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China, Climate, and Clean Energy

Legal Planet

Four questions: Why have emissions continued to grow despite the huge expansion in renewables? How is China’s clean energy spree impacting other countries? Why have emissions continued to grow despite the growth in renewables? China’s commitment to clean energy use and to producing clean tech is undeniable.

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Minnesota Lawmakers Could Go Big on Clean Energy, or Go Small

Union of Concerned Scientists

Minnesota needs substantial investments now to build toward an equitable clean energy future. The bad news is, they have to find a compromise between two vastly different clean energy bills—by Monday. With such a wide gulf to cross, Minnesota could miss another opportunity to advance many key clean energy programs.

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

Union of Concerned Scientists

Additionally, long-term energy plans consider how utilities will operate their existing power generating facilities and what type of new facilities they might build and when. percent average annual savings from its energy efficiency programs despite the fact that it achieved 2 percent savings in 2021 and is on track to do the same in 2022.

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Our Solar PA Coalition Highlights How Community Solar Energy Legislation Is A People-Centered Solution For Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

Another in-person event took place in Western Pennsylvania, where supporters rallied in support of community-centered clean energy at the Homestead Steel Mill Stacks. Solar panels do not emit carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen oxides, or other harmful air pollutants when theyre working. As one of the priorities in Gov.

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Building a Better Power Grid for Minnesota

Union of Concerned Scientists

Minnesotans are facing concurrent crises of climate change, high energy prices and inflation, and the inequitable public health impacts of fossil fuel air pollution. Renewable energy will help with all of that—but we need a grid that is designed for wind and solar instead of having to rely on expensive coal and gas plants.

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Don’t Believe the Lies: Five Facts to Consider as the UN’s COP27 Comes to a Close

Union of Concerned Scientists

The best solution: Replace fossil fuels with renewable energy. Climate change is overwhelmingly caused by burning fossil fuels, and the most immediate path to avert climate disaster is to stop investing in those fuels and start powering our economy with an equitable transition to renewable energy.

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Massachusetts Needs Ambition: In the Wake of W.V. v. EPA, What One State Can Do

Union of Concerned Scientists

In Massachusetts, this near-term opportunity would drive progress on clean energy, clean transportation, and equity. Both the Massachusetts House of Representatives and the Senate have passed good, solid clean energy bills. In March, the House passed the “Act Advancing Offshore Wind and Clean Energy.”