Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Upfront equipment costs can also be lower because heat pumps provide both heating and cooling in one unit and they qualify for a number of government rebate programs. What’s more, switching to heat pumps would reduce a home’s carbon emissions for space heating, cooling, and water heating significantly.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 10, 2024

Upfront equipment costs can also be lower because heat pumps provide both heating and cooling in one unit and they qualify for a number of government rebate programs. What’s more, switching to heat pumps would reduce a home’s carbon emissions for space heating, cooling, and water heating significantly.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

A growing number of colleges and universities are using deep underground pipes to heat and cool their buildings without burning fossil fuels. Read the full story in the New York Times.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 22, 2022

We all know that to successfully address climate change we need to phase out fossil fuels and switch to electric power. Unfortunately, the current Ontario government’s plan is to burn more fossil gas to generate power. . creating ice in off peak periods to supply cooling in peak periods. As the U.S.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 3, 2022

Due to the heat challenges in the Gulf, extensive air conditioning systems have been required to keep the stadiums cool. And as Qatar’s energy system is mainly fossil fuel-based, the emissions per unit of energy used are considerably higher than they would have been in most other countries.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In the EU’s carbon market, EU ETS , the cost of emitting a tonne of CO2 on Monday the 20 th of February, became close to breaching 100 euros at 98.30 Forecasts of cool weather and expectations of lower wind power output had driven up demand for more fossil-fuel produced energy.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Nearly a third of our current carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions come from burning fossil gas for electricity, home heating and other uses! BONUS – COOL TECH ALERT! The companies selling fossil gas want you to believe that our electrical grid needs gas-plants because they can be fired up quickly to meet spiking demand.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 19, 2024

Embrace political advocacy Photo by Kempton via Flickr Creative Commons Political action and advocacy is crucial to climate action, because changing the larger system is the greatest opportunity to reduce emissions, and changing the way our economy and society operate requires government action.

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A Greener Life

JULY 21, 2022

And with gruelling heatwaves becoming more common , the nights can be sweltering, with no cooling breeze to relieve the discomfort. By the turn of the century, and possibly well before then, without very large reductions in fossil fuel burning, night-time temperatures will not fall below 25°C in some places during hot weather.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

However, several analyses—including a recent one by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)—have concluded that the IRA, even when coupled with the bipartisan infrastructure act and other federal and state climate policies, will not be enough to meet US carbon emission reduction goals. Energy efficiency also plays a critical role.

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A Greener Life

JULY 9, 2021

The other is to improve the energy structure, replacing fossil fuel sources with alternatives. Yang Fuqiang thinks it is unreasonable to make energy-producing provinces such as Inner Mongolia solely responsible for cutting carbon emissions. If it benefits, it has to help cut carbon.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 13, 2024

What drives emissions from ‘big sport’? Reusing venues and replacing fossil fuel with renewable energy use is essential to cutting emissions at a large sporting event. million, avoiding 512,000 tonnes of carbon emissions. We’re not just looking at the carbon emissions from one sporting event.”

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

Few people realize that Germany has actually increased its fossil fuel combustion capacity over the 20 years of its landmark renewable energy program from 2001 to the present. We can see the same impact of variable energies in Germany. link] [19] Michael Greenstone et al., Do Renewable Portfolio Standards Deliver?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

Fossil fuel power plant owners are facing increased accountability for their air and water pollution, including from a new round of environmental and public health protections that are being rolled out by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). We’ve heard these lazily disingenuous narratives before.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2022

All told, IRA climate-related initiatives are expected to cut US global warming emissions 30 to 40 percent by 2030. What’s really cool is how the federal government’s commitment to clean energy is driving private sector investments. They are also suing fossil fuel companies for consumer and investor fraud.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2024

Both fossil fuel and utility companies bear some responsibility for wildfires’ damage, and must be held accountable to ensure disadvantaged and low-income communities aren’t left to shoulder the costs and impacts of these disasters. Emissions traced to fossil fuel companies, on the other hand, have contributed to 19.8

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

This high-profile commitment to shift away from some forms of fossil fuel infrastructure came less than six weeks before a pivotal global climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland. Climate campaigners applauded the carbon-reducing benefits of fewer new coal plants. But other low-carbon technologies do not tread as lightly.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 11, 2022

We are at a game-changing moment for all of humanity, as climate science tells us exactly where we’re headed if we don’t reduce carbon emissions urgently. Extreme weather such as flooding, droughts, extreme heat, and more intense storms, worsened by climate change, hits low-income communities hardest.

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

degree warming by the end of the century and to minimise the effects of climate change, cities need to be at net-zero carbon by 2050 (Coalitions for Urban Transition, 2019). So what needs to change: Cities of the future will need to rely less on fossil fuels and invest in renewable energies.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2025

Million In Solar For All Funding From Self-Imposed Freeze [PaEN] -- The Allegheny Front/WPSU: Solar Power Supporters In PA Say Outlook Is Positive, Even As Policies Could Change Under President -- City Of Reading Begins Energy Efficiency, Solar Energy Project To Save $13.3

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 10, 2022

It led to severe disinvestment in urban communities of color, which—because of the lack of funds—have relatively little vegetation and few, if any, public parks, which help keep neighborhoods cool. The Phoenix climate action plan includes the creation of “cool corridors” consisting of canopied vegetation to form shaded pedestrian corridors.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

The DEP estimates that by joining RGGI in 2022, Pennsylvania would have been able to cut carbon emissions by at least 25.5% And considering Pennsylvania accounts for nearly 1% of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, that reduction could have global significance. You cannot have cleaner green energy projects without fossil fuel.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 29, 2025

Meanwhile, Ontario has been increasing our reliance on fossil fuels by building new gas plants, which is reversing the progress this province made in phasing out coal. Detail how it will help get Ontarians homes off of gas and give people the opportunity to get highly efficient heat pumps that reduce heating and cooling bills.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Low-carbon energy plans could be deployed quicker. Fossil fuel subsidies could be ratcheted down. Carbon-trapping forests and wetlands, which also filter water and calm floods, could be protected from plows and shovels. The Colorado River water that cooled the plant is part of a broader legal impasse. Brett Walton.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 29, 2025

It can also help reduce peak energy demand , decreasing reliance on fossil fuels. Experts divided on DST climate impacts DST and emissions reductions Environmental advocates argue that DST can help lower peak electricity demand, reducing reliance on fossil fuels.

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Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 11, 2022

A net zero emissions building portfolio by 2045, including a 50% emissions reduction by 2032: To reach these targets, the EO directs federal agencies to prioritize improving energy efficiency and eliminating “onsite fossil fuel use” in new construction, renovations, and retrofits.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Energy conservation can take a lot of different forms, starting with retrofitting existing structures with insulation and more efficient heating and cooling. Commercial buildings could benefit from new technologies using artificial intelligence to control their heating and cooling systems.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

It used to be Global Warming and that wasn’t working because we’re actually cooling.” trillion in tax incentives, grants and loans over ten years to stimulate faster and broader cuts in carbon emissions than would occur in their absence. We have made too much progress in cutting our dependence on fossil fuel.

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