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UCS Expert Testifies on the New Clean Electricity Tax Credits

Union of Concerned Scientists

With the shift to a tax credit premised on technology-neutral framing, the risk is high that heavily polluting power plants—the very polluters this tax credit is meant to drive the shift away from—instead co-opt it for their own. Treasury and the IRS are right to propose clear rules for solar- and wind-powered electricity generation.

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Wind-powered Cargo Vessel Holds Hope for a Greener Future

Ocean Conservancy

While a wind-powered cargo vessel may seem like a 19 th Century idea, the Grain de Sail may be a herald of a greener future rather than a nostalgic nod to the past. The ship makes a point never to travel without cargo, a far cry from the waste of today’s empty containers on a westward voyage to China.

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Challenges and Opportunities in Mining Materials for Energy Storage Lithium-ion Batteries

Union of Concerned Scientists

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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Circle of Blue - Untitled Article

Circle of Blue

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. President Biden’s goal is to cut the country’s greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030, and to reach net zero emissions by 2050.

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China displays low-carbon tech at the Winter Olympics?

A Greener Life

Natural CO2 refrigeration at the ice rinks to 100% renewables-powered venues are just some of the technologies implemented. For the first time at any Olympics, China is using CO2, collected from industrial waste gases, to cool ice rinks in its four ice sports venues. Cooling ice rinks.

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New York City Planning Commission Approves Zoning Changes Supporting City’s Climate Goals

E2 Law Blog

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. The Zoning Resolution currently does not mention “recycling” or “composting.”

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New York State Environmental Regulator Issues Draft Plan to Achieve GHG Emissions-Reduction Goals

E2 Law Blog

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.