Global Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions is from transportation. This accounts for 28% of emissions, coming in above agriculture, commercial & residential, industry and power generation. The average North American drives about 10,500 miles per year.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 11, 2023

Numerous studies have shown that Ontario can meet its growing electricity demand with wind and solar, which can easily be combined with storage technologies to deliver power when needed. There really is no reason to build new gas plants or nuclear power projects when we have cleaner, cheaper, and safer alternatives.

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 16, 2017

These days the United States’ federal government is promoting coal and backtracking on climate ambition and the European Union is no longer cutting its greenhouse gases emissions. Recently India has unveiled working on having only electric cars on the roads by 2030. So, who is leading the fight against climate change ?

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 18, 2021

TAKE ACTION : Tell Ontario’s Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) that you support the phase-out of polluting gas powered electricity by 2030. The rest of our power comes from a mix of nuclear power, renewables like hydro, wind and solar power, and biofuel.

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Cresforum

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

It has the potential to greatly reduce emissions in hard-to-decarbonize industrial applications such as steelmaking, cement manufacturing, trucking and aviation, as well as power generation and energy storage. hydrogen market is also estimated to result in an additional 27,000 jobs by 2030. Growth in the U.S. Source: U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 13, 2022

Driven by emissions from power generation and industrial activity — activity that generates jobs and economic opportunity for southwestern Pennsylvania — our greenhouse gas emissions, on a per capita basis, are about 50% higher than elsewhere in the state or country.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 22, 2023

Utilities Commission (NCUC) to “take all reasonable steps” to achieve a 70% reduction in carbon dioxide ( CO 2 ) emissions from electric generating units (EGUs) by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality for the utility generation system by 2050. Environmental Management Commission. The Reduction Goal. NCUC Order.

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Maryland has enacted the most rigorous state law in the country reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and otherwise addressing ESG stewardship including climate change. To be clear, Maryland has determined “decarbonizing” buildings is an important step toward achieving the State’s bleeding edge greenhouse gas reduction mandates.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The attorney general said that PwC also served from at least 2008 to 2013 as global advisor and report writer for the Carbon Disclosure Project, a non-profit organization that functions as a global disclosure system for environmental information, including greenhouse gas emissions, from companies including Exxon. 451962/2016 (N.Y.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2023

According to the science, over the next 7 years we must focus on reducing emissions of heat-trapping gases significantly to halve emissions by 2030 and avoid the worst impacts of climate change. The governors of Maine, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts serve four-year terms and will exit more than half-way to the 2030 deadline.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

4] Meanwhile, many experts see in recent trends an inevitable transition away from coal and nuclear power plants, designed to function as baseload capacity, toward variable renewable energy sources with just-in-time natural gas back-up. Loss of Nuclear Plants Threatens Reliability, Affordability, and Sustainability The U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

13 Hearing [If Needed] On RACT II Air Quality Plan For Keystone Station Coal-Fired Power Plant, Armstrong County Dept. Of Health Distributing Free Potassium Iodide Tablets Near State's 4 Active Nuclear Power Plants Sept. Wildfires; Six 20-Person PA Crews Directly Fought Fires DEP Sets Oct.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 27, 2022

to provide Europe] and that accelerating wind and solar deployment can replace 20 bcm this year, and through EU’s existing plans such as “Fit for 55” contribute to the EU goal of saving 170 bcm/year by 2030. “As The REPowerEU plan estimates that reductions through energy savings in homes can replace 15.5 Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

. -- Green Building Alliance Invites New Kensington Commercial Property, Business Owners To 2030 District Launch and Energy Efficiency Info Session Dec.

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Vermont Law

JUNE 29, 2020

greenhouse gas emissions. which set a 30% renewable energy goal by 2030 and a 100% carbon-free goal by 2050 for Virginia. Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. to reduce statewide electric carbon emissions by 30 percent by 2030. [1]. The energy sector is one of the biggest polluters when it comes to. Executive Order 43.

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Acoel

APRIL 8, 2022

That’s why the bipartisan legislation provides only an estimated 9% of the carbon emission reductions needed to meet the President’s announced goals for 2030 according to the analysis of Princeton University’s REPEAT scenario modeling program in its Summary Report: The Climate Impact of Congressional Infrastructure and Budget Bills.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Less appealingly, it’s also #4 in coal production, #7 in greenhouse gas emissions, and #4 in oil refinery capacity. First, it sets an ambitious target, requiring that the grid be 40% renewable by 2030 and carbon-free by 2045. Illinois, in short, is an important part of the U.S. energy picture. The new law has several notable features.

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