Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

climate policy. Two key states have ramped up their plans for carbon neutrality, while offshore wind made a big step forward in the Midwest of all places. In the meantime, a California agency has set goals of generating five gigawatts from offshore wind by 2030 and twenty-five gigawatts by 2045. Download as PDF.

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Law and Environment

JULY 27, 2023

Early this afternoon, Governor Janet Mills signed into law LD 1895 , legislation directing the state to procure up to 3 GW of offshore wind by 2040. state to pursue a competitive solicitation of offshore wind energy. Now that the bill is signed into law, Maine is the seventh U.S.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2023

At the evening seafood reception that year, in a corner near the fresh oysters, a board member of the Maine Lobstermen’s Association remarked to me, “Everyone blames everything on climate change, but they blame the Right Whale on lobstering.” His remark has remained with me ever since. They should be held accountable for their actions.”

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Cresforum

MARCH 13, 2024

offshore wind as developers navigate various setbacks. Jen Kiggans, a Conservative Climate Caucus Vice Chair, CRES Clean Energy Champion and Vice Chair of the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife, and Fisheries Subcommittee. Jen Kiggans (R-Va.) The event was kicked off by Rep. In her remarks, Rep.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The State of Maine is expected to release the Maine Offshore Wind Roadmap in early 2023, and the global offshore wind industry should be watching. Maine’s offshore wind energy potential is ranked seventh in the nation, with more than 411 TWh/yr of offshore resource-generating potential.

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Law and Environment

MARCH 14, 2023

Department of Energy (DOE) proposing to build up to three new high voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission lines and related onshore system upgrades to support the injection of new offshore wind resources in New England.

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Law and Environment

DECEMBER 5, 2022

We’re closely monitoring offshore wind activities in the Gulf of Maine. Interested in learning about state-led offshore wind efforts in Maine? Check out this recent blog post on the Maine Offshore Wind Roadmap. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) of the U.S. Request for Interest (RFI).

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 19, 2023

All told, Newsom is slated to visit 6 cities in 5 provinces, including Guangdong, Jiangsu, and Shanghai—where he’s signing a new climate agreement. The trip is entirely focused on climate talks. Gavin Newsom Can Learn from China’s Response to Climate Change.” He even got to address the U.N. The details of his trip are here.)

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 18, 2024

Download the Full Report “An Investigation of Large Whale Mortality and Offshore Wind Development Activity in the U.S. The beginning of these declarations coincides with increased offshore wind (OSW) vessel activity in waters where the whale deaths were observed. Since 2015.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 2, 2024

Whatever the weather in March and beyond—in-like-a-lion blustery or out-like-a-lamb sunny—spring tends to be a season of strong electricity production from solar and wind in particular. A new graphic from the Union of Concerned Scientists charts the portion of electricity coming from solar and wind over time in the United States.

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Law and Environment

JULY 5, 2022

EPA need look no farther than Massachusetts, which issued its Clean Energy and Climate Plan for 2025 and 2030 the same day that the Supreme Court extended its crusade against the modern world by limiting EPA’s authority to regulate in the absence of a clear delegation by Congress. First, a caveat. There is no panacea.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Offshore wind turbines of the coast of Esbjerg, Denmark. By Anders Lorenzen Amidst the trouble faced by the wind sector in Europe, the EU has pledged a package of support measures. Made in Europe The crisis is particularly biting in Europe’s offshore wind sector. Photo credit: AP Photo / Heribert Proepper.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 31, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen 2023 was the warmest year ever recorded, COP28 showed us how far away we still are from where we need to be as to what climate science demands to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. So it is no wonder if one is heading into 2024 feeling a bit downbeat. Wishing you all a pleasant and positive 2024!

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Energy & the Law

MAY 17, 2023

This was the City of Baltimore case but it is expected to affect all climate litigation in which the plaintiffs assert only state law claims. In the future, you can follow climate litigation at this site: U. Climate Change Litigation sponsored by Columbia Law School and Arnold and Porter.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 18, 2023

These threats include: Climate Change: Warming waters caused by climate change have put extreme pressure on our whale populations. We must prioritize climate change solutions to protect marine wildlife like whales. See our principles of responsible offshore wind here.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 31, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen By 2027 a record 680 gigawatts (GW) of new wind power capacity could be installed. This is according to an industry report from the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC). This means the wind industry expects to install 136 GW annually until 2027. This is unless urgent investments are made in the supply chain.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 3, 2023

A 2022 climate bill signed by then-Governor Charlie Baker, “ An Act Driving Clean Energy and Offshore Wind ,” allows 10 municipalities to participate in a pilot program to prohibit fossil fuel connections locally. So, the city is limited, for now, to eliminating the use of fossil fuels in its own buildings.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Australia has become the latest country to jump on the wave of offshore wind development. Analysts expect the country could soon see a big boom in offshore wind. Australia’s new pro-climate action government has meant an acceleration in clean energy interest and capacity. By Anders Lorenzen. The challenges.

