Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 31, 2022

The company has been striving to reduce its environmental footprint by setting bold energy, emissions, waste, and water targets. The post Mandarin Oriental Sets Energy, Emissions, Waste, and Water Reduction Targets appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 27, 2022

by Salvador Escobedo Salas, Western University Food waste is a growing problem in Canada and many other parts of the world — and it is only expected to get worse in the coming years. Not only will this create … Continue reading Here’s how food waste can generate clean energy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 3, 2023

With respect to the electricity grid, CEJA directs the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) to prepare a Renewable Energy Access Plan (REAP) to help ensure that clean energy resources can connect to the grid and be ready to replace coal and gas plants.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Bidirectional EVs Could Be the New Standard Electric vehicles (EVs) should be a clean transportation and a clean energy solution. When EVs do retire, it is critical that we can keep hazardous waste out of landfills and communities while limiting the amount of critical minerals (lithium, cobalt, nickel, etc.)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Energy storage, or the storing of electricity for later use on the power grid, plays an important role in the clean energy transition. Illinois is currently considering policy proposals to establish a statewide energy storage target. Curtailment means we are wasting otherwise clean, perfectly usable electricity.

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Environment + Energy Leader

JUNE 6, 2023

Masdar’s Renewable Energy portfolio holds investments from at least 40 nations. It just signed a deal to develop 2 gigawatts of solar and wind projects and 500 megawatts of battery energy storage in Central Asia.

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Environmental Leader

JULY 30, 2021

Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded $127 million to small businesses working on clean energy technology, representing a total of 110 projects in 26 states. Funding is provided by DOE’s science and energy program offices, the Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, and the Office of Environmental Management.

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Environment + Energy Leader

JULY 22, 2022

The post PepsiCo Issues Green Bond with Focus on Regenerative Ag, Plastic Waste, Water Impacts appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. The sustainability financing will go toward initiatives outlined in the company's pep+ agenda.

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Environment + Energy Leader

MARCH 2, 2023

With a portfolio of 8 gigawatts (GW) of renewable energy projects and a development platform of over 24 GW, RWE Clean Energy has one of the largest development platforms in the US.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 13, 2024

As electric vehicle charging stations sprout like mushrooms along our roads and clusters of new wind turbines come online, these two clean energy solutions to the climate crisis are becoming more commonplace. The United States needs to speed its transition to clean energy in order to stave off even worse impacts of climate change.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 17, 2024

Exus chose to repower the facility thanks to the clean energy plan’s 30% production tax credits for American wind power. Click Here to learn about more investments in clean energy in Pennsylvania. billion in new clean energy investments in Pennsylvania supporting 2,881 new jobs. Read more here.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Refining processes , particularly in countries with lax environmental regulations, emit greenhouse gases and toxic waste. A unified approach within the major consumer countries to responsible battery sourcing, processing, and recycling can reduce environmental harm and ensure a fair and ethical transition to a clean energy future.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2023

Growing by over 30 percent-- to 92,773 jobs since the height of the COVID-19 economic crisis in 2020–clean energy jobs in Pennsylvania have proved their resilience. Increased investment in the clean energy sector can support the continued trajectory of this job market lifting up Pennsylvania’s communities.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 12, 2024

There is no time to waste. A target of 45 to 50 per cent reductions from 2005 levels by 2035 represents no meaningful increase in ambition from Canadas current 2030 target. A strong climate plan isnt just about reducing pollution levels, its about building a country which can thrive in the 21st century. We know this decade is crucial.

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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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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 9, 2025

The Penn State Technical Assistance Program is advising small and mid-size industrial facilities wanting to take advantage of RISE PA decarbonization grants that they must complete a Pollution Prevention and Energy Efficiency Site Assessment to be eligible for the grant program.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 21, 2024

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) included a major—forthcoming—refresh for one of the biggest policy drivers of the nation’s clean energy transition to date: tax credits subsidizing the deployment of clean electricity resources. These incentives aren’t just historically important. Feedstock eligibility. Precautionary approach.

