GreenTechMedia

JULY 14, 2020

Roy Cooper in 2018 to design an energy and climate change plan for the state. “They’ve been apparently huddling behind closed doors to discuss this,” Frank Rambo, senior attorney and clean energy and air program leader for the Southern Environmental Law Center, said in a Tuesday interview.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 25, 2022

.” 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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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The move - which would form part of the EU's proposed new climate law to deliver net zero emissions by 2050 across the continent - marks a significant jump from the existing 2030 goal to reduce greenhouse gases by 40 per cent, and would need approval by a majority of the 27 EU Member States as well as the European Parliament to come into force.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

The Push for Gas and Nuclear. Prior to the Platform on Sustainable Finance’s report, in July 2018, the European Commission established a Technical Expert Group (TEG) to develop the taxonomy’s screening criteria. meetings per week with gas and nuclear players between January 2018 and July 7, 2020.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The body also welcomed the passing of the UK's 2050 net zero target into law last year, as well as the government's plans to build 40GW of offshore wind capacity by 2030 and bring forward its proposed fossil fuel car phase out to 2035 at the latest.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 27, 2020

And it affirmed long-term growth projections of 6 to 8 percent compound annual operating earnings growth from 2018 to 2021. ” FirstEnergy Solutions, the owner of the nuclear power plants set to receive about $1.2

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

Yet in the rapidly-growing world of ESG - a market which reached more than $30tr in 2018 - it is far from uncommon to find investment practices that would appear to belie the 'environmental' label. Moreover, several major bones of contention that emerged during the development of the Taxonomy are yet to reach a clear conclusion.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 30, 2019

But we’re overdue for more from the governments that we, as tax-payers, voters, and (generally) law-abiding citizens, have contracted to manage our societies. According to the World Bank in 2018, the GDP per person (adjusted for purchasing power parity, aka PPP) was $59 K in the US and $43 K in France, which is officially only a 1.4

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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. A gross emissions target reduces all emissions, in all sectors, uniformly to zero.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 14, 2020

However, the laws of thermodynamics require that it always takes more energy to split water into hydrogen and oxygen than you can obtain from the hydrogen. That means either renewable or nuclear power – if the price isn’t too high. In 2018, the DOE funded three projects that are attempting to advance this technology.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

  In other news the EU parliament passed a law to restore 20% of the EU’s land and sea by 2030, England requires all new buildings to improve biodiversity, and the US Congress finds something they can agree on with nuclear policy, while the SEC may be set to announce watered down rules on reporting.

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Business Green

APRIL 16, 2021

Earlier this week New Zealand became the first country in the world to bring in a law forcing its financial firms to report on the effects of climate change on their business, while the UK is also set to phase in similar rules over the next two years. billion tonnes, which without reform risked the value of these credits being as low a zero.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

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,

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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. in ways that could lead to FERC's order being overturned. But “it does not do enough to mitigate the harm.”

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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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GreenTechMedia

JULY 5, 2020

Dominion has long held significant political influence in its home state; laws passed in 2015 and 2018 limited oversight of customer rates and large capital projects from the Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC). But things have been changing quickly in the Mid-Atlantic state.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Colorado Governor Jared Polis campaigned in 2018 on a platform of 100 percent renewable power by 2040. The laws boost clean energy planning and adoption, and require a 50 percent emissions reduction by 2030 ratcheting up to 90 percent by 2050.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

But most of that generation capacity is owned by subsidiary FirstEnergy Solutions, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2018 and emerged from that process as a standalone company under the name Energy Harbor earlier this year. and jointly owned by the state’s investor-owned utilities.

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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.

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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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Amazon deforestation, coal legal challenges, and Nigeria's new climate law all feature in this week's BusinessGreen Global Briefing. Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari this week signed the country's first Climate Change Act into law , just days after the government announced a new target to deliver net zero emissions by 2060.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

New Jersey is heavily reliant on natural gas and nuclear power for its electricity, though it also gets nearly 5 percent from solar, among the highest penetrations in the country. After taking office in January 2018, Murphy, a Democrat and the former U.S. offshore wind market gained steam along the East Coast.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The oil major’s “Princeton Carbon Mitigation Initiative” document from April 2016 also concedes that CCS is not faring as well as renewable energy, noting that wind, solar, and vehicle fuel efficiency are taking off while carbon capture, hydrogen, and nuclear power are “faltering.”

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 23, 2020

DeWine’s call to overturn House Bill 6 at a Thursday press conference came just a day after he expressed support for the law, saying it is needed to retain zero-carbon energy output — and several thousand jobs — from the Davis-Besse and Perry nuclear power plants.

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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. New York regulators are also considering different options for securing grid capacity resources.

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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. The impact of November's election.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 4, 2019

While the Trump administration has proposed budgets that would have slashed funding for DOE’s labs, the ARPA-E research program and other key energy research initiatives, Congress has actually increased funding over the past two years, including 2018’s $3.77 Perry’s most controversial effort to intervene in U.S.

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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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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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Grist

MAY 20, 2020

But they have derided him for signing a sweeping rollback of Ohio’s clean energy policies, a measure critics called the “worst” anti-renewables law to pass in any state. The measure repealed Ohio’s renewable and energy efficiency standards and enabled more than $1 billion subsidies for the owners of aging coal and nuclear power plants.

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