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PNNL: Communities Should Take Bigger Role in Coal Plant Closures

Jun 1, 2022
John Stang

A report by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory says that communities facing coal plant closures need to do a better job of preparing for the loss.


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IEA Calls on World Leaders to Close Net-zero ‘Ambition Gap’

Grid Decarbonization Called ‘Single Most Important Lever’ for Policymakers
Oct 13, 2021
K Kaufmann

IEA released its annual World Energy Outlook a month earlier than usual as a guide for policymakers ahead of the U.N.'s Glasgow conference in November.


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Biden Admin Announces New Tx Expansion Measures

Apr 27, 2021
Michael Brooks
The U.S. Department of Transportation on Tuesday issued guidance on working with its state counterparts to facilitate the use of existing highway rights of way for building electric transmission lines. The memo encourages state transportation departments to consider not just transmission, but also renewable energy, broadband internet expansion, electric vehicle...
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NY Preps Statewide GHG Emissions Report

Mar 23, 2021
Michael Kuser
New York officials on Monday held the first of three public hearings as they prepare the first annual report of statewide greenhouse gas emissions required by the state’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA). The state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is preparing the report to be issued this...
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Report: Congress Should Pass a National Transmission Policy

With an Uncertain Energy Future, National Academies Calls for Federal Leadership, Better Tools and De-risking Innovation
Mar 3, 2021
K Kaufmann
A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) recommends an expanded role for federal leadership in transmission planning. Efforts to predict what the grid of the future will look like have a poor track record, according to a new report from NASEM. So rather than...
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Drop in GHG Emissions Illusory, Advocates Warn

2021 Sustainable Energy Factbook Charts Outliers and Long-term Trends
Feb 18, 2021
K Kaufmann
The economic slowdown resulting from the coronavirus pandemic caused U.S. greenhouse gas emissions to drop 9% in 2020, putting the country temporarily on track with the Paris Agreement pledge of at least a 26% cut by 2025, according to the 2021 Sustainable Energy Factbook, released Thursday by the Business Council...
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Report: ‘Social Contract’ Needed for Decarbonization

Government Urged to Address Groups Affected by Transition
Feb 8, 2021
K Kaufmann
The focus on technology in many roadmaps for the transition to a carbon-free economy ignores the inevitable social impacts of the changes, the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) said in a report last week. To succeed, the report argues, the U.S. transition must incorporate "the development and...
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Calif., NY, DC top ACEEE EV Scorecard

States Fill Policy Void from Trump Years
Feb 3, 2021
K Kaufmann
California may have the most electric vehicles in the nation (803,816), but Vermont has the most DC fast chargers per 100,000 residents (36.5) and Ohio offers some of the highest incentives ($50,000 to $2 million) to help companies trade in their diesel 18-wheelers for electric trucks. These facts and figures...
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Study: Biomass Better for Carbon Capture than Energy

Feb 2, 2021
Michael Kuser
Biomass is more valuable for its carbon-capture ability than for its energy production, according to a new global roadmap of strategies to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. The study released last month by the Innovation for Cool Earth Forum (ICEF), an annual gathering hosted by the government of Japan since...
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Study: No Silver Bullet for Fossil-Climate Legal Tension

Jan 31, 2021
Jennifer Delony
Customers were at the center of a panel discussion last week that highlighted what can happen when new state climate laws conflict with those currently governing fossil fuels. While people are working to address those policy conflicts, Dale Bryk, senior fellow for energy and the environment at Regional Plan Association,...
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