Renewable Energy World

MARCH 22, 2021

David Cox, Founder and CFO of the Coalition for Renewable Natural Gas. One crucial green energy source that we should be capitalizing on is renewable natural gas (RNG). David Cox co-founded the Coalition for Renewable Natural Gas in July 2011 and serves its members as CFO. homes and businesses.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 10, 2020

Read time: 5 mins As California works to shift away from fossil fuels to meet its climate goals , one of the state's largest suppliers of fossil energy is fighting tooth-and-nail against this energy transition, even to the point of taking California to court over its energy policy.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 6, 2021

If you live in Oregon, it’s likely you’ve been bombarded with misleading PR from the local utility company, Northwest Natural, about the potential for what the industry is calling renewable natural gas (RNG) — methane captured from places like landfills and repurposed into energy for homes.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 8, 2021

Iowa’s largest utilities have dramatically scaled back efforts to help customers conserve energy since a 2018 law gutted the state’s efficiency requirements. MidAmerican Energy reported kilowatt-hour savings for 2020 that were 64% lower than what the utility achieved the year before the law took effect.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Those and other provisions in Virginia’s sweeping Clean Economy Act now face political uncertainty, though policy experts predict that much of the 2020 law will be able to withstand a partisan challenge thanks to Democrats’ narrow control of the state Senate. The result of the two laws has been a flood of renewable energy projects.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 28, 2021

With bipartisan energy compromise now law, advocates and some Democrats look to the budget to help protect the state’s poorest ratepayers. DeAndrea Salvador, a Charlotte Democrat who founded a nonprofit focused on low-income energy assistance and, with Mayfield and others, helped craft the new law. These things add up’.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 6, 2020

Virginia has become the latest state to pass a law that sets it on a path to 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2050, as well as setting targets for massive investments in energy efficiency, energy storage and in-state solar and wind power. “The thing that’s notable here is the speed at which we’re changing this policy.”

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Charged

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

This progress is not the result of any particular pro-EV policies of the state government. In 2015, California enacted a law that allowed utilities to have a central role in rolling out infrastructure, but included measures designed to protect independent charging operators. The Florida charging bill may not become law this year.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Barring significant changes in policies or trends, U.S. laws and regulations as of May 2021, and incorporates existing international laws. laws and regulations as of May 2021, and incorporates existing international laws. Follow @EngelsAngle.

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R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

What does this mean for energy policy? There are two major areas in which Republicans could have an impact on energy policy when they assume control of the House. Republicans have repeatedly blamed President Biden’s policies for driving up energy costs. Let’s discuss. Derisking Energy Projects.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The United States is in a golden era for climate policy. The policy has been a long time coming, yet came to fruition quickly, responding to the urgency of the climate crisis and the opportunity to legislate before midterms. How the policy will unfold is impossible for me to imagine. Second, U.S.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 7, 2021

Land Policy Manager | SDG&E | San Diego, CA. We are modernizing natural gas pipelines; accelerating the adoption of electric vehicles; supporting numerous non-profit partners; and, investing in innovative technologies to ensure safe and reliable operation of the region’s infrastructure for generations to come.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 16, 2024

Onward’s meetings in 2023 included two with ministers from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), which is responsible for the government’s climate policies. Hydrogen is favoured by gas companies, as it is often made using natural gas and deploys existing infrastructure.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Patrick Parenteau , Vermont Law School and Rachel Stevens , Vermont Law School. Puerto Rico adopted laws that called for generating 15% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020, 40% by 2025, 60% by 2040 and 100% by 2050. Federal law requires weighing the options.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The emails , obtained via an open records request by the Energy and Policy Institute and shared with DeSmog, appear to show contacts between Pembina officials and Coos County commissioners — communications that were not disclosed during public hearings.

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Business Green

MARCH 27, 2020

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) yesterday announced it was suspending its enforcement of environmental laws in response to the crisis, informing companies they would not be pursued for environmental infractions during the outbreak. The government said the policy was temporary, but provided no end date.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The 2019 law provided bailouts for two former FirstEnergy nuclear plants and two 1950s-era coal plants and revenue guarantees for utilities while gutting Ohio’s previously weakened renewable energy and energy efficiency standards. Gerrymandering affects all policies, including healthcare, energy, clean water, transit and education, she said.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 25, 2022

The groups are represented by lawyers from Earthjustice and the Green Energy Institute at Lewis & Clark Law School. Some sections included safety information and tips on energy conservation, but many others promote natural gas, describe its benefits, or position gas as a clean alternative to dirtier fuels. “The

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2021

per cent of voters strike down federal government’s plans to hike taxes on petrol diesel, heating oil and natural gas. Urban regions including Geneva, Basel, and Zurich voted in favour of the so-called CO2 law, believed to be the first time a carbon tax has been put to a public vote, but 51.6

