Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 4, 2023

These climate, health and justice imperatives are the reason the world needs to phase out fossil fuels and transition to clean energy rapidly. Low- and middle-income countries also need climate finance from richer nations to fund their clean energy transition—and that funding has fallen woefully short.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

UCS Senior Energy Analyst Julie McNamara addressed the industry’s ruse in a recent blog post: “Given the fallacy of the fossil fuel solution, our policymakers should stop hyper-focusing on fossil fuel production and instead take a full-field view of near- and long-term needs and opportunities, both at home and abroad.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 18, 2022

Right now, states and the federal government have a choice that will define our country’s options for clean energy and planning the power grid for the challenges ahead. This choice reveals how the electric grid, and the work to cut global warming emissions, are shaped by our political structures. New Roles for States.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

With the clean energy transition already under way, the US electricity mix is set to continue changing this year. Solar power is expected to make up about half of all additions of US electric generating capacity in 2023, according to data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). I’ll start off with the good.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In the Nile River basin last week, a political power shift in Sudan could turn up the heat on a long-simmering dispute over a major dam in the region. In that decade, the federal government created the U.S. And state governments began to secure those same rights for individuals in their constitutions.

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Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

They will be working alongside our faculty director (formerly faculty co-director) Ted Parson—an accomplished scholar of environmental governance—as well as me and my colleague Cara Horowitz, shaping the strategic direction of the Emmett Institute. Wang is a leading expert on environmental governance and the law and politics of China.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 16, 2024

It will take massive investment by the federal government to build the amount of affordable housing we need, and further government action to strengthen housing rights in this country. That could look like weatherizing properties for added climate resilience, and investing in clean energy upgrades.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2022

Quite the opposite: today’s high oil and gas prices are a fresh reinforcement, if we needed that, for why a rapid transition to clean energy is imperative. A rapid clean energy transition is (still) the best path forward. Multiple crises colliding with climate change.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Although its track record has some complexities, this timeline of German actions shows just its early and sustained attention to clean energy policy: 1990. Government adopts a sector-by-sector plan to reach 2050 climate goals. trillion tons.] Fifteen percent of electricity is renewable.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen The UK’s Secretary of State for the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), Ed Miliband, used a speech at the UK’s trade association for the energy sector, Energy UK Annual Conference, to make a compelling case for scaling up the clean energy transition.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 24, 2023

States and local governments are suing for damages So why are states and local governments suing the fossil fuel industry now? This evidence is based on decades of research by thousands of scientists around the world who have dedicated their lives to understanding the complex systems that govern our planet.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

By Bernice Lee Following the Paris Agreement, corporate enthusiasm for climate action surged, with net-zero commitments and the energy transition taking a central role in both government and business agendas. However, political shifts and implementation challenges have slowed that momentum. This shift is not abstract.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

TAKE ACTION: Tell the Alberta government it’s time to turn the power back on for Alberta’s clean energy future! The Alberta government is opposing any meaningful policy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that the federal government is attempting to implement. Sound about right?

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The directive aims to reduce waste and bolster the repair sector. Davies , Michael D. Green , and James Bee On 2 February 2024, the European Parliament (Parliament) and European Council (Council) reached a provisional deal on a directive promoting the repair of broken or defective goods, known as the Right to Repair Directive.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 28, 2022

Like California, Washington is finding that a market-based mechanism can be a powerful engine for funding clean energy. have tremendous flexibility to jump out ahead of the federal government in addressing problems. have tremendous flexibility to jump out ahead of the federal government in addressing problems.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Not only does this not align with the global momentum to move beyond oil and gas, it’s yet another black mark for the Government of Canada’s promises to end fossil fuel subsidies. It’s meant to provide subsidies for clean energy projects in order to help Canada reach its greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

This post was originally published on the Law and Political Economy blog as part of a symposium on inflation. Energy prices have been much in the news over the past several months, occupying a prominent place in mainstream discussions of inflation. How then do we explain what is currently happening with energy prices?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2024

It was beyond the scope of this study to estimate the reductions in criteria pollutants separately for each economic sector, but economywide clean energy investments reduce deadly PM2.5 We urgently need the political will to make the right investments to accelerate this transition to a clean and equitable transportation system.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

A federal court in Australia ruled that the government had a “duty of care” toward its young people to protect them from climate change. The corporate insurgents were seeking a sharp shift in corporate strategy, embracing clean energy rather than defining itself in terms of fossil fuels.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Governmental agencies and utilities involved in the energy sector can pair an energy justice framework with meaningful community engagement to assess their actions and decisions and realize the benefits of energy equity for their constituents.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 22, 2024

The Alberta government is also the single most prominent opponent of climate action. TAKE ACTION: SAVE ALBERTA’S CLEAN ENERGY FUTURE Survey Says Albertans are conflicted, and inconsistent in their opinions regarding an energy transition. Alberta is responsible for 1/3rd of Canada’s polluting emissions.

