Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 22, 2022

Minnesotans are facing concurrent crises of climate change, high energy prices and inflation, and the inequitable public health impacts of fossil fuel air pollution. That’s not a Minnesota utility…is it? Getting energy from where it’s produced to where it’s needed. But we’re going to need a lot more than Tranche 1.

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Renewable Energy Fossil Fuels Solar Power Electricity 362

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 24, 2023

Here’s a taste: Wind power , the largest single source of renewable electricity in the country, grew the most of any renewable energy source in overall generation from 2021 to 2022. Solar power increased the most among renewable electricity sources in percentage terms, up 24 percent. It supplied 10.5 percentage points).*

Clean Energy 307

Clean Energy Fossil Fuels Renewable Energy Solar Power 307

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Last year, Congress passed the most ambitious climate bill ever enacted, the Inflation Reduction Act. The legislation committed nearly $400 billion to support, among other things, wind and solar power, battery storage, electric vehicles, and other clean energy technologies that will make a significant dent in US heat-trapping emissions.

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Carbon Emissions Fossil Fuels Clean Energy 2030 331

Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Earlier this month at COP28 countries committed to transitioning off of fossil fuels and massively scaling up renewable energy instead. So you’re excused if, like me, you’re baffled by Minister Freeland’s first move in the wake of COP28: a giant new fossil fuel subsidy, via the new Canada Growth Fund.

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Fossil Fuels Renewable Energy Clean Energy Solar Power 142

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 24, 2024

We’re now in the midst of “Danger Season” – the months between May and October when we witness extreme events turbo-charged by climate change. Higher demand means power grid operators, who start with the cleaner and cheaper plants like solar power, need to pull other, often dirtier, gas or coal-fired power plants online.

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Climate Change Sea Level Fossil Fuels Government 286

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

But gas power plants have also played an important role in helping to maintain the overall reliability of the electricity grid by meeting peak power demands, such as on hot summer days when people turn on their air conditioners. And this problem will only get worse as the impacts of climate change become more frequent and severe.

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Fossil Fuels Electricity 2030 Clean Energy 305

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The solar energy sector is big and getting bigger. That’s a really good thing given the central role we expect and need solar to play in a just transition away from fossil fuels. Related UCS materials: Can California Cropland Be Repurposed for Community Solar? Where is California Going to Site Its New Solar Power?

Solar Power 315

Solar Power Fossil Fuels Electricity Technology 315

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2024

In a report this year to its shareholders, New Fortress Energy leadership stated its plan to replace the aging generating fleet in Puerto Rico with methane gas units, saying that solar power and storage would be complementary to the generation mix. Fossil fuels account for 94% of electricity generation in Puerto Rico.

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Renewable Energy Fossil Fuels Electricity 2019 333

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Four important global reports released in the last two days set up a deeply sobering context for the upcoming annual international climate talks in Egypt, also called COP27. Source: UN Climate Change 2022 NDC Synthesis Report. Source: UN Climate Change 2022 NDC Synthesis Report. The UN NDC Synthesis report.

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Fossil Fuels 2030 Clean Energy Climate Change 247

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged on September 21 that his country would no longer finance coal-fired power plants abroad, making a high-profile commitment to move away from some forms of fossil fuel infrastructure less than six weeks before a pivotal global climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland. It is already 1.1

Carbon Emissions 363

Carbon Emissions Biofuels Cooling Fossil Fuels 363

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2023

The state-specific fact sheet, On the Road to 100 Percent Renewables for Minnesota , outlines how it could meet its electricity needs completely and equitably with renewable energy by 2035 and dramatically reduce fossil fuel use in vehicles and buildings.

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Electricity Renewable Energy Fossil Fuels Clean Energy 261

A Greener Life

MAY 20, 2022

Perched at 3,730 metres above sea level in the community of Ancotanga, the Oruro solar power plant is one of the flagship projects in Bolivia’s energy transition. million barrels of oil equivalent of useful energy that fossil fuels are expected to provide in Bolivia by 2040, according to a WWF Bolivia evaluation.

