Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Statement by Alienor Rougeot, Senior Program Manager, Climate and Energy, on Ontario’s claims regarding the federal Clean Electricity Regulations. The federal government’s proposed regulations to reduce emissions in electricity generation are achievable without breaking the bank. Battery storage is very cost-effective.

Electricity

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 14, 2025

It is unlikely that the government will last long once Parliament resumes. At the top of the list of key climate regulations that need to be finalized before March 24th is the governments cap on pollution from the oil and gas industry. The Government of Canada promised the new rules by the end of 2024, but they missed their deadline.

Politics

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 20, 2025

To build a clean economy and avoid a climate disaster, Canada needs an emissions-free electricity supply. As we electrify everything, from our cars to our home heating systems, we need electricity to come from sources that dont emit greenhouse gases. The Clean Electricity Regulations are an important part of Canadas climate plan.

Electricity

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 9, 2025

I came to Madison ten years ago to pursue a masters in electrical engineering. Thats why I believe the Climate Accountability Act is a critical step for Wisconsin, especially given all the ways the federal government is trying to move us backward on addressing climate change. Madison is our home.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2025

The electric grid is the generic term for the complicated system of power plants and wires that provides electricity to 92% of the worlds inhabitants. Generation consists of large, centralized power plants that produce electric energy. Source: Lee Shaver/UCS.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Eliminating fossil fuel-powered vehicles from the road is necessary to fight climate change and save thousands of lives at risk due to poor air quality. The Framework includes material s designed for both local governments and stakeholders to get started building a coalition and crafting a plan.

Fossil Fuels

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 9, 2025

The world is moving away from fossil fuels in favour of things like new and improved heat pumps and renewable energy sources. Solar and wind energy has become much cheaper and solar is now the cheapest source of electricity on the planet. Vancouver has done this and many other Canadian cities could follow.

2025

A Greener Life

JANUARY 8, 2025

By Anders Lorenzen There will still be some fossil-fuel-driven cars on the roads in Norway in the years and decades. However, their current status as dominating the car market will soon be a thing of the past, with electric vehicles heading the market. are fully electric.

Electricity

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

On 15 October, the port in Shandong was certified as carbon-neutral by the China Classification Society Quality Certification Company, according to a government statement. Weifang Port’s “zero-carbon” certification was primarily achieved by transitioning away from fossil fuel use, according to China Electric Power News (CEPN).

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 3, 2025

That means that, for a plant to generate the same amount of electricity, it needs to burn more of a gas-hydrogen blend. Some fossil fuel industry proponents have pitched coupling carbon capture and storage (CCS) with the methane reforming process to limit the resulting carbon pollution. Water itself (H 2 O) is carbon-free.

Renewable Energy

Scientific American

AUGUST 7, 2025

Members of China’s 41st Antarctic expedition team Five years ago electrical engineer Sun Hongbin was given what many would consider an impossible task: build a full-fledged clean-energy system amid some of the coldest temperatures on Earth, screaming winds and half-year darkness.

Clean Energy

A Greener Life

APRIL 21, 2025

Reduce the dependency on fossil fuels It urges governments, companies, and individuals to reduce fossil fuel dependency and scale up sustainable alternatives. Earth Day takes place on 22 April and marks its 55th anniversary in 2025.

Earth Day

Enviromental Defense

JULY 9, 2025

While multiple factors contribute to this financial strain, a significant yet often overlooked culprit behind the affordability crisis is the fossil fuel industry. Fossil fuels are making life unaffordable for Canadians Fossil fuel prices are volatile, and they have a pronounced impact on inflation.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2025

This suggests that courts should afford substantial deference to agencies in the context of standalone NEPA claims that do not implicate the agency’s obligations under the substantive statutory framework governing the action. Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. NRDC (1983).

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 17, 2025

As fossil-fueled fires get worse, tap water contamination concern grows. To name a few ways water can be contaminated post-fire: Incineration of urban infrastructurehouses, buildings, electric wires, etc.leaches toxic chemicals not only into our air but when hot enough, can melt the underground pipe network that deliver drinking water.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Here are 107 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us. Of Environmental Professionals Host Dec.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 13, 2025

Shapiro [PaEN] Lead Counsel On Court Cases Striking Down Provisions In Act 13 To Preempt Local Regulation Of Oil & Gas Operations Raises Concerns About Proposed Legislation Establishing A RESET Board To Site Large Energy Projects [PaEN] Gov.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

JULY 6, 2025

However, recent efforts have focused on reversing this trend, with the government implementing stricter enforcement of environmental regulations and bolstering sustainable initiatives, such as promoting conservation efforts and enforcing land-use restrictions. This decline marks a notable shift after years of rising deforestation rates.

2025

Law Columbia

MARCH 27, 2025

City of New York , plumbing and building trade groups challenged New York Citys Local Law 154 of 2021 , a piece of legislation that prohibits fossil fuel combustion in most new buildings. It just limits the types of fuel a covered product may consume in new buildings. California Restaurant Association v.

