GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2021

This time it'll be batteries. The co-founder and chief scientist of the nonprofit Rewiring America, formed in July, has mapped out with his colleagues how to ditch fossil fuels for the billion fossil-fuel-powered machines involved in energy production and use, which he said account for 87 percent of U.S.

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Charged

JULY 26, 2023

The authors of the endless articles warning of the environmental costs of battery raw materials are invariably “big fans” of EVs, but they’re naturally concerned that they may not be “as green as they claim.” As demand rises for battery raw materials, EV industry players are working to reduce the environmental costs of extraction.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MAY 16, 2024

When Governor Jay Inslee spoke at the Clean & Prosperous Institute’s Future of Carbon Policy Forum , he expressed his “unreasonable enthusiasm” for our state’s growing clean energy economy. By putting a market-based price on carbon emissions, it requires polluters to clean up or pay up. Add your name HERE.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Currently, Puerto Rico gets more than 97% of its electricity from imported fossil fuel. But the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which controls relief funding for the island, appears ready to underwrite a rebuild of the old fossil fuel system. Power is expensive and unreliable.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 16, 2020

New York utility Con Edison has signed its biggest energy storage contract to date, a 100-megawatt/400-megawatt-hour lithium-ion battery project that will help balance a grid facing rising levels of offshore wind and other renewable power in the years to come. In New York City, the biggest battery is the 4.8

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Energy Innovation

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

By Olivia Ashmoore This week, Energy Innovation Policy & Technology LLC® and RMI published 48 state Energy Policy Simulator (EPS) models. The free, open-source, peer-reviewed, and nonpartisan EPS model empowers users to analyze the effects of hundreds of climate policies. climate goals. With the release of the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 2, 2020

The groups argued that California utilities shouldn’t be adding new carbon and pollution-emitting resources when the state is trying to meet ambitious zero-carbon goals. Solar-storage companies and environmental advocates have opposed fossil fueled microgrids to solve California’s wildfire and blackout challenges.

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Business Green

MAY 24, 2022

The steel, which has just a fraction of the climate footprint of conventional steel, has been provided by SSAB, one of a handful of Swedish firms behind the world's first fossil-fuel-free steel plant, the HYBRIT facility in northern Sweden. This is an area where development is continuing," she says.

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Business Green

JANUARY 28, 2021

The firm, which is America's largest automaker, has pledged to deliver at least 30 all-electric models "by mid-century" and to ensure that 40 per cent of its US range is battery electric by the end of 2025. "We encourage others to follow suit and make a significant impact on our industry and on the economy as a whole.".

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Evaluating regulations, subsidies, pricing mechanisms, and hybrid policies. The latest, most urgent call to action from the IPCC has increased attention on policies to reduce CO2 emissions and enhance carbon sequestration. Regulation: The most effective carbon reduction policy option is regulation.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

We have long advocated for a new system that relies on more distributed energy resources spread across communities, but state commissions have lacked modeling tools that show the pathway for local energy resources, like solar, batteries and geothermal for instance, to benefit our electricity grid.

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In fact, reductions in battery costs as well as available rebates mean that some EVs are already cheaper to buy than fossil-fuelled equivalents, allowing drivers to start saving the moment they drive off the lot. It’s a tried and tested policy. More than 15,300 premature deaths each year in Canada are linked to air pollution.

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The final wording of the COP28 agreement – which required consensus among all nations and the chair – codified a commitment to transition away from fossil fuels in energy systems. To anyone paying attention to global oil and gas demand future forecasts, even under existing policies , the COP28 agreement should not be a surprise.

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The Environmental Blog

AUGUST 18, 2020

An electric vehicle is a useful tool that would allow us to start controlling CO2 emissions and other pollutants produced by transport activity. – 65 per cent said a lack of charging points was a turn off when it comes to transferring from fossil fuel to electric-powered vehicles.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

“They’ve done their best to try to prop up fossil fuels, but it hasn’t really come [at] the detriment of renewables.” ” The key electoral battleground for energy and climate policy looks to be the Senate, where a third of the seats are up for grabs, most of them held by Republicans.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

And as a trove of industry documents reveals, Exxon is far from the only fossil fuel company selling carbon capture as its golden ticket to continue pumping its products, despite internal concerns about the technology’s feasibility. For more than three decades, our LaBarge facility in Wyoming has been a center for #carboncapture.

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Charged

JUNE 28, 2022

As regular Charged readers know, California, which suffers from some of the worst air pollution in the US, has an alphabet soup of incentive and grant programs intended to promote adoption of zero-emission or low-emission commercial vehicles. marine, construction and agricultural vehicles) doesn’t have a widely available electric alternative.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Thanks to converging forces — including supportive policies, dropping battery costs and aggressive climate goals — transportation leaders at large and small organizations are increasingly turning to new zero-emission and low-carbon options that decarbonize fleets and in some cases save money. The top 25 most sustainable fleets.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Raft of new studies underscore the myriad adverse impacts of the UK's chronic air pollution, but also make clear that the solutions - including shifting away from fossil fuel cars - are quickly ramping up. and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) on the development of working memory.

