Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 26, 2024

My testimony highlighted the critical importance of making sure today’s hydrogen policies choose hydrogen production projects and end uses that are truly aligned overall with the clean energy transition. This would be a disastrous outcome, wasting time and money we do not have in the pressing fight to turn the tide on climate.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 25, 2023

With an outsized credit for the lowest-carbon tier, the incentive’s aim is clear: Drive deployment of hydrogen production technologies that will be needed by, and aligned with , the nation’s overall clean energy transition. How do biomethane, lifecycle carbon accounting, and the tax credit interact?

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 11, 2024

On July 11, the House-- by a vote of 127 to 75 -- and the Senate-- by a vote of 37 to 12 -- passed and sent to the Governor Senate Bill 831 (Yaw-R- Lycoming) establishing a framework for authorizing the geologic sequestration of carbon dioxide through injection wells. This practice could be widespread in a carbon-constrained world.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

With the clean energy transition already under way, the US electricity mix is set to continue changing this year. Solar power is expected to make up about half of all additions of US electric generating capacity in 2023, according to data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). I’ll start off with the good.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2022

Just as important, cleaning up the power grid can also decrease carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions. And there are many more benefits that are needed now more than ever as our economy tries to rebound after the pandemic, including the huge potential for new jobs in the clean energy industry.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2022

We also evaluated the potential to accelerate the use of renewable energy dramatically through state-level renewable electricity standards, which have been major drivers of clean energy in recent decades. Just as important, cleaning up the power grid also lowers carbon dioxide emissions. percent in 2040.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Their study examined the carbon dioxide and methane emissions from these companies’ products, as well as from the extraction and production processes of the largest gas, oil and coal producers and cement manufacturers. Data on the major carbon producers’ emissions have been published since 2014.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 28, 2022

6 is still driving up Ohioans’ electricity bills—and undermining the state’s prospects for a clean energy future. 6 was enacted, the plants have emitted more than 29 million tons of heat-trapping carbon dioxide, 28,000 tons of nitrogen oxides (NOx), and 16,000 tons of sulfur dioxide (SOx). Since H.B. Removing H.B.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 9, 2025

Of this, carbon dioxide emissions accounted for 10.28 In 2020, China officially announced its dual carbon goals to peak carbon emissions by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality in 2060. In 2020, China officially announced its dual carbon goals to peak carbon emissions by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality in 2060.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2024

Carbon dioxide and methane (a short-lived but extremely powerful global warming gas) are emitted during the extraction, processing, storage, transportation and combustion of gasoline, diesel and other petroleum fuels used by our vehicles. We have over 284 million gasoline- and diesel-burning cars, trucks and buses on our roads.

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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. This is DLC’s second annual ESG report and, for the first time, discloses year-over-year performance metrics from a 2022 baseline.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Oil and gas major ConocoPhillips’ website says gas is “one of the safest and cleanest fuels available” and that when it is burned, it “produces mostly carbon dioxide and water vapor—the same substances emitted when humans exhale.” Likewise, pipeline giant Williams Companies now refers to its gas projects as “clean energy” projects.

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New Scientist

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Several companies are beginning to scale up production of jet fuel made from captured carbon dioxide and green hydrogen, but decarbonising global aviation this way would require huge amounts of clean energy

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

Change #1: 100% clean energy goals have spread At the beginning of 2018, the only state in the country with a 100% clean or renewable energy goal was Hawaii. Now, 22 states plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico have 100% clean energy goals on the books. billion dollars since the market began.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

In response, Europe has scrambled to replace flows and decouple this dependence , in part by shifting away from gas to clean energy alternatives, in part by increasing local gas production, and in part by turning to imports of liquified natural gas, or LNG—including from the US. Credit: U.S. Let us at least stave off the worst.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 18, 2024

This included a bill that would have started a statewide conversation about the diminished role fossil fuels should play in Maine’s energy system as the state strives to meet its climate and clean energy commitments. The fuel still emits carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) when burned.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 3, 2025

SMR involves using steam to separate the hydrogen from the carbon in methane (CH 4 ). In addition to producing hydrogen, this process results in emissions of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and other heat-trapping gases.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2022

That requires bringing global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions to net zero by 2050. To meet that goal, the International Energy Agency’s Net Zero Roadmap released in 2021 says no new oil and gas supply projects can come online. degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 17, 2023

