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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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 9, 2025

Eligible projects must reduce industrial sector emissions through industrial electrification, efficiency and process emissions reductions, switching to low-carbon fuels, installing on-site renewable energy, utilizing carbon capture and storage, and reducing fugitive emissions from natural gas and oil systems and coal mining.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The best solution: Replace fossil fuels with renewable energy. Climate change is overwhelmingly caused by burning fossil fuels, and the most immediate path to avert climate disaster is to stop investing in those fuels and start powering our economy with an equitable transition to renewable energy.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 11, 2022

5060 ), titled An Act Driving Clean Energy and Offshore Wind, into law on Thursday August 11, 2022. The new climate act gives the public a larger role in the planning process for natural gas utilities and seeks to ensure that plans for line replacements are in line with the state’s decarbonization goals. Renewable Energy.

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E2 Law Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

8308)) includes two pivotal energy proposals: the Renewable Action Through Project Interconnection and Deployment Act and the Affordable Gas Transition Act. This post summarizes the key provisions of these proposals and discusses their potential impact on New York’s energy landscape.

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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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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

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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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Transition to 100 percent clean energy by 2035 The state has already committed to reduce its heat trapping emissions by 50 percent by 2030 and 75 percent by 2040, and to be net zero by 2050. billion in health savings, more than 45,000 additional jobs, and $13 billion in additional state gross domestic product by 2040.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 31, 2022

There’s a lot of discussion of how the private sector is supporting renewable energy, but it’s almost all about power consumers like Apple and Walmart. VHC 21% Gas 32%. VHC 22% Gas 38.5%. 30% gas of own generation; 50% from purchases. Net zero by 2050, 50% cut by 2030, and 100% clean energy by 2040.

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Cresforum

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Power Sector Resiliency: Keeping the Lights on While Reducing Emissions How can the United States keep the lights on while reducing global emissions and deploying utility-scale renewable energy resources? To see other panels from National Clean Energy Week, like and subscribe on YouTube. Watch the full discussion here.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 31, 2022

To improve the lives of all Chicagoans, the plan prioritizes environmental justice, household savings, public health, and clean energy. A majority of city residents said they wanted reliable transit, better air quality, more renewable energy, higher household savings, and improved public health. Building Decarbonization.

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 6, 2022

Plans to phase out coal-fired and natural gas power plants before 2045 means steps are needed now to move Illinois to a more sustainable future … Continue reading Renewable energy project demonstrates efficiencies, benefits of clean energy geothermal systems.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 12, 2023

The same scenario has played out with the power plants that use fossil fuels, predominantly methane (“natural”) gas, delivered by pipelines. The electric power system is trapped by gas-dependent power plants that cannot obtain gas when it needs it to keep the lights on. The problems of relying on gas are now evident.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 1, 2025

The recommendations laid out in this document can serve to support a much-needed transition to a renewable energy economy, which will involve creating sustainable jobs, reducing health impacts and health care costs associated with the shale gas industry, and saving lives.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2025

By Matthew Carroll, Penn State News Moving from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources like wind and solar will require better ways to store energy for use when the sun is not shining or the wind is not blowing. The problem is that sometimes when we need energy, there is no sunshine or there is no wind, Taleghani said.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Unfortunately, the very source of the TVA’s grid failure during Winter Storm Elliott in the winter of 2022 is the same source of energy that the TVA is now doubling down on : gas. Note: “Natural gas” is an industry misnomer; UCS considers methane, fossil gas, and gas to be much more appropriate terms for this energy source.)

