Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 3, 2022

The majority 6–3 decision sharply curtails the EPA’s authority to set standards based on a broad range of flexible options to cut carbon emissions from the power sector—options such as replacing polluting fossil fuels with cheap and widely available wind and solar power coupled with battery storage. carbon emissions today.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The United States supports Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) partners in meeting their clean energy goals. By Leigh Hartman When Son Nguyen lived in the US, he saw rapidly advancing electric vehicle technology and heard stories from back in Vietnam about air pollution. © Zul Kifli / AFP / Getty Images.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 25, 2022

If you become an IP lawyer, there’s work to be done on clean energy technologies. One important area for work involves the energy sector. Clean energy has been growing rapidly, and Congress recently poured $379 billion more into cleaning up our energy system. Land Use Law.

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Clean Energy Law

MARCH 11, 2021

In December 2018, after having successfully reduced greenhouse gas emissions from the power sector by 53.3%, a majority of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) jurisdictions announced plans to design a program to address carbon emissions from the combustion of transportation fuels.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 22, 2022

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. These kinds of transmission investments will help get these surplus amounts of cheap, clean energy to other areas across the region.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

The biggest takeaway : without robust new policies, US energy sector heat trapping emissions will continue to remain high, far off-track from where we need to be to meet our climate goals. CO 2 emissions remain mostly level through 2050—nowhere close to meeting US climate goals. Carbon emissions remain high.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

That’s because the case, which was about the nature and scope of EPA authority in regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants, turned on a rule that does not exist. Simply by taking West Virginia v. EPA the Supreme Court signaled ominous things to come. And all signs point to the fact that technically, economically, we can.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 22, 2022

When we tell the story of our clean energy future, technologies like solar panels, wind turbines, and electric vehicles take center stage. These technologies will be crucial to producing 100% clean electricity by 2035 and achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Last month, DOE solicited applications from states to develop clean energy projects. The possibility of snagging some of this funding may also help nudge some lagging states to think seriously about cutting carbon emissions. The Inflation Reduction Act provides another important source of state funding. Download as PDF.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 11, 2022

If we switch to renewables, we won’t need to worry about saving energy. One reason to save energy is to limit carbon emissions from the energy we use. That’s going to important until the energy system has been completely cleaned up. In the end, you might use more electricity, not less.

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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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Legal Planet

MAY 7, 2024

Centralizing wholesale electricity transactions across a broader territory would improve grid reliability, lower costs for consumers, and increase use of clean energy technologies – even without building new generation or transmission infrastructure. Cost saving from improving market coordination could add up to $1.2

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

What secret weapon is a critical enabler of this dramatic energy transition? A 1 megawatt vanadium flow battery (a different technology from lithium-ion, but also used for energy storage) is in Pullman, Washington, built by UniEnergy Technologies and owned by Avista Utilities. Batteries help store surplus energy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2022

Meanwhile, annual reports show corporations are pushing ahead with plans to expand production, betting on new technologies to somehow make it all okay in the future. Further, these efforts are focused on carbon capture and storage, hydrogen, and biofuels—technologies that aim to stash carbon emissions away, not reduce their production.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

This is despite the clean energy progress the power sector has experienced to date—and despite the groundwork laid for more progress from leading states, as well as the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Section 111 of the Clean Air Act constrains how EPA sets standards—but gives states wide latitude in implementation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 16, 2024

These owners understood both the need for a supply of energy, and the value and reliability of clean energy. A significant fraction of the clean energy built in the US was financed on the commitments by such high profile, public data companies.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2021

On October 29, Mayor Jim Kenney, Superintendent William Hite, PECO CEO Mike Innocenzo and others joined the Philadelphia Energy Authority to celebrate the opening of a new Solar Training Lab at Frankford High School to help launch young people into careers in clean energy. Bright Solar Futures , funded by the U.S.

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Environmental Leader

JUNE 3, 2022

Dell Technologies committed to reducing emissions from assets it owned and controlled by 40% by 2020 from a 2010 baseline. It also sought to cut indirect emissions from the energy it purchased by the same amount. And, it promised to cut its energy intensity by 80% by 2020 from a 2012 baseline. The results?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 21, 2024

The IRA was passed into law to propel our nation’s clean energy transition forward. With the shift to a tax credit premised on technology-neutral framing, the risk is high that heavily polluting power plants—the very polluters this tax credit is meant to drive the shift away from—instead co-opt it for their own.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

As port throughput continues to grow, energy consumption is also on the rise, and some ports are struggling with the technology and policy involved, leading to slow progress in achieving zero-carbon goals. Despite this progress, decarbonising shipping faces many challenges.

