Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The regulations aim to provide a legal framework for China’s carbon allowance trading market by strengthening requirements and designating responsibilities. The Regulations fill in the regulatory vacuum that has existed since 2021. By Hui Xu , Paul A.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 31, 2022

We urgently need more action and oversight from policymakers at every level, from Congress to federal and state regulators, to address the consequences of methane gas overreliance head-on. Policymakers Must Invest in Affordable Clean Energy. According to a recent report , there were more than 3.6 that collect shutoff data.

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

As more companies jockey for position and federal funding on both clean hydrogen and CCUS, the announcements are timed to provide critical guidance on these emerging areas of opportunity. Clean Industrial Sector Fact Sheet. These new initiatives include: Accelerating Clean Hydrogen. Responses are due February 28, 2022.

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E2 Law Blog

JULY 13, 2023

On June 14, 2023, the IRS released proposed and temporary regulations and additional guidance describing rules for eligible taxpayers to benefit from clean energy projects through selling any of the 11 eligible U.S. The proposed and temporary regulations were published to the Federal Register on June 21, 2023.

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E2 Law Blog

JULY 13, 2023

On June 14, 2023, the IRS released proposed and temporary regulations and additional guidance describing rules for applicable taxpayers to benefit from clean energy projects through electing to receive direct payment for the amount of the 12 applicable U.S. federal income tax credits.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) and Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) announced that proposed amendments to the state’s Clean Energy Standard (CES) were finalized earlier this month without substantive changes from draft language initially proposed by the agencies in April 2022.

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

On 5 February 2024, the European Parliament and Council of the EU announced that they had reached a provisional political agreement on the text of the ESG Ratings Regulation (the Regulation). The agreed text was subsequently published on 14 February 2024. Refer to this Latham blog post for previous commentary on the proposal.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 11, 2022

5060 ), titled An Act Driving Clean Energy and Offshore Wind, into law on Thursday August 11, 2022. DPU is directed to promulgate updated regulations in accordance with the legislation. The post Massachusetts Passes Climate Bill Focused on Clean Energy and Offshore Wind first appeared on Law and the Environment.

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Law and Environment

JULY 1, 2022

EPA on Thursday, June 30, 2022, curbing the power of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants across the country. The decision focuses on EPA’s authority under a specific section of the Clean Air Act. What does this mean for clean energy projects?

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 13, 2022

The majority opinion in the OSHA vaccine case essentially characterizes the OSHA regulation more a general public health rule than a workplace safety rule, because it is not tied to the risks of particular types of workplaces or industries. EPA , which involves the scope of EPA’s authority to restrict carbon emissions from power plants.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Because batteries can be hazardous if improperly handled, transporting them involves additional regulations and can constitute 40 to 60% of battery recycling costs.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 3, 2023

To no one’s surprise it contained zero funding to address climate change – not even for clean energy – which the document referred to multiple times. So while it likes to talk about Ontario’s “clean energy advantage”, the government is actively dismantling it. It will be something to watch.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 29, 2021

On July 29, the Ohio River Valley Institute released a new poll of Pennsylvania voters which found by wide margins they support tougher regulation of the natural gas drilling industry, community regulation of drilling and the development of clean energy sources.

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SPR Law

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In late October 2020, the New York City Department of Finance issued proposed regulations to implement a Property Assessed Clean Energy (“PACE”) loan program in NYC to provide targeted loans with favorable terms to building owners for installation of systems designed to reduce energy use and carbon emissions.

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Clean Energy Law

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

As described in Latham’s previous reporting on the rulemaking [iii] and adoption [iv] of Rule 2305, the regulation applies to warehouses in the South Coast Air Basin [v] of 100,000 square feet or more and aims to reduce regional nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions and local diesel particulate matter emissions. i] Case No.: 2:21-cv-6341. [ii]

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2023

Growing by over 30 percent-- to 92,773 jobs since the height of the COVID-19 economic crisis in 2020–clean energy jobs in Pennsylvania have proved their resilience. Increased investment in the clean energy sector can support the continued trajectory of this job market lifting up Pennsylvania’s communities.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 5, 2021

In a new post, Dan Farber mentions performance-based regulation as a promising tool for encouraging energy utilities to be enthusiastic in supporting the transition to clean energy sources. The theory is that the regulators would establish performance targets which, if exceeded, would lead to a generous economic reward.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Investment tax credit regulations the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. 17 seek to give private businesses clarity in their efforts to invest in clean energy projects. Read the full story at ESG Dive. Department of the Treasury proposed Nov.

