A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Weifang Port’s “zero-carbon” certification was primarily achieved by transitioning away from fossil fuel use, according to China Electric Power News (CEPN). It has built a wind power system to provide green energy for its operations and deployed hydrogen-powered vehicles to replace fossil-fuel-powered trucks.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 6, 2022

It would raise the cost of electricity for 5 million retail power customers, increase greenhouse gas emissions associated with electricity generation, and eliminate key grid-support services that hydropower provides. More coal and natural gas will certainly increase greenhouse gas emissions from the power sector.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Regionalizing the grid could allow California to take advantage of renewable energy in other states such as wind power from Wyoming and hydropower in the Pacific Northwest. But it also would require California to give up some of its energy autonomy.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 22, 2022

Ontario has a large potential supply of wind and solar energy that could be developed to help phase-out dirty gas plants. It estimated that we would need an additional 843 MW of solar and an additional 4,545 MW of wind capacity (along with a basket of other sources) to ensure the province’s energy needs are met. .

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2023

Diversifying the country’s power system away from large, thermal power plants that require fuel and water to operate–like coal- and gas-fired plants–can also make the grid more resilient to spring impacts like floods and other extreme weather.

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The Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Governor Edwards’ Climate Initiatives Task Force, charged with making recommendations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions originating in Louisiana, recently took another step towards that goal. This document contains proposed strategies and specific actions across several priority areas to be considered in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

We must reduce greenhouse gas emissions now, as Dr. Sarah Cooley , Ocean Conservancy’s director of climate science, emphasized when addressing a COP27 session. International shipping emissions, responsible for roughly 3% of the world’s greenhouse gases, can be eliminated by moving toward zero-carbon shipping. If we warm beyond 1.5°C,

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 19, 2023

With the Climate Resiliency Initiative, the Conservancy is targeting two types of actions: climate mitigation (direct, tangible efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions) and climate adaptation (planning for resilience against the impacts of climate change).

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 23, 2024

We are in a climate crisis Unveiling the plan, the Greek Energy and Environment Minister, Theodore Skylakakis, said, “As we speak, the country has overshot its targets for the penetration of renewables as well as for cutting greenhouse emissions.”

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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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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 9, 2021

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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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Ontario has a successful track record when it comes to building renewable power. Between 2005 and 2017 Ontario phased-out coal plants, reducing greenhouse gas pollution from our electricity system by 93 per cent. And between 2009 and 2016, Ontario built over 2000 MW of solar power and about 3000 MW of wind power.

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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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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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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. It seems obvious that we should remove the middle process and use solar and wind power for our electricity needs directly.

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The Energy Law

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The Plan offers strategies and actions aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions in Louisiana. The development of offshore wind energy would aid in meeting the State’s goal to achieve net zero emissions by 2050.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Placing restrictions on solar, wind, and geothermal power that don’t apply to climate change causing oil and gas development will put Alberta’s burgeoning renewable energy industry at risk, and cost Albertans more for their energy.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 26, 2021

In order to achieve the greenhouse gas reductions needed to sustain a livable climate, we must scale up renewable energy capacity at a rapid pace.

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Edouard Stenger

JUNE 13, 2023

Reduce methane emissions Methane essentially comes from the decay of vegetation, animals’ digestion and the exploitation of fossil fuels, methane is a greenhouse gas with a massive footprint, 80+ times more potent than carbon dioxide in the first 20 years. Solar and wind power I think this one has been the most talked about.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

I was told that large-scale solar and wind power facilities are being installed throughout the country, as part of an ambitious program, aimed at supplying at least fifty percent of Morocco’s electricity from renewable sources by 2050. The burning of kerosene is also a source of greenhouse gases and thus contributes to climate change.

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Renewables now account for 44% of the EU electricity mix and wind power is now producing more electricity than natural gas. Spain reached this milestone with solar PV accounting for 14 %, solar thermal, 1,8 % ; wind power 23,5% ; hydro 9,5 % and other renewables : 1,4 %. and 9 GW of onshore wind.

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E2 Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Allow qualifying rooftop greenhouses to be added on top of non-residential buildings as-of-right, which are not counted as zoning floor area and are allowed to exceed the maximum permitted building height, eliminating the City Planning Commission Certification currently required for rooftop greenhouses in ZR 75-01 (ZR 12-10).

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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.

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

As per Inhabitat : Injecting reflective particles into the high atmosphere could reduce the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth’s surface, counteracting the greenhouse gas effect. In the meantime, we need to keep on decreasing global greenhouse gases emissions, and do it much faster than what we are currently doing.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Total greenhouse gas emissions could reach 1.028 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent throughout the preparation and post-Beijing Games in 2016-2022, and about a third less than the 1.6 million tonnes emitted for South Korea’s Pyeongchang Games in 2018.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Cargill’s recent trial of sea freight wind power signals a cleaner future for the sea shipping industry, but what are the cleaner-fuel options today? Read the full story in Supply Chain.

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Law Columbia

MAY 31, 2023

These and other instances of local opposition to renewable energy facilities across the United States present a serious obstacle to meeting state and federal climate targets and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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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]. Some activities within agriculture emit greenhouse gases inherently – for example: cows burping. [2]. In a place like Texas, where wind power is cheap and plentiful, that has worked out in renewable energy’s favor. [22].

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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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Cresforum

MARCH 10, 2022

In the Unites States’ march to transition to clean energy and reduce greenhouse gasses, resilience may be the most important word to summarize 2021. Records were broken for renewable power, battery storage and sustainable transportation. It will also help plug abandoned oil and gas wells leaking potent greenhouse gases.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

To avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis, it’s crucial that we shift energy production away from the unsustainable fossil fuels that cause climate change and towards those that release little to no greenhouse gases (GHG), such as solar and 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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Acoel

MAY 18, 2021

Perhaps predictably, the large energy companies NextERA and Calpine oppose it, and are funding the opposition: the companies own fossil fuel and other power plants that will become less economical, and stand to lose many millions when the less expensive hydropower enters the grid.

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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. Jessica Wentz. Associate Director and Fellow. If the Senate proposal is approved, the diversions will total $269 million—nearly 30% of the $925.8

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 28, 2021

9 ), which provides for the overhaul of the state’s climate laws, the establishment of net-zero greenhouse gas emission goals, increase of requirements for purchasing offshore wind energy, the creation of renewable energy jobs, and several other climate-related provisions. [6] Senate Bill 119 ( S.

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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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