Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

But gas power plants have also played an important role in helping to maintain the overall reliability of the electricity grid by meeting peak power demands, such as on hot summer days when people turn on their air conditioners. In this plan, almost all of this coal and gas generation is replaced with wind and solar.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Vehicles powered by biomethane consume about one percent of California’s transportation fuel, but in the first three quarters of 2023, biomethane used to fuel these vehicles accounted for 17 percent of LCFS credit generation. But what about the rapidly increasing credits generated by biomethane?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

And Eversource Energy’s New Hampshire utility won approval from the state Public Utilities Commission over the summer to increase electric rates by a whopping 53 percent through the end of January 2023 to account for high gas prices in New England. It provides essential services that can be a matter of life or death for millions of people.

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Inside Climate News

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The push and pull of progress and catastrophe made 2023 one of the most discordant—and consequential—years for the world’s climate. By ICN Staff In 2023, clean energy progress and the horrors of a radically warming climate fought almost to a draw.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 9, 2023

The Reimagine Appalachia Faith in Action Team and its partners recently hosted a webinar entitled “Solar-Powered Faith Communities and Houses of Worship: Saving Money and Ethical Labor” detailing how Faith communities can, and should, transition to solar systems while adopting ethical solar installation practices.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 19, 2024

Since then, the Conservative government has made a series of U-turns on its own net zero policies, attacked Labour’s green spending plans, and doubled down on its support for new fossil fuel projects, approving more than 100 new North Sea oil and gas licences. This comes as DeSmog and Democracy for Sale reveal that £6.8 percent (£1.8

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 14, 2023

Of Delaware River Basin Announces 2023 Award Winners University Of Pittsburgh School Of Public Health Will Release Results Of Shale Gas Development Health Impact Study On Aug. Email: PaEnviroDigest@gmail.com [Posted: August 14, 2023] PA Environment Digest Potter County To Sept. Potter County To Sept. Potter County To Sept.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 9, 2023

Related Articles: -- PA Interfaith Power & Light, Jewish Earth Alliance Aug. 16 Webinar: Why Should We Care About, Advocate For A Climate-Friendly Federal Farm Bill?

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 9, 2023

Researchers attribute 70 percent of the greening to CO2 fertilization from of fossil fuel emissions. Another nine percent is attributed to fertilizers derived from fossil fuels.) First, there is a strong case that these are solar-powered fuels.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 9, 2023

2, 3, 4 [Unless Sooner Recalled] -- Committee Schedule House next voting day September 26, 27; October 2, 3, 4, 16 [Unless Sooner Recalled] -- Committee Schedule TODAY’s Calendar Of Events TODAY, THURSDAY: Penn State's 2023 Ag Progress Days. “Pursue Your Happiness In Pennsylvania” Senate next voting day September 18, 19, 20; Oct.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2023

“The cancellation of this proposed fracked gas burning power plant helps move us forward to a future powered by wind and solar power,” said Robert Ukeiley, an environmental health lawyer at the Center for Biological Diversity. 27 Released 1.1

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Last month, the British-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) reported that London-based HSBC, one of the world’s top-10 biggest banks, has helped raise $47 billion for the fossil fuel industry since its 2022 announcement that it would not finance new gas and oil infrastructure. degrees Celsius, or 2.7

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 31, 2024

This could be met from a variety of sources—including pollution fees on fossil fuel companies, the elimination of fossil fuel subsidies, and wealth taxes on the richest people. Despite important gains in renewable energy, there is still more progress needed and fossil fuels continue to expand at odds with this agreement.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 11, 2023

PaEN] -- PA League Of Women Voters, Food & Water Watch Launch Letter-Writing Campaign Opposing Hydrogen Hubs In PA [PaEN] [Posted: August 11, 2023] PA Environment Digest 16 Webinar: Why Should We Care About, Advocate For A Climate-Friendly Federal Farm Bill?

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 9, 2023

PaEN] [Posted: August 9, 2023] PA Environment Digest 16 Webinar: Why Should We Care About, Advocate For A Climate-Friendly Federal Farm Bill? 16 Webinar: Why Should We Care About, Advocate For A Climate-Friendly Federal Farm Bill?

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 2, 2023

The Co-op closes to new members on July 31, 2023. According to the group’s estimates, 163 homes and businesses across the Commonwealth now have solar panels because of solar co-ops, representing 1.5 Megawatts of solar power, $4.2 Their most recent co-op, in Indiana County, will close in March.

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Legal Planet

JULY 25, 2024

In 2010, the cost of onshore wind was almost twice that of the cheapest fossil fuel generation. By 2022, the positions were reversed: onshore wind cost half as much as the cheapest fossil fuel power. The cost of solar PV fell even more steeply. Like solar, battery costs have dropped plunged since 2010.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

Posted: April 16, 2023] PA Environment Digest Opportunities to learn more about environmental and energy issues affecting Pennsylvania for students and adults-- -- Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Facility Malfunction Dec. 27 Released 1.1 Visit DEP’s Teaching Green webpage to learn about more environmental education resources.

