Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2023

This proposal would bring real benefits, because large-scale clean energy projects , including all three categories of projects included in the proposal–solar, transmission, and storage–are necessary to meet the United States’ goal of 100% clean electricity by 2035.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 17, 2024

Alberta: Speak Up For a SAFE Climate: Take Action Here How Climate Action Makes Life More Affordable Renewable energy, including solar and wind power, is much cheaper and less polluting than burning fossil fuels such as natural gas, oil and coal.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2024

By next year, Pennsylvania will get 50 percent of its electricity from ten new solar arrays around the Commonwealth – making Pennsylvania the first state in the country to commit to getting half of its energy from solar power.

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Cresforum

MARCH 10, 2022

In the Unites States’ march to transition to clean energy and reduce greenhouse gasses, resilience may be the most important word to summarize 2021. Nine months after the pandemic first upended lives and the economy, the market fundamentals for clean energy looked unstoppable. Over the course of 2021, the U.S.

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

While solar PV and wind power are grabbing headlines, another clean energy revolution is silently taking place. According to the IPCC, this greenhouse gas is 86 times more potent than carbon dioxide over a twenty-year period (and 34 times more potent over a century). Over a third of global food production , 1.3

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E2 Law Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Enacted in 2019, the CLCPA transformed the state’s earlier clean energy standard efforts from administrative fiat to law and sets more aggressive goals to reduce statewide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions economy-wide to 60% from a 1990 baseline by 2030, and 15% from a 1990 baseline by 2050.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 25, 2016

These diversions are inconsistent with New York State regulations aimed at ensuring the proceeds of the auctions would be spent on new programs to further reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Jessica Wentz. Associate Director and Fellow. If the Senate proposal is approved, the diversions will total $269 million—nearly 30% of the $925.8

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Acoel

MAY 18, 2021

Yet Mainers are questioning whether to accept a new 145-mile electric transmission line that will bring hydropower from Quebec into the New England power grid, removing 3.0 Million tons of regional CO2 per year, and providing energy cost savings to Mainers ($40 million per year in savings) and others in New England. What gives?

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A Greener Life

MAY 24, 2023

Energy is also one of the areas presenting an opportunity to make a big break from Russia, by moving away from fossil fuels, in order to embrace the EUs desire for more clean energy. But … they have been so proud working on this for the simple fact that we are helping to supply energy to Ukraine.”

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Law Columbia

JULY 27, 2020

Win with Wind members are residents of the South Fork of Long Island who are currently working to advocate for the proposed South Fork Wind Farm, which they see as an opportunity to place their community at the forefront of clean energy leadership. Read the letter here.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The attorney general said that PwC also served from at least 2008 to 2013 as global advisor and report writer for the Carbon Disclosure Project, a non-profit organization that functions as a global disclosure system for environmental information, including greenhouse gas emissions, from companies including Exxon. 451962/2016 (N.Y.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2023

Let’s together get control over our energy supply chain so Putin and the Saudis can no longer control our destiny and our wallets. We have made a start by expanding our wind power, extending our nuclear power, pushing hard to get access to Canadian hydro power, and making our homes more energy efficient—that’s less costs and carbon free.

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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. By contrast, nearly every part of a renewable energy grid can be circular. How are Lithium-ion Batteries that Store Solar and Wind Power Made?

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

reduced its greenhouse gas emissions between 2000 and 2020 more than any other nation in history in absolute terms, according to preliminary analysis by the Rhodium Energy Group. 48] The premature closure of nuclear plants threatens reliability, resiliency, affordability, as well as America’s reductions in greenhouse gases.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

There has been much talk in recent weeks about pricing carbon to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The most direct of these is imposed on certain fossil fuel power plants by requiring them to purchase carbon dioxide emissions allowances as part of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. by Romany Webb and Justin Gundlach.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 17, 2024

Shapiro On Republican Reaction To His Energy Plan: They’ve Done Nothing And Power ‘Plants Have Closed On Their Watch;’ They’re ‘Used To Doing Nothing;’ ‘Doing Nothing Is Not Acceptable’ [PaEN] -- Senate Republicans Reject Gov.

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Acoel

MARCH 8, 2023

Congress 24 more years to pass major legislation to cut greenhouse gas emissions. In last year’s blog , I touted the climate and energy provisions of President Biden’s proposals for what became the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. And then there is the big challenge of permitting new clean energy projects. See [link].

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

In his address on Wednesday, Secretary Kerry noted that “the world is now beginning to move forward together, towards a clean energy future.” where wind generation has tripled since 2008 and solar generation has increased thirty times over, creating thousands of well-paying jobs. But, what if we could do both?

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 17, 2024

Shapiro On Republican Reaction To His Energy Plan: They’ve Done Nothing And Power ‘Plants Have Closed On Their Watch;’ They’re ‘Used To Doing Nothing;’ ‘Doing Nothing Is Not Acceptable’ [PaEN] -- Senate Republicans Reject Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 3, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency show that CO2 accounts for the vast majority of heat-trapping greenhouse gases emitted by the U.S. Concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere have risen approximately 47 percent since 1750, mostly from the burning of fossil fuels for energy. Some scientists and energy experts say the U.S.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

A federal bankruptcy court in Missouri enjoined San Mateo and Marin Counties and the City of Imperial Beach (the plaintiffs) from pursuing their climate change lawsuits against Peabody Energy Corporation (Peabody). Circuit Stayed Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Truck Trailers.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 14, 2024

Shapiro’s Offer To Work On Legislation To Make The Electric Grid More Reliable, Diversify Our Energy Sources, Lower Energy Costs For Ratepayers, Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions [PaEN] -- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Gov.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

Bureau of Land Management failed to take a hard look at the indirect and cumulative impacts of greenhouse gases associated with a coal lease that authorized expansion of a coal mine. ruled in 2019 that BLM had failed to adequately assess the potential impacts of greenhouse gas emissions for certain oil and gas leases in Wyoming.

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ESA

AUGUST 16, 2021

However, the world could avoid the more extreme scenarios in the report if governments sharply reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions. billion for electric vehicle charging infrastructure and $27 billion for clean energy research, development, demonstration and commercialization. Energy and Natural Resources.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Investment across the energy spectrum –from oil and gas and renewables to energy storage and transmission – could well increase due to growing power demand, incentives for new supply, and permitting reforms, extending existing trends from the past four years. Gas and renewables often go hand in hand.

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Science Blogs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

San Diego commits to 100% clean electricity. . Energy Department aims to close international clean energy office. EPA head met with multiple energy execs in his first weeks. Navigating Clean Energy Innovation in the Age of Trump. . 2017.06.14. 2017.06.15. 2017.06.15. 2017.06.15. 2017.06.15.

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