Enviromental Defense

MARCH 22, 2022

We all know that to successfully address climate change we need to phase out fossil fuels and switch to electric power. A s we transition our homes and vehicles to electric power, it’s imperative that the electricity sector be clean. Take Action: Tell Ontario to phase out polluting gas power.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2023

While it is a heavily polluting fossil fuel that is set to continue declining as a fuel source for US electricity generation over the next decade, coal still accounted for roughly 20 percent of the country’s generation in 2022. Fuel transport – Spring floods can hinder the transportation of fuels like coal.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

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. Generating and storing clean energy is a lifeline for the planet’s future; burning coal, oil, and gas fossil fuels causes 75% of greenhouse gas emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2024

By next year, Pennsylvania will get 50 percent of its electricity from ten new solar arrays around the Commonwealth – making Pennsylvania the first state in the country to commit to getting half of its energy from solar power. Click Here to learn more about Gov. Shapiro’s Energy/Climate Plan.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Ontario recently re-contracted four gas-fired power plants to generate electricity for the province and appears poised to contract more in the near future. . Take Action: Tell Ontario To Stop Using Fossil Gas Power. Yes, Ontario needs new electricity generation. But there are loopholes.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The revised 2030 energy and climate plan, unveiled by the government, targets the expansion of wind and solar power. The Mediterranean country aims for renewables to account for an 82% share of electricity production by 2030. The previous plan released in 2019 had set out only a 66% share.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 9, 2021

Water levels behind Oroville dam have fallen to record lows and for the first time, the dam cannot produce electricity. Hydropower generation across California and the American West has declined in this extremely dry year, meaning that electricity providers will lean more heavily on natural gas, solar, and wind power.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2023

Fossil gas, which is used for heating, electricity, and industrial processes, is responsible for one third of Ontario’s greenhouse gas emissions and is harmful to human health. The province’s gas ramp-up is projected to increase electricity-sector emissions by over 400 per cent by 2030 and by almost 800 per cent by 2040.

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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. In 2021 alone, the global installed capacity of offshore wind plants tripled, reaching record figures, as 21.1 Photo credit: Tho Ge / Pixabay.

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E2 Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The changes are designed to support a renewable energy grid, make buildings more energy efficient, support the use of electric vehicles, and reduce waste and stormwater runoff. This will provide greater flexibility for electric equipment such as heat pumps. The proposal will now advance to the City Council for final approval.

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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.

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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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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

On checking into my hotel, I was told that all lights are on a timer, “so we save electricity.” Riding on one of the city’s “100% electric zero emission” buses, I noticed that much of the public lighting is solar powered. A key development goal of many African countries is to increase electricity access.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

About the technology, Wu Xiaonan, an official at the National Speed Skating Oval said: “With the CO2 refrigeration process, we can save 20-30% on electricity compared to traditional ice-making methods.” Fully powered by renewable energy. ” The Games take place in 25 venues, 13 of which are newly built.

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Energy and Climate Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

For the part below, the useful overview by Energie-Nederland, industry association for the producers, suppliers and traders of electricity, gas and heat, has been used as a source. The use of coal as a source of energy should be phased out by 2030. Both PvdA and GL mention that they want to do this earlier, by 2025 at latest (i.e.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

There has been much talk in recent weeks about pricing carbon to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The most direct of these is imposed on certain fossil fuel power plants by requiring them to purchase carbon dioxide emissions allowances as part of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. by Romany Webb and Justin Gundlach.

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Vermont Law

JUNE 22, 2020

Roughly 9 percent of the United States’ greenhouse gas emissions come from the agriculture sector. [1]. As with transportation, electricity generation, commercial, and industrial activities, this fact begs the question: what can we do about it? John Deere is presently working on developing large-scale electric tractors.

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Acoel

MAY 18, 2021

Yet Mainers are questioning whether to accept a new 145-mile electric transmission line that will bring hydropower from Quebec into the New England power grid, removing 3.0 Note also that the hydropower is a “base-load” contribution, not an intermittent source like solar or wind power.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

This blog post is adapted from testimony delivered at the New York City Department of Buildings hearing on proposed rule §103-14 , Procedures for Reporting on and Complying with Annual Greenhouse Gas Emissions for Certain Buildings in connection with the City’s building performance standard, Local Law 97.