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Environmental Progress

AUGUST 13, 2023

Environmental Progress helped found the Coalition in 2021 to protect the critically endangered right whale from the industrialization of their habitat through large-scale offshore wind energy development. In fact, NOAA Fisheries has approved numerous licenses for wind developers to harm marine mammals in the course of their activities.

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Law and Environment

APRIL 20, 2023

We need a comprehensive approach to tackling climate change, one that targets all sectors of the economy. Wind, solar, and electric vehicles are undoubtedly important, but they will only take us so far. Developers are considering combining hydrogen production with renewable energy projects, such as onshore and offshore wind and solar.

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Acoel

JANUARY 5, 2024

Posted on January 5, 2024 by Sam Gutter Ten miles by water from our home on Cape Cod in Falmouth, Massachusetts, you would think that the future of offshore wind is now. With my zoom on full extension, I took this photo of a wind turbine (some assembly required!) en route to the Vineyard Wind site. So what happened?

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen If you ask the world’s key players in the global wind power industry, 2023 was a year to forget. Siemens Energy, the largest offshore wind turbine producer, expects a loss in 2024 of € 2 billion from its parent company Siemens Gamesa.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Parts of it have in recent years experienced the nightmare and havoc of climate-fuelled wildfires is increasing its effort to accelerate a clean energy transition. This week, the country moved forward with plans to construct its first offshore wind farms.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Ahead of COP26, the UK government has signalled its support for climate action by announcing a £265 million renewables support scheme. . Big emphasis on offshore wind. Fund distribution indicates that, off all the low-carbon technologies, the government is putting a big emphasis on offshore wind.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 19, 2023

World leaders, government officials and representatives from the private sector and civil society gathered in New York September 16 to 22 for the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) High-Level Week and New York Climate Week. Never miss an update Enter your email and never miss an update Sorry, but we failed to add you to the list.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 12, 2024

However, something is different this time around: This is the first legislative session after the landmark climate youth trial in Montana. Montana held that Montanans have a “fundamental constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment, which includes climate as part of the environmental life-support system.” 

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

In November, countries around the globe came together at the 27th UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (COP27) in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, to negotiate a collective path forward towards solutions to the climate crisis facing the planet. I was joined by Ocean Conservancy colleagues working to advance ocean-climate action. degrees Celsius.

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The Energy Law Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Within the first six weeks of 2022, both state and federal governments have taken steps toward offshore wind energy development off the coast of Louisiana. On February 1, the Climate Initiatives Task Force submitted the Louisiana Climate Action Plan to Governor Edwards. In addition to Action 1.3,

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 24, 2022

The Scottish government has signalled strong upcoming investment opportunities in the country’s growing offshore wind sector as ScotWind’s offshore wind auction resulted in 17 new seabed area leases (capable of producing roughly 25 gigawatts (GW) of energy). Photo credit: Equinor. By Anders Lorenzen.

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 22, 2022

by Daniel Farber, University of California, Berkeley On July 20, 2022, President Joe Biden traveled to a former coal-burning power plant in Massachusetts that is being converted into a manufacturing site for offshore wind power equipment.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 15, 2023

or And the fossil fuel industry has more than 3,500 structures used for offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico alone. Now, as we work to address climate change, new industries, such as offshore wind, will operate in our shared waters. This technology is being tested by offshore wind developers along the East Coast.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 17, 2023

The fabulous growth of wind and solar builds on states’ clean energy policy and corporate decarbonization targets. With that experience, New Jersey regulators came back to PJM a second time this spring for another round of transmission for offshore wind procurement mandated by the state.

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 7, 2023

The need to scale up the deployment of technologies such as green hydrogen, energy storage and offshore wind has become increasingly critical to the success of the global energy transition and to meeting global climate goals. Download the report.

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A Greener Life

JULY 1, 2022

Copenhagen is full of sustainability initiatives, such as a promising and exciting green hydrogen project close to Copenhagen Airport called H2RES developed by some of Denmark’s largest companies and their ‘energy island project’ North Sea Wind Power Hub located offshore close to the Danish island of Bornholm.

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

We give lots of lip service describing climate change as an emergency or existential threat. According to the Climate Emergency Declaration Organization, 2336 jurisdictions around the world have declared it to be an emergency, but we are not really acting like it. There are many possible emergency actions.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Against the backdrop of hosting the UN climate summit, COP27 , Egypt have been keen to demonstrate they’re serious about climate action. The wind power project is to be developed by Saudi ACWA Power Company. GW Suez Wind Energy project worth US$1.5 GW Suez Wind Energy project worth US$1.5 By Anders Lorenzen.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 20, 2023

It is being talked about And crucially if you end up having a climate change debate around the dinner table when together with family or friends this festive season, the climate-sceptic angle is less likely to happen. This festive season, do not forget about the climate crisis – but do not despair about it either.

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