Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2022

The law will provide $379 billion in subsidies to clean energy in the form of direct payments and tax credits. close two-thirds of the remaining emissions gap between current policy and the nation’s 2030 climate target (50% below 2005). Federal subsidies create new national political dynamics. get the U.S. to within ~0.5

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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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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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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Notably, the Philippines Supreme Court has explicitly held the CHR’s jurisdiction is only limited to investigating civil and political rights (see Simon v. The Commission’s report is unprecedented. However, this did not deter the Commission from moving forward.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

There have been more than 3,000 spills since 2005, with the number peaking in 2011 at 484. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. Photo Gallery Image Exxon Knew Protest - Photographer 350.org

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

There have been more than 3,000 spills since 2005, with the number peaking in 2011 at 484. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. Photo Gallery Image Exxon Knew Protest - Photographer 350.org

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A Greener Life

JUNE 28, 2023

A 2022 report on “decarbonisation employment” from the China-based Climate Action Youth Alliance (CAYA) found that while the emissions-related industry had come into being in 2005 with the signing of the Kyoto Protocol, its size remained small. Many of these are emerging sectors, steadily creating jobs.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 3, 2022

The petitioners who brought this case include state-level political officials and coal companies who are single-mindedly determined to block climate action and perpetuate fossil fuel dependence to serve their narrow political or business interests. The West Virginia v.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2022

To help voters determine which candidates would deliver the needed course correction, Environmental Defence and its allies in the Ontario Priorities Working Group asked each of the province’s major political parties whether – and how – they would deliver the rapid emissions reductions Ontario will need to head off climate catastrophe. .

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Legal Planet

MAY 13, 2024

Biden sets target of at least 50% reduction in carbon emissions below 2005 levels by 2030. Biden signs Inflation Reduction Act , which provides at least $369 billion in funding for clean energy and climate, leading many to hail the law as “the largest investment in clean energy and climate action ever.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

(Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images) Rose asked Tillerson open-ended questions on a range of subjects, including climate change and national energy policy. But in nearly every instance, Rose listened politely, refrained from challenging Tillerson on the facts, and went on to his next question.

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2021

The City of Atlanta committed to 100 percent clean energy by 2035 after its leaders concluded the state of Georgia was not meeting their policy goals. In Wyoming, PacificCorp committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 60 percent of 2005 levels by 2030 and shutting down twenty of their twenty-four operating coal plants by 2038.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Today’s choice to pass the most ambitious and transformative climate and clean energy investments in our nation’s history will reverberate throughout the generations that follow, making our air purer, our communities safer, our economy stronger, and our families and neighbors healthier.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

But Breakthrough Energy calculated that the cost of new transmission, distribution, and storage would be $1.5 25] And that amount does not include the costs associated with local and state political opposition. trillion. [25] 26] Local community and environmental opposition to transmission is a national and international phenomenon.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 30, 2022

Supreme Court Ruling PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- TribLive: Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Mastriano Removes Gab Page, Responds To Criticism Of Social Media Platform -- MCall: Allentown School Board Fires Teacher Suspended After Attending Rally Connected With Assault On U.S.

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Legal Planet

MAY 11, 2023

Joe Manchin about holding up EPA nominations claiming “overreach” ) But this is not just about the political calculus of a president trying to make good on a climate pledge. Since 2005, the power sector has reduced carbon emissions by 36 percent, according to the EPA.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 12, 2023

Perhaps most importantly, the federal government has invested billions of dollars in clean energy. 2005 Congress passes first tax credit for solar. 2005 Congress passes first tax credit for solar. Trump EPA issues Affordable Clean Energy rule, repeals Clean Power Plan. Bush signs and U.S.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 9, 2023

One year on, we have a clearer picture of what we vaguely knew already: the biggest-ever climate law and its robust tax incentives is igniting the clean energy transition but is not moving us off fossil fuels fast enough. That’s a political question as we approach an election year and that’s where I’m going to start.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 10, 2022

Together with additional EPA pollution standards; additional agency and executive actions; state, local and regional policies; and private sector initiatives, this groundbreaking bill puts the US within striking distance of meeting our climate goal of cutting emissions 50 to 52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 20, 2022

He took the US back into the Paris Agreement, and pledged to slash 2005 carbon emissions in half by 2030. North Carolina and Illinois both passed major new climate and clean energy policies in surprisingly bipartisan fashion. Biden has also been active in the international sphere.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Several factors¾including the effects of the economic recession, shifts in energy markets from coal to natural gas and renewable energy sources, and carbon pollution mitigation and clean energy programs like renewable portfolio standards¾have been identified as principal drivers of these reductions. [2].

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

Circuit Decision Vacating Affordable Clean Energy Rule. Circuit’s January opinion vacating EPA’s repeal and replacement of the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan regulations for controlling carbon emissions from existing power plants. If you know of any cases we have missed, please email us at columbiaclimate@gmail.com. .

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 14, 2023

Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed new power plant carbon pollution standards that, if strengthened, would go a long way to help meet the Biden administration’s goal of slashing carbon emissions in half from 2005 levels by the end of this decade.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The majority said it “reluctantly” concluded that “the plaintiffs’ case must be made to the political branches or to the electorate at large” and “[t]hat the other branches may have abdicated their responsibility to remediate the problem does not confer on Article III courts, no matter how well-intentioned, the ability to step into their shoes.”

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The court said the plaintiff had not alleged an injury connected to any particular action or law and that her allegations instead suggested disagreements with the defendants’ policy positions, which made her claims nonjusticiable political questions. Republican National Committee , No. 3:17 -cv-00123 (W.D.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 30, 2021

In another key political development, Democrats won both of Georgia’s Senate runoff elections, given the Democrats working control of the Senate by the tiniest of margins. Here are a few of the notable developments: North Carolina and Illinois both passed major new climate and clean energy policies in surprisingly bipartisan fashion.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

26 PA Bulletin [PaEN] -- The Nature Conservancy-PA: Emergency Dam Removal Completed At Eales Preserve In Lackawanna County [PaEN] -- PA Horticultural Society Online Garden Tenders Training Starts March 1 -- Western PA Conservancy: Growing Good With Native Species In Your Garden -- DCNR Blog: Maple Sugar Season Is Underway!

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 3, 2024

Thomas Pyle is president of the Institute for Energy Research, which was formed by Charles Koch and has received donations from companies like Exxon to publish papers opposing climate science and any efforts to control greenhouse gasses. He served in the Trump administration leading the transition team at the Department of Energy.

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