clean-energy

20 de diciembre de 2022

El Servicio Postal de Estados Unidos (USPS) anunció hoy un radical cambio de planes, tras año y medio de significativa presión pública por la miope decisión de comprar cientos de miles de camiones de combustión interna en lugar de renovar su flota con vehículos 100% eléctricos.

December 19, 2022

MANHATTAN, NY -- Today, New York’s Climate Action Council (CAC) will vote on the Final Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) Scoping Plan. Following the passage of the CLCPA, Advisory Panels with diverse sector-specific expertise were appointed in 2020 to draft recommendations for the strategies necessary for New York to decarbonize and meet the mandates of the Climate Act.

December 16, 2022

The Federal Energy Regulatory Committee proposed a new rule yesterday to accelerate the siting of interstate electric transmission lines while adding additional opportunities to study the impact of transmission lines on impacted communities and the environment.

15 de diciembre de 2022

La Unión Europea llegó a un acuerdo tentativo sobre el mecanismo de ajuste del impuesto fronterizo de carbono (CBAM) que requeriría que todos los bienes vendidos en la UE incluyan un gravamen que incluya el impacto de este comercio en el clima.

December 14, 2022

In a new report, “Solving the Climate Crisis 2022: Key Accomplishments and Additional Opportunities,” the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis lays out the historic advancements made fighting the climate crisis over the past two years.

December 7, 2022

The first ever Federal Buildings Performance Standard was announced today by the Biden-Harris Administration to cut pollution from buildings and lower the government’s energy costs through energy efficiency upgrades and electrification. Buildings contribute more than 25% of the federal government’s greenhouse gas emissions, so this is an important step towards achieving climate goals and making federally owned buildings clean and healthy. 

December 2, 2022

SWEDESBORO, NJ. -- The Logan Generating Plant, one of New Jersey’s last coal plants to retire, was demolished today in front of a crowd of environmental advocates, state and local politicians, labor groups, and public utilities. At the demolition, Starwood Energy, owner of the plant, announced plans to build grid-scale battery storage on the site and will use existing interconnection rights from the old coal plant to connect  new offshore wind transmission lines.

20 de noviembre de 2022

Hoy terminaron las negociaciones de la 27 Conferencia de Partes (COP27), con el acuerdo de países de desarrollar nuevas formas de financiación, incluyendo un fondo dedicado a ayudar a los países más vulnerables a sobrellevar los impactos adversos del cambio climático.

November 18, 2022

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Biden Administration took a positive step toward ensuring reliability and accelerating the clean energy transition by announcing the availability of $13 billion in grants to support new and upgraded transmission lines, in the largest direct federal investment in transmission and distribution infrastructure to date.

15 de noviembre de 2022

En el Día de la Energía en la COP27, la Agencia Internacional de Energía (AIE) emitió hoy su nuevo reporte titulado “El Carbón en las Transiciones de Cero Emisiones Netas: Estrategias para un cambio rápido, seguro y centrado en la población”.

November 3, 2022

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Vice President Kamala Harris was in Boston yesterday to highlight a new $13 billion investment

October 27, 2022

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has released its annual World Energy Outlook (WEO) and it underscores how critical the clean energy transition is for global security and energy price stability. The report finds that the global energy crisis, spurred in large part by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, has been felt hardest by low-income communities, but is blunted in regions with a strong commitment to renewable sources of energy.