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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APRIL 16, 2024

The law authorized the creation of new transmission to serve “renewable energy zones” and a process to identify and select such zones. That became a model used in the Illinois Clean Energy Jobs Act ( CEJA ), which also combined new clean energy goals and state designation of renewable energy zones and related transmission.

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OCTOBER 10, 2023

Growth in renewable energy, which was likely driven by state energy policies, took an extra bit out of the market for coal. Taken together, the growth in gas (and secondarily renewables), combined with a stagnant electricity market, explain why coal use has plummeted. Another key factor is often overlooked. In 2010, U.S.

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APRIL 29, 2024

Cheaper renewable energy attracts private investment and makes limits on fossil fuels more feasible. The resulting economic growth also helps create a stronger political base for aggressive expansion of clean energy. I don’t mean to imply that technological progress will automatically fix things.

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MAY 23, 2022

Together we can take advantage of the opportunity for Australia to be a renewable energy superpower.”. Climate change wasn’t a central issue in the campaign, but resistance to climate action no longer provided a political advantage. The new premier’s views sharply contrasted with those of his predecessor.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

(UCS) UCS’s findings are consistent with the conclusions of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Transmission Needs Study , which it released last October. It’s a contentious issue fraught with political and social dynamics that have largely doomed previous attempts.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

Source: US Energy Information Administration, Annual Energy Outlook 2022 (AEO2022). According to the forecast, while economy-wide CO 2 emissions decrease from 2022 to 2037 due primarily to the growth in renewable energy replacing retiring coal plants, emissions do increase after 2037 from increased usage of natural gas.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 30, 2023

Michigan’s clean energy future agenda Taken together, the resolution of the DTE and Consumers Energy resource plans represents a solid foundation for a clean economy powered by renewable energy. Reform utility political contribution and lobbying regulations.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

At the global level, however, Germany has its own claim to a leadership role, particularly in its early support for renewable energy. Although its track record has some complexities, this timeline of German actions shows just its early and sustained attention to clean energy policy: 1990. Renewables are 6% of power.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

should commit to cutting its heat-trapping emissions at least 70% below 2005 levels by 2035, a level that UCS modeling shows is possible, but that will require political will and significant new policies to achieve. For the next round of NDCs, the U.S. The US, for example, is still enabling surging levels of production of oil and gas.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

During the UN’s 27 th Conference of the Parties—COP27—several nations, including Estonia, Guinea Bissau, Kenya and Tanzania, have announced their intention to transition to 100 percent renewable energy. Colombia announced plans to stop developing oil and gas. Tuvalu endorsed the fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 4, 2023

And, while renewable energy is growing fast too, it’s not happening fast enough—and can never happen fast enough if its outpaced by fossil fuel expansion. These climate, health and justice imperatives are the reason the world needs to phase out fossil fuels and transition to clean energy rapidly.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 3, 2022

The petitioners who brought this case include state-level political officials and coal companies who are single-mindedly determined to block climate action and perpetuate fossil fuel dependence to serve their narrow political or business interests.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The OCP Group has agreed on an essential renewable energy and infrastructure deal with the French energy giant Engie. The agreement could yield investments of up to €17 billion in desalination, renewable energy, and green hydrogen. By 2040, it aims to be fully carbon neutral.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

As if big, wealthy, powerful corporations weren’t big, wealthy, and powerful enough, they often join industry associations to concentrate their political leverage and lobby for their interests. Firms hired by BRT lobbied on permitting reform, climate-related investments in renewable energy, EV infrastructure, and carbon capture.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2025

Not only do they provide shelter for vehicles from the elements, they also generate renewable energy that directly powers the business. We have a solar array that powers our own municipal buildings, said Katie Blume, Millheim Borough Council President and the Political & Legislative Director of Conservation PA.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 18, 2022

Right now, states and the federal government have a choice that will define our country’s options for clean energy and planning the power grid for the challenges ahead. This choice reveals how the electric grid, and the work to cut global warming emissions, are shaped by our political structures. Shared Duties, with Leadership.

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JUNE 6, 2022

However, there are a range of other policy tools in the electricity sector that might help advance decarbonization, policy tools that might be less politically polarizing. We then examined whether restructuring policies at the state level were associated with greater renewable energy capacity or production. Download as PDF.

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AUGUST 15, 2023

” Prioritizing fossil fuels over renewable energy in 2023 for insubstantial reasons does not pass strict scrutiny. Notable for future litigation was this court’s focus on the feasibility of quickly moving to renewable energy systems, especially wind, water, and solar. Who will do the pushing? Which means Held v.

