Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2022

That requires bringing global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions to net zero by 2050. In a January 2022 report on its climate plans, ExxonMobil pledged to direct $15 billion toward emission reduction efforts over the next six years, but that $15 billion breaks down to $2.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

These new protections will include updates to power plant standards on carbon emissions , mercury pollution , and toxic coal ash pollution , just to name a few. Last year, for the first time ever, US renewable electricity generation surpassed coal-fired electricity generation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 18, 2024

While these sources could potentially play a role in decarbonizing certain sectors, such as heavy industry, researchers and analysts have repeatedly found highly efficient electric heat pumps—which are already thriving in Maine—to be a cleaner , healthier, more cost-effective solution for decarbonizing space and water heating in buildings.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2022

Earlier this month the International Energy Agency (IEA) released data showing that global carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions hit an all-time high in 2021, rebounding sharply from the 2020 decline caused by COVID-19 related economic slump. It’s clear we cannot continue to live this way, it will destroy our civilization.”.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 6, 2023

This is partly because hydrogen production is energy inefficient and––when derived from fossil fuels––still a significant source of carbon emissions. Green hydrogen––produced with renewable electricity and water­­––is often described as a tool for decarbonizing the challenging last 10% of greenhouse gas emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2024

These measures led to a reduction of 78,650 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, which is equal to the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from 15,878 gas-powered passenger vehicles driven for one year or 182,909,597 miles. At the time of recognition, DLC was one of only two electric utility companies in the U.S.

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Clean Energy 2023 Renewable Energy Carbon Dioxide 105

Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 30, 2021

Even if it were possible, simply eliminating carbon emissions from fossil fuel production would not address the myriad impacts of fossil fuel production faced primarily by Indigenous and front-line communities. Carbon capture and release: a license to pollute . Carbon capture and release: a license to pollute .

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 6, 2022

Sharif Street (D-Philadelphia) introduced Senate Bill 979 which amends the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard Act to establish a new Clean Energy Standard and encourage investment in carbon capture technology to achieve net-zero carbon emissions from power plants. Running parallel to the AEPS will be a Clean Energy Standard.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

In Ontario, fossil gas is used primarily for generating electricity, for heating buildings (residential and commercial), and for industrial uses (for heating substances and as a raw material). In fact, Ontario is planning to build new gas plants and extend expiring gas plant contracts to produce electricity. It is none of those things.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2021

The company's Edison Electric Institute and American Gas Association report provides investors access to the most commonly requested metrics about investor-owned utilities' ESG performance. Net-Zero Carbon Goal PPL has set a goal to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 20, 2024

reduction in carbon emissions, avoiding 30,500 metric tons of CO2e [Carbon Dioxide] emissions against Green Building Alliance baseline, the equivalent of six million car trips around Presque Isle State Park. Partners also achieved a 35.3% primary energy use. Erie Insurance’s Thomas B.

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Edouard Stenger

OCTOBER 11, 2021

7 to 13 percent might not look like much, but within a region, a country, a continent, this adds up to dozens of coal-fired and gas-fired plants adding carbon dioxide to our atmosphere for no reason. We are talking about gigawatt-hours if not terawatt-hours of electricity and heat being generated for empty rooms, offices and homes.

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 16, 2017

Now, not only coal is spewing insane amounts of carbon dioxide – one kilogram per kilo-watt/hour on average – it is also now more expensive than wind, solar, and soon battery storage. As if this was not enough, the two Asian giants are also progressing on another part of the energy transition: electric vehicles.

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

This is a game-changing move as peaker plants and even baseload ones will become more and more irrelevant, decreasing carbon emissions. Electric vehicles (EVs) are booming but won’t be enough to solve the many problems our cities and communities are plagued with. Let us hope this upward trend continues. Transportation.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

It also churns out around 1 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide—equal to Germany’s emissions—and other toxic pollutants into the atmosphere every year. If nothing is done to clean up shipping, its carbon emissions are projected to jump by almost 130% by 2050.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Through the Lancaster County Community Climate Fund , RegenAll is launching an innovative pathway for Lancaster County to achieve carbon neutrality and slow the impacts of climate change on communities. Individuals, businesses, and municipalities can offset their carbon emissions by contributing to the CCF.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Regarding carbon removal, in May 2024, DOE announced 24 semifinalists would receive $1.2 million to scale up their carbon dioxide removal technologies. This Carbon Dioxide Removal Purchase Pilot Prize allows companies to compete for the opportunity to deliver carbon dioxide removal credits directly to the Department of Energy. 

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 23, 2022

Comitta To Introduce Bill Investing RGGI Proceeds In Helping Communities & Workers In Clean Energy Transition, Environmental Justice Areas, Promote Energy Efficiency -- New Poll: 65% Of PA Voters Want To Help Communities Affected By Transition To Clean Energy; 59% Would Vote For Candidates Supporting Reductions In Carbon Emissions -- Sen.

