A Greener Life

JULY 19, 2023

An offshore wind farm in Europe. Colombia’s Caribbean coast has great potential for offshore wind power projects but is also home to protected areas of ecological importance. Elsewhere, other renewable energy projects have been unable to connect and deliver power to the grid, the National Interconnected System.

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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. Previous Alberta governments provided a range of incentives.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

I was joined by Ocean Conservancy colleagues working to advance ocean-climate action. In order to reduce emissions, we must phase out fossil fuels—oil, coal and gas—and move towards renewable energy and less plastic and petrochemical production since these products, so dangerous as ocean pollutants, are made from oil.

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Energy and Climate Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

The coalition government of the past four years was formed by the conservative liberal party VVD, the right-wing Christian CDA, the liberal democrats of D66 and ChristenUnie (CU), a progressive Christian party. Graphically portrayed on axis for conservative-progressive and left-right, the spectrum looks like this: Source: www.kieskompas.nl

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 23, 2023

As people around the world grapple with climate change, scientists and engineers are exploring new and exciting ocean-based solutions to generate renewable energy. Tidal energy is emerging as another clean energy source alongside offshore wind farms and wave energy technology. What is tidal energy?

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 9, 2023

On August 9, the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority announced it would be committing to the purchase of wind power and the use of clean energy to support the production and operations of water services. PWSA holds the largest share at 30% of the total, underlining our strong commitment to sustainable energy practices. “It

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Edouard Stenger

JUNE 20, 2023

In the past few weeks I have been saying that renewables were ramping up fast and were now an unstoppable juggernaut. During the month of May, solar and wind power generated more electricity (30.6%) than fossil fuels (27.3%) in the European Union for the first time in history.

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Scientific American

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

An environmental non-profit hopes to support development of wind power while protecting whales and fish. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 7, 2022

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (left) visits a hybrid power plant where “green” hydrogen is made using wind power and fed into the gas grid. Germany is not doing all it can to cut back energy use and increase economic pressure on Russia, argues Arne Jungjohann. Germany will be fully renewable by 2035.

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

Advocates of renewable energy have argued since the 1970s that the variable, weather-dependent nature of sunlight and wind is a modest obstacle at best to relying on 100 percent renewables. Some have argued that weather-dependent energies would, paradoxically, make electricity even more reliable.

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 30, 2023

Renewables are indeed on an exponential, as “By 2024, renewable energy capacity is expected to be twice that of the total cumulative installed capacity in 2019. ” A recent study by Ember Climate shows that King Coal is already on its way out as it is being replaced by solar and wind.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2023

There are also other low cost ways to address the province’s energy needs like importing hydroelectricity from Quebec and investing in energy efficiency and conservation. In contrast, ramping up polluting gas generation will be costly. It’s a win-win. There are two main ways to make hydrogen.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2024

Josh Shapiro joined Department of General Services Secretary Reggie McNeil, Constellation President & CEO Joseph Dominguez, and Lightsource bp Senior Vice President Alyssa Edwards to unveil the Commonwealth’s renewable energy initiative, the Pennsylvania Project to Utilize Light and Solar Energy (PA PULSE).

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A Greener Life

JULY 9, 2021

It also missed energy consumption and intensity targets in the 13th Five Year Plan (2015-2020). The National Development and Reform Commission’s Department of Resource Conservation and Environmental Protection said in a statement that energy intensity increased 9.5% Inner Mongolia isn’t just a major coal producer.

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 2, 2023

These would be astounding news if it were coupled with increased efforts in sufficiency, efficiency and conservation (cf How can we quickly slash energy consumption is a trillion-dollar question …) But back to our energy revolution. I wrote about it before, both solar photovoltaic and wind power are on exponential curves.

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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. Learn more about how the ocean can help us tackle climate change here.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 25, 2016

As detailed in the RGGI investment plan , these funds are typically used to support energy efficiency and renewable energy programs in New York State. Most of the carbon allowances are auctioned and the proceeds of those auctions are typically used to promote energy conservation and renewable energy programs.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2023

On November 16, 2023, the Department of Energy (DOE) published a proposed rule to expedite the environmental review process for certain renewable energy infrastructure projects through the use of categorical exclusions.