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A Greener Life

MAY 24, 2023

.” DTEK said that, apart from delivering critical energy security to the country, the project was also a key step forward to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Ukraine is now racing against time to repair and strengthen the energy sector before the winter, and adding new low-carbon electricity is one of the strategies.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 25, 2016

These diversions are inconsistent with New York State regulations aimed at ensuring the proceeds of the auctions would be spent on new programs to further reduce greenhouse gas emissions. For those unfamiliar with the program – RGGI is an interstate cap and trade program aimed at reducing CO 2 emissions from the electric power sector.

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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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Law Columbia

JULY 27, 2020

Win with Wind filed comments on a supplemental draft environmental impact statement on the Vineyard Wind project to voice support for the facility. BOEM estimates that approximately 2,200 MW of Atlantic offshore wind development is reasonably foreseeable in light of existing permitting approvals, leases, and announcements.

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 28, 2021

Additionally, Texas lawmakers will hear legislation that seeks stricter rules regarding the structural integrity of above-ground storage tanks at chemical plants, refineries, electric power plants, and other similar storage facilities. HB 711 and SB 126 , from state Rep. Mary Ann Perez and Sen. Senate Bill 119 ( S.

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Law Columbia

JULY 31, 2015

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors’ move to ban utility-scale wind turbines and to impose severe restrictions on utility-scale solar in unincorporated areas of the county is not compatible with averting the worst impacts of climate change. billion gallons a year of fresh water.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The attorney general said that PwC also served from at least 2008 to 2013 as global advisor and report writer for the Carbon Disclosure Project, a non-profit organization that functions as a global disclosure system for environmental information, including greenhouse gas emissions, from companies including Exxon. 451962/2016 (N.Y.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2023

This proposal would bring real benefits, because large-scale clean energy projects , including all three categories of projects included in the proposal–solar, transmission, and storage–are necessary to meet the United States’ goal of 100% clean electricity by 2035.

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 28, 2021

Additionally, Texas lawmakers will hear legislation that seeks stricter rules regarding the structural integrity of above-ground storage tanks at chemical plants, refineries, electric power plants, and other similar storage facilities. HB 711 and SB 126 , from state Rep. Mary Ann Perez and Sen. Senate Bill 119 ( S.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 6, 2022

Besides the kilowatt-hours it generates, Glen Canyon provides key services to the electric grid. The country’s second largest reservoir and a lynchpin in the intermountain electric grid, Powell is more dirt than water these days. Hydropower generation will likely shut down when Lake Powell’s elevation drops below 3,490 feet.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2023

While he does not mention climate change, there is a brief nod to climate solutions through emissions reductions: Come on electric utilities, don’t tell me you are just passing along those high natural gas prices to the ratepayer and at the same time ask the taxpayers to subsidize it more.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

Congress took questions relating to the security of America’s electricity supply seriously before more than a dozen states experienced energy shortages last month, but those events make this hearing all the more urgent. electrical grids were increasingly “complex and vulnerable.” [2] Shellenberger. 5] The U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 14, 2024

Shapiro Unveils Cap-And-Invest PA Climate Emissions Reduction Initiative To Reduce Carbon Pollution From Power Plants; Update Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards To Diversify Electric Generation, Improve Reliability [PaEN] -- Senate Republicans Reject Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 3, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency show that CO2 accounts for the vast majority of heat-trapping greenhouse gases emitted by the U.S. 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. Studies by the U.S.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 6, 2023

Green hydrogen––produced with renewable electricity and water­­––is often described as a tool for decarbonizing the challenging last 10% of greenhouse gas emissions. Hydrogen is an indirect greenhouse gas that is up to 100 times more potent than carbon dioxide over a ten-year period.

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

First off, some facts and figures from Ember, which recently stated that both fossil fuels generation and CO2 emissions from the European electricity sector fell 19 percent last year alone. Renewables now account for 44% of the EU electricity mix and wind power is now producing more electricity than natural gas.

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

While solar PV and wind power are grabbing headlines, another clean energy revolution is silently taking place. According to the IPCC, this greenhouse gas is 86 times more potent than carbon dioxide over a twenty-year period (and 34 times more potent over a century). Over a third of global food production , 1.3

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Edouard Stenger

OCTOBER 29, 2018

If renewables are booming and energy efficiency is gaining some traction, greenhouse gases emissions are still growing and the atmospheric concentration of carbon is still rising. 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.

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