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The regulations are intended to set performance standards for fossil fuel-fired power plants including new gas plants, … Continue reading A reliable grid depends on rapid clean energy deployment. EPA’s proposed standards help accelerate that shift.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

During the third quarter of 2022, Congress passed major legislation to subsidize clean energy but failed to authorize new funding for the COVID-19 response or strengthen requirements for evidence in Food and Drug Administration user fee programs. This post is part of a series of quarterly roundups on scientific integrity.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 9, 2024

Meanwhile, defining “clean hydrogen” to reward hydrogen that is actually clean results in the scale-up of a hydrogen sector readily and robustly climate-aligned, with the right technologies built in the right places at the right times and the right pace. And yet, the dazzling prospect of easy money threatens to blind.

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Environmental Law Centre

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Since 2018, Alberta has had legislation which supports PACE programming via the Clean Energy Improvements Regulation (CEIP Regulation) and amendments to the Municipal Government Act (MGA).[1] 1] The amendments to the.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Consumers Energy proposed $10 million. Other state regulators are setting an example. Utilities, meanwhile, are calling for a higher budget cap. Indiana Michigan Power, for example, recommended a $5-million cap.

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Legal Planet

MAY 13, 2024

Trump recently told Big Oil executives over dinner that they should give him $1 billion in campaign donations because he planned to immediately reverse climate regulations, the New York Times and Washington Post both reported. It includes only completed actions, not proposed regulations. October 26, 2022. Biden signs the formal U.S.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 1, 2023

To no one’s surprise it contained zero funding to address climate change – not even for clean energy – which the document referred to multiple times. So while it likes to talk about Ontario’s “clean energy advantage”, the government is actively dismantling it. It will be something to watch.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Tom Wolf told the first-ever Global Clean Energy Action Forum in Pittsburgh about Pennsylvania’s significant progress in the transition to clean energy and vowed that the Commonwealth will continue to be a leader in energy innovation. private sector in the global clean-energy marketplace.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 23, 2024

The governing bodies that regulate California’s energy system are almost as complicated and arcane as the sprawling network of wires, poles, and power plants they oversee. For anyone who isn’t an energy expert this can make substantive participation in the process difficult, if not impossible. California needs a new approach.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Permitting them to violate these critical regulations means taxpayers have to shoulder the cost of monitoring, remediation, and cleanup, if they happen at all. VY: Clean energy sources will be absolutely pivotal for an equitable and reliable grid. EN: What needs to be done to make the electric grid more equitable—and reliable?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 18, 2024

In late December, the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released proposed regulations for the Section 45V Clean Hydrogen Production Tax Credit. The tax credit, passed as part of 2022’s Inflation Reduction Act, provides a generous incentive for the production of clean hydrogen. the “three pillars”).

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

DeFrank and Vice Chair Kimberly Barrow to examine PUC regulations and potential regulatory changes related to DERs and examine the upcoming impact of federal rules allowing DER participation in the wholesale energy market, to ensure that Pennsylvania is not left behind. .:

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 12, 2022

Increasingly, states are recognizing equity as a goal of utility regulation, going beyond traditionally stated objectives to ensure that electricity systems are reliable, safe, and fairly priced. … Read more →

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Legal Planet

APRIL 16, 2024

Others may surprise you , like his embrace of natural gas as a fuel and his reservations about regulating emissions. Funding for clean energy. E&E reports that he is open to “limited subsidies” but has criticized the size of the Inflation Reduction Act’s other spending on clean energy. Emissions regulation.

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 1, 2024

State clean energy targets and dramatic declines in the cost of renewable electricity are the most important reasons. electricity … Continue reading New EPA regulations target air, water, land and climate pollution from power plants, especially those that burn coal But fossil fuel plants still generate 60% of the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2021

On October 29, Mayor Jim Kenney, Superintendent William Hite, PECO CEO Mike Innocenzo and others joined the Philadelphia Energy Authority to celebrate the opening of a new Solar Training Lab at Frankford High School to help launch young people into careers in clean energy. Bright Solar Futures , funded by the U.S.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

“Job-killing regulations” is a longtime conservative meme. That attack has now been joined by the claim that major new spending for clean energy is overheating the economy. In fact, we might need even stricter environmental regulations to help cool the economy and cut inflation. billion to $197.4

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 16, 2024

Much of our electricity system is 50 to 70 years old, yet current plans for domestic manufacturing, electric vehicle fleets, community solar gardens and more clean energy all depend on a modern grid. In some states, when the legislature created new clean energy goals they also started transmission planning to help meet those goals.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 12, 2023

EPA’s power to regulate greenhouse gases, established in litigation in 2007, now seems beyond question. Perhaps most importantly, the federal government has invested billions of dollars in clean energy. Bush EPA denies waiver to allow California to regulate CO2 emissions from new cars. Bush signs and U.S.

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