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AUGUST 5, 2021

That doesn’t seem to be politically feasible at the national level, at present. It looks likely that the Clean Energy Standard will have a stick in the form of a tax on utilities that feel to achieve annual increases in their use of renewable energy. Putting a substantial price on carbon would do the job.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

It adds Michigan to the growing list of states, including Illinois and Minnesota , that have adopted standards to increase renewable energy on the grid and move toward 100-percent decarbonization of the power sector. It also will expand energy efficiency programs, streamline utility-scale renewable project siting approvals, and more.

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Legal Planet

JULY 13, 2023

But even apart from that, the energy transition will benefit nature. Renewable energy and batteries do require use of metals and rare earths, which involve mining. In short, cleaning up our energy system will produce a wide range of benefits simply by getting climate change under control.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 6, 2022

A Political Quagmire. In Pizarchik’s experience working for the federal mining office, coal-friendly political pressure is a headwind facing state actors trying to strengthen the programs. There might be state politics that are prohibiting the regulators from fixing broken parts of the program. Photo © Prairie Rivers Network.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Political and social science must come to the fore to help develop effective responses to tipping events. Or low-carbon energy from renewable energy systems rather than nuclear power, with its needs for cooling water. The missing knowledge is not primarily natural science.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In another podcast, “Planet Panic,” Bigtree defends the continued burning of coal, questions the reliability of renewable energy, and points to shadowy ulterior motives behind federal climate policies. He adds, “That’s what I’m starting to wonder what is really going on, as they try to tell us we’re creating it.

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MAY 19, 2023

For the past two decades, explicit state policy has been to transition as quickly as possible from reliance on fossil fuels to renewable energy sources–motivated primarily by climate change concerns and the critical need to reduce the state’s greenhouse gas emissions.

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OCTOBER 29, 2024

Former Big Oil/Gas Exec Says That’s Exactly What The Industry Doesn’t Need-- Too Much Production Lowers Prices 6th Oil/Natural Gas Spike: True Energy Independence Means Renewables [ There Is No Limit To What Oil/Natural Gas Industry Can Make You Pay ] -- Capital & Main: Drill, Baby Drill?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 16, 2024

This needs some thought, as both the laws of physics and the principles of supply and demand will apply, even if legislatures and regulators have not yet spoken about allocating costs and resources related to data center energy demands. We just need to bring the political will. We have the ways and means to do that.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen The UK government has said that the UK’s sixth renewable energy auction has delivered a record 131 clean energy projects. The Hornsea 2 offshore wind farm. Photo credit: Orsted. This exceeds the 92 projects agreed in the 2023 auction.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

By Jeremy Williams Over the past 200 years, political power has become deeply entwined with fossil fuels. The energy transition is now troubling the peace, and those alliances are shifting. As renewable energy takes over from fossil fuels, there is a tug-of-war underway to control the narrative. Who owns the sun?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 23, 2022

It’s a political compromise with some simple changes to gun laws and some new investment in mental health services. . The range of investments is broad , reaching from clean transportation to farming, renewable energy to environmental justice. But if you try sometime, you might get (some of) what you need.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Social and political circumstances in Syria may have aided the outbreak. Green hydrogen, like the canceled Kallis Energy Investments project in Australia, uses renewable energy to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. It is Syria’s first outbreak of the waterborne pathogen since 2007. Hydrogen comes in many flavors.

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JULY 29, 2021

Boyd is recognized as one of the country’s leading energy and environmental law scholars and has written pathbreaking articles on public utilities, risk regulation, forestry, and the role of science and technology in environmental law. Wang is a leading expert on environmental governance and the law and politics of China.

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JULY 1, 2020

Deploying renewable energy technologies is a key way to reduce emissions, but the EU’s own Environment Agency warned in late 2019 that current policy efforts are insufficient to reach the 2030 and the 2050 (net zero) emissions targets. insufficient renewable energy targets) or “delivery gaps” (i.e.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 4, 2023

That way we can start educating about and advocating for eliminating Puerto Rico’s political and colonial hurdles that hamper our climate response, and look for solutions that increase our self-reliance, sovereignty and resilience. But the likelihood of thriving in Puerto Rico is increasingly out of reach for many Puerto Ricans.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

.” Some of the EU’s biggest companies operating in the wind sector such as Siemens Energy, Vestas and Nordex have all suffered losses as a result of how the wind industry’s market has been designed. of electricity from renewable energy sources by 2030. Recently an offshore wind auction in the UK failed to attract any bids.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In these “next generation” cases, countries seeking to grow their domestic renewable energy industry were using the traditional tools of industrial policy to do so. states and Canadian provinces.

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