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Elemental Excelerator

APRIL 21, 2022

In our work deploying first-of-their-kind projects with climate tech entrepreneurs, we hear again and again that policy barriers present constant challenges, regardless of the industry in which they operate. It’s clear that we need to accelerate climate policy innovation with the same urgency and equity lens that we devote to tech innovation.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 27, 2021

Wednesday’s executive orders are the latest step in the Biden-Harris administration’s aggressive early actions seeking to combat climate change and reverse Trump administration policies seen as harming that goal. Achieving this policy will require legislation that Democrats may struggle to pass in a U.S. economy by 2050.

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The Verge: Energy

APRIL 25, 2024

. | USEPA photo by Eric Vance The Verge spoke to EPA administrator Michael Regan about the agency’s new rules for power plant pollution. The Environmental Protection Agency rolled out new rules today meant to crack down on pollution from power plants. How might you achieve those additional pollution reductions?

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GreenBiz

JULY 19, 2021

These include genetic research to develop pandemic fighting pharmaceuticals; commercial-scale applications of solar and wind technologies; and rapidly advancing progress in battery efficiencies. Innovation marches forward. A large and globally impactful number of innovations are coming into play just in the nick of time.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Like Hurricane Katrina and numerous storms before it, Hurricane Ida demolished Louisiana’s outdated, fossil-fuel-dependent energy system. Fossil-Fuel Failures. Instead, state and local government, as well as the electric utility, Entergy, continue to fight tooth and nail for more fossil-fuel-powered energy infrastructure.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

renewable energy and battery manufacturing, although it remains to be seen whether such growth could be achieved rapidly enough to meet Biden’s targets — or the industry’s needs. climate and energy policy would be enormous — and perhaps nowhere more so than in the power sector. Historical U.S. Source: WoodMac.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Tuesday’s report comes as President-elect Joe Biden is pressing for a major shift in federal energy and climate policy, including a $2 trillion clean energy and infrastructure spending plan that faces the likelihood of strong opposition from Republicans in Congress. To transport that power to where it’s needed, the existing U.S.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 20, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency’s final Multi-Pollutant Emissions Standards for Model Years 2027 and Later Light-Duty and Medium-Duty Vehicles : “The tailpipe regulations finalized today are good news for North Americans, who will reap the benefits of cleaner cars and fresher air. “The has attracted US$84.8 72 billion in climate benefits.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

The inflation reduction act clean energy transition: Supporting businesses navigate rising fossil fuel energy costs The inflation reduction act clean energy transition comes at a time where rising fossil fuel energy costs are hitting businesses hard. Under the policies of the Action Plan, the government will provide $1.55

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Greenability Magazine

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

“This is a big and bold step toward cleaner air, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and decreasing the city’s dependence on fossil fuels,” said Kansas City Manager Brian Platt. “We Air pollution contributes to the high rate of asthma in the central city, so reducing gas emissions will make breathing easier for many residents.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 28, 2021

automaker to move into electric vehicles , to a much bigger scope of battery-powered cars and trucks in the U.S. By 2025, GM will have 30 battery-powered vehicle models available globally, and those models will make up 40 percent of its vehicle models offered in the U.S. A shift in federal clean transportation policy.

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Clean Energy Canada

JANUARY 29, 2020

Not everyone is tracking the cost curves of lithium ion batteries or the deployment rates of solar panels. Solving climate change with policy is paramount. It’s no secret that many of Canada’s biggest industries are also Canada’s biggest polluters, from oil and gas to steel and cement. That means being accountable.

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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 22, 2023

. | Photo by Elizabeth Flores/Star Tribune via Getty Images The Biden administration proposed new tax guidelines today aimed at making it cheaper to produce hydrogen as a less-polluting alternative to fossil fuels. Hydrogen combustion releases water vapor, rather than planet-heating carbon dioxide emissions.

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AutoGrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

For those championing the value of flexibility in maintaining grid reliability and transitioning away from fossil fuels, 2023 was a standout year. AutoGrid followed up the DOE report with a VPP policy brief that echoes the report’s call for policy reforms to fully realize the potential of VPPs in 2024 and beyond.

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E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

AUGUST 31, 2022

It will do so by driving in-state ZET technology innovation and manufacturing investments and jobs, reducing the greenhouse gases (GHGs) causing climate change, slashing truck tailpipe pollution to improve air quality and mitigate public health costs. California must act now to finalize the strongest ACF rule possible. What is the ACF rule?

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Low Impact

AUGUST 29, 2021

Launched in 2019, the deal embraces virtually every policy area. But solar panels and electric car batteries need lithium , cobalt, nickel and other scarce raw materials. 3) It’s funding big polluters. Neither do the EU’s ‘cohesion’ and ‘just transition’ funds exclude fossil fuel investments.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

"They’re really trying to appease a nascent but quite powerful movement of [environmental, social and governance focused] shareholders and institutional investors," said David Pomerantz, executive director of utility watchdog group Energy and Policy Institute, which tracks carbon targets. GW of solar and batteries.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 2, 2024

Sustainability has become a global goal these days, with increasing awareness regarding the banes of pollution. Industrial businesses can switch to hydrogen as a fuel to improve efficiency and reduce reliance on fossil fuels. Anthropogenic emissions have resulted in a global temperature increase of 1.1°C,

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