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How Will DTE’s Long-Term Plan Impact Michigan’s Clean Energy Future?

Union of Concerned Scientists

DTE’s goal is to reach “net-zero” emissions by 2050 while reducing its carbon emissions from 2005 levels 65 percent by 2028, 85 percent by 2035, and 90 percent by 2040. DTE asserts that it needs Belle River to achieve the partial retirement of Monroe in 2028. What’s in DTE’s proposed plan?

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The User-Pay Myth: We ALL Pay for Our Roads, Not Just Drivers

Union of Concerned Scientists

Of course, this inevitably led to a required increase in oversight and regulation by governments on these service providers. In some cases, cities desiring to remove confusion around transit routes even sought this consolidation.

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Proposed Electrolyzer Requirements for the Hydrogen Tax Credit: Strengths and Risks

Union of Concerned Scientists

In late December, the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released proposed regulations for the Section 45V Clean Hydrogen Production Tax Credit. Finding careful resolution to these issues will be a key point of focus over the comment period for these regulations, which is set to run through February 26 th , 2024.

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Fertilizer from Sewage, a Utility Money Maker, Faces Uncertain Future

Circle of Blue

If that option were removed due to regulation or a change in public sentiment, Shafer reckoned that the biosolids from MMSDs two treatment facilities would be incinerated. Environmental Protection Agency, under pressure from all sides, has shied away from stringent regulation of pollutants in biosolids.

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The Gas Utility Industry is Gaslighting Us

Union of Concerned Scientists

Since then, however, the gas industry—much like the oil industry—has cribbed heavily from the tobacco industry’s playbook to block government regulation by manufacturing doubt about the reality and seriousness of its “NOx problem.” Where did the gas industry pick up the finer points of PR disinformation?

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Sen. Comitta: New PUC Pipeline Safety Regulations To Be Published As Final This Month For Public Utility Hazardous Liquid Pipelines

PA Environment Daily

Carolyn Comitta (D-Chester), Minority Chair Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee, announced new regulations enhancing pipeline safety and governing hazardous liquids pipelines owned by public utilities in Pennsylvania are expected to be published as final this month and take effect in November.

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Statement: Environmental Defence Urges the Government to Strengthen the Clean Electricity Regulations

Enviromental Defense

We urge the government to strengthen the regulations, rather than weaken them. The government must finalize the regulations without further delay. The post Statement: Environmental Defence Urges the Government to Strengthen the Clean Electricity Regulations appeared first on Environmental Defence.