PA Environment Daily

MAY 18, 2023

On May 18, the Natural Resources Defense Council released a new report illustrating how the PJM Interconnection plans to speed up the queue for new generation projects will likely be insufficient for states committed to renewable portfolio standard requirements. They include solar, wind or energy storage facilities.

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Renewable Energy Clean Energy Natural Gas Electricity 74

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Under Woods’s leadership, ExxonMobil claims to be “ advancing climate solutions ” while investing $25 billion per year through 2027 in capital expenditures, all but a fraction of it in expanding the corporation’s oil and gas business. Woods is apparently following the playbook drafted by Exxon’s former head of corporate research in 1988: “1.

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Fossil Fuels Climate Change Coastal Erosion 2012 287

Law Columbia

AUGUST 22, 2022

cities move toward their greenhouse gas reduction goals via a cleaner national electric grid, increased vehicle and building electrification, and new distributed renewable energy resources. Only portions of the legislation apply directly to units of local government, but taken as a whole it can be expected to help U.S.

2026 121

2026 Clean Air Act Air Pollution Greenhouse 121

Legal Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

Partly, this decision illustrates the limits of our environmental laws. The goal of those laws is substantive: to protect the environment. But often those laws impose procedural requirements, not substantive bans on harmful activities. That blinkering is more a symptom of weak political will than of weak law.

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Fossil Fuels Endangered Species Act Politics Carbon Dioxide 244