Circle of Blue

JULY 26, 2022

July 26, 2022. Under state law, the city can be held responsible if failures by government officials caused at least half of the damages. An independent analysis found that while electrical problems at wastewater pumping systems exacerbated the sewer backups, most of the devastation was due to heavy rainfall, not government failure.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 9, 2022

August 9, 2022. The waste has remained there because the federal government has not established a permanent long-term storage facility. August 12, 2022: Webinar: Climate Change in the Great Lakes Basin — register. August 25, 2022: Interagency Ecological Restoration Quality Committee Monthly Webinar Series — register.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

They accounted for most of the failed generating capacity in a number of recent extreme weather events, including Winter Storm Uri in 2021 and Winter Storm Elliott in 2022, according to Gas Malfunction , a new Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) issue brief. percent higher than the number of wealthier residents, according to a 2022 UCS study.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The legislation committed nearly $400 billion to support, among other things, wind and solar power, battery storage, electric vehicles, and other clean energy technologies that will make a significant dent in US heat-trapping emissions. How is that going to happen? Their report, however, comes with a warning.

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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. Electric vehicles are “the most direct and efficient solution to improving the air quality in Vietnam , and in other countries in Southeast Asia,” Nguyen told Vietnam Investment Review in 2022. million people.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2022

This move leads to approximately 6,000 to 13,000 fewer premature deaths, more than 140,000 fewer cases of asthma exacerbation, and 700,000 fewer workdays lost to illness from 2022 to 2040 compared to current policies and plans. Just as important, cleaning up the power grid can also decrease carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Last week, on Monday November 14, as part of its Economic Outlook and Fiscal Review , the Ontario government officially announced it would be developing a voluntary clean energy credit (CEC) registry. million between 2022 and 2026. So it’s up to governments to choose and procure renewable energy sources for their grids.

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Law and Environment

JULY 1, 2022

EPA on Thursday, June 30, 2022, curbing the power of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants across the country. The decision focuses on EPA’s authority under a specific section of the Clean Air Act. What does this mean for clean energy projects?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Climate Week events highlighted commitments and actions needed from the financial sector and other corporations to support and spur government ambition. While Citi touts its $1 trillion Sustainable Finance by 2030 Goal, that figure includes the bank’s full range of environmental, social, and governance investments.

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Law and Environment

JANUARY 24, 2023

This past year represents a real turning point in the transition to electric vehicles, demonstrated by new major incentives and regulatory activities at both federal and state government levels and several notable accomplishments in the private sector. This all contributed to making 2022 the best year yet for EVs. First, the U.S.

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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. California has already taken steps toward these energy markets. Governance would expand beyond state borders. What is Western grid regionalization?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

New clean energy, including combined solar and battery projects, have waited (and waited, and waited…) in interconnection queues. In Virginia, where data centers already account for 25% of electricity use, $627 million in grid projects were approved in 2022 to get enough power over the wires to support this data center alley.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2024

On May 22, Duquesne Light Company released its 2023 Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Report , which discloses the company’s performance in three core areas of its ESG strategy: climate conscious, powering people and responsible performance. DLC received more than $19.8 DLC received more than $19.8 to receive this distinction. “As

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 30, 2022

The first wind turbine erected at the Hollandse Kust Zuid wind farm in April 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. . Photo credit: Vattenfall / Ties van der Horst.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 27, 2024

New analysis from Environmental Defence reveals that despite federal government promises, funding to the fossil fuel and petrochemical industries remains high Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – New analysis released today by Environmental Defence reveals Canada’s federal government provided at least $18.6

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

SB 1145 requires CARB to create and maintain an online dashboard providing the public with information about the state’s progress on meeting its climate change goals, increasing government accountability. Clean Energy. Climate Change Mitigation.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 3, 2024

By John Quigley, Senior Fellow, Kleinman Center Next year, the electricity bills for twenty percent of Americans will start reflecting the high cost of failing to transition to clean energy. Massive amounts of clean energy generation and storage projects are backlogged in PJM. foothold.

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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). Now, 22 states plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico have 100% clean energy goals on the books.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 29, 2021

State government officials in New South Wales announce an increase in the amount of rainwater farmers are allowed to harvest on their property. If completed, the line will deliver hydropower generated in Quebec to Massachusetts, in order to fulfill the state’s clean energy goals. The rule will go into effect in early 2022.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

With the clean energy transition already under way, the US electricity mix is set to continue changing this year. Solar power is expected to make up about half of all additions of US electric generating capacity in 2023, according to data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). I’ll start off with the good.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2022

That requires bringing global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions to net zero by 2050. 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. That’s the gravy train the supermajors should ride.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 24, 2023

If applied with integrity, these new rules for government spending will effectively shut the door on the creation of new handouts of public money to the companies most responsible for the climate disasters being experienced today – and free up billions for climate solutions. With mounting climate disasters, there is no room for delay.

