Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 21, 2022

The most consequential vote to advance a clean energy future won’t be happening in Washington, D.C., billion in new transmission investments to accommodate a shift to clean energy. billion in new transmission investments to accommodate a shift to clean energy. or your state capital next week. billion to $11.6

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 28, 2022

Last week was a big one for clean energy in Michigan. First, Union of Concerned Scientists and the Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition released a new report on how Michigan and other states can achieve 100-percent renewable energy standards that benefit all communities. The Path Ahead.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 30, 2023

And I love hearing about new renewable electricity records as spring unfolds. A few recent examples for that last love: California scored a new record for total generation from renewable energy in mid-April and a new record for solar production in mid-May. New York just broke its solar record.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 13, 2022

And yet, technological innovation is not what’s standing in the way of significant and necessary near-term climate progress. These pieces are critical to unleashing necessary change—regardless of the technologies at hand—yet are too often overlooked. Now we need to rapidly accelerate the clean energy momentum already underway.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 3, 2022

is a serious blow to the EPA’s ability to fight climate change—and could have dangerous repercussions beyond this case. The timing of the decision feels especially harsh, as the nation is in the throes of the “ Danger Season ” for hazards such as heat waves, drought, wildfires and hurricanes, all worsened by climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 22, 2022

Minnesotans are facing concurrent crises of climate change, high energy prices and inflation, and the inequitable public health impacts of fossil fuel air pollution. 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.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 24, 2023

There’s good news in the recently released official data on electricity generation in the United States in 2022: renewable energy has continued to grow, coal power has continued to drop, and renewables are now firmly ahead of coal for the first time ever. They offer a lot of good news about clean energy progress.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Climate change is propelling these weather events to grow faster and stronger than ever before. Other climate change impacts are accelerating as well. Many scientists thought these high ocean temperatures would be years away, but the realities of climate change are not a distant threat.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The United States brought to COP27 in Egypt the historic Inflation Reduction Act , which Congress passed this summer, as evidence of our renewed participation with the rest of the world on climate action.?. Connecticut has an Office of Climate Planning. Rhode Island has the Executive Climate Change Coordinating Council.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Although the nuclear bailout was repealed and refunded in 2021, some of the law’s other egregious provisions requiring ratepayers across the state to subsidize money-losing coal plants and gutting renewable energy and energy efficiency standards are still in place today. The Union of Concerned Scientists opposed H.B. Since H.B.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

When thinking about global emissions, don’t picture an individual—point your finger at powerful corporations, specifically the 88 companies that are largely responsible for climate change. The best solution: Replace fossil fuels with renewable energy. The transition to 100-percent renewables is possible.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2022

Nearly all of the alliance members have a renewable electricity standard (RES), which requires utilities in their jurisdiction to increase their use of renewable energy to a particular percentage by a specific year. We found that states have technically feasible and highly beneficial ways to achieve 100-percent renewable energy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 16, 2024

Much of our electricity system is 50 to 70 years old, yet current plans for domestic manufacturing, electric vehicle fleets, community solar gardens and more clean energy all depend on a modern grid. New demands for electricity and the need to reduce climate-changing emissions are driving new grid planning efforts.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 31, 2022

On the last day of the 2022 Minnesota legislative session, state legislators had a real case of the Mondays: They failed to deliver on climate and energy policies that would have accelerated renewable energy enough to forge a clear path to carbon-free electricity and set the state on track to meet science-based emission reduction targets.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

Source: US Energy Information Administration, Annual Energy Outlook 2022 (AEO2022). According to the forecast, while economy-wide CO 2 emissions decrease from 2022 to 2037 due primarily to the growth in renewable energy replacing retiring coal plants, emissions do increase after 2037 from increased usage of natural gas.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 29, 2024

The bad news is that we’re not yet on track to avoid dangerous climate change. climate policy. Climate policy has been boosted by dramatic changes in the economics of clean energy. Perhaps the most important development of the past decade has been the dramatic decline in the cost of renewables.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 26, 2024

The Premier of Alberta has a problem with renewable energy. In August of 2023, Premier Smith imposed a seven-month industry-wide moratorium on new approvals for wind, solar, geothermal, and other forms of renewable energy. The report said that “renewables pose little threat to Alberta’s agriculture and environment.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2023

On January 26, the Minnesota House of Representatives passed House File 7 —the 100% Clean Energy Bill. Now, with climate and clean energy majorities in both chambers, Minnesota is poised to join other leading states in updating its clean energy policies equitably with benefits for all residents.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 2, 2024

