Legal Planet

MARCH 6, 2023

But with the recent influx of government incentives for hydrogen production, new and improving production and storage technologies, and greater political will than ever before, H 2 ’s reputation is gaining favor. All this is not to say there is no place for hydrogen in a clean energy future.

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Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

Boyd teaches courses and seminars on energy and climate change law, and developed a new course in renewable energy project finance , offered for the first time this spring and taught by Ed Zaelke, a UCLA Law alumnus and pioneer in the clean energy field. Boyd also leads the Ph.D.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

On September 12, former DEP Secretary Patrick McDonnell was appointed President & CEO of PennFuture , a statewide advocacy organization dedicated to protecting public health, restoring and protecting natural resources, and moving Pennsylvania toward a clean energy future.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

. -- Inquirer - Andrew Maykuth: PA Electricity Prices Rising By As Much As 50% Next Week; Here’s How You Can Save -- ScrantonT: Multiple Programs Available To Help With Heating Costs -- PA Cap-Star: Municipalities Want To Limit Carbon Emissions, PA Utilities Want To Preempt Them -- MCall Guest Essay: Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Will Create Funding (..)

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2022

He has spent his career championing environmental issues like clean air and water, advocating for a transition away from fossil fuels, and promoting clean energy solutions such as energy efficiency, wind, solar and geothermal. Joe is a sought after environmental voice and leader across the state and the region.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Wolf: 2021 Climate Impacts Report Projects Pennsylvania Will Be 5.9°

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 19, 2024

Embrace political advocacy Photo by Kempton via Flickr Creative Commons Political action and advocacy is crucial to climate action, because changing the larger system is the greatest opportunity to reduce emissions, and changing the way our economy and society operate requires government action.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

have long demonstrated leadership on climate change, with more than 170 of them having set targets to phase out fossil energy and many others committing to net zero greenhouse gas emissions. Cities around the U.S. A new Sabin Center report, Cities Climate Law: A Legal Framework for Local Action in the U.S. ,

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

These protests, triggered by an issue in Kazakhstan’s energy sector, have rapidly expanded to cities all over the country and have broadened to include political demands and tense standoffs between protesters and the police. Chinese investments fuel Kazakhstan’s energy economy. share in Kazakh oil production.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 28, 2023

The cap-and-trade program will require emitters of greenhouse gases to purchase credits at auctions, which will generate revenue that will be invested in clean energy and disadvantaged communities. NYCI’s immediate linkage with WCI could also be seen as politically desirable.

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Frontiers

DECEMBER 15, 2021

By bringing researchers, policymakers, innovators, and political leaders together around game-changing new developments, the Forum accelerates our Frontiers mission by sparking collaborations and actions to achieve healthy lives on a healthy planet. The case for climate optimism.

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This development comes at a time when facilities across the country are looking to address their greenhouse gas emissions through CCS projects but have been facing permitting delays from EPA. EPA granted primacy to Louisiana on December 28, 2023, for Class VI wells, effective February 5, 2024.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 30, 2019

Also elephants, giraffes, rhinos (of the non-political variety), Cape buffalo, baboons, uninvited monkeys at lunch, hippos, wildebeests, hyenas, warthogs and an unexpected (to me) penguin colony. Back to North Carolina developments in late 2018: Executive Order on Climate Change and Clean Energy: On October 29, 2018, N.C.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In political terms, this seems like a lost opportunity to showcase the government’s achievements; it’s also a disservice to those in the policy community who are tracking implementation. billion available to support rural electric cooperatives through the Empowering Rural America (New ERA) program to for clean energy projects.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 17, 2024

Cuba’s transition to renewable energy generation would reduce greenhouse gas emissions, helping to mitigate climate change and reduce local air pollution, while also providing a more resilient source of power compared to the current fossil fuel-heavy power system. Since 2000, Venezuela has been Cuba’s primary source of imported oil.

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Energy and Climate Law

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

However, the energy aspect is not excluded, as JTF’s investments can also be channelled towards the deployment of technologies and infrastructures for affordable clean energy, greenhouse gas emission (GHG) reduction, energy efficiency and renewable energy sources.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 20, 2022

It calls for countries to make all “finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate-resilient development.” The first priority following the 2015 Paris Agreement was to clean up public financing, so Article 2.1(C) Article 2.1(C) C) was less of a focus.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

It has therefore drafted a proposal(2)- a Delegated Regulation - which sets out screening criteria for investments in nuclear energy, effectively declaring nuclear energy part of the sustainable finance taxonomy. Summary: The expiry date on nuclear energy is baseless, arbitrary and serves no useful purpose.