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Pritzker's desk to be signed into law, which he has indicated he plans to do. The bill is transformative far beyond the renewable energy sector, with policies around utility ethics reform, transportation electrification, and pollution reductions.". The Climate and Equitable Jobs Act heads to Gov.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Pollution, poverty and race collide in many other disadvantaged communities across California — and the country — and some argue that the state’s climate policies haven’t helped. Both had to wrestle with outside factors that affected emissions, such as the Great Recession and California’s other climate policies.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Tickets are just $30 and are on sale now HERE This event uniquely positions itself at the intersection of policy, technology, and industry. The diversity in their approach – from leveraging natural gas with carbon capture to harnessing renewable and biomass energy sources – showcases the multifaceted potential of hydrogen.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JULY 6, 2021

Customer Programs Policy and Strategy Manager | SDG&E | San Diego, CA. This position is responsible for leading the development of SDG&E’s greenhouse gas reduction and decarbonization policy strategy to advance the company’s clean energy policy to meet California’s climate goals. Primary Purpose.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 22, 2024

Following Congress’s investigation, Raskin emphasized the importance of an effort by the executive branch, which “takes care that the laws are faithfully executed and implemented,” to take accountability efforts to another level and provide a “second chance for America and the world to address the climate crisis.” In a letter sent to U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

New research asserts most have undermined those goals by keeping coal plants running and building new natural gas plants meant to operate for decades to come. utilities that still rely on coal and natural gas for most of their generation capacity. All but one call for new natural gas plants.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

"As coal is phased out from our generation profile, it will be replaced with zero-carbon resources and prudent investments in cleaner natural gas," Good said, according to a transcript summary of the call. He said the utility "still seems fairly committed to natural gas in its own fleet" under Scope 1. Climate mandate.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Evaluating regulations, subsidies, pricing mechanisms, and hybrid policies. The latest, most urgent call to action from the IPCC has increased attention on policies to reduce CO2 emissions and enhance carbon sequestration. Regulation: The most effective carbon reduction policy option is regulation.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 12, 2020

Danly, who will fill the seat left vacant by the death of Chairman Kevin McIntyre, graduated from law school in 2013 and worked as a corporate energy lawyer before he was named general counsel at FERC in 2017.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

If Duke Energy avoids natural gas capacity additions and adds renewable energy and energy storage under a proposed North Carolina law, the utility could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 74% over the next decade, according to a study. Follow @EngelsAngle. MMT in 2030, a 74% reduction from 2005 levels.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2024

According to the F Minus report, both counties also employed lobbyists shared with Xcel Energy, Colorado’s largest electricity provider and top lobbying spender , which also operates gas-fired power plants and other natural gas projects throughout the state.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Related: Petaluma becomes first US city to ban new gas stations Climate-friendly policies enacted by the past three regimes include shifting away from natural gas in home heating, limiting tailpipe pollution from cars and trucks, and requiring utilities to source 100% of their electricity from clean energy by 2045. .”

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 29, 2020

Alongside a big boost in its energy efficiency efforts, TEP says the plan would allow it to avoid building any new natural gas plants. These decisions come as state leaders are considering a push beyond its mandate for 50 percent renewables by 2030 and 90 percent by 2050 signed into law last year.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 31, 2020

Yet, as the original purposes of these laws has been largely achieved, states can now accelerate deeper progress towards want we really what: a 100 percent clean electricity grid that is also affordable and reliable. Some of the choices include coal and natural gas, but those resources emit carbon. Puerto Rico, and the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2020

The APS commitment is notable in that Arizona has not passed sweeping climate or carbon policy at the state level. Yet clean energy policy has gained traction in other forums, like a recent unsuccessful ballot initiative and in deliberations at the Arizona Corporation Commission, the elected utility regulatory body. Guldner asked.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 29, 2022

However, many companies invested in the continued existence of the natural gas industry are not giving up on the effort, presumably because blue hydrogen promises to extend the life of natural gas producers. players in the blue hydrogen sphere — and natural gas is a common denominator.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 4, 2020

As head of the Treasury, Yellen could add a climate lens to the administration's tax, regulatory and budget policies. Yellen is a founding member of the Climate Leadership Council , a policy institute that advocates for a price on carbon with bipartisan support, and she signaled there may be a carbon tax under Biden. "We

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 24, 2020

Lyft’s 100% EV strategy requires a policy blitz Katie Fehrenbacher Wed, 06/24/2020 – 02:00 ICYMI, ride-hailing biggie Lyft announced last week that it plans to electrify every single car offering services on its platform by 2030, including both those that Lyft owns and rents to drivers and ones that its drivers own.

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