Circle of Blue

AUGUST 3, 2021

energy policy has done little to incentivize the growth of these technologies, relying on a patchwork of energy credit programs, tax breaks, and development spending to promote renewable energy production. But as the market grows, some urge caution before using wastewater to create renewable natural gas.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 17, 2022

As you can see there are tax credits and subsidies for electric vehicles, renewable energy, nuclear energy, transmission, hydrogen, air pollution reduction, energy infrastructure, climate resilience, rural development, residential buildings, etc. The biggest unknowns are the geopolitical implications.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 23, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen Having been at the forefront of dealing with climate impacts in recent years, Greece has shored up its renewable energy targets. Greece, which has recently battled one climate-fuelled wildfire after the other, has ramped up its renewable energy targets.

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Law and Environment

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The Council’s draft plan recommends a broad array of regulatory measures, legislation, and other state actions across every sector of the state’s economy – any and all of which could have significant implications for New York’s clean energy markets for decades to come.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

o C in 2100, relative to pre-industrial times, is still avoidable, but whether or not we are able to stay within these limits and avert catastrophic climate change depends on achieving our climate goals of emissions reductions at least 50 percent below 2005 levels in 2030, on the way to net-zero emissions in 2050.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The CES relates to the state’s Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard (RPS) in several ways, including that compliance with RPS programs counts toward certain CES compliance obligations. These changes will set the CES standard at 60% in 2030 and 80% in 2050. Why were these amendments made to the CES?

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

On September 21, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn announced DCNR will produce or purchase 100 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2030. gigawatt hours of electricity by 2030 with a plan to have the department produce 15.5 DCNR expects to use 28.7

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The ocean absorbs more than 90% of the excess heat trapped by greenhouse gasses and generates 50% of the oxygen we breathe. Transformative action every year until 2030 is our only chance to keep 1.5°C Our ocean is a cornerstone of life on Earth and holds powerful solutions to the climate crisis. C within reach.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Now that I have reached the extent of my white-water rafting knowledge, here is a recap of our very productive session: Electric vehicle directionality stalled but will return UCS co-sponsored Senator Nancy Skinner’s Senate Bill 233 (SB 233) which would have required all electric vehicles to be bidirectional by 2030.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 4, 2023

Trucks and buses on California’s roads and highways are responsible for the majority of lung-damaging fine particulate and ozone-forming nitrogen oxide emissions, and a sizable amount of climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions as well.

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Environmental Leader

JULY 1, 2022

It expects to be halfway there by 2030 and 80% of the way there by 2040. The post 3M Has Cut its Greenhouse Gases by 71% Over Two Decades. appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. 3M is committing to becoming carbon neutral across its global operations by 2050.

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Environmental Europe

JULY 1, 2020

It has agreed to address climate change under the Paris Agreement , and put forward increasingly ambitious policy targets for 2020, 2030 and 2050. The EU’s 2020 Renewable Energy Directive (2009/28/EC) requires that the Member States must collectively achieve 20% of their energy consumption from renewables by 2020.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2022

Over the past year, precisely as our ability to identify the specific magnitude of action required to hit 2030 climate targets of 50-52 percent below 2005 levels has resolved into ever clearer view, the range of viable pathways for meeting those targets has consistently and considerably narrowed. It’s the only forward course.

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Law and Environment

JULY 10, 2023

On June 26, 2023, the Cambridge City Council voted to amend the city’s Building Energy Use Disclosure Ordinance (BEUDO) to require large non-residential buildings to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2035 and mid-size non-residential buildings to do so by 2050. It does not apply to any residential buildings.

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Law and Environment

JANUARY 26, 2022

With respect to SAF, the government plans to scale up SAF production to at least 3 billion gallons per year by 2030. The proposed tax credit would require at least a 50% reduction in lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions to receive at least a $1.25 Delta Airlines committed to replace 10% of current jet fuel use with SAFs by 2030.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

In a previous blog post , I briefly reviewed some of the innovative strategies to reduce methane emissions from agricultural livestock and rice operations, which have the potential to combat a significant source of global greenhouse gas emissions. This appears to be the only national level agricultural methane target currently in law.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 3, 2023

Furthermore, it goes out of its way to provide a definition by reference for “lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions” that unambiguously includes indirect emissions impacts, too. This won’t be a problem in the future when renewable energy predominates. But right now there is little slack in renewable energy buildout and use.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

We must reduce greenhouse gas emissions now, as Dr. Sarah Cooley , Ocean Conservancy’s director of climate science, emphasized when addressing a COP27 session. International shipping emissions, responsible for roughly 3% of the world’s greenhouse gases, can be eliminated by moving toward zero-carbon shipping. If we warm beyond 1.5°C,

