GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Since 2018, hundreds of thousands of Pacific Gas & Electric customers and tens of thousands of Southern California residents have experienced blackouts as utilities de-energize power grids to prevent them from sparking wildfires. California Sen. ” But others have championed the carve-out for fire- and blackout-vulnerable customers.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The Clean Peak standard jumped from policy proposal to law of the land in Massachusetts in just a couple years. It compels electricity retailers to buy credits for clean power that can be delivered during the hours of peak grid demand. Clean Peak standard vs. carbon pricing. These are distinct metrics, though they often overlap.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In a 2019 interview with NPR, Carroll Muffett, head of the Center for International Environmental Law, estimated that “emissions from plastics production and incineration could account to 56 gigatons of carbon between [2019] and 2050.”

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 30, 2019

has deployed more energy storage since the second half of 2018 than the total of all prior years. As the grid reaches higher percentages of solar and wind, there is less and less alignment between the time of greatest net demand (i.e. In 2020 alone, we expect total storage deployed to double again.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 23, 2021

This enshrined into law China’s first air emissions management plan and formalized an approach to regional collaboration. The 2018 Three ? The unique regulatory demands and opacity of local governments, which can insist on short-term, emergency action to reduce emissions, can be a challenge to navigate. Targets for regulation.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 21, 2020

Among those demands: PG&E must subject itself to enhanced oversight over safety improvements, or face possible state takeover if it fails to prevent future deadly wildfires. 2019 bankruptcy, brought about by billions of dollars in damages from wildfires caused by its equipment in 2017 and 2018.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Though there is some domestic demand for wood pellets for electric utilities — particularly in the Northeast — the majority of wood pellets manufactured in the region are exported to the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom (UK), to fulfill global commitments to mitigate climate change by reducing reliance on fossil fuels. .

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 7, 2021

The company said using renewable energy for cryptocurrency mining has been its goal since beginning the Hennepin project in 2018. Sangha believes that the deal signals a shift in how cryptocurrency miners will be developing their energy resources going forward. This is just the start for us.”

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 29, 2020

PG&E has been held criminally responsible for 84 deaths in the November 2018 Camp fire and is under criminal probation for its role in the deadly 2010 San Bruno natural-gas pipeline explosion. Critics question whether PG&E will be able to raise the capital its transformation will require amid the COVID-19 economic downturn.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The influential think tank estimates more than two thirds of recent tropical deforestation has taken place in breach of local laws and regulations. The report found that the bulk of illegal timber products are from China, Brazil, Indonesia, and Russia, with demand driven by "rocketing global demand" for wood and paper products.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Gavin Newsom’s demands for greater safety, oversight and accountability. In the meantime, Newsom has also been threatening the even more drastic option of a direct state takeover of the utility if it won’t meet safety demands. “We are pursuing a deal with PG&E.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Frank Mitloehner (@GHGGuru) May 10, 2018. To satisfy the nutritional demands of a future human population of 9–10 billion people, it is estimated that crop production must rise by 60–100% More and more farmers are seeing the benefits of sustainable practices, and they are beginning to adopt them on their farms. by the year 2050.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 24, 2020

” These demands could saddle PG&E and its future shareholders with uncertain legal obligations and complications, making it difficult to sustain its financial recovery. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali, who is overseeing PG&E’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding, is not under obligation to consider Newsom’s demands.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 4, 2021

That’s reason enough, these groups say, for regulators to demand that Duke rework its plans — and they’ve laid out their own solar and battery-heavy replacement options for consideration. It also notes that its planning a massive build-out of clean energy capacity, including from 8.7 GW to 16.4

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 17, 2021

Thanks to Virginia Governor Ralph Northam — and other kind and dedicated Virginians — the Virginia Humane Cosmetics Act became law this month. to make a law prohibiting cosmetic animal testing. In 2018, California became the first state to pass a law banning animal testing for cosmetics.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 27, 2020

When Murphy won and took office, he signed sweeping clean energy legislation in May 2018 that turned his goals into law. Murphy's campaign platform, and the law, included something quite radical at the time: the goal of 600 megawatts of energy storage by 2021 and 2,000 megawatts by 2030.

