Palmer Renewable Energy Petition for Further Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act Review

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin R. Rajotte
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Environmental Policy

An environmental component of securing the national economy’s innovative development in the Industry 4.0

2021 ◽  
pp. 61-71
Author(s):  
Lyubov H. Smolyar ◽  
Olha I. Ilyash ◽  
Olena O. Trofymenko ◽  
Iryna M. Dzhadan
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
National Economy ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Environmental Indicators ◽  
Pollutant Emissions ◽  
Innovative Development ◽  
Environmental Component ◽  
Stationary Sources

With the development of Industry 4.0, the transformation processes are taking place at the level of the national economy. The needs for energy supply, renewal of fixed assets, expansion of production, and ensuring innovative development are growing. These transformations require the introduction of additional mechanisms to ensure environmental safety. The article investigates the principles of development and functioning of the environmental component of securing the innovative development of the national economy in Industry 4.0. The system of environmental indicators of innovative support of the economy’s industrial and technological development is monitored, namely capital investments in environmental protection, the share of publications in ecology and environment, the share of renewable energy consumption, emissions of pollutants and carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. A relatively high emission rate of 0.57 tons of CO2 per $ 1,000 of GDP is set and this figure is graphically visualized in Ukraine and other countries. The distribution of administrative territories according to the level of pollutant emissions into the atmosphere from stationary sources is presented. The highest values of pollutant emissions from stationary sources are observed in Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk regions - 31.4% and 23.4%, respectively. The positive dynamics of the growth of renewable energy capacities is determined. The positive preconditions for the introduction of ecological innovations are identified, namely a new procedure for establishing and distributing the ecological tax, a new state environmental policy, bringing Ukrainian environmental policy in line with the standards of leading countries. Ukraine’s position on the Environmental Efficiency Index is determined. The main measures for the development of the environmental component of the economy in the leading countries are analyzed. Recommendations for improving the state policy of industrial and technological development in the framework of activating the environmental component are provided.

scholarly journals Investigating the Relationships between Renewable Energy Consumption, Socio-Economic Factors and Health: A PVAR Analysis from MENA Net Oil Importing Countries

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 151
Author(s):  
Mohamed Kadria ◽  
Sahbi Farhani ◽  
Yosr Guirat
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Renewable Energy Consumption ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Socio Economic Factors

In this paper, we tried to contribute to the previous literature by analyzing the relationship between renewable energy consumption, socio-economic factors and health in the presence of a stringent environmental policy and lobbying power. Using a Panel Vector Auto-Regressive (PVAR) technique, we specifically examine the role of the government effectiveness and the lobbying pressure in moderating the impact of renewable energy consumption on CO2 emissions, economic growth and health factor considering the case of Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Net Oil Importing Countries (NOICs) from 1996 to 2019. Our analysis shows that (i) environmental policy stringency and good governance will induce a rise in the level of renewable energy consumption; (ii) lobbying power and interest groups discourage the renewable energy sector’s development since the add in economic growth of these economies is not oriented towards renewable energy projects; (iii) a rise in renewable energy consumption, perhaps generated by renewable energy policies, should favor the improvement of public health. Finally, the political implications of the findings are summarized and discussed.

The features of Slovenia ecological policy

2021 ◽  
pp. 264 (317)-272 (324)
Author(s):  
Yuriy Konstantinovich Knyazev
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Total Production ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Government

In Slovenia, there is an urgent problem of limiting the harmful effects of economic activities that deteriorate the living conditions of people, animals and fl ora. The state is taking measures to encourage residents to stay in their home towns and take care of their arrangement and development, the preservation of natural resources and a comfortable environment for people. Numerous public organizations of civil society play an important role in this. This article outlines the features of the modern environmental policy of Slovenia, carried out within the framework of the general line of the European Union, aimed at the phasing out of carbon fuels and the transition to renewable energy sources. The article analyzes Slovenian official documents, setting out the country's environmental strategy, progress in the implementation of plans for energy and climate measures until 2030, the current state of the energy sector and its compliance with the planned tasks. The author's assessment of the efficiency of the environmental policy carried out in Slovenia and its possible results is presented. It is stated that although the indicators of improving the environmental situation are gradually increasing, the emission of harmful gases is decreasing, and the efficiency of the use of energy and raw materials is improving, Slovenia still lags behind the European average in most of these indicators. Meanwhile, it has a relatively high share of renewable energy sources in its total production. This is achieved through budget subsidies for the energy produced from renewable energy sources so that its price does not exceed the market level. Significant monetary resources are spent to apply a wide range of incentive measures. Therefore, the government is forced to seek opportunities to further increase the funding for environmental activities, in particular through European Union funds, including assistance to fight the coronavirus pandemic. English version of the article on pp. 317-324 at URL: https://panor.ru/articles/features-of-the-environmental-policy-in-slovenia/66114.html

Environmental Policy in Times of Crisis

2018 ◽  
pp. 133-151
Author(s):  
Simona Davidescu
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Policy Failure ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis

This chapter employs qualitative analysis to apply the Index of Policy Activity (IPA) to a relative newcomer to the European Union, Romania. The chapter analyses renewable energy legislation, and finds that the unexpected success of Romania in this policy area is actually a case of ‘reluctant and accidental compliance’ over the period 2008–17. The chapter reveals a case of active, high visibility dismantling from 2013 onwards, which domestic politicians consistently linked to the global financial crisis of 2007–8. However, the analysis suggests that past legacies, sloppy and vague policy formulation, and lack of learning were actually the real drivers of policy failure in Romania and therefore of policy dismantling.

Economics of Energy Management in a Commune - Chosen Aspects

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 301-313
Author(s):  
Waldemar Kozłowski
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Wind Energy ◽  
Energy Management ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Energy Sector ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Price Increases

Conditions of energy sector development correlated with shrinking resources of the conventional energy sources, increased importance of environmental policy as well as continual price increases cause that the territorial governments should, within the scope of their competences and abilities, rationalise energy consumption and costs. This paper presents the tools for energy sector rationalisation in a commune with consideration of the opportunities for optimisation of energy consumption costs within municipal resources by applying the ESCO model. The paper also draws attention to the possibility of utilising the resources of renewable energy sources by communal governments based on the example of wind energy, of which Warmia and Mazury has some of the largest resources in Poland. 

scholarly journals The Impact of Environmental Policy Stringency on Renewable Energy Production in the Visegrad Group Countries

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (19) ◽  
pp. 6225
Author(s):  
Justyna Godawska ◽  
Joanna Wyrobek
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Energy Production ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Renewable Energy Production ◽  
Short Run ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
The Impact

Various environmental policy instruments supporting the development of renewable energy are used on an increasing scale as part of the policy of mitigating climate change and more. In our paper, we examine the influence of environmental policy stringency on renewable energy production in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia for the period 1993–2012 after controlling for gross domestic product per capita growth, CO2 emissions per capita and income inequality. We use the Panel Pooled Mean Group Autoregressive Distributive Lag model to analyze the long-run and the short-run relationship between restrictiveness of environmental policy and renewable energy generation. The results reveal that, in the long run, a more stringent environmental policy has a positive impact both on the increase in the absolute volume of renewable energy production, as well as on the replacement of energy from fossil sources. Our main findings indicate that renewable energy production is positively influenced not only by the stringency of instruments aimed directly at the development of this energy sector, but also by the stringency of instruments with other environmental goals and by the overall level of restrictiveness of the environmental policy.

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