Solar Power 98

Solar Power Fossil Fuels Radiation Natural Gas 98

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Our national overreliance on gas is evidently undermining energy access, not strengthening it, as some fossil fuel industry players would want you to believe. These claims just add to the deluge of greenwashing and disinformation from the fossil fuel industry. Don’t believe the industry spin. There’s a better way forward.

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Fossil Fuels Carbon Dioxide Electricity Natural Gas 331

Global Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Yes, in some cases, fossil fuels are burned to generate the electricity used to charge electric cars, but this highlights two of electric vehicles’ many advantages. They are much more efficient than gas powered vehicles and the electrical grid is getting greener. Recently that has changed. Taking a national average of 25.1

Electricity 98

Electricity Climate Change Fossil Fuels 2030 98

Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

For Canada’s major oil and gas producers, Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is a get-out-of-jail-free card, which allows them to keep on polluting while appearing as though they are taking the threat of climate change seriously. Real solutions, not dangerous distractions, are needed Fossil fuels are causing the climate crisis.

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Fossil Fuels Carbon Dioxide Renewable Energy Solar Power 130

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 21, 2022

It all comes down to the system’s ability to effectively move low-cost energy—which these days is generated by wind and solar power—from where it originates to where it’s needed to meet customer demand. States and utilities are shifting rapidly to more renewable energy and reducing their reliance on fossil fuels.

Clean Energy 299

Clean Energy Renewable Energy Electricity Fossil Fuels 299

A Greener Life

JULY 26, 2021

In order to make their portfolio more sustainable and respond to lower fossil fuel demand, oil majors are increasingly snapping up renewable energy projects as the pressure grows to take action on climate change. BP and Total are also leading the way in terms of upcoming solar power capacity.”.

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Renewable Energy Fossil Fuels Solar Power 2030 98

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

Multiple lines of analysis make clear that regardless of how cheap wind and solar power get, without directly addressing pollution from coal and gas plants, the country’s clean energy transition will not happen fast enough. But to bring those solutions fully to bear, we also need to force a reckoning with the problem itself.

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Clean Air Act Fossil Fuels Carbon Emissions Clean Energy 232

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 25, 2022

(If you want to get even wonkier, ask me about the joys of accurately modeling power plant heat rate curves.). and “How much solar curtailment will occur on a grid with 50-percent renewables?”. the relationship between load and solar production). Probabilistic Modeling.

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Electricity Clean Energy Fossil Fuels Renewable Energy 279

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

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

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Fossil Fuels Renewable Energy Climate Change Politics 40

Law Columbia

APRIL 3, 2024

For example, our report examines the common misconceptions that electric vehicles have a net harmful effect on climate change ( they do not ); that electromagnetic radiation from wind turbines poses a threat to human health ( it does not ); and that solar energy development negatively impacts U.S. jobs ( it does not ).

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Electricity Renewable Energy Fossil Fuels Radiation 135

A Greener Life

JUNE 19, 2024

It was a sign of how much has changed since 2021 when the UK hosted the flagship COP26 UN climate summit with a promise “irrefutably to turn the tide and to begin the fightback against climate change”. million has been given to pro-fossil fuel think tanks by Tory donors since the 2019 general election.

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Fossil Fuels 2024 2019 Conservation 52

A Greener Life

JUNE 30, 2023

But despite this, it did not shift the dominance of fossil fuels. Last year a total of 266 gigawatts (GW) of renewables was installed, with solar power leading the field. Unfortunately, coal is the fossil fuel accounting for the highest share of emissions. Photo credit: Reuters / Louisa Off.

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Fossil Fuels Renewable Energy 2022 Paris Agreement 52

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

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Renewable Energy Carbon Emissions Fossil Fuels Solar Power 118

Environmental News Bits

JUNE 4, 2024

Electricity from renewable sources dropped even as Illinois and surrounding Midwest states pushed to replace fossil fuels, such as coal and natural gas, with wind and solar power.

