action cannot be influenced by fossil fuel interests and their policy proposals that we are seeing in Congress. How Did We Get Here?

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Extreme Summer Weather Threatens Gas Power Plants. Here’s How.

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

electricity generation. Renewables are continuing to increase their share of the power sector, rising to almost 23 percent of the nation’s electricity supply last year, which was higher than the generation from both coal-fired and nuclear plants. In other words, when the air is hot, gas power plants cannot generate as much electricity.

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South Korea and Climate Change

Legal Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

According to the Energy Information Agency , South Korea’s power sector is heavily reliant on fossil fuels. Two thirds of generation capacity is based on fossil fuels, split evenly between coal and natural gas, with 17% nuclear, and 14% hydro and other renewables. 50% coal, 26% gas, and 25% nuclear.

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Renewables Have Pulled Ahead of Coal. What’s Next?

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 24, 2023

There’s good news in the recently released official data on electricity generation in the United States in 2022: renewable energy has continued to grow, coal power has continued to drop, and renewables are now firmly ahead of coal for the first time ever. percent of the country’s electricity supply (up 1.1 It supplied 10.5

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5 Powerful Facts for Global Wind Day

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 15, 2022

The ones that’ll soon be gracing areas over the horizon are powerful enough, each one, to generate the equivalent of an average home’s daily electricity use in just a few seconds. Even more important, though, wind is an impressive piece of our electricity supply. Wind is now the largest source of renewable energy in the country.

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Ohio Ratepayers Shouldn’t Have to Pay for Money-Losing Coal Plants

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. This ongoing PUCO proceeding is specific to the costs of operating the two coal plants in 2020.

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Don’t Believe the Lies: Five Facts to Consider as the UN’s COP27 Comes to a Close

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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September Is Here. That Means Another Nail-Biter for California’s Grid.

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 31, 2022

At any point in the summer, extreme heat could trigger electricity supply shortages and rotating power outages. 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.

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Emissions by the Big Utilities: Where They Are, What They’re Aiming For

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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Reliance on Gas Power Plants Fuels Inequity

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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Powering the Data Boom: How Will the Grid Keep Up?

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 16, 2024

I work in the electric utility sector, specifically on the grid issues that shape our energy supply choices. I heard some early warnings of data center growth running into grid limits first from tech companies and then from electric utility planners. This growth is a jolt to the usually slow-moving electricity sector.

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Uno-X selects a roster of all-electric team cars for TDF

A Greener Life

JUNE 28, 2024

The highly ambitious team has announced that as its starting riders line up, they will be equipped with all-electric vehicles (EVs) for its service teams and sports directors, who guide the riders through the stages. In doing so, the Scandinavian team, founded in 2016 and turned professional as recently as 2020, writes history.

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War in Ukraine and the Climate Crisis Are Connected: Our Future Depends on Solutions that Address Both

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2022

Fossil fuels are the root cause of climate change, of long-standing environmental injustices, and are also frequently connected to geopolitical strife and violent conflicts. Other countries are dependent upon these fossil fuels, they don’t make themselves free of them. This is a fossil fuel war.

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Analysis: Kenya’s electric vehicle market is raring to go

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. Policy direction.

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Has Gasoline Use in California Peaked?

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

More efficient (and cleaner) gasoline cars are part of the reason why gasoline use is down, but the increasing number of electric vehicles being sold in the state will likely drive gasoline use down even further. But a growing share of the reductions is likely due to the increasing sales of electric vehicles (EVs).

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The EIA Just Released a 30 Year Energy Outlook. It’s… Not Great

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

They just released their 2022 “Annual Energy Outlook” (AEO), which is a big deal: it tells us where electricity is headed over the next 30 years. Here are five key takeaways from this year’s AEO, focused primarily on the electricity sector: 1. Relying on market trends is nowhere near enough to do the job. Carbon emissions remain high.

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Electric Vehicles Combat Climate Change

Global Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

CHRIS JOHNSTON DECEMBER 2, 2020. Chris Johnston is co-author of The Arrival of the Electric Car – An Overview of the EV Revolution Happening Now. The fastest way to shift the transportation sector to environmental sustainability is to accelerate the transition to electric vehicles (EVs). Recently that has changed.

