Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Rogers/UCS Renewable energy The amount of electricity supplied by US renewable energy overall (counting solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, and wood biomass) is expected to be 10% higher in 2024 than in 2023. One of 2024s new crop. It added up to 24% of total electricity generation in 2024, compared with 23% in 2023.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

A new dataset released by InfluenceMap provides information on heat-trapping emissions traced to the 122 largest investor and state-owned fossil fuel companies in the world. Fossil fuels are the main driver of climate change and the terrifying effects of it that we see happening across the world.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

On November 12, Moms Clean Air Force , Environmental Health Project , and Clean Air Council held a press conference at the Pennsylvania State Capitol calling on state leaders to safeguard Pennsylvanians from the impacts of a fossil fuel and plastic industry buildout. Steele, executive director of the Environmental Health Project.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 7, 2025

Scientists are sounding the alarm because this warming is shockingly bigbigger than what we would have expected given the long-term warming trend from fossil fuel-caused climate change. Meanwhile, sharply cutting our use of fossil fuels is the best way to limit carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions, the primary driver of climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The fuel, commonly known as natural gas, now powers the biggest portion of US electricity generation—more than 40 percent. It has also grown to be the largest source of carbon pollution from the US power sector, even as zero-carbon renewable energy has been growing by leaps and bounds.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 12, 2023

The same scenario has played out with the power plants that use fossil fuels, predominantly methane (“natural”) gas, delivered by pipelines. At the same time, extreme weather events are becoming more common as more fossil fuel is burned and carbon is released into the air. It’s a vicious feedback loop. Can we fix this?

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Fossil Fuels Renewable Energy Electricity Regulations 268

Yale E360

APRIL 20, 2022

In an effort to reduce imports of Russian coal and gas, the European Union is weighing a more ambitious renewable energy target, aiming to generate 45 percent of the bloc's power from renewables by 2030, instead of 40 percent, the current goal. Read more on E360 ?.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

Deputy Policy Director Julie McNamara urges policymakers to see calls from the fossil fuel industry to invest more in their operations--in response to market instability because of the war in Ukraine--as an opportunistic attempt to lower their costs and increase their profits, at great cost to us.

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Legal Planet

JULY 15, 2024

But the scientific and technological advances that made these technologies competitive with fossil fuels are much more recent. Congress passed the Public Utilities Regulatory Policies Act, creating incentives for renewable energy generators. PV production exceeds 500 KW. PV production reaches 9.3

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2022

Replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy from wind and solar will depend on upgrading the electric power grid, which is currently plagued by planning delays and gridlock. Midwest (Sort of) Continues a Proud Tradition. What New England Sees. SPP & MISO Show “You Won’t Know Until You Try”.

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Fossil Fuels Renewable Energy Electricity Regulations 264

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 30, 2023

And I love hearing about new renewable electricity records as spring unfolds. A few recent examples for that last love: California scored a new record for total generation from renewable energy in mid-April and a new record for solar production in mid-May. New York just broke its solar record.

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Renewable Energy Fossil Fuels Climate Change Electricity 245

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. Renewable energy will help with all of that—but we need a grid that is designed for wind and solar instead of having to rely on expensive coal and gas plants.

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Renewable Energy Fossil Fuels Solar Power Electricity 363

Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 12, 2024

These will only keep increasing unless Canada seriously commits to replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy. New polling shows that a majority of Canadians want governments in Canada to phase out our dependence on fossil fuels and prioritize renewable energy. We know this decade is crucial.

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Fossil Fuels Renewable Energy Greenhouse Government 121

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

So now it’s time to think seriously about what amount of energy storage the state may need to complement renewable energy resources that are coming onto the grid to replace fossil fuel plants. Setting a storage target is different than setting a renewables target (such as a renewable portfolio standard).

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

After 30 years of international negotiations failing to mention the root cause of the climate crisis, the acknowledgement that we must phase out all fossil fuels and massively scale up renewable energy in order to effectively tackle the climate crisis, was both long overdue and extremely significant.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

The fossil fuel industry has known that its products are fueling the climate crisis for decades. Since their launch in 2012, the organisation has dedicated itself to encouraging Canadians to pledge support for the fossil fuel industry. I want to do what I can to protect the places and sports that I love.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 14, 2022

A new law in Illinois will prod utilities and grid operators in the right direction.

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Fossil Fuels Law Clean Energy Renewable Energy 279

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 14, 2025

Without a strong oil and gas pollution cap, fossil fuel companies will continue to prioritize their profits at the expense of our health, climate and future. Even in Alberta, which has the lowest support for renewable energy, only 18 per cent of respondents want to see fossil fuels prioritized.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

If we are to protect the ocean, its marine ecosystems and the people who depend on them, we must address climate change at its root: the burning of fossil fuels for energy. But this cannot happen without clean-energy solutions, such as offshore wind and other marine renewables , that can replace them.

