Legal Planet

MAY 7, 2024

Centralizing wholesale electricity transactions across a broader territory would improve grid reliability, lower costs for consumers, and increase use of clean energy technologies – even without building new generation or transmission infrastructure. Cost saving from improving market coordination could add up to $1.2

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Law and Environment

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The Council’s draft plan recommends a broad array of regulatory measures, legislation, and other state actions across every sector of the state’s economy – any and all of which could have significant implications for New York’s clean energy markets for decades to come.

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Environment + Energy Leader

JUNE 10, 2022

The post Australia’s Telstra Cuts Greenhouse Gases by 11% by Focusing on Efficiency and Renewables appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. Telstra easily hits in carbon neutrality goal in 2020. Now it wants to bring its suppliers on board.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2021

On October 29, Mayor Jim Kenney, Superintendent William Hite, PECO CEO Mike Innocenzo and others joined the Philadelphia Energy Authority to celebrate the opening of a new Solar Training Lab at Frankford High School to help launch young people into careers in clean energy. Bright Solar Futures , funded by the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 25, 2024

Department of the Treasury (Treasury) to carefully implement multiple new Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) tax credits, including the Section 45V Credit for Production of Clean Hydrogen (“45V”). The December proposal makes clear that Treasury understands the critical importance of getting implementation guidance right from the start.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 12, 2023

Under DOE’s Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office the nine organizations— eight regional and one national— will establish a network of Technical Assistance Partnerships to accelerate the integration and deployment of clean energy technologies. Click Here for the complete announcement.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Utilities were famously set in their ways, using nineteenth century technologies to produce and deliver their products. Energy law is a hot topic. Energy use accounts for the bulk of greenhouse gas emissions. These facts make energy law central to one of the biggest issues now facing humanity. Climate change.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Globally, the shipping industry accounts for 3% of greenhouse gas emissions, with ports being one of the key contributors along with ships running on heavy fuel oil. But there are still issues such as inefficient spatial planning and shoreline utilisation that does not consider clean energy deployment.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2024

. -- 30 percent to support energy efficiency projects that reduce air pollution in Pennsylvania, invest in new job-creating clean energy projects, and support low-income energy consumers with their energy bills through a year-round LIHEAP program. Photos: Sen. Comitta, Sen. Santarsiero, Rep. Friel-Otten, Rep.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Last month, DOE solicited applications from states to develop clean energy projects. Under the Clean Air Act, California has the unique ability to set its own standards for tailpipe emissions from new vehicles, including greenhouse gases. The Inflation Reduction Act provides another important source of state funding.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

When the sun isn’t shining or the wind isn’t blowing, batteries help store clean energy to continue supplying electricity to the grid and to customers consistently and reliably. Generating and storing clean energy is a lifeline for the planet’s future; burning coal, oil, and gas fossil fuels causes 75% of greenhouse gas emissions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 25, 2023

With an outsized credit for the lowest-carbon tier, the incentive’s aim is clear: Drive deployment of hydrogen production technologies that will be needed by, and aligned with , the nation’s overall clean energy transition.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

To avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis, it’s crucial that we shift energy production away from the unsustainable fossil fuels that cause climate change and towards those that release little to no greenhouse gases (GHG), such as solar and wind power. Clean energy is key to national security. degrees Celsius.

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Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

Boyd is recognized as one of the country’s leading energy and environmental law scholars and has written pathbreaking articles on public utilities, risk regulation, forestry, and the role of science and technology in environmental law. Boyd also leads the Ph.D. Through the project, Prof.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

While EVs already result in less greenhouse gas emissions than the gasoline alternative, using these recycled materials substantially lowers impacts associated with material sourcing. Technologies are advancing and several new recycling companies state a 95% material recovery rate.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 4, 2023

Transportation is one of the most complicated and urgent areas of the clean-energy transition. The sector—including personal transportation like passenger cars, as well as air, marine, and surface goods and people movement—is the largest source of greenhouse gasses in the U.S.:

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Shapiro released the consensus recommendations by the Climate and Energy Work Group of organized labor, energy industry, consumer and environmental stakeholders to discuss Pennsylvania’s energy future, including the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 22, 2024

At UCS, we’re working to ensure effective and equitable implementation of key clean energy and clean transportation provisions. .… How the programs and tax credits are carried out by federal and state agencies can affect the overall progress that can be made as a result of the IRA.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 29, 2023

It’s meant to provide subsidies for clean energy projects in order to help Canada reach its greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets. The project being subsidized involved equipping a fossil gas power plant in Alberta with carbon capture technology – a massively expensive, risky, unnecessary and ineffective proposition.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 22, 2024