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Law Columbia

JULY 31, 2015

LA County can play an important role in addressing this paramount challenge of our time given that the Antelope Valley region happens to host one of the largest untapped concentrations of high-quality wind resources in all of California. Even the current system of California and U.S.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

In particular, the Department should take a hard look at how Local Law 97’s renewable energy credit (or REC) compliance mechanism currently undermines Local Law 97’s integrity. Renewable Energy Credits as a Compliance Mechanism. The problem with the California system is directly analogous to the situation here.

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A Greener Life

JULY 4, 2024

The Conservatives have governed the UK for the past 14 years as Labour was unseated after having won three successive elections, in the culmination of the global financial crisis. But if you were to do so, do it wisely and not in seats where Labour or Conservative are the only likely winners. Happy voting!

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A Greener Life

MAY 23, 2024

This will become increasingly important as solar and wind power expands because these energy flows are more difficult to adjust than, say, coal power. Unfortunately, due to trading-power difficulties between provinces, China’s east still relies on fossil fuels for much of its electricity generation.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Critics of wind and solar routinely raise concerns about how much land would be required to decarbonize the US power sector. And, unlike fossil fuels, electricity generated by wind and solar does not use water or produce any emissions or wastes that can contaminate the air, land or waterways.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2024

will enable more than 15,000 megawatts (MWs) of new clean energy additions in Illinois, including nearly 10,000 MWs of wind power, more than 3,000 MWs of solar, and about 2,000 MWs of energy storage batteries. This is enough to power more than 3.5 projects, as much as $5.5 dollars will be returned in benefits.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Conservation Groups Asked to Intervene in Oil and Gas Trade Association’s Suit to Compel Quarterly Federal Mineral Lease Sales. Nine conservation groups moved to intervene in Western Energy Alliance’s (WEA’s) action seeking to compel the Bureau of Land Management to hold quarterly federal mineral sales. A148865 (Cal.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 3, 2021

Some scientists and energy experts say the U.S. can’t wholly abandon fossil fuel as it ramps up renewable energy sources. Fossil fuel, they argue, will still be needed in the near term as a backstop for the intermittency of solar and wind power and to keep consumer power bills affordable.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 14, 2024

Shapiro Calls For PA Carbon Cap-And-Trade Market, Plus Higher Clean Energy Requirements -- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Gov. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In the end, the ISO had not needed to issue public appeals for conservation or resort to “load-shedding” (i.e. rolling blackouts ), but the scarcity of gas, the outages at oil plants, and the inability of other power plants to respond quickly had all contributed to a very close call.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 2, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen Oil production is something that quickly comes to one’s attention when mentioning Texas , the deeply Conservative and influential US state, for decades it has been the number one US oil-producing state and the home of the US oil industry. via Wikimedia. gigawatts (GW) set in July last year by over 50%.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

Keep in mind that this calculation comes nowhere close to a full estimation of the costs that would be avoided by retiring these power plants, since it only focuses on three pollutants and doesn’t account for the effects taking place upstream of the plants, such as the health and environmental impacts of extracting gas and coal.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 6, 2024

In those two briefs, CARI argued that the motions for preliminary relief should be denied because impeding construction of the renewable energy facilities necessary to stop climate change, such as the Revolution Wind project, would not serve the public interest.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 24, 2023

These include cutting fossil fuel use and emissions, protecting nature, setting aside more land for wildlife and forest, and conservation zones such as rewilding initiatives. In addition, countries pledged to triple renewable energy capacity by 2032. These are just a few of examples of a string of 2023 events.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 28, 2024

The actor, best known for his roles in ‘The Thick of It’, playing a ruthless spin doctor, and as ‘Doctor Who’ in the BBC TV Series, has teamed up with Greenpeace to highlight the benefits of the renewable energy technology and to deliver a message to UK politicians.

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Edouard Stenger

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Conserving resources is great but it can’t scale fast enough. Solar photovoltaic (PV) and wind power have become in recent years the cheapest sources of electricity and now account for 8 percent of global electricity. Other renewable energy sources could help complement that all that. of savings.

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Environmental Science

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

A Brief History of the Use, Study, and Conservation, of Deserts. The birth of the science of eremology (the study of the desert biome) began in the mid-20 th century and with the dawning of the understanding of such environmental concepts as human geography, ecology, and, of course, conservation. In Antiquity.

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Vermont Law

OCTOBER 31, 2024

NOAA is responsible for research of the ocean and weather, conservation of the ocean, management of fisheries, and the protection of marine endangered species. For example, the DOE assembled its various agencies to tackle the energy crisis of the 1970s. Additionally, the Biden administration has invested $240 million into aquaculture.

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