GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

But most jurisdictions use the broader term “clean energy,” which can also include resources like large hydroelectric generation and nuclear power. Seven states, as well as Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, have passed 100 percent clean energy transition laws. Washington D.C.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

As the new 2050 target, now enshrined in law, is to reduce emissions to net zero, it is important to distinguish between gross zero and net zero. Objections to nuclear power can be seen as an antecedent to the current debate around GGR. This is especially acute for demand-side policies.

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Business Green

APRIL 16, 2021

All the top green business news from around the world this week, including China coal fleet concerns, ultra-white paint and Brazil's rainforest funding demands. US prepares sweeping climate risk disclosure rules. billion tonnes, which without reform risked the value of these credits being as low a zero.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 20, 2020

In fact, many are still requesting that FERC reconsider the order and planning lawsuits to challenge it, or simply awaiting November’s election, which could shift political power in Washington D.C. ” More than 55 parties, including the attorneys general of 10 states, have demanded a rehearing of FERC’s order.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 21, 2020

Federal agents have arrested Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder on charges of organizing a years-long criminal conspiracy to pass a controversial law that offered billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies to keep bankrupt utility FirstEnergy Solutions from closing down its nuclear power plants.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Hüzeir’s findings build on earlier Shell material obtained by Dutch journalist Jelmer Mommers of De Correspondent and published by Climate Files and DeSmog in 2018. based Center for International Environmental Law has reported. This fast-evolving legal strategy has placed a premium on new archival research.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The law directs more than $1 billion in state subsidies to nuclear power plants owned by former FirstEnergy subsidiary FirstEnergy Solutions. FirstEnergy Solutions filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2018 and emerged from bankruptcy this February under the new name Energy Harbor. Mike DeWine.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Soon after pipeline construction began in 2018, the United States passed a law threatening sanctions on the Swiss ship laying the pipe. The Nord Strem 2 pipe laying vessel Audacia close to Ruegen island in the Baltic Sea, Germany, in 2018. It wants to muscle in on Europe’s huge market, displacing Russian gas.

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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. Dominion also gets more than one-third of its energy from nuclear power.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Under that plan, offshore wind farms will almost certainly be priced out of the market, but state-subsidized onshore wind, solar power, nuclear power and demand-side resources may be able to win approval for bids low enough to clear. Solar and wind power trade groups also support a quick resumption of the auction.

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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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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 17, 2020

While the details are complex and still in development, their result would be to force administratively set minimum prices on future wind and solar resources, energy efficiency, demand response, and nuclear power plants in PJM's capacity market. The particular threat for Illinois.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

The first is called Competitive Auctions With Sponsored Policy Resources, or CASPR ( PDF ), a complicated effort to balance zero-marginal-cost wind and solar power against fossil fuel and nuclear-powered generators in ISO-NE’s forward capacity auction.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 4, 2019

The subpoena that House Democrats sent on Monday to Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s lawyer and key figure in the Ukraine scandal, included demands for records of Perry’s trip, and any communications DOE may have regarding the phone calls between Trump and Zelensky at the heart of the impeachment investigation. In a Tuesday letter , Sen.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

FERC’s 3-to-2 July 2018 decision that found PJM’s capacity market to be “unjust and unreasonable” due to its treatment of state-subsidized resources has been roundly criticized by environmental and clean energy groups, as well as state attorneys general and utility regulators. billion to $5.7 billion a year.

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