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Law and Environment

JANUARY 7, 2022

On January 12 and 13, Foley Hoag attorneys will lead a series of discussions about the significance of New York Climate Action Council’s recently-released draft Scoping Plan to the state’s continuing clean energy transformation. Join us on January 12 and 13 to learn more about New York’s plan for clean energy future.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Public interest groups protest outside of Export Development Canada headquarters in Ottawa, tell federal government to keep promise to end the agency’s $15 billion in oil and gas support. Despite promises to end public financing for fossil fuels, so far this year the Government of Canada has already committed up to $15.4

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Last week, the federal government showed some much-needed climate leadership at COP26, the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow. Joining an ever growing list of countries from around the world, Canada pledged to end public financing for overseas fossil-fuel projects in 2022 and instead prioritize the clean energy transition.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

In the MISO region, how much energy resources get paid for their commitment to produce electricity has seen big swings. From June 2021 through May 2022 the price was five dollars per megawatt (MW) of electricity capacity provided per day ($/MW-day) for MISO’s midwestern states, but from June 2022 through May 2023 it jumped to $236/MW-day.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 16, 2022

Department of Energy announced its partnership with Carnegie Mellon University to launch and host the 2022 Global Clean Energy Action Forum in Pittsburgh September 21–23. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. The Global Energy Forum will also for the first time hold a joint plenary of CEM and MI. Granholm. “We

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 21, 2024

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) included a major—forthcoming—refresh for one of the biggest policy drivers of the nation’s clean energy transition to date: tax credits subsidizing the deployment of clean electricity resources. These incentives aren’t just historically important.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 10, 2023

B is for Beyond Petroleum In the 1990s, BP famously rebranded itself as “ Beyond Petroleum ,” then backpedaled from its plans to invest in renewable energy. It’s déjà vu all over again in 2023, with BP rolling back its climate pledges after record-breaking 2022 profits since Russia’s unjust war on Ukraine.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

To meet our climate goals, a massive acceleration in the global deployment of clean- energy technologies is needed now. These two key ocean-climate solutions were featured at the Global Clean Energy Action Forum (GCEAF) which brought together clean-energy leaders from around the world to accelerate the clean-energy transition.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Federal government releases new policy aimed at ending international public financing for fossil fuels, next step is ending domestic financing . The Government of Canada estimates that this policy will redirect $2.5 billion in fossil financing towards accelerating the urgent implementation of climate goals.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 30, 2022

Unceded Algonquin Anishinaabe Territories [Ottawa, ON] – A new report released today by Environmental Defence, Buyer Beware: Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Carbon Capture Fairy Tales in Canada , reveals Canada’s federal government provided at least $8.6 billion and the Government of Saksatechwan has provided $1.2

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 6, 2023

PJM stakeholders voted on this policy to penalize energy suppliers who merely claim to be reliable and to use that money to reward the suppliers that actually exceed their expected performance. The self-governing PJM stakeholders put this in place after so many supposedly “firm” generators failed to perform in 2014.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The industry is projecting the US sector to grow by 32,000 megawatts this year—50 percent more than in 2022, and enough to increase solar’s portion of the US electricity supply to well more than 6 percent. Single projects can be hundreds of megawatts. Last year, solar accounted for almost 5 percent of US electricity.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 7, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen Tenders for 250 gigawatts (GW) of clean energy by 2028 are set to be unveiled by the Indian government, according to a government memo. Wind power is set to play a key part in the target of 50 GW of new green energy tenders each year at 10 GW. Photo credit: Reuters / Amit Dave. in 2019 to 72.8%

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Clean Energy Law

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Beginning in 2022, applicable warehouses will accrue a WAIRE Points Compliance Obligation (WPCO), which is calculated based on the weighted annual number of truck trips to the warehouse. iii] Latham Clean Energy Law Report, “Air District Targets Southern California Logistics Industry,” November 25, 2019, available at: [link]. [iv]

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Observed temperatures at Merced Regional Airport Weather Station during September 4-6, 2022. That makes the renewable and clean energy transition the only long-term solution. NOAA National Weather Service ( [link] ). Note: Observed maximum temperature was 116.6 o F but in the figure has been rounded to 117 o F.

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