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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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

According to the forecast, while economy-wide CO 2 emissions decrease from 2022 to 2037 due primarily to the growth in renewable energy replacing retiring coal plants, emissions do increase after 2037 from increased usage of natural gas. EIA is projecting that natural gas prices will remain low.

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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. However, there are important differences in the mix of gas and coal in generation, which matters a lot since coal-fired generators emit much more carbon per kilowatt. Fossil Fuel Use.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Communities rich and poor bore witness to horrific devastation in 2021. The events of 2021 are likely to be a prelude for tougher tests ahead. Power companies turned instead to natural gas – but also displayed new interest in wind and solar. Fossil fuel subsidies could be lowered.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 31, 2022

Many of my colleagues have already described the various ways we’ve gotten into this elevated fuel price mess, why doubling down on fossil fuels at this moment is a horrible idea, and why doing so would not improve our current or future economic, geopolitical or environmental problems. How Did We Get Here?

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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. Investors finally started getting tougher on these debt-saddled drilling companies during the pandemic as demand for both oil and gas plunged, pushing a slew of drillers over the edge into bankruptcy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2022

The November 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), also referred to as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, or BIL, includes an $8 billion “regional clean hydrogen hubs” program that charges the Department of Energy (DOE) with the development of at least four hydrogen hubs to advance the nation’s clean hydrogen sector.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 24, 2025

data centers risks deepening Americas reliance on fossil fuels and can put consumers and communities at risk, according to the report. The report shows that between 2021-2024, the number of data centers in the U.S. Rising electricity demand from U.S. Electricity demand to power these centers is projected to increase as well.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2022

The shift from fossil fuels in the 100-percent RES scenario reduces the amount of toxic power plant air pollution much more than what we called a “no-new-policy,” or business-as-usual, scenario. And what about fossil fuel-dependent workers and communities? Our analysis also demonstrates renewables’ power.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 3, 2021

But as the market grows, some urge caution before using wastewater to create renewable natural gas. By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — August 4, 2021. Utilities can use this energy to power their own treatment works, or they can sell it back to the grid as renewable natural gas (RNG) or electricity.

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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. Gavin Newsom made a habit of waiving all state environmental rules to allow fossil fuel power plants and backup generators to run without restrictions when the grid was under stress.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

This approach originated from the recognition that many alternative fuels, especially ethanol, involve a lot of fossil fuels and other pollution in their production. This approach holds fuel producers accountable for reducing fossil fuel use and other global warming pollution in their supply chains.

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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.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 21, 2023

A 2021 meta-analysis of over 40 peer-reviewed studies on the subject concluded that “there is no particular type of shopping that has an absolute environmental advantage and it is in no way possible to shop ourselves out of the environmental crisis.” How would that change if I hopped on the electric bus route at the end of my block?

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2025

A decade later In 2021, Steelton-Highspire School District worked with McClure Company to install a solar array large enough to offset 100 percent of its annual electricity usage. With the buses being powered by electricity from the sun, the school is no longer paying for fuel, and putting each dollar saved into programming for the district.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 15, 2024

The report illustrates why including ‘natural’ gas under the sustainable finance label would undermine the tool’s credibility, invalidating the efforts to date. Methane is responsible for 30 per cent of the current global temperature rise to date globally, and over 14 per cent of Canada’s annual greenhouse gas emissions. “A

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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. But what does extreme weather actually do to cause gas plants to run into trouble? electricity generation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2022

To meet that goal, the International Energy Agency’s Net Zero Roadmap released in 2021 says no new oil and gas supply projects can come online. Companies are spending millions fighting lawsuits that would hold them accountable for the costs that fossil fuel extraction has imposed on people and the planet.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Just how bad is fossil “natural” gas? And, as it turns out, the infrastructure used to produce, store, distribute, transmit, and burn gas leaks like a sieve , making gas as bad as coal for the climate. Its primary component is methane.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 20, 2025

Thats why Prime Minister Trudeaus 2021 promise to deliver a net-zero electricity grid by 2035 was important. Yet, reaching net zero also means phasing out polluting fossil fuel energy, so the government developed rules to impose a pollution limit on electricity producers.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 2, 2023