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Wind Power Climate Change Fossil Fuels Solar Power 40

Law Columbia

AUGUST 28, 2024

Union of India (2024) is groundbreaking as it both recognizes environmental rights as absolute and fundamental, and offers a constitutional protection from the adverse effects of climate change under Articles 14 and 21 of the Constitution of India ( Constitution ).

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Climate Change Paris Agreement Government Air Pollution 72

Vermont Law

OCTOBER 16, 2017

By Michael Hervey, 3L Staff Editor, Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. Lots of environmentalists have difficulty balancing our need to provide efficient energy with reducing the effects of climate change. The slow shift from fossils fuels, like oil and coal, to more green sources of energy hasn’t been exactly met with a.

Solar Power 40

Solar Power Natural Gas Fossil Fuels Waste 40

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 21, 2024

But the law is clear: 45Y and 48E are intended to spur innovation around and drive deployment of truly clean resources to shift the power sector away from running on heavily polluting fossil fuels. Treasury and the IRS must set rules that do just that.

Electricity 301

Electricity Clean Energy Greenhouse Technology 301

Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 23, 2023

All told, it will be $4 billion spent on a make-work project for power plant developers and the fossil fuel industry. The government knows that these plants will have to close in 2035 when federal climate laws come into effect. Why spend $4 billion on fossil fuel infrastructure that may or may not be used?

Fossil Fuels 98

Fossil Fuels Renewable Energy 2027 Electricity 98

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 9, 2023

Congress is investing huge sums in agriculture, and this money should be directed to help farmers mitigate and adapt to climate change by paying farmers to reduce emissions, on-farm renewable energy, and research on soil health. As the Farm Bill is negotiated, climate change must be a priority.

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Fossil Fuels Solar Power Climate Change Renewable Energy 69

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

“Why pay for polluting energy from a dirty power plant hundreds of miles away when Pennsylvanians can just soak up the sun on our rooftops?” Small-scale solar energy, of which rooftop solar is the largest component - is growing rapidly in the United States, producing 10 times as much power in 2022 as a decade earlier.

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Solar Power Fossil Fuels Clean Energy Electricity 80

A Greener Life

AUGUST 2, 2023

Fossil fuels currently account for around 60% of electricity generation , a share that it aims to reduce to 35% by 2030 through the expansion of renewables, including hydropower, and in particular wind and solar. The transition away from fossil fuels has, however, been an elusive goal for Argentina to date.

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Renewable Energy 2030 Fossil Fuels Electricity 95

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The hypocrisy of the world’s biggest banks on climate change keeps mounting. The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns that all scenarios to meet the Paris Agreement ’s targets for holding planetary temperatures under 1.5 It was another corporate spit in the face of science.

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Fossil Fuels Paris Agreement 2030 Climate Change 358

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

By Odette Mucha , Vote Solar and Liz Robinson , Philadelphia Solar Energy Association As we know, solar power provides a wide range of benefits to Pennsylvanians. It creates local jobs, with Pennsylvania currently home to over 400 solar companies with over 4,300 solar workers. billion in the Keystone State.

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Fossil Fuels Solar Power Electricity Clean Energy 52

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 31, 2024

This could be met from a variety of sources—including pollution fees on fossil fuel companies, the elimination of fossil fuel subsidies, and wealth taxes on the richest people. Climate vulnerable countries need funding to start flowing quickly. Progress on support for climate adaptation.

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Fossil Fuels Paris Agreement Renewable Energy Climate Change 256

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 11, 2023

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Renewable Energy Fossil Fuels Clean Energy Solar Power 70

Earthava

APRIL 20, 2021

In other words, you get more savings by installing a solar power plant if you are charged with high electricity rates. The payback period of solar power plants to connections with high electricity rates is shorter as compared to those with low electricity rates. Do You Care About The Planet And The Future?

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