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Fossil Fuels Ocean Climate Change Clean Energy 133

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Union of Concerned Scientists’ (UCS) research shows that top fossil fuel producers’ emissions are responsible for as much as half of global surface temperature increase. The best solution: Replace fossil fuels with renewable energy. The transition to 100-percent renewables is possible.

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Fossil Fuels Paris Agreement Renewable Energy Carbon Dioxide 321

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

In 2023 at COP28 , countries agreed to “transition away from fossil fuels” and scale up renewable energy and energy efficiency. It took place in Baku, Azerbaijan, from November 11 to 22, in a context of mounting climate-disasters and a fossil fuel driven affordability crisis.

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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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New Scientist

OCTOBER 24, 2023

South Australia is a renewable energy champion and now plans a truly fossil fuel-free grid. How did it make such a remarkable turnaround, and can the rest of the world follow suit?

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Fossil Fuels Renewable Energy 145

Yale E360

JUNE 9, 2022

With its highways and suburbs, modern America was built around the automobile and powered by fossil fuels. The oil crises of the 1970s provided an opportunity to change course and move to renewable energy, but any momentum achieved then proved to be very short-lived. Read more on E360 ?.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 24, 2025

The Role of Lightweight AI Models in Supporting a Sustainable Transition to Renewable Energy: A Systematic Review. Energies, 18(5).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 24, 2023

There’s good news in the recently released official data on electricity generation in the United States in 2022: renewable energy has continued to grow, coal power has continued to drop, and renewables are now firmly ahead of coal for the first time ever. They offer a lot of good news about clean energy progress.

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Yale E360

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The world would save at least $12 trillion by phasing out fossil fuels and shifting to renewable energy by 2050, according to a new analysis from the University of Oxford. Read more on E360 ?.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 13, 2023

On this final day of COP28, just a few hours after countries of the world agreed on the need to move away from fossil fuels, I’m overcome with a mix of emotions. Inspired by the unstoppable momentum to secure a fast, fair, full and financed fossil fuel phaseout. And let’s be real, I’m also exhausted.

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Fossil Fuels Renewable Energy Government Regulations 142

Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Collaborative Optimism The upcoming political landscape in the United States may seem like a setback for global climate action, but the momentum for climate action and energy transition remains unstoppable. This progress will continue to outpace any efforts to sustain outdated and inefficient fossil fuel systems.

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Ocean Fossil Fuels Paris Agreement Politics 132

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 20, 2025

To deliver on this goal, the federal government made important investments in renewable energy projects. Yet, reaching net zero also means phasing out polluting fossil fuel energy, so the government developed rules to impose a pollution limit on electricity producers. Canada formally adopted this goal.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

But this year, 2024, was different – Canadian seniors in 76 locations mobilized 6000 people to call for a better world, free from the destruction caused by burning fossil fuels. We also have to: integrate our support for, and build stronger alliances with, the Indigenous peoples who are leading the resistance to fossil fuel expansion.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Earlier this month the Government of Canada delivered on a key climate promise and released new rules which end public funding for fossil fuels abroad, starting January 1, 2023. It also begins to align federal spending with a climate-safe future, by prioritizing public dollars towards climate solutions like renewable energy.

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Fossil Fuels Clean Energy Renewable Energy Government 119

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2021

We need to quickly transition to a clean energy future in Illinois to prevent additional negative public health impacts from fossil fuel plants. The Clean Energy Jobs Act (CEJA) HB 0804/ SB1718 is the only bill that puts Illinois on a path to 100% carbon-free electricity by 2030 and 100% renewable energy by 2050.

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Fossil Fuels Clean Energy Renewable Energy 2030 264

Environment + Energy Leader

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

By utilizing renewable energy sources like microwave irradiation, the formose reaction has the potential to become a more environmentally friendly alternative to traditional chemical synthesis methods that rely on fossil fuels and hazardous chemicals. appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Fossil Fuels Renewable Energy 238

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 25, 2022

These estimates come from quantifying the benefits of a more efficient grid that enables lower cost energy, greater system resilience, and more rapid decarbonization. According to Clean Grid Alliance, these projects will also enable more than 7,800 MW of new renewable energy resources developed in the state.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

Minnesotans are already experiencing the climate crisis, as well as health impacts, from burning fossil fuels. A recent Union of Concerned Scientists analysis found that Minnesota could meet its electricity demands with 100-percent renewable energy by 2035, which would provide significant economic and health benefits.

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Clean Energy Fossil Fuels Renewable Energy Electricity 264

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Since the summer of 2021, five Republican-controlled state legislatures have passed bills banning their state governments from doing business with financial institutions that they allege have divested from fossil fuel companies as a result of ESG investment policies. Another six statehouses are considering similar bills.

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