A Greener Life

APRIL 21, 2025

By Shadia Haq Earth Day 2025 focuses on the theme Our Power, Our Planet and urges a global shift to renewable energy. 2025 The theme “Our Power, Our Planet” calls for tripling renewable energy by 2030. 2025 The theme “Our Power, Our Planet” calls for tripling renewable energy by 2030.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 23, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen Having been at the forefront of dealing with climate impacts in recent years, Greece has shored up its renewable energy targets. Greece, which has recently battled one climate-fuelled wildfire after the other, has ramped up its renewable energy targets.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The 2035 target sets a marker to guide the next decade of climate action for all levels of government, industry, and Canadians. This new target represents a failure on the part of the Government of Canada to see that Canada does its global fair share. Provincial governments share the blame.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 22, 2021

Yet one of the key findings of “A People-Centered Clean Energy Transition,” a new report co-authored by an advisory committee—of which I am a member—and the Union of Concerned Scientists, is the centrality of the electricity system in creating an equitable clean energy future.

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Environment + Energy Leader

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action has set a 2030 deadline for the energy sector to deploy smart meters nationwide, with a view to have the digital infrastructure for a close-to zero-energy supply. The post German Government Accelerates Smart Meter Rollout appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Yale E360

AUGUST 19, 2022

German solar power is hitting new records this summer, and is set for further growth as the government enacts new policies to spur the expansion of renewable energy. Read more on E360 ?.

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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.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Toronto | Traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabeg, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat – We are disappointed to see the Ontario government make unsupported claims about the proposed federal clean electricity regulations. Battery storage is very cost-effective.

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Environment + Energy Leader

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The post Governments of Canada and Ontario Invest $11.3M in Woody Biomass Facility appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. CHAR’s high temperature pyrolysis (HTP) process converts woody biomass to simultaneously produce two highly profitable green outputs ready for industrial application without generating greenhouse gases.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 11, 2024

Local opposition has proven to be a significant barrier to the rapid expansion of renewable energy facilities across the United States. The report also identifies 395 local restrictions across 41 states, along with 19 state-level restrictions, that are so severe that they could have the effect of blocking a renewable energy project.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 26, 2024

The Premier of Alberta has a problem with renewable energy. In August of 2023, Premier Smith imposed a seven-month industry-wide moratorium on new approvals for wind, solar, geothermal, and other forms of renewable energy. The report said that “renewables pose little threat to Alberta’s agriculture and environment.”

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

You don’t have to look beyond the front pages of newspapers , or beyond rooftops in your neighborhood to know that we are in the midst of a clean energy revolution, with renewable energy technologies dramatically decreasing in price and increasing in availability.

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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. GW in 2023.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 17, 2024

By siding with fossil fuel interests and prioritizing short-term private gains over long-term public benefits, these provincial governments are saddling Canadians with a dirtier electricity system and higher costs at a time when the rest of the world is accelerating its transition to renewables.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 3, 2025

And how would that approach compare to using renewable energy? Hydrogen can be made with zero-carbon electricity, including renewable energy like solar or wind (the result is sometimes referred to as green hydrogen ). Electrolysis is power hungry, and GPAT shows the renewable energy implications of that hunger.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

This opinion overturned weak fuel efficiency standards adopted by the Bush Administration because the government had not considered the effects of its action on climate change in its environmental impact statement. The ruling was a major boost to state renewable energy programs. Center for Biological Diversity v.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 23, 2024

It would seem that the Grinch has once again made off with a ramshackle sleigh full of wind turbines and solar panels and they aren’t likely to return from their shop, not unless the heart of the ole ‘Grinchy-Claus’ (aka the Alberta Government) has an unexpected growth spurt. Stay tuned.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

In that case, Our Children’s Trust represented a group of Oregon youths who sued the federal government, seeking redress for what the children claimed was the government’s failure to protect them from the environmental, health and economic damage wreaked by climate change. United States. The August 14th Held v.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

Thats why I was happy to partner with Environmental Defence and use my platform to promote renewable energy, action against climate change, and our most valuable resource: wide open untouched, healthy nature. Replacing fossil fuels like oil and gas with renewable energy is critically important for addressing climate change.