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Why Energy Bills Will Be Even Higher This Winter

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

US ratepayers very likely will pay even more for electricity and heating this winter compared to the already-expensive winter of 2021-2022. The bankruptcies were set in motion even before 2020. A smaller percentage of homes are heated by other sources, such as electricity or propane.)

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Fighting Climate Change and Unhealthy Air, California Wants to Electrify Trucks, Too

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Now that California has taken the lead and set a goal for all passenger vehicles sold in the state to be electric by 2035, the next logical step is electrifying medium- and heavy-duty vehicles. This is roughly the equivalent of taking 66 million fossil-fueled cars off the road for an entire year. Drayage Fleets.

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Latest UN, IEA, WMO Climate Reports Show Global Emissions Dangerously High, Emergency Action Required

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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RePlanet Nederland’s review of the draft Delegated Regulation on nuclear energy and gaseous fossil fuels in the sustainable finance taxonomy

Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

Notably, in the same proposal, the Commission has also included screening criteria for gaseous fossil fuels. The Regulation sets a time limit on the inclusion of nuclear energy but not on fossil fuels and grants the Commission special powers to rule on nuclear taxonomy compliance.

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What Happens If Glen Canyon Dam’s Power Shuts Off?

Circle of Blue

JUNE 6, 2022

Besides the kilowatt-hours it generates, Glen Canyon provides key services to the electric grid. The country’s second largest reservoir and a lynchpin in the intermountain electric grid, Powell is more dirt than water these days. Hydropower generation will likely shut down when Lake Powell’s elevation drops below 3,490 feet.

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Something Stinks: California Must End Manure Biomethane Accounting Gimmicks in its Low Carbon Fuel Standard

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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Minnesota Should Go All-In on Climate Solutions

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 31, 2022

On the last day of the 2022 Minnesota legislative session, state legislators had a real case of the Mondays: They failed to deliver on climate and energy policies that would have accelerated renewable energy enough to forge a clear path to carbon-free electricity and set the state on track to meet science-based emission reduction targets.

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New Global Energy Market Risk: War Pushes Overreliance on US LNG in Path of Climate-Amped Hurricanes

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.

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Analysis: Climate change: ditch 90% of the world’s coal and 60% of oil and gas to limit warming to 1.5°C – experts

A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

C above the pre-industrial average in 2020, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned in its recent report that Earth could hit 1.5°C Fossil fuels such as coal , oil and natural gas are the source of just over 80% of the world’s energy. Fossil fuels still provide most of the world’s energy.

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Changes to California’s Resource Adequacy Program Will Have Huge Consequences for the Power Grid

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

For the past few years, California regulators have been hard at work on a wholesale revamp of their resource adequacy program, which helps ensure the lights stay on when electricity demand is at its highest, during hot summer evenings, for example. More recently, California’s resource adequacy program has come under increased scrutiny.

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Decarbonizing Transportation Must Come with People-Powered Mobility Justice

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 19, 2023

New narratives, startups, and mobility experiments were based on great optimism about electric, digital, autonomous, hybrid, micro, or even aerial (drone) mobilities. And several automakers have announced they will no longer make fossil fueled vehicles sometime between 2025 and 2040. increase over 2020.

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Is It Possible to Phase Out Petroleum and Transform our Transportation System?

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Replacing petroleum with renewable electricity as the primary source of transportation energy will leave us all much better off. To achieve net-zero emissions in 2050 we must have 100% of new sales of light-duty passenger vehicles be electric by 2035, and of medium- and heavy-duty trucks at the latest by 2040.

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EVs Can Support Power Grid Reliability and Reduce Costs. Here’s How.

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 16, 2023

There have been high-profile rotating power outages caused by a heatwave in California (August 2020), a winter storm in Texas (February 2021), and another winter storm in Tennessee and North Carolina (December 2022). The electric grid will need to be very reliable for this transition to go smoothly.