On March 2, the Independent Fiscal Office issued a report on fourth quarter 2022 natural gas production in Pennsylvania showing a 1.6% decline in production from 2021 and a 5.1% decrease from the fourth quarter of 2021. Although the IFO reported the average price of natural gas increased 82.5%

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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 On the other side of the country, half of California’s gas plants are in communities considered among the state’s 25% most disadvantaged communities.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 13, 2022

Natural gas, oil, and nuclear are minor players. In November 2021, Prime Minster Modi announced in Glasgow that India would get half its energy from renewables by 2030 as well as significantly cutting its emissions. Twelve percent of capacity comes from hydro, and an impressive 23% from renewables (10% wind, 9% solar).

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 6, 2022

Rated for 1,320 megawatts — roughly the size of a large fossil fuel plant — the dam is now capable of only 800 megawatts. In 2021, the fund was in jeopardy due to declining hydropower generation. The fund balance was cut in half , dropping from $146 million in January 2021 to $74 million by the end of the year.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Production of nitrogen fertilizers requires ammonia, which is produced through a highly energy-intensive process called Haber-Bosch and fueled by natural gas. Russia is a major supplier of the gas used in the production of nitrogen fertilizers, and also produces about 21 percent of the world’s potash.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 15, 2022

The energy analysts found that despite all the efforts to curb emissions, in 2021 global energy-related CO2 emissions rose to their highest ever level as the lockdowns put in place by many governments due to the pandemic were eased. Emission from natural gas also rose well above 2019 levels to 7.5 billion tonnes. billion tonnes.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 27, 2022

On October 27, the Public Utility Commission approved a rate settlement that would increase the typical monthly charge for PECO Natural Gas Division customers by 9 percent-- from $95.31 The increase will show up on bills as an increase in gas delivery charges. Click Here for the complete PUC announcement on PECO Gas.

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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. Emissions from Germany’s power sector could thus rise from 244 million tons in 2021 to 264 million tons in 2022.

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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. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, held that EPCA preempted a Berkeley ordinance that prohibited natural gas piping in new buildings.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

DEP originally permitted the gas-fired plant in April 2021, but Renovo Energy Center has failed to secure financing to move forward. Why in the world would DEP break the law just to ensure that a giant fossil fuel power plant can dirty the community’s air? Renewable energy is cleaner, cheaper, and more abundant.”

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 16, 2023

These comments are in addition to the more than 30,000 comments from individual pro-life Christians collected by EEN supporting former Governor Wolf’s RGGI rulemaking in 2021. As illustrated by my own hometown, the truth is that while fossil fuels have provided great benefits for Pennsylvanians, it has also come with a tremendous cost.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Gas plants generated 40% of electricity in the US in 2022, and when these power plants don’t perform due to plant malfunctions or fuel supply problems (issues that could be addressed with stronger oversight), these affect the power grid.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 1, 2021

On September 29, the Department of Environmental Protection terminated the air quality permit for the proposed Beech Hollow natural gas-fired power plant in Robinson Township, Washington County at the request of the company. This is a huge victory for the health of my community!” Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Key Takeaways Here are some key takeaways from the hearing-- -- Natural Gas Continues To Have A Reliability Problem: 70% of the PJM electric generation that failed to perform during the December freeze were natural gas-fired power plants. The Commission is continuing to work with PJM to evaluate the results of the storm.

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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. On 2 January 2022, massive protests erupted throughout Kazakhstan , initially over the price of liquefied petroleum gas. Photo credit: Matjaz Corel / Alamy.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Higher prices for oil, natural gas, coal, and electricity are all pushing up inflation across the economy, dampening consumer demand, canceling out wage gains, and compounding the burdens facing working families and the poor as they seek to recover from the pandemic. The Capacity Story. In the U.S.,

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 21, 2021

On December 21, sixteen local and statewide environmental groups expressed their opposition to a proposed natural gas to gasoline refinery to be built in Luzerne County by Texas-based Nacero. Both products--which are chemically identical--would require more dangerous pipeline infrastructure to move the gas to the plant.

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