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Energy and Climate Law

JUNE 26, 2020

It agreed that measures of climate protection and the energy sector shall be at the forefront of the economic reconstruction after the crisis, taking into account in particular the goal of climate-neutrality of the EU by 2050 ( p.3

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The Energy Law Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Governor Edwards’ Climate Initiatives Task Force published the Louisiana Climate Initiatives Interim Report earlier this month, which outlines the process by which the Task Force plans to develop climate actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Louisiana. The Task Force is charged with making recommendations to achieve these goals.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 11, 2022

The UN agency concluded global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are at the highest levels in human history and without immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors limiting climate change to 1.5°C They set out the state of climate mitigation and impacts in a report released on Monday the 4th of April. It was sombre reading.

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Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

Understanding Climate Change & Greenhouse Gas Emissions. The greenhouse effect is a popular name for the earth’s warming effect which occurs naturally when gasses in the atmosphere trap heat from the sun and prevent it from escaping back into space. Greenhouse Gas Emissions are Increasing. F) of warming in the 21st century.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

That’s because, of the 41 gigawatts (GW) of new generation capacity expected to come online in the country by 2030, 14-16GW is due to come from coal. In 2015, Indonesia set itself the target of reducing emissions by up to 41% by 2030 with international assistance. Air pollution and emissions from coal are problems across Indonesia.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 25, 2022

With the release of its 2021 Progress Report , the Pittsburgh 2030 District , an initiative of the Green Building Alliance and the largest 2030 District in North America, announced it will move its primary focus from energy reduction to carbon reduction goals in response to urgent developments in climate science.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Dunn added that renewable energy alternatives, such as solar, help to mitigate the impacts of climate change and reduce the Commonwealth's greenhouse gas emissions. By 2030, DCNR will derive all of its electric from renewables, about half of that through solar installations. Read more here.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 11, 2022

The Department shall approve the rebates not later than June 30, 2023; and. The proposals shall ensure equitable participation by all electric vehicle owners and lessees. Not later than October 31, 2025 the department shall issue at least 1 order that responds to distribution.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 6, 2022

On October 4, Pittsburgh-based UPMC announced they intend to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50% within the next eight years across its footprint. UPMC will lead by example to develop approaches to health care that rapidly reduce our contributions to greenhouse gas emissions,” said Boninger. “We

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A Greener Life

JUNE 30, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen The renewable energy sector experienced record growth in 2022 of 1%. They still account for 82% of the global energy supply according to the industry’s Statistical Review of World Energy released this week. Solar panels in the Bavarian Holledau region in Au, Germany. billion tonnes of CO2.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2024

The report covers a wide range of topics addressing risks and opportunities that DLC faces as it pursues a clean energy future for all while securing the economic vitality of the Pittsburgh region. DLC received more than $19.8 From the EPA GHG Equivalence Calculator as of Dec.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

This is a little different than other similar sounding policies like Renewable Energy Standards, which can create some confusion. But while a Renewable Energy Standard treats all sources of qualifying renewable energy equally, the LCFS has a more complicated approach, based on lifecycle analysis.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 17, 2024

The recommendations include possible changes to Cuban domestic policies to, among other things, encourage greater public and private investment in the country’s energy transition. Policymakers have subsequently announced their intention to increase renewable electricity generation to 37% by 2030.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 8, 2021

By 2030, greenhouse gas emissions from plastic production are expected to reach 1.3 In fact, with nearly 99% of plastics made from fossil fuel-derived chemicals , the fossil fuel industry is counting on making more single-use plastics to make up for losses in demand for fossil fuels as the world shifts to renewable energy resources.

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Law Columbia

JULY 27, 2020

On Monday, July 27, the Sabin Center filed comments with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) in support of the proposed Vineyard Wind energy facility offshore Massachusetts on behalf of the group Win with South Fork Wind (“Win with Wind”). Read the letter here.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 21, 2023

Offshore wind is one of many renewable industries taking off in California as the state accelerates infrastructure investment and development to meet its climate targets. The California Energy Commission has adopted planning goals of 2-5 GW of offshore wind (OSW) by 2030 and 25 GW by 2045.

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E2 Law Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Specifically, New York is statutorily required to achieve: An economy-wide 85% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050; 70% renewable energy consumption by 2030 followed by a 100% zero-emission electric system by 2040; and. Click here to listen to the podcast episode.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Without having strong interim targets (in 2026 and 2030), the new policy will fail to limit and reduce oil and gas pollution at the rate that is required to meet Canada’s climate goals. The 2030 goal for the emissions cap needs to be a 60% reduction from 2005 levels.

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