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The 5 Biggest US Utilities Committing to Zero Carbon Emissions by 2050

GreenTechMedia

The falling costs of wind and solar power are pushing utilities to find ways to incorporate them into their long-range plans, even as they struggle to define what resources can be relied on to provide the dispatchable power they need. The latter category has grown by about 6,500 megawatts since 2012.

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Climate Sceptic Goes Unchallenged on BBC’s Today Programme

DeSmogBlog

Porter’s blog repeatedly cites the work of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s main climate science denial group. Wind Power ‘Blackout’ Risk Porter told BBC Radio 4 listeners in the interview: “There were risks around blackouts this winter.

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New Shell Files Could Aid Climate Cases, Attorneys Say 

DeSmogBlog

” “Global warming could challenge the very fabric of the world’s ecological and economic systems,” Shell executive Ged Davis wrote in a contribution to a report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published two years later. .

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Inflation Reduction Act: 10 ways it will turbocharge US climate action (and one way it won't)

Business Green

Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas with a global warming potential many times higher than that of CO2. To that end, over 100 countries including the US, EU, and UK signed the Global Methane Pledge at COP26 last year, setting a global target to reduce methane emissions by at least 30 per cent below 2020 levels by 2030.