By Fiona Harvey Environment correspondent The government has pledged to review its long-term climate targets. Renewable energy, housing and and transport are just some areas where new policies could cut emissions fastMore wind farms, solar power and electric cars: these are likely to be the future of the UK, under government plans announced this week…
By Carolyn Fortuna How important are protecting the forests in our attempts to mitigate climate change Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Clean Technica
By [email protected] Clean Energy Group has published a battery guide for activists and foundations as pressure groups increasingly see energy storage as a key component of their clean-energy toolkits. The Vermont-based nonprofit said its report, Jump-Start: How Activists and Foundations Can Champion Battery Storage to Recharge the Clean Energy Transition, should prompt action and support…
By Kelly Pickerel Pproject partners MCE and sPower commemorated Earth Day 2018 early with a ribbon cutting for MCE Solar One, a 60-acre solar farm in Richmond, California, that provides enough renewable electricity to serve 3,900 MCE customers annually. “MCE’s 10.5-MW solar project will reduce greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to taking more than 680 cars…
By Adam Vaughan ‘Outrageous financial demands will have serious repercussions across the renewables sector’Labour has accused the government of holding back clean energy projects in the UK by allowing energy networks to impose “outrageous” charges on renewables developers.This week, two of the six companies that run the country’s local electricity grids began making green energy…
By Sophie Vorrath Malcolm Turnbull’s weak climate policy is not going unnoticed at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Renew Economy
By National Wind Watch NEW BEDFORD – Comments surrounding Vineyard Wind’s offshore wind projects filled the Waypoint Convention Room on Monday night and they came from a diverse group ranging from climate change deniers to environmentalists. But the main discussion revolved around jobs. Fishermen strongly criticized the process with one saying he feared Europeans would…
By Frank Andorka By Frank Andorka, Senior Correspondent What Happened: Massachusetts’ Supreme Judicial Court told Exxon it couldn’t hide evidence it knew about global climate change (and its role in producing it) for years before they admitted it. The ruling crushed Exxon’s hopes of keeping the information from the state’s attorney general, Maura Healey, who…
By [email protected] House Speaker Paul Ryan announced last week that he won’t seek reelection in 2018. His decision will have major consequences for the Republican Party — and potentially for climate and energy policy. In the second episode of GTM’s new podcast Political Climate, co-host Shane Skelton, former energy adviser to Paul Ryan, explains why…
By mmillikin The European H2FUTURE project consortium, comprising voestalpine, Siemens, VERBUND, and Austrian Power Grid, together with the research partners K1-MET and ECN, officially gave the green light to the construction of a 6 MW “green” hydrogen pilot production plant—the world’s largest—at a voestalpine Linz steel plant. (Earlier post.) The partners from industry and power…
By Sara Stefanini Countries adopted a compromise emissions target at the International Maritime Organization on Friday, with further battles to come over how to put it into practice. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Renew Economy
By Carolyn Fortuna Rev. Leo Woodberry speaks about communities of color and climate action issues in this CleanTechnica exclusive Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Clean Technica
By mmillikin The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) reports that the Marine Environment Protection Committee of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) has adopted a resolution codifying an initial greenhouse gas (GHG) strategy for international shipping. This strategy, which represents the first global climate framework for shipping, includes quantitative GHG reduction targets through 2050 and…
By Bob Burton BHP axes membership with global coal lobby group, citing “material difference” over its climate advocacy. But is this hypocrisy? Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Renew Economy
By Michelle Froese New York’s Governor Andrew M. Cuomo has announced that up to $15 million is available for projects that will help New York improve the resiliency, efficiency, and overall performance of its electric grid to save on energy and costs to combat climate change. Modernizing the grid supports Governor Cuomo’s initiative to deploy…