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Edouard Stenger

APRIL 14, 2017

But times are changing as the kingdom is willing to invest up to $50 billion in renewable energy sources until 2023. The goal is to source 30 percent of their total energy demand from non fossil fuels by 2030. the United Arab Emirates.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 1, 2024

For context, at the time of the evidentiary hearing on May 15, 2023, the largest agrivoltaics project in the country was Madison Fields (also in Ohio), where 150 acres of soybeans had been planted among rows of solar panels three days earlier. Opinion ¶ 221.) Smaller projects are permitted at the county level.

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A Greener Life

MAY 23, 2024

A solar-powered charging station in Yibin, south-west China. Two-way charging could give vehicles like these the potential to stabilise power supplies by discharging stored electricity back to the grid. By the end of 2023, China had over 20.41 By the end of 2023, it stood at over CNY 0.70 in Shanghai.

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A Greener Life

MAY 12, 2023

A woman pours water over her head to cool off during soaring temperatures in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 11 April 2023. I was a member of the team that wrote the latest climate report released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ) in March 2023, which was endorsed by 195 governments including India.

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A Greener Life

JULY 9, 2021

The other is to improve the energy structure, replacing fossil fuel sources with alternatives. It could then explore local heating systems, using waste heat from factories and power plants rather than building new boilers. Using renewable energy to meet rising demand for power would help Inner Mongolia reach peak carbon.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

A recent National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) study shows that it would take less than 1 percent of the land in the Lower 48—that’s an area comparable to or even smaller than the fossil fuel industry’s current footprint. EIA also projects US battery storage capacity to more than double in 2023.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 2, 2024

1-31 Grants -- EPA Awards $55.7 28 to Oct. 6 [PaEN] Background On Issues -- Lt.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 19, 2023

“We are pushing the Chinese company to complete its financial closure by 31 December 2023, and start construction at the earliest so that it can be completed by 2025,” Shah Jahan Mirza, managing director of the Pakistan government-owned Private Power and Infrastructure Board told me.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 28, 2024

Montana (2023) , which is currently under consideration by the Montana Supreme Court , recognizing a “constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment”. The Court’s approach was analogous to that adopted by the Montana trial court in Held v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 17, 2022

A 2021 report by the US Department of Energy’s Solar Futures Study estimates that as much as 1,600 GW of storage could be available by 2050 in a decarbonized grid scenario if solar power ramps up to meet 45 percent of electricity demand as predicted. Currently only 4 percent of US electricity comes from solar.

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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.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2023

Related Articles - Clean Energy Transition Issues: -- PJM Interconnection Reports Higher Percentage Of Natural Gas-Fired Electric Generation Outages Than Originally Thought During Winter Storm Elliott - 70% [PaEN] -- PJM Interconnection Announces New Project Evaluation Process Begins July 10; More Than 260,000 MW Of Mostly Renewable Projects In Queue (..)

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 26, 2024

I then launched Sacred Earth Solar , an Indigenous-led organization that works with communities protecting their homelands by bringing solar power to the frontlines of the climate crisis. We work directly with communities and skilled people on the ground – electricians, solar installers, etc. –

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Statement by Julia Levin, Associate Director, National Climate Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – New analysis released today from the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) demonstrates that the Government of Canada is still intent on providing massive subsidies to fossil fuel companies.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Wind and solar energy are the least expensive sources of energy in Canada. The cost of solar power has been reduced by 90 per cent over the past 10 years. Because the “feedstock” for both wind and solar are free, the cost of these energy sources decreases the more that are built.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 10, 2024

It was a sorry exclamation point on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s assessment that 2023 was the Earth’s warmest year on record. We’re going to look back at 2023 and say, man, that was cool,” Dessler said. The top states for solar power growth since 2014 are Texas and Florida.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 13, 2023

Manada Conservancy: Free Native Pollinator Plants To First 50 Landowners In Swatara Creek Watershed, Dauphin County [PaEN] -- Penn State Master Gardeners Of Cumberland County 2023 Pollinator Festival Aug. Thank you for your leadership! -- Water Resources Assn. Potter County To Sept. Potter County To Sept.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Pursue Your Constitutional Right To A Clean Environment In Pennsylvania House next voting day January 2, February 6 -- Committee Schedule Senate next voting day January 2, 16, 17 -- Committee Schedule -- Click Here for Senate Agency Budget Hearing Schedule. 6 Lake Management Workshop In Wilkes-Barre , 9:00 a.m.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2023

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