In Alberta, the future of our country’s effort to cut our greenhouse gas emissions is on the line. 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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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 28, 2023

Commissioner Stephen DeFrank, Vice Chairman of the Public Utility Commission, told the House Consumer Protection, Technology and Utilities Committee in June-- “I think that Winter Storm Elliot, over the Christmas holiday, showed some vulnerabilities in our grid and in our system. Thermal energy, on the other hand, is available 24 hours a day.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Here’s the catch: there are three big flaws with the story they’re peddling: Fossil fuels are still the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions. It’s a risky and ineffective technology with a track record of failure. In Canada, oil and gas production accounts for nearly a third of the country’s total climate pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

His priority is ensuring Pennsylvania has a comprehensive climate and energy policy plan that will move all of us forward. We need to take real action to address climate change, protect and create energy jobs and ensure Pennsylvania has reliable, affordable and clean power for the long term,” Shapiro said in the statement.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 12, 2021

This refers to the balance between the amount of greenhouse gases produced and the amount removed from the atmosphere – with net zero meaning that there are no net greenhouse emissions from the entire energy system. Indeed, nuclear allows the opportunity to decarbonize all energy, not just electricity.

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Law and Environment

OCTOBER 26, 2023

In announcing the release of the report, Hoffer said: “This report details how Massachusetts can play a key role in climate policy and implementation, while also advancing innovation in technology, climate finance and resilience. Economic Development Develop and implement a comprehensive clean energy and climate economic development plan.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 21, 2021

On December 21, the Conservative Energy Network released a new poll showing 73 percent of all voters would be more likely to support a Republican candidate who embraces new technologies and innovation in addressing climate change and clean energy issues. Click Here to watch the webinar.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 6, 2022

Sharif Street (D-Philadelphia) introduced Senate Bill 979 which amends the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard Act to establish a new Clean Energy Standard and encourage investment in carbon capture technology to achieve net-zero carbon emissions from power plants.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

On February 28, DEP Interim Acting Secretary Jessica Shirley told the House Appropriations Committee funding for DEP’s Oil and Gas Regulatory Program will be in the red by Fall and an “all sectors” greenhouse gas reduction program will not be recommended to implement the PA Climate Change Action Plan. It wasn't something that we're pushing.

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

This publication aligns with the implementation of the EU’s Climate Law, which enshrines the EU’s commitment to become climate-neutral by 2050, alongside the 2030 target to reduce net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by at least 55%, relative to 1990. The Commission recommends a 90% net GHG reduction by 2040, as compared to 1990 levels.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 26, 2023

Nearly one hundred years later, General Motors unveiled Electrovan , a clunky (and very dangerous ) Handi-van outfitted with hydrogen fuel cell technologies similar to those deployed by the Apollo spacecraft that would eventually put the first person on the moon.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2022

Pennsylvania’s power generation sector is one of the nation’s largest — and thus, also, one of the biggest emitters of climate-changing greenhouse gases. Worse, the latest increase reverses a decade-long pattern of gradually but steadily declining emissions. In fact, as the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette recently reported , it’s getting worse.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 20, 2021

DEP’s Climate Change Advisory Committee is scheduled to meet August 24 to review the latest Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventory for Pennsylvania and hear an overview of DEP’s Energy Office Clean Energy Program Plan. Also on the meeting agenda-- -- Overview Of DEP’s Energy Office Clean Energy Program Plan - Nov.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Moreover, inclusion of offsets would be entirely discordant with the intention of 45V, which is specifically designed to incentivize technology and process innovations to enable truly clean hydrogen production. Eligibility for 45V is premised on a facility’s lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions rate. Baseline counterfactuals.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 18, 2023

With the growing urgency to address climate change, governments and companies are developing “net-zero” strategies to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Credible climate action plans must prioritize expansion of clean energy sources (wind, solar, electric vehicles), which are cheaper and more efficient than their fossil fuel counterparts.

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Law and Environment

MAY 23, 2023

$7 billion of the $8 billion appropriated amount will go to establishing between 6 and 10 regional “networks of hydrogen producers, consumers, and local connective infrastructure to accelerate the use of hydrogen as a clean energy carrier that can deliver or store tremendous amounts of energy,” according to DOE.

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Clean Energy Law

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Taxonomy is also important for industries that struggle with technological limitations in achieving a 1.5°C–aligned Accordingly, the Taxonomy accounts for maritime vessels that are aligned with the International Maritime Organisation’s 2023 strategy for greenhouse gas reduction. incompatible with a 1.5°C–aligned

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E2 Law Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

manufacturing capacity and quality jobs for clean energy technologies, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, and to secure domestic supply chains for critical materials that serve as inputs for clean energy technology production. The goal of the program is to expand U.S.

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