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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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Legal Planet

JUNE 27, 2024

Provides for cleanup of hazardous waste sites. The possibility of CERCLA liability also provides a powerful incentive for voluntary clean-up and for carefully disposing of materials in the first place. Provides approximately $370 billion dollars for clean energy and other climate-related programs. Inflation Reduction Act.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 21, 2024

The IRA was passed into law to propel our nation’s clean energy transition forward. These have been the stalwarts of clean energy progress to date and will remain so moving forward. Treasury and the IRS are right to propose clear rules for solar- and wind-powered electricity generation. Feedstock eligibility.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 26, 2024

My testimony highlighted the critical importance of making sure today’s hydrogen policies choose hydrogen production projects and end uses that are truly aligned overall with the clean energy transition. This would be a disastrous outcome, wasting time and money we do not have in the pressing fight to turn the tide on climate.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 9, 2022

“Some of the earliest memories I have are of protestors standing in the road, blocking semi-trucks hauling nuclear waste.”. — Mikhail Childs, Prairie Island Indian C ommunity member. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has declared the plant to be safe, tribe members remain worried about their proximity to nuclear waste. While 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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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Meanwhile, a California law reclassified PV modules as “universal waste” as opposed to “hazardous waste,” which involves less stringent handling regulations. Supply chain and end-of-life challenges also present opportunities for better circular innovation and stewardship as we move into the clean energy future.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 21, 2022

National media coverage by Time magazine and National Geographic helped shine a light on the injustices of chemical waste disposal. In 1987, a blistering report called Toxic Waste and Race exposed massive disparities in environmental degradation and pollution in minority and low-income communities. Building on the movement.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

But smarter approaches, if carefully applied, could help to reverse costly reliance on gas, and accelerate the clean energy transition in PJM, and nationwide. Both moves could help get more clean energy onto the grid. of the proposed generation in the queue.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 21, 2024

How Oil and Gas Waste Haunts Pennsylvania -- from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. The webinar will discuss the contents and impacts of oil and gas waste, including discussion about how the industry disposes of its waste, misinformation promoted by the industry, and what can be done to secure better outcomes.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 18, 2024

But hydrogen can be cleanly produced and, with the right guardrails in place, that clean hydrogen can then be used to clean up polluting parts of the economy that can’t readily convert to running on renewable electricity. Otherwise, hydrogen will slow the clean energy transition, not speed it. the “three pillars”).

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2024

Department of Energy (DOE) to develop and assess advanced separation technologies for the extraction and recovery of rare earth elements and other critical materials from coal, coal wastes, acid mine drainage and coal by-products. Rare earths and other critical minerals and materials are key to our nation’s defense and to U.S.

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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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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 23, 2023

The Air & Waste Management Association will hold its 15th annual Symposium on Electric Power Transformation - Energy, Environment, Policy, Technology September 26-27 in Pittsburgh. Visit the Pittsburgh-based Air & Waste Management Association website for more information on programs, initiatives and other upcoming events.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 26, 2023

Treasurer Ball has wasted no time in implementing SB205 to push forward this fossil-funded agenda and has named 11 financial institutions that could be subject to divestment for engaging in so-called “energy boycotts.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Once the battery looks up to code, it is off to the grid to power our renewable energy future! Battery energy storage is powerful and growing. Battery energy storage can help store clean energy for the grid. Challenges and Opportunities in Mining Materials for Energy Storage Lithium-ion Batteries.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 19, 2023

Richer nations, which are most responsible for heat-trapping emissions, must provide low- and middle-income countries the funding they require to transition to clean energy and better withstand worsening climate extremes. And we must invest in protecting critical ecosystems too.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Batteries are key to enabling the renewable energy transition. 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. A fossil fuel energy grid extracts and expends finite resources.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 10, 2025

India prepares to ramp up clean energy capacity Second, electric traction is more energy efficient. Burning stuff to make things go wastes a lot of energy as heat and noise. India Railways has ambitious plans to shift to 100% renewable energy , using its surplus land for solar farms.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 27, 2024

How Oil & Gas Waste Haunts Pennsylvania [PaEN] -- Lehigh Valley-Based Wildlands Conservancy Highlights November Program, Activities -- Schuylkill Action Network To Hold Annual Meeting Nov. 11 -- DEP Eligible For $1.7 26 -- Sierra Club PA Hosts Oct. 30 Webinar - It’s Scary Out Here! 11 -- DEP Eligible For $1.7

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