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Cresforum

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The 45V production tax credit (PTC) is tiered based on the lifecycle emissions of the hydrogen production process utilized. As a result, the carbon emissions of hydrogen production can vary depending on the process used. Siting and permitting. Cost parity.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2024

Signs Off On Solar Energy Facility -- USDA Funds 31 Local Projects Totaling $5.69 Signs Off On Solar Energy Facility -- USDA Funds 31 Local Projects Totaling $5.69 Signs Off On Solar Energy Facility -- USDA Funds 31 Local Projects Totaling $5.69

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2023

It complements Phoenix Contact’s Combined Cooling, Heating, and Power (CCHP) system, which generates about half of the facility’s electric requirements. Phoenix Contact estimates the solar power installation will reduce the company’s electricity costs by approximately $150,000 per year.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Indiana regulates the underground storage of carbon dioxide. In central Illinois , residents are reluctant to make way for an underground carbon dioxide pipeline. Residents of central Illinois are organizing against a proposed carbon dioxide pipeline, Energy News Network reports. billion annually.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 5, 2024

For example, a new edition of the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC), a model building code currently under development, would require a range of measures aimed at ensuring new buildings can accommodate on-site solar PV, provide electric vehicle charging, and take advantage of demand-response programs.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 24, 2022

We feel that natural gas and derivative products provide a path for the transportation industry both to reduce carbon emissions in the short-term while working toward a goal of net-zero in the long-term as hydrogen and other potential solutions mature," said Christina Cassotis, CEO, Pittsburgh International Airport. Read more here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Acknowledging that the United States is a leading contributor to carbon emissions, the Biden administration has committed to cutting US emissions 50 to 52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. Examining Supply-Side Options to Achieve 100% Clean Electricity by 2035.) Map courtesy NREL: Denholm et al.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 18, 2023

The law provides $140 billion in tax incentives, direct loans, and grants to replace fossil fuels with cleaner renewable energy that lowers emissions of carbon dioxide. Gevo asserts its “farm-to-flight” project will release 80 percent less carbon dioxide to the atmosphere than ethanol produced by a conventional plant.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Under the net zero scenario: Wind, solar, and other renewables nearly triple their share of US electricity generation from 22% in 2021 to 60% in 2030, 81% in 2035, and 92% in 2050. carbon capture and storage and carbon dioxide removal, which show up in a bounded way in our model results). The reductions in PM2.5

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Opponents of EPA Carbon Standards for New Coal-Fired Power Plants Filed Initial Briefs. Petitioners challenging EPA’s new source performance standards for carbon emissions from power plants filed their opening briefs in the D.C. Power Plant Owners Challenged New York “Zero Emission Credits” for Nuclear Plants.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Even if it were possible, simply eliminating carbon emissions from fossil fuel production would not address the myriad impacts of fossil fuel production faced primarily by Indigenous and front-line communities. They call this Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS).

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Physics World

MARCH 16, 2022

As the world grapples with the consequences of climate change, many scientists have begun to face up to the realities of their carbon emissions. At around 15 tonnes per astronomer, it ran to almost four times their annual emissions from flights (figure 1). © 2020 Springer Nature Limited. kg of CO 2 per kilowatt hour.

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A Greener Life

JULY 23, 2021

Hydrogen may have lost the race to fuel electric cars but it looks a likely contender to replace fossil fuels in trucks, ships, planes and heavy industry. There is talk that a global “hydrogen economy” can emerge to save the climate from carbon emissions. But manufacturing it takes a lot of electricity. By Fred Pearce.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 17, 2023

The proposal requires companies to report information related to “Scope 1” direct carbon emissions (think fuel use and greenhouse gases), “Scope 2” indirect carbon emissions (e.g., purchased energy and electricity), and for some companies to report on information related to “Scope 3” carbon emissions (i.e.,

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Carbon Emissions 2023 Clean Air Act Carbon Dioxide 130

A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In 2021, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) set a target for the aviation industry to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. of the world’s total carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion, many airlines are considering carbon-capture-and-storage technologies and electric-powered planes.

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Carbon Dioxide Fossil Fuels Waste Carbon Emissions 98

Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

Much of the cradle-to-grave carbon intensity data that governments depend on to guide in photovoltaic arrays are instead based on modeling assumptions that are likely to have grossly under-estimated — if not made-up — solar’s carbon emissions because they cannot get insights from Chinese manufacturers.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Ontario needs to do our part in reducing global emissions and phasing out fossil gas is a smart way to do it. Nearly a third of our current carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions come from burning fossil gas for electricity, home heating and other uses! Find out more here: EV Batteries and Ontario’s Electricity System.

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Natural Gas Carbon Dioxide Electricity Air Pollution 111

Environmental Progress

OCTOBER 17, 2021

The only thing out-of-balance were humankind's carbon emissions. But solving that problem doesn't require that rich nations become poor — or that poor nations remain poor — but simply that we move toward energy sources that don't produce carbon emissions, a process known as "decarbonization." It gets worse.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 24, 2021

There are an increasing number of companies and countries that are pledging to reach Net Zero carbon emissions–or carbon neutrality–by 2050. To assess how serious net zero pledges are from corporations, there are three fundamental questions one should ask: Are they including all greenhouse gas emissions?

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