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Physics World

JANUARY 7, 2022

Those critical challenges will require inventive and practical solutions, which is why automotive manufacturer Toyota has teamed up with The Electrochemical Society (ECS) to award a series of research fellowships focused on the development of green-energy technologies that reduce both pollution and carbon emissions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 19, 2023

Richer nations, which are most responsible for heat-trapping emissions, must provide low- and middle-income countries the funding they require to transition to clean energy and better withstand worsening climate extremes. And we must invest in protecting critical ecosystems too.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2024

PACER Under PACER, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection will calculate a Pennsylvania-specific cap on carbon emissions and hold our own independent PACER credit auctions. House Bill 2275 was referred to the House Consumer Protection, Technology and Utilities Committee. Photos: Sen. Comitta, Sen.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 21, 2025

Municipalities like St Helens (UK), Turku (Finland), and Riverside (USA) are hosting community planning sessions on clean energy. Canadas Cleantech Expo Hosted by LumeSmart, this event in Toronto showcases green technology and youth-led innovation. It brings together artists and activists to inspire climate action through music.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 25, 2023

The Inflation Reduction Act’s new hydrogen production tax credit , known as code 45V, is intended to incentivize a shift to low-carbon hydrogen production by offering producers a credit that increases in value as the carbon emissions associated with produced hydrogen declines.

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Physics World

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

As a versatile, colourless molecular energy carrier with great potential to decarbonize multiple sectors and help reach net-zero emissions, there has been a renewed interest in improving and expanding hydrogen production with minimal or zero impact to the environment. Want to take part in this webinar? Join the audience.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 22, 2024

Alberta is responsible for 1/3rd of Canada’s polluting emissions. There are powerful political and corporate interests that want nothing to do with a clean energy and economic transition – necessary steps in our journey to NetZero – and who don’t hesitate to gaslight, mislead and outright lie to protect themselves and their profits.

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Cresforum

JULY 19, 2024

Amazon recently released its 2023 Sustainability Report , which outlines their dedication to carbon-free energy and showcases U.S. industry leadership in clean energy. Amazon’s 2023 Sustainability Report exemplifies how American innovation can lower global emissions and leave our planet better than we found it.

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Cresforum

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

During the 2023 National Clean Energy Week Policymakers Symposium , a group of industry leaders convened for a panel discussion on how the United States can leverage its carbon advantage. A critical component of achieving this is American innovation.

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Law and Environment

MARCH 14, 2023

In the same release, Rhode Island Acting State Energy Commissioner Christopher Kearns added: This will help our regional New England grid make the transition to clean energy, reduce our collective carbon emissions significantly, and deliver a major victory in our fight against climate change.”

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2025

The [federal Bipartisan Infrastructure and Inflation Reduction Acts] provide billions of dollars in investment aimed at expanding low-and no-carbon technologies, accelerating a just energy transition, and building equity into climate adaptation efforts. from 2019 to 2020 and 44.4% from 2005 to 2020. Read more here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

In contrast to other solutions which primarily serve to enhance resilience, microgrids also help get more renewable energy on the grid, supporting a reduction in carbon emissions while reducing energy costs. What is next? As human-caused extreme weather becomes more common, risks to distribution grids will too.

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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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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

This program is one of over 115 side events for the Global Clean Energy Action Forum to be held in Pittsburgh. Visit the Global Clean Energy Action Forum website for information on all available programs and presentations. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh starting at 10:15 a.m.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2021

"As we pursue our goals, we're investing in the research and development of clean energy solutions that will enable us to achieve net-zero carbon emissions, and we're committed to ensuring a balanced, responsible and just transition to economy-wide decarbonization."

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 23, 2022

The Infrastructure Act was primarily about conventional infrastructure but also made a big investment in clean energy. billion to cut emissions from ferries and buses; $7.5 billion for charging stations for EVs; and $6 billion for energy storage. from losing the technology race with China. Download as PDF.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Since PPL's last climate assessment report in 2017, the company has taken a number of steps to advance its emissions reductions and overall clean energy transition strategy. The transition to a clean energy future offers us an opportunity to rethink how energy is produced, stored, delivered and used.

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