By refusing to admit the economic, employment and environmental benefits of clean energy, the government is depriving Ontario ratepayers of more affordable bills and making our electricity dirtier than it has been in years. In fact, studies show that clean energy is a more affordable option than continuing to rely on fossil fuels.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 1, 2024

While at least one event provided a platform for oil and gas industry greenwashing, others centered people directly affected by fossil fuel-driven climate change who are holding bad actors accountable. As usual, it was a mixed bag.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 13, 2024

As electric vehicle charging stations sprout like mushrooms along our roads and clusters of new wind turbines come online, these two clean energy solutions to the climate crisis are becoming more commonplace. Also more commonplace are the obvious , dangerous , and destructive effects of climate change on people and communities.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Last year, Congress passed the most ambitious climate bill ever enacted, the Inflation Reduction Act. The legislation committed nearly $400 billion to support, among other things, wind and solar power, battery storage, electric vehicles, and other clean energy technologies that will make a significant dent in US heat-trapping emissions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 4, 2023

And, while renewable energy is growing fast too, it’s not happening fast enough—and can never happen fast enough if its outpaced by fossil fuel expansion. These climate, health and justice imperatives are the reason the world needs to phase out fossil fuels and transition to clean energy rapidly.

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Scientific American

APRIL 21, 2023

Renewable energy has seen considerable growth in recent years, but there is a long way to go to achieve a clean energy future that averts the worst effects of the climate crisis

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 3, 2023

Last year’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) included a clean hydrogen production tax credit (known as “45V”) that is one of a slew of new incentives intended to help catalyze the next and necessary phase of advancing the nation’s clean energy transition as a whole. The costs will be too great otherwise.

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Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

On Wednesday, Oregon Governor Kate Brown signed a package of four clean energy bills. These bills move Oregon to the forefront of climate action. This is not only a major step forward for the state; it should also clear the path to closer collaboration among Washington State, Oregon, and California on climate issues.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 10, 2023

This year has brought new evidence of what major fossil fuel companies knew and when about the role their products play in climate change, as well as what they did in spite of what they knew. I is for Intensity Targets Reducing global warming emissions intensity alone is not sufficient to slow the pace of climate change.

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Energy and Climate Law

MAY 21, 2021

Our Encyclopedia on Energy Law, Climate Change and the Environment has now been published and may be ordered at Edward Elgar. Based on an in-depth analysis of the energy chain, it offers insight into the impacts of climate change and environmental issues on energy law and the energy sector.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

Avery was added to the board—a majority of shareholders for the first time approved a climate-related shareholder proposal. 1 capturing three seats on the board by successfully arguing that ExxonMobil was failing to adapt for the transition to clean energy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

And this problem will only get worse as the impacts of climate change become more frequent and severe. While it’s clear we need to rapidly reduce gas generation to help limit the worst impacts of climate change, it’s less clear how much fossil gas capacity we actually need to maintain reliability in a future decarbonized grid.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Thanks to advances in attribution science, we now understand many of these extreme events have been worsened by climate change. The fossil fuel industry plays the dominant role globally in causing climate change and therefore their profits come at the expense of our global health and safety. billion and $35.5

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Law and Environment

JUNE 11, 2021

As Anne Reynolds, executive director of the Alliance for Clean Energy – New York (“ACE-NY”) stated when the law was enacted, “[Section 94-c] improves the process and will hopefully get people to work, building wind and solar projects.”

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Colorado State University There is a renewable energy revolution happening all over the world: costs for renewable energy have dropped significantly in the last 10 years and the world is starting to adopt the technology at a very fast pace. kWh per day. kWh per day.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 4, 2022

Here are a few examples of this interplay between big companies and utilities: In North Carolina, Apple built its own solar farm because it felt that Duke wasn’t meeting its need for renewables. Dominion acquired 80 MW of solar production to serve Amazon’s renewable energy needs.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

Here are the four biggest things that have changed since 2018 that make grid regionalization worth reconsideration. 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.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

PennFuture celebrated 25 years of fighting climate change and industrial pollution by holding anniversary celebrations in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia to honor seven Pennsylvanians for their contributions to restoring and protecting the environment. His fourth conference is scheduled for Friday, April 19, 2024.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 25, 2022

These models are essentially designed to determine what resources need to be added to the grid to meet certain goals, such as clean energy or emissions reduction goals. Capacity expansion modeling helps determine how many clean resources, such as solar and wind, need to be added to the grid to meet clean energy goals.

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