Renewable Energy World

MAY 7, 2021

coal plants are either scheduled to close by 2025 or now cost more to operate than new nearby solar or wind power would, new research shows. The work highlights the accelerating pace of the clean energy transition, even aside from the social costs of coal plant pollution. Roughly four-fifths of U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 7, 2021

coal plants are either scheduled to close by 2025 or now cost more to operate than new nearby solar or wind power would, new research shows. The work highlights the accelerating pace of the clean energy transition, even aside from the social costs of coal plant pollution. Roughly four-fifths of U.S.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

The compronmise agreement sees the Greens back Labour's proposals for a 'Safeguard Mechanism', which promises to regulate emissions from Australia's 215 biggest polluting coal and gas facilities without outright banning new fossil fuel projects.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Consumers need new options for less wasteful and less pollutive products, packaging, transportation, and energy. Wind power turbines and home battery systems might have a little more industry wiggle room. However, it’s Tesla’s power wall battery storage for homes that may have the most profound market impacts for consumers.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 15, 2021

Lew Milford founded CEG in 1998, after working over several years on clean energy and utility restructuring dockets in New England while with the Conservation Law Foundation. After graduation from Georgetown Law, he first worked for the federal government to enforce civil rights laws among government contractors.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

A President Biden could use his executive authority to rescind Trump administration actions to weaken regulations on polluting industries, reduce efficiency standards for automobiles and appliances, open federal lands to oil and gas extraction, and rejoin the Paris Agreement on global climate change. Those credits were left out of the $1.37

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

We now know that Cascadia’s greenhouse gas pollution went on increasing in 2019, according to state and provincial data assembled and analyzed by InvestigateWest for this report. Activists won a string of local victories, passing municipal and regional laws to ban new and expanded fossil fuel developments.

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Business Green

JULY 3, 2020

It's important to put a price on the pollution - at the moment it is simply free to pollute.". 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.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2021

The Environmental Protection Agency - which regulates greenhouse gas emission and air pollution but saw its powers significantly curtailed under the Trump administration - would also receive a 22 per cent budget increase under Biden's plans, amounting to a total of $11.2bn support. Everyone wins.".

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

These almost certainly won’t be the last of the state’s land-based wind farms: Duke Energy, the state’s dominant monopoly utility, envisions building at least 750 megawatts of the resource in the next 15 years, and clean energy advocates are pushing the company to do many times that. One option is a law like Virginia’s.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The Biden administration promised $251 million for CCS projects in seven states in May, from an estimated $12 billion fund from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for carbon management in the United States. to four times, and could save drivers tens of billions of dollars – even accounting for the higher cost of the electrically powered F-150.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

To be sure, Bald Head Island wasn’t alone in lodging formal concern about wind turbines visible from the shore. A fishing boat captain and realtor called the structures “visual pollution” and “monstrosities.” Undeniably, wind turbines can and do kill birds, often undetected.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 20, 2021

Renewable energy’s rapid growth is accelerating a national shift to a carbon-free electric power system. and Puerto Rico have adopted laws or executive orders setting goals for reaching 100% clean electricity by 2050 or sooner. Premature deaths due to power-sector air pollution fell from 38,000 to 3,100 per year.

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Business Green

JANUARY 7, 2022

Brazil's net zero pledge is facing yet more scrutiny, after the government published plans for a new 'Just Energy Transition' law which would allow it to continue to subsidise the coal industry until at least 2040. Brazil moves to retain coal subsidies under 'Just Transition' banner.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

It promises to double the amount of onshore wind power, triples the amount of solar power, and more than quadruple the amount of offshore wind power capacity by the end of the decade, with Labour leader Keir Starmer promising to curb energy bills by turning the UK into a green energy "superpower".

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

If you listen to Joe Biden on climate change, you might feel the urge to junk your car and invest in wind power. As the U.S. has grown increasingly polarized, it seems more and more like the two presidential candidates inhabit different planets. Meanwhile, the incumbent’s message seems to be that fossil fuels are A-OK.

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GreenBiz

JULY 27, 2020

Lauder office facility, while the Minnesota one will contribute up to 50 percent — the remainder of its power will come from utility-sourced wind power. . They can give various breaks in various laws, regulatory, both the carrot and the stick. What does the government bring to the table? OK, there's tax incentives.

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GreenBiz

JULY 27, 2020

The New York installation will provide 100 percent of the electricity required by the office operations, while the Minnesota one will contribute up to 50 percent — the remainder of its power will come from utility-sourced wind power. . They can give various breaks in various laws, regulatory, both the carrot and the stick.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Wind power is not cheap or secure. The GWPF has also expressed the view that carbon dioxide has been mis-characterised as pollution, when in fact it is a “benefit to the planet”. Other writers regularly undermined the effectiveness of renewable energy. Its author said that the UK climate “remains absolutely benign”.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The report notes that the cost of solar energy has fallen 90 percent in the last decade, and the cost of wind power has dropped 70 percent. A Connecticut law empowers cities to create their own stormwater management plans. Between 2005 and 2019, greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. decreased by 12 percent. Some go even further.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

President Biden signed historic climate legislation into law in August, but more action will be necessary to hit climate targets. He incorrectly blamed the widespread blackouts in Texas in 2021 on the failure of wind power. Lyash has a track record of supporting fossil fuels.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

“He’s been very clear he is very, very opposed and would like to end renewable energy, and so he brings these wolves-in-sheep-clothing bills to say, ‘Oh, these are just meant to do reasonable things,’ when quite clearly they’re not,” said Alan Claus Anderson, vice president of the energy group at Polsinelli law firm.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The new law will remove zombie projects unlikely to be developed, or stalled out due to its current “first come , first serve” policy and make room for viable projects to interconnect much quicker. Big Oil spins whale deaths to stall wind power installations. Walewashing. Lots of familiar faces (hi Jigar!)

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2021

It is beginning to look as though the writing may now be on the wall for polluters that fail to take radical steps to reform their business as quickly as possible. But are oil and gas majors actually getting the message? Well, there are a growing signs that some may be at least starting to quietly plot their future beyond fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 6, 2021

In another ad, the narrator talks about how population growth has resulted in more waste, pollution, and greenhouse gases. In a statement to DeSmog, Leanne Guier, president of Partnership for Energy Progress, noted that wind power costs have declined over the past 20 years.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Renewable solar and wind power now typically costs less than fossil-fuel alternatives. The second most important target for green power is replacing fossil fuel use in buildings, especially growing use of natural gas for heating; in Vancouver, British Columbia, that causes nearly 60% of the city’s carbon pollution.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

A year on from the UK's net zero target being adopted in law coinciding with the start of one of the most eventful 12 months in modern political history, the influential Committee on Climate Change today published its annual review of the UK's progress against its climate goals. "We Lockdown made pollution from emissions go?down,?because

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AGreenLiving

JULY 27, 2020

Lauder office facility, while the Minnesota one will contribute up to 50 percent — the remainder of its power will come from utility-sourced wind power. They can give various breaks in various laws, regulatory, both the carrot and the stick. What does the government bring to the table? OK, there’s tax incentives.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 27, 2020

The New York installation will provide 100 percent of the electricity required by the office operations, while the Minnesota one will contribute up to 50 percent — the remainder of its power will come from utility-sourced wind power. They can give various breaks in various laws, regulatory, both the carrot and the stick.

Sustainability 28

Sustainability Packaging Energy Energy 28