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Colorado Governor signs law to define some pumped hydropower as renewable

Renewable Energy World

Colorado Governor Jared Polis has signed a HB21-1052, Define Hydroelectricity as Renewable Energy , concerning the inclusion of pumped hydroelectric energy generation in the definition of “eligible energy resources” for purposes of meeting Colorado’s renewable energy standard (RES).

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U.S. Crude Oil Export Surged to New Record in 2023

R-Squared Energy

as the world’s top liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporter, this week the Energy Information Administration reported that the U.S. In December 2015 they got their wish when President Obama signed into law a $1.15 trillion spending bill that contained several energy provisions. From 2004 through 2007, U.S. Annual U.S.

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Net Zero Secretary Claire Coutinho Took Donation From Climate Science Denial Funder

DeSmogBlog

Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary Claire Coutinho accepted a £2,000 donation in January from Lord Michael Hintze , a funder of the UK’s leading climate science denial pressure group, DeSmog can reveal. Michael Hintze, Claire Coutinho, and the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero were approached for comment.

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As EU Weans Itself From Russian Energy, U.S. Shale Gas Industry Pushes New LNG Export Plant in Pennsylvania

DeSmogBlog

As co-founder of the community group Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living, Mayfield has spent years fighting to protect her majority Black and low-income city from the pollution spewed by the nearby Covanta waste-to-energy facility — the country’s largest waste incinerator. eastern seaboard, which could reverse the decline. “As

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Can California’s cap and trade address environmental justice?

GreenBiz

While California already has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 13 percent since their peak in 2004, many residents still suffer from high levels of air pollution — much of it produced by fossil fuels. California has done exactly that. The rest of the money goes toward projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions or improve water quality.

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The Life and Death of a Pioneering Environmental Justice Lawyer

DeSmogBlog

Bespectacled, tall, and barrel-chested, with blonde hair and a beard punctuated by gray, Cole stood confidently before a classroom of conference attendees at a University of Oregon environmental law symposium in 2008, less than a year before his death. Almost all aspects of our energy economy thus have environmental justice implications.

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District of Massachusetts Reaffirms Broad Defense of Filed Rate Doctrine

Energy and Cleantech Council

An important legal doctrine for companies that buy and sell in regulated markets is the “filed rate” doctrine, which limits legal challenges to rates determined by regulators such as the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission or the Federal Communications Commission. Eversource Energy , 44 F. PNE Energy Supply LLC v. Breiding v.