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Law and Environment

MAY 12, 2023

Yet because of the politics of climate change, the rule will almost certainly be subject to a similar challenge. The proposed rule also repeals the Affordable Clean Energy, or “ACE,” Rule—President Trump’s power plant rule that was meant to replace Obama’s Clean Power Plan. For more on West Virginia v.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The amendment significantly reduced the participation of autonomous energy operators in the energy sector, directly affecting the supply of renewable energy. In Australia and New Zealand, plaintiffs failed to establish that there is a government’s duty of care to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 30, 2023

This political rollercoaster ride was also unfolding across last year’s Danger Season , stressing the urgency of the need to act big, and act now. The same partisan politics that delayed the IRA’s passage also carved some flaws into the bill. Then, suddenly, we learned that the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) had passed the Senate.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 11, 2023

The world is moving toward a clean energy future, which means the fossil fuel industry won’t be around forever. Adding these liabilities, whose costs are hard to estimate, would add to the total cost of cleaning up the industry’s liabilities. For each scenario, the report estimates both future liabilities and future profits.

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Ocean Conservancy

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, fossil fuel production accounts for 35% of global greenhouse gas emissions. For the first time, Ocean Conservancy attended the annual International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Assembly to help advance a just clean-energy transition.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 10, 2022

The program provides paid, on-the-job training to New Yorkers who live in neighbourhoods with high rates of gun violence, with the aim of starting them on their way to a career in the city’s fast-growing green construction and clean energy trades. The two men, both Black, met 16 years ago while working on a local political campaign.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Relying on the Climate Accountability Institute’s Carbon Majors research, the municipalities allege that the defendants were responsible for 40.01% of all global industrial greenhouse gas emissions from 1965 to 2017, and that these collective emissions were a “substantial factor in the increase in intensity of the 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season.”

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Global Green

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Biomass (or bioenergy) is one of the latest energy sources jumping on the renewable-fuelled bandwagon, yet the most controversial one. In the UK, the energy produced from biomass currently accounts for ca. the 25% of the total renewable energy share. What’s the foreseeable future of renewable energy?

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The petitioner in this case requests that the NPCC be updated according to the best available science and the IPCC’s sixth assessment report ( Climate Change 2021 ) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by the Brazilian government consistent with a 1.5 Brazil’s energy source is one of the least carbon-intensive in the world, with 47.5%

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Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 13, 2020

The LCFS is a key pillar of California’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the transportation sector. Concerns of Credit Price Run-up. Public Comments.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

-- Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Facility Malfunction Dec. 27 Released 1.1 27 Released 1.1

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2023

The governor’s rhetorical flourish is at odds with policy and action: When it comes to solutions to the energy crisis — we must have the courage to take politics out of the equation. Healy’s inaugural address January 5 was flush with the importance of significant climate action and the economic opportunities presented by clean energy.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Not only are vehicles the number one emitter of greenhouse gas emissions, but car accidents are also the leading cause of death for those aged 1-54 in the country. Nonetheless, the new rule is a step in the right direction to a greener path towards 80 percent clean energy by 2030. #4: But these vehicles are killing our planet.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

True, methane is a potent greenhouse gas. I’ve rethought that conclusion, however for a combination of policy and political economy reasons. That warming could trigger other greenhouse gas emissions. Straddling the line between policy and politics, addressing methane also has some beneficial economic and political effects.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Air Pollution Index : Rank 26 Water Pollution Index : Rank 38 Greenhouse Gas pollution Index : Rank 10 Employment Practices Chad's ExxonMobil Workers Strike, Reducing Crude Output Emmanuel Tumanjong | Market Watch | June 28, 2021 Crude-oil production by Exxon Mobil Corp. Photo Gallery Image Exxon Knew Protest - Photographer 350.org

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Law Columbia

APRIL 12, 2024

On Thursday April 4th, the Environmental Protection Agency announced $20 billion of awards from the $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) created under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). This makes it hard for politicians to get excited about them, and for modelers to point to the greenhouse gases (GHGs) they’ll reduce.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 17, 2023

In addition to releasing greenhouse gases, burning fossil fuels releases aerosols that actually have a cooling effect on the planet. But history, political reality, and current commitments to date suggest that such a future is unlikely. Without those aerosols the warming we have experienced to date would have been even larger.

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Legal Planet

JULY 19, 2023

Chinese officials did not signal willingness to commit to a speedier timetable for cutting their greenhouse gas emissions or slowing down their building boom of coal-fired power plants. The political discussion in the U.S. Where are they on the clean energy transition? Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Air Pollution Index : Rank 26 Water Pollution Index : Rank 38 Greenhouse Gas pollution Index : Rank 10 Employment Practices Chad's ExxonMobil Workers Strike, Reducing Crude Output Emmanuel Tumanjong | Market Watch | June 28, 2021 Crude-oil production by Exxon Mobil Corp. Photo Gallery Image Exxon Knew Protest - Photographer 350.org

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