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DEP Releases 2024 Climate Change Action Plan Update; 2024 Climate Impacts Assessment Report

PA Environment Daily

This is mainly a result of coal generation being replaced by natural gas generation (and to a smaller extent renewable energy sources like wind and solar) and energy efficiency improvements, due in part to Act 129 [utility energy efficiency program]. from 2019 to 2020 and 44.4% from 2005 to 2020.

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Bury it, don’t burn it: turning biomass waste into a carbon solution

Physics World

The US Department of Energy is also working to address this question. This includes one led by the National Renewable Energy Lab , measuring how long carbon in buried biomass remains stored under different conditions.

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Industrial Wood Pellets: A False Climate Solution

Acoel

manufactures and exports wood pellets to burn in power plants to produce electricity, and this has been praised as a climate solution, a source of renewable energy. The truth is far different: the wood pellet industry has induced logging, spewed air pollution, and harmed human health in the Southeastern United States for over a decade.

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How Some Conservative Governments Embrace Renewables

Enviromental Defense

Several conservative-led jurisdictions have proven that supporting renewable energy doesnt mean abandoning careful money management. Not all conservative-leaning governments treat the development of renewable energy the same. When Ford first took office, he made a controversial decision about renewable energy.

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Mapping Local Climate & Equity Action Onto the Harris-Walz Opportunity Economy

Law Columbia

Certain strategies adopted at the local level can help ensure that new homes are built to maximize energy efficiency, electrification, and renewable energy; are resilient to the impacts of extreme weather; and offer residents easy access to non-vehicular modes of travel.

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Sabin Center Files Two Amicus Briefs Supporting EPA’s 2024 Power Plant Rules

Law Columbia

Several states and industry groups are challenging EPA’s 2024 rules which set greenhouse gas emissions limits for certain fossil fuel power plants nationwide (referred to here as the Power Plant Rules). This case will have a major impact on how and when power plants must reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.

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MAGA vs NOAA, Executive Orders, and Growing IRA Support

Legal Planet

Last week brought Exhibit A that Trump sabotaging US leadership on climate doesnt mean an end to international progress: An accord reached in London under the umbrella of the International Maritime Organization, a UN agency, would require every ship that carries goods across the sea to lower their greenhouse gas emissions or pay a fee/tax.

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