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ComEd Agrees to $200M Fine on Federal Bribery Charge

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Illinois’ Future Energy Jobs Act, passed in late 2016, qualified Exelon’s Clinton and Quad Cities nuclear power plants to receive hundreds of millions of dollars per year as zero-carbon resources. Under a landmark 2011 state law, ComEd has spent $2.6 ComEd is also struggling to justify its $9.53

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Looming Grid Shortfall Prompts 2.5GW California Procurement Proposal

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Even so, “given the imminence of the 2021 system reliability needs, there is not time to complete that analysis, allow additional input and vetting from parties, and still have procurement take place in time to meet a potential shortfall in the timeframe of Summer 2021,” administrative law judge Julie A.

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‘This Needs to Be Fixed’: Nuclear Expert Calls Radioactivity Levels Found Outside Ohio Oilfield Waste Facility ‘Excessive’

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.” The Ohio and Pennsylvania advocacy groups sent the Austin Master samples to Marco Kaltofen, a nuclear forensics scientist in Massachusetts who has extensive experience examining radioactive waste from the nuclear weapons, nuclear power generation, and oil and gas industries.

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After Pandemic, New York’s Buildings Face Daunting Decarbonization Mandate

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Saturday marked the one-year anniversary of the passage of perhaps the most ambitious law ever adopted by a U.S. Local Law 97, one of 10 bills in the sweeping Climate Mobilization Act , requires New York City’s 50,000 largest buildings to reduce their carbon emissions by 40 percent by 2030 and by 80 percent by 2050.

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Part 2: Revisiting the Key Findings of an influential Carbon Trading and Environmental Equity Study – Additional Details

Low Carbon Prosperity

The applicability of this observation is particularly influenced by boundary years, including: Remarkably low emissions in the starting year, 2011, a year heavily impacted by the great recession, and a notable decline in emissions starting in 2016 ( part 1, Figure 5 ). and PM10 following its 2013 introduction.”

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Part 2: Revisiting the Key Findings of an influential Carbon Trading and Environmental Equity Study – Additional Details

Low Carbon Prosperity

The applicability of this observation is particularly influenced by boundary years, including: Remarkably low emissions in the starting year, 2011, a year heavily impacted by the great recession, and a notable decline in emissions starting in 2016 ( part 1, Figure 5 ). and PM10 following its 2013 introduction.”

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How Bad Relations With China Could Mess With the Energy Transition

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In October 2015, Cameron and China’s President Xi Jinping signed another deal for China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN) to take a one-third stake in the new Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant. nuclear plant built with Chinese investment as lawmakers question the security implications. Back in the U.K,