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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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The country is working on making a “hydrogen acceleration law” a reality. The law to accelerate hydrogen infrastructure development is expected to be presented this year. The Economy Ministry stated that the plan is to present the law to fast-track hydrogen this year.

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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. In France, this more or less sums up to nuclear power, a ball the French government picked up and ran with starting in the 1970s to avoid dependence on foreign energy supplies.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Are we here to talk about constitutional law, or do I need to put some pants on? The CDC politely cautions that traveling to eat Thanksgiving with your elderly relatives constitutes an egregious epidemiological unforced error, which means the choice is entirely up to you, American. Set the table.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

It is a far from unsurprising message from Skidmore, who having signed the 2050 target into law, has long been a staunch advocate for an ambitious net zero agenda. All that is needed is more political urgency, policy clarity, and real world action to mobilise investment, drive clean tech deployment, accelerate the transition.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 17, 2023

Further, many of the largest businesses are state- or family-owned, beholden not just to the laws of the free market, but political dynamics to boot. Electrification: Hydrofoil technologies, battery electric, and even nuclear-powered ships are charging up, but are typically more suitable for short-duration voyages.

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2022

Johnson also touted the jobs and economic benefits of growing green technologies and industries such as renewable energy, electric vehicles, nuclear power, carbon capture and hydrogen. "Net zero means you're hoping to be properly insulated and as efficient as possible, using new technology like pumps to keep your bills right down.".

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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 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). Those include South Carolina utility SCANA Corp., acquired last year , and Questar Corp.,

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

announced plans Wednesday to separate its financially challenged nuclear power plant fleet and other generation assets from its multistate regulated utilities business. That scandal has scrambled Exelon’s efforts to seek out state aid for its financially struggling nuclear power plant fleet in Illinois. Exelon Corp.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Congress is under pressure to pass both bills Monday to ensure continued funding of the federal government and complete a politically pressing extension of coronavirus pandemic relief measures passed in March. Absent any future changes in law, the PTC will be reduced to zero starting in 2022. Action by the U.S.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 16, 2024

The former Secretary of State brought gravitas, political experience, and influence to a position typically filled by diplomats.   Meanwhile, nuclear demand heightened with the UK Government laying out its plan to quadruple nuclear power by 2050 to 24GW and China approving construction for four new reactors.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Under Secretary for Political Affairs, Victoria Nuland, asserted (January 27), “If Russia invades Ukraine one way or another … we will work with Germany to ensure it (the pipeline) does not move forward.” Soon after pipeline construction began in 2018, the United States passed a law threatening sanctions on the Swiss ship laying the pipe.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

The same challenges hold true for other utilities that don’t already get a significant share of their energy from hydropower or nuclear power, the two primary carbon-free resources in the country. Wind and solar power accounted for just above 10 percent of U.S. generation capacity in 2020, according to federal data.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Although it will take years for some of these actions to impact oil supplies, the political impact was felt immediately. trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act was signed into law by President Biden in November. Winter Storm Uri in Texas caused a major power crisis there that left more than 200 people dead.

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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

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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Grist

MAY 20, 2020

DeWine, 73, has served in Ohio politics for over four decades, most recently as Ohio’s attorney general. Yet while DeWine has been willing to buck party politics and uphold scientific evidence on coronavirus, his performance on other health-related issues — namely, climate change and the environment — has been less consistent.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Menendez asked Perry whether Trump had asked him to convey his “desire for assistance in investigating one of his political opponents or their family members, or unsubstantiated theories related to Ukraine’s involvement in the 2016 U.S. And I think if you look at the larger political situation, we are.”

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

Barring any late Congressional dramas, President Joe Biden could sign the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) into law before the week is out, triggering a multi-billion dollar green investment bonanza that promises to drastically accelerate US emissions reduction efforts. And advanced nuclear power production tax credits of 1.5

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