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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. Background information: Vulnerable regions say that a $1.3-trillion This was an important milestone recognizing that oil, gas, and coal are the biggest cause of climate change.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The Premier and her government are so focused on picking fights with Ottawa that they are missing the fact that there are now more people employed in the development of renewable energy around the world than people working in oil and gas.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 16, 2024

How we do this, and how well it happens, depends on planning and collaboration across local, state and federal government. At the state level, governments need to do more to facilitate new transmission lines. The obstacles to new technology and more effective investments need to be addressed.

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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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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 17, 2022

A battle is brewing over the future of lithium, an essential component of the world’s transition to renewable energy. Last week, the outgoing center-right government of President Sebastián Piñera signed over rights to two private companies to extract 160,000 tons of lithium. Photo © NASA Johnson /Flickr Creative Commons.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 31, 2024

Therefore, hydrogen must be turned into ammonia to ship it, using even more energy. By the end, approximately 80 per cent of the original energy is lost. That is not a smart use of Atlantic Canada’s renewable energy. The wind energy used to produce hydrogen won’t be available for local use. billion by 2028 and $17.7

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Despite assurances that the legislation is a government priority, it has not yet been scheduled for a third reading. It’s time for the government to fulfill its 2019 promise. The impacts of the energy transition are already being felt across the country.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 24, 2025

However, it has also been used to frustrate efforts to accelerate the renewable energy transition by delaying the construction of new renewable energy infrastructure (see here ). The case is a welcome statement in favor of a pro-climate approach to planning decisions for renewable energy projects.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 2, 2022

In another respect, though, there’s more similarity: in both countries, subnational governments play a key role in climate policy. Regional governments. Although ultimate power remains in the national Parliament, the national government has devolved certain powers to regional governments in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Lithium-ion batteries are essential for decarbonizing transportation through electric vehicles and building a resilient, renewable energy grid through energy storage batteries. Nearly every part of a renewable energy grid can be circular, with all outputs circulating back as inputs in a regenerative cycle.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 31, 2024

For example, at COP28, for the first time , all of the countries agreed to a transition off of fossil fuels, a tripling of renewable energy and a double in energy efficiency. And that’s why Canadian civil society groups like Environmental Defence go there: to hold Canadian government representatives accountable!

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 17, 2023

However, great opportunities for more new clean energy supplies to replace fossil fuel energy need supporting grid investments. Transmission policy is vital to supplying grid modernization, and some state governments see their role in planning ahead for the grid we need. Where do we go for that modern infrastructure?

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Law Columbia

APRIL 11, 2025

Over the last five years, several states, including New York (2020), California (2022), Illinois (2023), and Michigan (2023) have adopted comprehensive permitting reforms that curtail the power of local governments to block development of large-scale renewable energy projects.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

However, China will also have to fix problems that have led to an underuse of renewable capacity and a preference for fossil fuel generation on the grid. It’s going to take some serious effort to cut China’s emissions but growth in renewable energy should make that feasible. million exports in 2023. auto sector.”

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

Importantly, that number can be reduced in many ways: greater solar panel efficiency (possibly through new materials like perovskites ), panels on waste sites , panels on aqueducts , agrivotaics (solar and agriculture combined), roof-top solar, off-shore wind, and increased and improved energy storage (often co-located with renewables).

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 18, 2025

Read more here ] The bills were all reported from the Committee and Tabled.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Renewable energy is much more available. and others are producing solar energy, while windfarms are targeted by the Sioux. Many other projects are listed by DOE’s Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs. The federal government is supporting tribal efforts. The Navajos, the Seminoles.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The best solution: Replace fossil fuels with renewable energy. Climate change is overwhelmingly caused by burning fossil fuels, and the most immediate path to avert climate disaster is to stop investing in those fuels and start powering our economy with an equitable transition to renewable energy.

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