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 3, 2024

By John Quigley, Senior Fellow, Kleinman Center Next year, the electricity bills for twenty percent of Americans will start reflecting the high cost of failing to transition to clean energy. Massive amounts of clean energy generation and storage projects are backlogged in PJM.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Many of these ideas center around forcing the plants to combine their coal with natural gas or biomass in order to reduce emissions. The infrastructure bill will definitely help, particularly by promoting new transmission lines to get renewable energy to market.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 28, 2023

On August 23, the PJM Interconnection Critical Issue Fast Path Resource Adequacy stakeholder group heard testimony and suggestions on the issue of making electricity market changes to address nonperformance of natural gas and other generators during emergencies and events like Winter Storm Elliot in December. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 18, 2023

In order for states in PJM to take full advantage of incentives under the federal Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), PJM must remove barriers to meeting the market and policy demand for cheap and clean energy. The proposed reforms are very unlikely to meet total regional demand for new renewable generation through 2030.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2024

The report covers a wide range of topics addressing risks and opportunities that DLC faces as it pursues a clean energy future for all while securing the economic vitality of the Pittsburgh region. DLC received more than $19.8 At the time of recognition, DLC was one of only two electric utility companies in the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 9, 2024

In response, Carolyn Heckman, Associate Director of Pennsylvania Policy for EEN Action, released the following statement-- “It’s time to recognize our past and the workers who sacrificed their health and lives to make our Commonwealth the energy leader it is today. Visit the EEN Action website to learn more. Comitta, Sen. Santarsiero, Rep.

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Scientific American

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The outcomes of state elections this week may mean more natural gas plants in Texas, greater use of climate law funds in Kentucky and the continuation of the status quo in Maine and Mississippi

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 24, 2025

People across the country are trying to square the benefits that technology can bring with the real and growing impacts on the environment and consumers, said Ellie Kerns , Climate and Clean Energy Advocate with the PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center. Click Here to read the report.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2022

The November 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), also referred to as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, or BIL, includes an $8 billion “regional clean hydrogen hubs” program that charges the Department of Energy (DOE) with the development of at least four hydrogen hubs to advance the nation’s clean hydrogen sector.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 27, 2024

On August 27, Ready for 100% Montgomery County announced nearly one-third of the communities in Montgomery County committed to a gradual transition to 100 percent clean, renewable energy in its electricity usage by 2035 and in all sectors (heat, transportation) by 2050. This is a collaborative, iterative process.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 4, 2024

The FERC-NERC review of the 2021 outages found 81 percent of freeze-related plant outages occurred at temperatures warmer than the plants were designed to meet and 87 percent of outages due to fuel issues were tied to natural gas. What’s New? This report is different.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 10, 2023

In a telling moment during a 2021 congressional hearing, top oil and gas company executives refused to tell API’s president to stop opposing climate and environmental policies the corporations claim to support. Today, most hydrogen is produced from fossil (“natural”) gas.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2022

DO: Dramatically increase your investment in renewable energy. “High energy prices are largely a result of underinvestment by many in the energy industry over the last several years and especially during the pandemic,” said ExxonMobil in a statement on its huge profits.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 24, 2021

IEA says its report is designed to be used as a handbook for policy-makers at the COP26 summit and offers a critical opportunity to accelerate both climate action as well as the clean energy transition. Natural gas demand increases in all scenarios over the next five years, but there are sharp divergences after this.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Key Takeaways Here are some key takeaways from the hearing-- -- Natural Gas Continues To Have A Reliability Problem: 70% of the PJM electric generation that failed to perform during the December freeze were natural gas-fired power plants. The Commission is continuing to work with PJM to evaluate the results of the storm.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

These higher costs are being driven by a major overreliance on natural gas, which has sharply spiked in price and is currently the dominant fuel source in the US for both home heating and electricity generation. Likewise, pipeline giant Williams Companies now refers to its gas projects as “clean energy” projects.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Solar Schools Technical Assistance Program To Help Apply For Solar For Schools, Other Funding Sustainable Pittsburgh: Report On Clean Energy Workforce - Needs And Opportunities For Southwestern PA Dept. 25 In Harrisburg Ag Conservation Professionals!

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2024

This reflects the proceeds expected to come from Pennsylvania electricity customers. -- 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.

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