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.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 9, 2025

The bill, introduced by State Representative Supreme Moore Omokunde and State Senator Chris Larson, creates an enforceable timeline with specific objectives, allowing flexibility for discussions of the various technology and policy approaches to come later.

Fossil Fuels

New Scientist

JULY 4, 2025

Buffer pools are especially an issue when forest-based carbon credits are sold to offset carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels , which remain in the atmosphere for centuries to millennia. “If Journal reference Global Change Biology DOI: 10.1111/gcb.70251

Fossil Fuels

Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Landing such developments in Alberta could lead to more than $100 billion of investment, says Chris Varcoe in the Calgary Herald (Dec 4), while creating thousands of technology jobs and spurring new demand for natural gas that will be needed to generate electricity to power such facilities.

Renewable Energy

Nature

JUNE 9, 2025

View author publications You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar Xintao Xu Qingdao University of Technology, Qingdao, China. View author publications You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar Huiping Guo Qingdao University of Technology, Qingdao, China. Xiao et al. Xiao et al.

Technology

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Meanwhile, more than 9,000 companies have committed to actions to cut global emissions by 2030. COP29: Influential voices call for reforming the UN COP climate procedure Chinas carbon emissions have not yet peaked, but its rapid expansion of renewables means they are likely to soon. of national emissions. trillion (USD 9.9

Carbon Emissions

A Greener Life

DECEMBER 19, 2024

By Jiang Mengnan Chinas oil demand is projected to peak at approximately 770 million tonnes in 2025, according to a forecast by the China National Petroleum Corporations Economic and Technological Research Institute (ETRI), reports Caixin.

2025

PA Environment Daily

MAY 23, 2025

Funded through the federal Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, RISE PA offers grants for both larger and smaller scale projects designed to improve technologies and reduce both costs and air pollution from heavy industry. It positions Pennsylvania as a national leader on industrial decarbonization.

Conservation

A Greener Life

APRIL 21, 2025

Canadas Cleantech Expo Hosted by LumeSmart, this event in Toronto showcases green technology and youth-led innovation. Earth Aid Live A global concert series, held in cities such as London, Rio de Janeiro, Los Angeles, Nairobi, and Mumbai. It brings together artists and activists to inspire climate action through music.

Earth Day

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.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

APRIL 24, 2025

MASSACHUSETTS The department of utilities approved a new three-year plan for energy efficiency, including installing 120,000 heat pumps, weathering over 180,000 homes, reducing carbon emissions by a million tons. Another law requires consideration of advanced grid technologies when evaluating applications for new transmission lines.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

MAY 12, 2025

One hearing was held by the House Consumer Protection, Technology and Utilities Committee [ watch video here ] and a joint hearing was held by the Senate Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure and Environmental Resources and Energy Committees [ watch video and read testimony here ]. Our communities like mine and Rep.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 11, 2025

Renewables, storage, and demand response have not only achieved the technological advances needed to assist our power grid in running reliably, but the business infrastructure has already been put in place by the visionary leaders of the energy industry. This includes solar, wind, and battery storage, as well as energy efficiency.

Electricity

Physics World

JUNE 3, 2025

The figure also rates their Technology Readiness Level (TRL), maximum mitigation potential (how many gigatonnes (10 9 tonnes) of CO 2 can be sequestered per year), and storage timescale. The pits vary in depth, and have been refilled and packed in different ways, to test how their build impacts carbon storage.

Waste

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The International Energy Agency reports that global energy investment this year will likely exceed $3 trillion for the first time, with two-thirds going for clean technologies. Peak carbon? According to some studies, global carbon emissions will peak this year and then start to decline.

Politics

Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

February 10, 2025 Cutting-edge technology applied to energy development, geography, and species assessments is a path to achieving more security for water supply. They produce no carbon emissions that cause climate change, and can be air-cooled.

2025

PA Environment Daily

JULY 9, 2025

Danilo Burgos (D-Philadelphia), Majority Chair of the House Consumer Protection, Technology & Utilities Committee , said-- "You stated [PJM] that people aren't the problem, but yet somehow people continue to carry the load of the payments. And we see that everywhere, it's become a global arms race for A.I.”

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2025

Hutchinson Introduces Bill To Abolish DEP Climate Change, Recycling Fund, Coastal Zone Advisory Committees [PaEN] -- The Derrick: Solar Energy Projects Take Shape In Venango County [ PDF of Article ] -- The Allegheny Front: Pittsburgh 2030 District Buildings Reduce Carbon Emissions By 50% -- Williamsport Sun Editorial: Technology Requires Time That (..)

Greenhouse

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 1, 2025

Defending Clean Energy Over the past few years, Congress enacted milestone legislative packages to support and advance the clean energy transition, from the technologies driving it, to the workforces powering it, to the manufacturing and supply chains enabling it, to the communities benefiting from it.

