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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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”.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Vice President Kamala Harris was in Boston yesterday to highlight a new $13 billion investment
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.
El Sierra Club ha lanzado una nueva versión de su pionero reporte y herramienta digital La Sucia Verdad sobre las Promesas Climáticas.
La administración Biden anunció la semana pasada su nuevo compromiso con la iniciativa Comprar Limpio, la cual capacita al gobierno federal para abastecerse de productos industriales que fomenten inversiones en reducir las emisiones de carbono.
El Departamento de Energía anunció una inversión federal de $2.800 millones para fomentar la manufactura de baterías para vehículos eléctricos en Estados Unidos y expandir la producción limpia de bienes esenciales.