Law

A Greener Life

JANUARY 2, 2025

Ironically, Germany also imports nuclear-produced electricity from France. In 2024, the demand for coal reached new heights due to the worlds increasing appetite for more electricity capacity. China diversified its electricity sector in 2024 in line with the countrys long-term trajectory of adding more renewables and nuclear.

2027

Vermont Law

APRIL 9, 2025

Studies conducted in New Jersey indicate that many residents believe the government is not doing enough to regulate. In seeking to be shielded from regulation, the fossil fuel industry often cites the impact on revenue and potential job losses. Under the IRA, it also makes certain tax rebates available to customers.

Ozone

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 9, 2025

The bill seeks to fast-track energy generation projects of 25 MW and larger and energy storage facilities of 10 MW or larger overriding local government control and public input. Instead, House Bill 502—tied directly to his ‘Lightning Plan’—serves fossil fuel interests while removing the very tools communities use to protect themselves. “At

Government

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Data from scientific agencies inform the National Climate Assessment, which in turn provides critical information for policymakers at all levels of government on existing and future climate change risks and opportunities in the US and its territories. In this post I will focus on Project 2025’s ill-advised designs for NOAA.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

What does it mean for the electric vehicle transition? A quick refresher: Automobiles and trucks are among the leading causes of climate- and lung-destroying air pollution worldwide, and shifting from gasoline-powered to electric vehicles is a key strategy (among many) to cut these emissions. It’s a bleak outlook from any angle.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 21, 2025

The report provides renewed evidence of the consequences for our health of using fossil fuels In 1970 the Clean Air Act and the newly formed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) were given authority by Congress to regulate pollution from passenger cars and other forms of transportation. These emissions, which in 2022 were 37.4

Ozone

PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2025

The Better Path Coalition is a frontline- and grassroots-led statewide coalition forging a better path to a clean renewable energy future and a government that is responsive to its people. Yaw Wants A Program Like This In PA] -- John Quigley: Are Merchant Fossil Fuel Plants Uneconomical?

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2024

They involve reduced protection for endangered species, eliminating energy efficiency rules, blocking new transmission lines, changing electricity regulation to favor fossil fuels, weakening air pollution rules, and encouraging sale of gas guzzlers. #1. Abolish energy markets or adjust them to favor fossil fuels.

2025

PA Environment Daily

JULY 20, 2025

Here are 161 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us. Energy Summit? GW Homer City, 3.6

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2025

So, I want to look at these four areas: the overall electricity situation in PJM; market forces; policy forces; and A.I. PJM Overview Electricity prices in PJM, which serves all or parts of 13 states and the District of Columbia, are rising dramatically due to a failure to transition to clean energy. frankly can make things worse.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 13, 2025

Advocates Put Out A Call To Action -- $100/Well Bounty Established For Previously Unknown Oil & Gas Wells Abandoned By Conventional Well Owners Under New Program Funded By Oil Region Alliance; 4 Penn State Extension Workshops Set [PaEN] -- DEP Reviewing Permits For Drinking Water Treatment System To Provide Water For 21 Homes In Dimock, Susquehanna (..)

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2024

“As the impacts of climate change from drought, fire, flooding and heat waves become increasingly dire, there is growing urgency in accelerating a clean energy transition from fossil fuels to zero-carbon energy infrastructure,” Klass said. Yet the hurdles to accomplishing such a massive industrial-scale transition are daunting.

Clean Energy

Legal Planet

APRIL 24, 2025

It’s a tribute to the significance of state climate policies that Trump devoted an entire executive order to excoriating them as “fundamentally irreconcilable” with his own, fossil-fuel promoting, energy policy. Yet, despite all the drama in D.C.,

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Billionaires funding science is not new, and it certainly isn’t all bad, but President-elect Trump’s calls to downsize government and privatize science should ring alarm bells across the nation. Uniquely, the US federal government has an obligation to steward taxpayer dollars toward state-of-the-art research that serves public interests.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 28, 2025

A few seconds later, Spain’s connection to the electric grid in France and the rest of Europe was severed, followed by a nearly complete power outage across Portugal and Spain, the two nations that make up the Iberian Peninsula. But that uncertainty didn’t stop pro-fossil fuel voices from seizing the moment to baselessly blame renewables.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2025

House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Members of Congress Declaration of Dissent EPA employees join in solidarity with employees across the federal government in opposing this administration's policies, including those that undermine the EPA mission of protecting human health and the environment.

Environmental Protection

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 8, 2025

While these nominations are dangerous, whats even more disturbing is the opening they create for fossil fuel corporations that have masterminded climate deception campaigns to regain social license. And weve already seen a resurgence of outright climate science denial.

Fossil Fuels

Enviromental Defense

JUNE 3, 2025

A new pipeline would worsen the climate crisis and is also a wholly inappropriate response to market trends moving away from fossil fuels. This reflected the end of the post-pandemic mobility rebound, slower industrial growth and the increasing impact of electric vehicles.

Renewable Energy