Clean Energy

Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

February 10, 2025 Cutting edge technology applied to energy development, geography, and species assessments is a path to achieving more security for water supply. They produce no carbon emissions that cause climate change, and can be air-cooled.

Carbon Emissions

Legal Planet

MARCH 10, 2025

EPAs efforts to regulate carbon emissions from powerplants have had a tortuous history, and were about to go through another round, with a rule from a Democratic Administration being repealed and replaced by a Trump rule. It does so by again determining, as when setting the new source rules, the best system of emission reduction...

Carbon Emissions

PA Environment Daily

MAY 9, 2025

A dedicated team of operators uses sophisticated technology to balance supply and demand and direct the power grid 24/7 from PJMs control rooms. All resources within PJMs footprint should be prepared to respond when called upon.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

JULY 7, 2025

economic growth, national security, and leadership in emerging technologies. Danilo Burgos (D-Philadelphia), Majority Chair of the House Consumer Protection, Technology & Utilities Committee , said-- "You stated [PJM] that people aren't the problem, but yet somehow people continue to carry the load of the payments.

Electricity

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 28, 2025

Shell, like competitors ExxonMobil and Chevron, uses an intensity metric for measuring the global warming emissions it produces, which allows them to project reductions in their relative carbon emissions via increases in renewable power and technologies like carbon capture and storage.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

APRIL 28, 2025

In addition, the Administration has withheld funding for clean technology, denounced the very idea of environmental justice, and begun a campaign to gut environmental agencies. Apparently, EPA means to challenge the massive scientific evidence that human carbon emissions are causing dangerous climate change.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

MAY 31, 2025

By producing more energy, cutting red tape, and advancing innovation, Governor Shapiros Lightning Plan will boost key sectors of the Commonwealths economy, including manufacturing, robotics and technology, agriculture, and life sciences. GW Of Power-- 7 In PA With Power Potential Of 1.2 MW-Day For 2025/26 Delivery Compared To $28.92/MW-Day

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

MAY 19, 2025

And I truly believe that when we are using all our resources, and one of the things that we really haven't touched on is emerging technologies. A real energy policy. Click Here for a copy of the Building Trades testimony that includes recommendations for improving the bill from their perspective.

Electricity

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 17, 2025

While the benefits of the technology are clear to many, its worth considering the fuller range from time to time. Offshore wind provides abundant, zero-carbon electricity I think most folks understand that wind turbines generate electricity by harnessing the power of the wind (for a handy primer on the mechanics, see here.)

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 27, 2025

Latest Report -- Erie Times: Canadian Wildfires Drop Erie Countys Grade In State Of The Air Report -- WTAE: Wildfire Smoke From Canada Impacted Air Quality In Pittsburgh -- Beaver Times: State Of The Air Report Gives Beaver County Passing Grade For Ozone, Particulates -- Tribune-Democrat: Special Report: Earths Warming Affecting Americans From Coast (..)

Earth Day

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 24, 2025

We've demonstrated this commitment through our Climate Pledge goal of reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2040. We recognize that bringing on new sources of baseload, carbon-free energy is critical to meeting society's growing electricity needs and meeting our customers' demands.

Carbon Emissions

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 22, 2025

A dedicated team of operators uses sophisticated technology to balance supply and demand and direct the power grid 24/7 from PJM’s control rooms. Demand response programs pay customers in advance to have their electricity use automatically reduced in times of system stress.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2025

data centers and other so-called “emerging technologies.” Legislation has been proposed in Pennsylvania to direct state agencies to identify suitable sites for gas generation projects and to provide low interest loans and grants to finance their “construction, maintenance, modernization and operation.”

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

JUNE 24, 2025

EPA’s core argument is that the statute requires it to determine whether an industry’s emissions “significantly cause or contribute” to climate change and that the industry’s carbon emissions don’t meet that standard. power industry’s emissions are nearly as large as Russia’s total emissions.

Pollution Control

Legal Planet

JANUARY 15, 2025

In terms of the IRAs strengths, I personally really like the expenditure on nascent technologies like carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), direct air capture, and CCS pipelines. These seem like the kind of things that government should be spending money on early-stage technologies. Given that the U.S.

Fossil Fuels

Scientific American

JULY 16, 2025

This has a meaningful slowing effect on the deployment of of clean technology across the economy," said Ben King, a director in Rhodiums Climate and Energy practice. The broad ranges reflect scenarios that assume differences in economic factors, such as the price of natural gas, renewables or electricity demand growth.

Carbon Emissions

Scientific American

JUNE 12, 2025

The draft doesn’t consider any costs associated with the increased carbon emissions the repeal would cause. The Biden-era rule relies on carbon capture and storage technology to curb greenhouse gas emissions. It briefly cites “significant uncertainties related to the monetization of greenhouse gases.”

Regulations

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 17, 2024

We then also considered a grid that eliminates net global warming emissions by 2035 based on research from the National Renewable Energy Lab , using a conservative assessment of carbon capture technologies (decarbonized grid).

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