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Business Green

JULY 31, 2021

per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to the UN's Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), with growing demand for beef in particular swallowing up land - sometimes illegally - for grazing and cultivating soy for cattle feed, and often at the expense of tropical forest. Meat and dairy account for around 14.5

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

Since the publication of the 25 Year Environment Plan in 2018, we have funded new nature recovery projects spanning over 120,000 hectares, increased our tree planting rates and started work on the restoration of our peatlands at a landscape scale," a Defra spokesperson added.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

If approved, the plan would keep monthly netting, but put solar customers on time-varying rates, which cost more during hours of peak demand. But the linkage between net-metering and flexible demand is novel, and has the potential to leverage solar homes for more system-wide value than previous policies have attempted. Beyond solar.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The government needs to dramatically step up efforts to reverse biodiversity loss, and trading or investing in commodities that drive deforestation should be made illegal, MPs on the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) have demanded today. Biodiversity has a major role to play in helping to achieve net zero emissions," he said.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2021

The green law group, which has taken the government to court numerous times over the past decade over the UK's failure to comply with EU air pollution rules, yesterday issued another warning that Ministers could once again face legal action unless they overhaul the country's air quality strategy.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 18, 2021

James was founded in 2018 and initially focused on a proposed $1.25 at risk, with disproportionate and overwhelming impacts on communities of color,” Jane Patton, a campaign manager for the Center for International Environmental Law, told DeSmog. Credit: Julie Dermansky. James Parish.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Sun Tribe wants to serve that demand with more larger-scale projects than it has built in the past. It passed the Grid Transformation and Security Act in 2018, which called for more demand-side management, energy storage and renewables.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

In fact, it’s one of the largest commercial solar developers in the territory of Pacific Gas & Electric, the Northern California utility now in bankruptcy reorganization under the weight of tens of billions of dollars in liabilities from deadly wildfires started by its power lines in 2017 and 2018.

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Energy Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2018

In 2017, hurricanes, severe storms, and flooding resulted in deaths, disrupted lives, and over $280 billion in damages (NOAA NCEI 2018). has occurred primarily through voluntary post-disaster buyouts of flood-prone properties (Siders 2018). Lincke D, Hinkel J (2018) Economically robust protection against 21st century sea-level rise.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 25, 2022

During a visit on February 22, 2018, a state inspector noted “Waste near the warehouse building entrance/exit” at Austin Master Service’s Martin’s Ferry, Ohio, facility. Credit: Ohio Department of Natural Resources, February 22, 2018 inspection report. EPA has not replied to questions regarding these requests.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Corporate demand for carbon removal and offsetting will establish forests as a major new asset class that could generate $800bn annually for investors by mid-century, according to the UN's Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI).

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 17, 2023

Previously, Knobloch was President of New York OceanGrid LLC, where he led Anbaric’s efforts to develop offshore wind transmission in New York from 2018 to 2020. Prior to that, Knobloch was a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In 2018, the Camp Fire decimated the northern California community and killed at least 85 people. “We Nevertheless, “their contributions to climate change are significant and actionable under California law,” Caleb told DeSmog, adding that WSPA “deserves to be held accountable” for greenwashing and deceptive conduct. They’re important.”

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

It’s also developing another solar-only project in Nevada that was utility NV Energy’s largest when announced in 2018. That dynamic is due to the cheaper price for batteries, but also demand from customers to match electricity to renewable supply. solar market, Kiernan said.

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Business Green

JUNE 15, 2020

In April the European Commission launched a three-month consultation on a new sustainable finance strategy, building on its 2018 action plan on financing sustainable growth. The foundational argument is that such mortgages present a better risk profile for lenders and respond to increasing consumer and investor demand for green investments.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The pandemic has reminded us of our subjection to natural laws," he said. An expanded Heathrow would allow the UK to "compete for trade and win against our rivals in France and Germany" once demand for air travel recovers after the coronavirus crisis has subsided, the spokesperson added.

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Charged

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Governments often use selective law enforcement to blunt the effects of unwanted policies instituted by previous administrations. TIGTA says that, of the 239,422 EV tax credits claimed between 2014 and 2018, it has identified 16,510 as potentially erroneous. Is this what’s going on with an audit of federal EV tax credit claims?

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

An annual greenhouse gas inventory released last week for 2018 — the latest available data — showed vehicle exhaust remains the state’s largest problem, but the sharpest year-over-year increase came in the residential sector. million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emitted in Connecticut in 2018 was up 2.7% metric tons.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 3, 2020

billion clean energy plan that aligns it with Murphy’s plan and a 2018 state law setting a renewable portfolio standard of 35 percent by 2025 and 50 percent by 2030. PSE&G has laid out a $3.5 Wholesale power generation: A tough game.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

“Litigation has a key role to play in light of this lack of ambition from states and other stakeholders,” said Maria Antonia Tigre, director of global climate litigation at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University. While not a silver bullet solution, she told DeSmog, litigation is certainly “part of the answer.”

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 14, 2020

Roy Cooper in 2018 to design an energy and climate change plan for the state. Since its launch in 2014 , the EIM has led to an estimated $920 million in benefits for participating utilities, by allowing them to correct for gaps between exchanges organized via day- or hour-ahead agreements and fluctuating real-time energy demands.

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