Boston, MA — Boston City Council voted unanimously today to approve amendments to the Building Energy Reporting and Disclosure Ordinance (BERDO), requiring buildings over 20,000 square feet to meet a performance standard which lays out a mandated path for buildings to become carbon-free by 2050.
New York - Today, Governor Hochul announced that the Tier 4 Awards under NY’s Clean Energy Standard will go to TDI’s Champlain-Hudson Power Express (CHPE) line, bringing power from Canadian company HydroQuébec, and to the New York Power Authority’s Clean Path NY transmission line. The Tier 4 projects provided an opportunity to deliver new renewable generation into the New York City area, facilitating the retirement of aging, polluting fossil fuel generation to protect public health, creating jobs for New Yorkers and advancing renewable electricity. Governor Hochul, rather than maximizing in-state renewable generation, gave one of the awards to a project that has been rife with environmental and human rights issues.
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La sección climática de la ONU anunció hoy que pese a los compromisos anunciados hasta el momento por las 191 naciones del Acuerdo de ParÃs, el mundo va camino de un calentamiento catastrófico de más de 2,7 grados centÃgrados para finales de siglo.
Washington, D.C.-- Today, the United Nations climate body announced that despite climate commitments released to date by the 191 nations in the Paris Agreement, the world is on track to catastrophically warm by more than 2.7 degrees Celsius by the end of the century. This far exceeds the limit put forth by the IPCC to limit warming by 1.5°C, and follows on the IPCC’s most recent findings that even if the world cuts all carbon pollution in half by 2031 and invests in clean energy solutions that completely end all carbon pollution by 2050, we are already locked into the climate crisis for at least the next three decades, with the full severity of the crisis yet to be determined.
El Presidente Biden y lÃderes de la Unión Europea se comprometieron hoy a reducir la contaminación de metano en un 30% para 2030, un paso positivo a corto plazo para combatir la crisis climática.
Washington, D.C. - Today President Joe Biden and leaders from the European Union committed to reduce methane pollution by 30 percent by 2030, a positive near-term step toward combating the climate crisis. However, much more can and must be done to reduce these and other harmful pollution from the oil and gas industry.
Groups sued the Biden administration today for issuing a regulation that allows oil and gas companies to harass Southern Beaufort Sea polar bears despite the likelihood of causing injury and death.
Little Rock, AR -- On September 15, 2021, SWEPCO, the state’s second largest monopoly electric utility, announced its plan to operate the massive and increasingly uneconomic Flint Creek coal power plant until 2038. Utility staff also indicated that a new fracked natural gas power plant is likely, despite the widespread availability of clean, affordable renewable generation that could create jobs across the state.
NATIONWIDE—Electric vehicles (EVs) will take the spotlight during the 11th annual National Drive Electric Week, with more than 204 in-person and online events in 43 states, as well as Canada, Mexico, and New Zealand, September 25–October 3, 2021. Attendees will have the opportunity to test drive various models of EVs, talk to EV owners, see vehicles on display, and learn about the latest in EV technology.