Renewable Energy World

JULY 4, 2021

A few examples: The rapidly developing renewable natural gas market is putting in place a meaningful number of cash?generating Steve Carman is a Kansas City-based partner with the law firm Husch Blackwell LLP and leads the firm’s Energy & Natural Resources industry team. About the Author.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The European Union has made significant progress in reducing reliance on Russian natural gas supplies, but it is not out of the danger zone yet," said IEA executive director Fatih Birol. Next year, a recovery in nuclear and hydropower output from decade-low levels in 2022 should also help to narrow the expected gap in supply.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

However, 13 percent of Shell’s posts focussed specifically on renewable energies such as wind, solar, and hydropower. Reacting to DeSmog’s findings, Karen Sokol, a professor at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, said “the industry’s ‘climate and society friendly’ messaging is nothing new.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 13, 2021

Laws such as the National Environmental Policy Act and state equivalents provide for public involvement in decisions about many major projects. Environmental laws such as the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act and Endangered Species Act also can affect energy-related projects. policy since the 1970s. Why do people oppose energy projects?

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

Under growing pressure to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, developers of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are turning to questionable claims about “carbon neutrality,” “net-zero,” or “green LNG,” in order to pass muster with governments, investors, and society, who are becoming increasingly anxious about the climate crisis.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

Businesses leaders urge EU committees to champion Nature Restoration Law An alliance of 12 major business networks is this week urging key European Parliament committees to support and strengthen a proposed Nature Restoration Law, which if passed would set out legally binding goals for restoring ecosystems and biodiversity.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 20, 2021

and Puerto Rico have adopted laws or executive orders setting goals for reaching 100% clean electricity by 2050 or sooner. Finally, natural gas generation grew rapidly, driven by the shale gas revolution and low fuel prices. So far 17 states plus Washington, D.C., And 46 U.S. utilities have pledged to go carbon-free.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

"As coal is phased out from our generation profile, it will be replaced with zero-carbon resources and prudent investments in cleaner natural gas," Good said, according to a transcript summary of the call. He said the utility "still seems fairly committed to natural gas in its own fleet" under Scope 1.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

New research asserts most have undermined those goals by keeping coal plants running and building new natural gas plants meant to operate for decades to come. utilities that still rely on coal and natural gas for most of their generation capacity. All but one call for new natural gas plants.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Meanwhile, demand for coal, oil and natural gas fall by 80 per cent, 60 per cent and 45 per cent, respectively, by 2060 compared with last year. The Green Party, meanwhile, wants to revise Germany's renewable-energy law to increase the use of low-carbon energy in the transport and industry sectors, and for heating.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Schumer’s office, the two-year extension of the federal Investment Tax Credit for solar projects will retain the current 26 percent credit for projects that begin construction through the end of 2022, rather than expiring at the end of 2020 as they would have under existing law. Action by the U.S.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Washington Governor Jay Inslee acknowledged a shortfall during a press conference last month: “Even with our best-in-the-nation laws, and even with federal action, we don’t have enough on the books today to actually reduce carbon at the pace we need to.”. Legislators in Washington state and Oregon approved long-stymied climate bills.

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Business Green

JULY 3, 2020

Ireland's new coalition government has vowed to drastically strengthen the country's climate plans, promising to pass a new net zero emissions law within 100 days and deliver an ambitious green recovery plan. New Irish government to step up climate ambitions. complete renewables mega-deal. Poland hails 'birth of offshore wind' industry.

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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. Those existing renewables are largely hydropower and biomass. gigawatts by 2035.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2020

But Dominion, which has operations in 18 states and a major stake in natural gas infrastructure, has also been holding back Virginia's renewable energy potential, according to critics. Dominion's generation fleet centers around nuclear and gas.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 7, 2023

Austin Wall was attending an environmental law conference at the University of Tennessee not long ago when, during a discussion of natural gas pipeline projects, a map appeared on the screen and gave him a surprise. I’m like, hold up, that Google Maps looks really familiar to me,” the 25-year-old law student said. “I

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 8, 2023

Austin Wall was attending an environmental law conference at the University of Tennessee not long ago when, during a discussion of natural gas pipeline projects, a map appeared on the screen and gave him a surprise. I’m like, hold up, that Google Maps looks really familiar to me,” the 25-year-old law student said. “I

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R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

You have incentives for large-scale wind and solar development, you have carbon capture and storage, you have hydrogen, which is a big priority for diverse industries, you have nuclear reactor tax credits, incentives for hydropower, and that’s just on the energy side … and the list really just goes on.

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