Environmental News Bits
OCTOBER 23, 2023
From 2015-2020, massive booms in solar power and high speed rail reconstructed landscapes across California’s San Joaquin Valley. Globally rare alliances of construction unions with environmental justice and immigrant movements won breakthroughs in regional politics. Download the thesis.
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 3, 2022
A new poll from Embold Research found that solar energy has strong support across political, racial, gender, and regional lines. 81 percent of survey respondents indicated “support” or “strong support” for rooftop solar on homes, making it more popular than coal, nuclear energy, and methane gas.
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A Greener Life
FEBRUARY 3, 2023
We know what a fossil-fuelled economy looks like, and the politics of fossil fuels. How would solar be different? These are the kinds of questions that Solar Politics tentatively raises, and it does so through the lens of philosophy, reaching back into ancient ways of thinking about the sun, from Socrates onwards.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 22, 2022
These investments will help accommodate accelerating amounts of low-cost renewable energy like wind and solar power, laying the groundwork for a cleaner, cheaper grid. Minnesota Power’s vision is to provide 100 percent carbon-free energy by 2050, achieve 70 percent renewable electricity by 2030, and eliminate coal burning by 2035.
Vermont Law
OCTOBER 16, 2017
Solar power seems promising, but access to solar power as an energy source can be. A shift to solar power in the United States would likely require a federal initiative to fund manufacturing and necessary advances in research. presently hostile political administration. Hardly an ideal solution.
A Greener Life
JULY 31, 2024
Sunny Southeast Asia has made significant strides in solar energy, with solar farm capacity exceeding 20 gigawatts (GW) across ASEAN countries. These range from supply chain disruptions and political dynamics to issues like anti-dumping tariffs and internal instability. GW of floating solar and a 4.68 GW of solar power.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 3, 2022
The majority 6–3 decision sharply curtails the EPA’s authority to set standards based on a broad range of flexible options to cut carbon emissions from the power sector—options such as replacing polluting fossil fuels with cheap and widely available wind and solar power coupled with battery storage.
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