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Ocean Conservancy

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Therefore, it is crucial to rapidly transition from the production and use of fossil fuels to sustainable renewable energy sources to reach our global climate goals so we can leave a habitable planet for future generations.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

By Jeremy Williams Over the past 200 years, political power has become deeply entwined with fossil fuels. The energy transition is now troubling the peace, and those alliances are shifting. As renewable energy takes over from fossil fuels, there is a tug-of-war underway to control the narrative.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 17, 2022

This requires accelerating the energy transition to clean and renewable sources in a way that is equitable. An equitable energy transition must expand access to clean energy technologies and expand decision-making to include environmental justice and communities that rely on fossil fuels while phasing out coal and gas plants.

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A Greener Life

JULY 4, 2024

Editorial Today (4th of July) the British public heads to the polls to decide who will govern the country that has been through several political earthquakes for the past decade, for the next five years. These are symbolic and cultural attachments as much as it is the challenge of putting a proper energy transition in place.

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A Greener Life

JULY 18, 2024

But they caution we must now pick up the decarbonisation speed across other industries outside energy – particularly in transport, buildings, industry and agriculture. In a criticism of the previous Conservative government, they said their plans and policies would not deliver the required action soon enough.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 9, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen The United Nations (UN) has warned that dis- and misinformation campaigns by primarily fossil fuel companies, slowing down the clean energy transition. He further added “Climate appears to be dropping down the list of priorities of leaders, but we really need leaders now to deliver maximum ambition.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

Climate Envoy Kerry: No Rolling Back Clean Energy Transition PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- Inquirer: 100 Days: A Look At Shapiro’s ‘Common Ground’ Approach To Governing One Of The Nation’s Most Politically Divided States -- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: Pennsylvania’s House Takeover - A Tale Of Two Speakers - By Fmr Rep.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 15, 2024

TAKE ACTION: SAVE ALBERTA’S CLEAN ENERGY FUTURE Not talking about the connection between climate change-caused natural disasters isn’t leading to long-term answers to these tragic challenges. It is hampering our efforts to find solutions. At least it hasn’t been so far. But talk we must. After the 2017 Kenow Fire.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

SB 1145 requires CARB to create and maintain an online dashboard providing the public with information about the state’s progress on meeting its climate change goals, increasing government accountability. Clean Energy.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 21, 2021

In a remarkable new report, the International Energy Agency (IEA) finds that in order to limit warming to 1.5 The IEA is the world’s foremost authority on energy, relied upon by governments and the private sector around the world. So what do we need governments to do? This is a huge deal. Starting now.

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A Greener Life

JULY 30, 2021

Germany has recently experienced fatal and apocalyptic climate- fuelled floods , after which the country’s Chancellor, Angela Merkel, promised the government would do more to tackle climate change. Ironically, the country already gets a lot of its electricity supply via interconnectors from France – produced through nuclear energy.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 18, 2024

First, hundreds of clean energy contracts were cancelled with the stroke of a pen. Emails, ERO input, mass protests, appeals to the federal government to intervene – it was all or nothing for the Greenbelt and democracy. Then, trouble was clearly in the wind when six members of the Greenbelt Council resigned in 2020.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

Throughout his career, Minott and the Clean Air Council earned a reputation for holding government agencies and fossil fuel companies accountable. Mr. Minott holds two degrees in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from Villanova University School of Law.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 6, 2023

But with the recent influx of government incentives for hydrogen production, new and improving production and storage technologies, and greater political will than ever before, H 2 ’s reputation is gaining favor. All this is not to say there is no place for hydrogen in a clean energy future.

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Clean Energy Law

MARCH 18, 2024

Green , and James Bee On 15 March 2024, EU Member States endorsed the Belgian Presidency’s political deal on the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), despite Germany abstaining from the vote. Davies , Michael D. Next Steps A vote is scheduled in the European Parliament’s JURI Committee on 19 March 2024.

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Inside Climate News

APRIL 3, 2024

By Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune This article was first published by The Texas Tribune , a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans—and engages with them—about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.

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