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This election, we need real climate plans not false solutions

Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 30, 2021

In this blog, we’ll take a look at the technologies that are being sold as climate saviours when their real objective is to prolong the life of the polluting fossil fuels which are driving climate change: carbon capture, offsets and ‘blue’ hydrogen. Producing and using fossil fuels creates a lot of damage beyond climate disasters.

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Sen. Bartolotta, Sen. Yaw Announce Bill To Withhold Gas Drilling Impact Fees To Municipalities That Set More Protective Standards On Natural Gas Development Than State Law, And While There Is a Legal Challenge To Local Restrictions

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.” Read more here. Although not yet introduced, Sen. Read more here. Read more here. 16 [PaEN] -- EPA Files $4.2

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Progress Possible at COP 28 Despite Fossil Fuel Industry Deception

Five Grid Plans to Cut Fossil Fuel Dependence

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Ask a Scientist: How Close Are We to a Clean Energy Transition?

Modernizing the Energy Charter Treaty - EU wants to stop investment protection for fossil fuels

Ask a Scientist: Two Dozen States Can Meet 100 Percent of Electricity Demand with Renewables by 2035

Renewables smash fossil fuels at cost

Minnesota: Will This Be the Year for a 100-Percent Carbon-Free Electricity Policy?

Renewables take top spot as power source in EU, surpassing fossil fuels for first time

Coming soon to Massachusetts cities and towns: all electric buildings

GERMAN ELECTRICITY TO GET DIRTIER IN 2022, NEW ANALYSIS FINDS

Climate Policy and the Audacity of Hope

A 100% Renewable Energy Future is Possible, and We Need It

Our Overdependence on Methane Gas is Costly: We Need Policymakers to Pass Clean Energy Legislation Now

Extreme Summer Weather Threatens Gas Power Plants. Here’s How.

South Korea and Climate Change

Renewables Have Pulled Ahead of Coal. What’s Next?

5 Powerful Facts for Global Wind Day

Ohio Ratepayers Shouldn’t Have to Pay for Money-Losing Coal Plants

Don’t Believe the Lies: Five Facts to Consider as the UN’s COP27 Comes to a Close

September Is Here. That Means Another Nail-Biter for California’s Grid.

Emissions by the Big Utilities: Where They Are, What They’re Aiming For

Reliance on Gas Power Plants Fuels Inequity

Powering the Data Boom: How Will the Grid Keep Up?

Uno-X selects a roster of all-electric team cars for TDF

War in Ukraine and the Climate Crisis Are Connected: Our Future Depends on Solutions that Address Both

Analysis: Kenya’s electric vehicle market is raring to go

Has Gasoline Use in California Peaked?

The EIA Just Released a 30 Year Energy Outlook. It’s… Not Great

Electric Vehicles Combat Climate Change

Why Energy Bills Will Be Even Higher This Winter

Fighting Climate Change and Unhealthy Air, California Wants to Electrify Trucks, Too

Latest UN, IEA, WMO Climate Reports Show Global Emissions Dangerously High, Emergency Action Required

RePlanet Nederland’s review of the draft Delegated Regulation on nuclear energy and gaseous fossil fuels in the sustainable finance taxonomy

What Happens If Glen Canyon Dam’s Power Shuts Off?

Something Stinks: California Must End Manure Biomethane Accounting Gimmicks in its Low Carbon Fuel Standard

Minnesota Should Go All-In on Climate Solutions

New Global Energy Market Risk: War Pushes Overreliance on US LNG in Path of Climate-Amped Hurricanes

Analysis: Climate change: ditch 90% of the world’s coal and 60% of oil and gas to limit warming to 1.5°C – experts

Changes to California’s Resource Adequacy Program Will Have Huge Consequences for the Power Grid

Decarbonizing Transportation Must Come with People-Powered Mobility Justice

Is It Possible to Phase Out Petroleum and Transform our Transportation System?

EVs Can Support Power Grid Reliability and Reduce Costs. Here’s How.

This election, we need real climate plans not false solutions

Sen. Bartolotta, Sen. Yaw Announce Bill To Withhold Gas Drilling Impact Fees To Municipalities That Set More Protective Standards On Natural Gas Development Than State Law, And While There Is a Legal Challenge To Local Restrictions

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