Over the year, those plants emitted 661 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, more than 13% of the US’s energy-related carbon dioxide emissions. Aging plants and state clean energy goals are certainly helping that trend.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The WMO’s GHG bulletin’s headline takeaways are stark: Atmospheric concentrations of three major heat-trapping gases, carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), methane (CH 4 ) and nitrous oxide (N 2 O) hit all-time highs in 2021 (see table below). ” Source: IEA World Energy Outlook 2022. According to the IEA, “From USD 1.3

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

Climate impacts The power sector accounts for approximately 25% of heat-trapping emissions in the United States, with gas plants accounting for 45% of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) in the power industry. In parallel, there should be more concerted efforts to break down the barriers to the clean energy buildout.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 10, 2023

A 2022 peer-reviewed study that built on UCS’s Climate Accountability Scorecard found that BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell continue to depend almost entirely on fossil fuels, with insignificant and opaque spending on clean energy.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 25, 2024

On June 25, the House voted 107 to 95 to pass House Bill 2338 (Fiedler-D-Philadelphia) to update the duties and powers of the Pennsylvania Energy Development Authority to enable the body to apply for and leverage billions of federal clean energy dollars now available through the Inflation Reduction Act.

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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. A rapid clean energy transition is (still) the best path forward.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 19, 2022

This process uses a lot of energy: producing 1 kilogram of metallurgical grade silicon requires 14-16 kWh of power, which is roughly equivalent to using your home oven for seven hours. Still, over their lifetimes, solar panels emit 25 times less carbon dioxide equivalent per kilowatt hour than coal-powered electricity.

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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.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The electric company Central Maine Power got its state and federal permits and began construction on a high-voltage transmission line called New England Clean Energy Connect. If completed, the line will deliver hydropower generated in Quebec to Massachusetts, in order to fulfill that state’s clean energy goals.

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Together with the Chinese Certified Emission Reduction (CCER) Scheme, which was restarted on October 19, 2023, the development and strengthening of the China ETS reaffirms China’s objectives to limit the growth of carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060. Read the Client Alert.

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Clean Energy Law

JULY 8, 2021

The report also identifies the wide variety of ways by which the captured carbon dioxide can be converted into a product of commercial value, also known as carbon utilization. Next Steps. CEQ will establish an interagency working group to develop guidance based on the report and establish no fewer than two regional task forces.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Recent progress in carbon dioxide capture technologies: A review. Clean Energy Science and Technology 1(1). Bhatti, U. H., & Fan, X. link] Abstract The continuous increase in anthropogenic CO2 emissions is widely acknowledged as one of the main reasons for global climate change.

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Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

Boyd teaches courses and seminars on energy and climate change law, and developed a new course in renewable energy project finance , offered for the first time this spring and taught by Ed Zaelke, a UCLA Law alumnus and pioneer in the clean energy field. Boyd also leads the Ph.D.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Oil and gas companies know these are dead-end technologies which won’t make a dent in emissions, but are using them to delay the clean energy transition and wring out even more subsidies. The Carbon Capture Facility at the Boundary Dam Power Plant in Saskatchewan went into service in 2014.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2023

She knows methane emissions have as much as 80 times the heat-trapping effect over a 20-year period as carbon dioxide. TVA CEO Jeff Lyash has often referred to gas as a bridge fuel , needed in the transition to renewable energy. Muse isn’t buying it.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

One strategy is to counterbalance carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions that contribute to climate change by drawing an equal amount of carbon out of the atmosphere, such as through planting trees. By Department of Conservation & Natural Resources Efforts to slow or stop global warming involve many strategies working together.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 24, 2022

Department of Energy (DOE) recently issued a Request for Information (RFI) that seeks input on the Barriers and Pathways to Integrating Onsite Clean Energy Technologies in the Industrial Sector.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Building more gas plants or keeping aging plants online won’t solve the winter problem due to a host of reasons , including the carbon dioxide and methane emissions associated with gas plants. Clean energy solutions are readily available to bolster winter grid reliability while mitigating climate change at the same time.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 24, 2023

In the 1960s, scientists were warning that the burning of fossil fuels was releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which could have catastrophic consequences for the planet. We still have a long way to go in terms of transitioning to a clean energy economy and mitigating the worst impacts of climate change.

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