Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The wind is in our sails on the voyage towards a clean energy future. Wind energy is currently the largest renewable energy source in the US, and the industry is growing fast. The World Bank predicts that the demand for neodymium for energy technologies in 2050 will be 37% of total 2018 neodymium production.

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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. Luckily, wastewater treatment plants have a source of renewable energy running right through their pipes.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

It is prompted in large part by low gas storage capacity, the COVID-19 pandemic, a power plant coming offline and low wind speeds responsible for a downturn in wind power output. This demand has caused gas prices to surge and caused a number of energy companies to go under, as well as customers facing a hike in bills.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In discussing the late December winter storm that nearly led to rolling blackouts in the MidAtlantic region of 65 million people, Yaw suggested that increasing amounts of renewable energy were to blame for the near-miss and condemned neighboring states for adopting policies that “emphasize solar and wind power over natural gas.”

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E2 Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

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. Create the newly defined use “energy infrastructure equipment” (EIE), and add it to Use Groups 4, 6, and 14 (ZR 12-10, 22-14, 32-15, 32-23).

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

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. Fully powered by renewable energy.

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Technology Renewable Energy Technology Cooling 98

Cresforum

JANUARY 16, 2024

Increased electrification in both the industrialized and the developing world is projected to help meet emissions reduction goals, and nuclear power could provide much of the future needs for electricity.

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A Greener Life

JULY 9, 2021

Coal-chemical plants, for example, could switch to using hydrogen from renewable energy for producing chemicals such as methanol and alkenes. There is huge potential for developing renewable energy in Inner Mongolia, which could be used to power other industries. Inner Mongolia isn’t just a major coal producer.

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Edouard Stenger

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Switching to renewables could enable a factor ten cut in emissions coming from electricity. — Solar and wind. According to a paper published by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in 2015, Puerto Rico has 840 megawatts of potential wind power and only 120 MW of installed capacity.

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A Greener Life

JULY 23, 2021

Some countries already see themselves as potentially the “Saudi Arabia of hydrogen”, mass producing the fuel using cheap renewable energy. Iceland also has geothermal energy. Morocco is rapidly developing solar power in the Sahara desert and has designs on hydrogen production. “A

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 8, 2024

Some years ago, I began to feel the most important thing I could do was learn how to replace fossil fuel with renewable energy. For 30 years I have been an advocate for offshore wind development off New England’s coast and for the creation of institutions to support a transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy.

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E2 Law Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2021

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.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Critics of wind and solar routinely raise concerns about how much land would be required to decarbonize the US power sector. Land used for these activities—and for disposing of coal ash and other wastes—often creates significant long-term environmental and public health problems for local communities.

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Environmental Science

AUGUST 7, 2018

Renewable energy : The contribution of physics to the environmental sciences is no better demonstrated than in the development of renewable energy. It also concerns heat and energy transfer, entropy (the waste heat leading to a loss of energy from a closed system), the Carnot Cycle and the law of cooling.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

It reduces the use of and emissions from fossil fuels by providing the same level of service while consuming less energy, lowering energy costs, improving health and comfort, creating jobs, and reducing waste.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 3, 2024

Achieving the United States’ ambitious emissions reduction goals depends in large part on the rapid adoption of wind and solar energy and the electrification of consumer vehicles. However, misinformation and coordinated disinformation about renewable energy is widespread and threatens to undermine public support for the transition.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 3, 2021

Some scientists and energy experts say the U.S. can’t wholly abandon fossil fuel as it ramps up renewable energy sources. Fossil fuel, they argue, will still be needed in the near term as a backstop for the intermittency of solar and wind power and to keep consumer power bills affordable.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 13, 2023

As the Biden administration pushes for more wind power and solar energy, renewable energy industries will soon generate tons of waste. Read the full story from CNBC.

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Acoel

MARCH 8, 2023

For a timely and useful handbook issued by the Electric Power Research Institute on how project sponsors can work effectively on environmental justice issues, see Environmental Justice and Renewable Energy and Storage. Fossil fuel interests may also oppose categorical exclusions for competitive renewable energy infrastructure.

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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. Capturing and putting to good use these methane emissions from our many waste streams could limit climate change drastically. Food waste from producers, retailers and consumers. This accounts for 4.4

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Edouard Stenger

OCTOBER 29, 2018

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. As if this was not fast enough, inexpensive energy storage will enable them to soar even higher in the global energy mix. of savings.

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Environmental Science

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

It had been widely known thanks to various travel volumes that deserts were anything but lifeless wastes. A growing problem in the 1960s concerning such issues as pollution and public health led to the development of a number of environmental standards and conservation issues for the assembly of world powers. Leisure and Tourism.

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Acoel

JUNE 23, 2021

The Biden administration has committed to significantly expanding development of renewable energy. These projects, including solar and wind are welcomed by many. They have the potential to generate significant amounts of energy with a minimal carbon footprint. The post Renewable Energy?

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 24, 2021

UN Secretary-General António Guterres stated that we’re in a “ code red for humanity ” and called for an end to fossil fuel production and exploration, along with a massive transition to renewable energy, to mitigate climate change. Offshore wind power is a key ocean-based climate solution that we need to invest in.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

As Compliance Date for Methane Waste Rule Nears, California Federal Court Ruled That BLM Could Not Postpone Compliance, Oil and Gas Trade Groups Again Asked Wyoming Federal Court for Preliminary Injunction. The court granted the company leave to amend its complaint with 21 days. Resolute Forest Products, Inc. Greenpeace International , No.

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A Greener Life

MAY 19, 2021

In addition, as the administration plans to halt many new oil licences, those on federal land and waters, there is also the huge potential of training offshore oil workers to be offshore wind power workers. Fast-tracking the process.

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Science Blogs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Trump attacks wind power in state that gets nearly third of energy from wind. EPA not renewing advisory roles for dozens of scientists: report. . Myths and facts to know ahead of Rick Perry's study on the electrical grid and renewable energy. 2017.06.20. 2017.06.21. 2017.06.21. 2017.06.22.

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Legal Planet

MAY 7, 2025

electricity generation for a whole month March 2025 thanks to record-high solar and wind power, according to data released by energy think tank Ember. This milestone, achieved in March 2025, represents a turning point in the evolving energy mix of the worlds largest economy, writes Robert Rapier. Download as PDF

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