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Enviromental Defense
DECEMBER 12, 2024
In recent advice to the government, the Net Zero Advisory Body made clear that even a 50 to 55 per cent reduction wouldnt represent Canada doing its fair share in reducing greenhouse gas pollution. These will only keep increasing unless Canada seriously commits to replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 1, 2022
Because while this decision does still recognize EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, it simultaneously sharply curtails the agency’s ability to do so. First and foremost, despite some fossil fuel interests swinging for the fossil fuel-favored fences, the Supreme Court’s decision in West Virginia v.
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Enviromental Defense
DECEMBER 29, 2023
Earlier this month at COP28 countries committed to transitioning off of fossil fuels and massively scaling up renewable energy instead. So you’re excused if, like me, you’re baffled by Minister Freeland’s first move in the wake of COP28: a giant new fossil fuel subsidy, via the new Canada Growth Fund.
Union of Concerned Scientists
OCTOBER 10, 2023
California has been at the forefront of everything from limits on greenhouse gas emissions and 100% renewable energy requirements, to a human right to water. We are at a critical moment in California where the clean energy and transportation transition is well underway, yet the stakes are high if we don’t get that transition right.
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.
Enviromental Defense
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
They are useful tools for incentivizing things that we want more of – like renewable energy. That’s what the proposed clean energy tax credit does. Hydrogen, like electricity, is an energy carrier – it can be used to store and deliver usable energy, for example to a cement or steel factory or to produce fertilizer.
Vermont Law
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
Bridging the Gap: Ensuring a Just Transition for Rural Communities in the Clean Energy Revolution by Olivia Moulton As we begin transitioning from fossil fuels to renewable energy, we must be mindful of the disproportionate effects that the existing energy system has had on certain communities.
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