Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 4, 2023

By coincidence rather than design, two different approaches to reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the electric power sector have been under discussion by North Carolina agencies since 2021. The two approaches share goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 70% by 2030 (from a 2005 baseline) and achieving carbon neutrality by 2050.

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The Energy Law Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Governor Edwards’ Climate Initiatives Task Force published the Louisiana Climate Initiatives Interim Report earlier this month, which outlines the process by which the Task Force plans to develop climate actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Louisiana. The Task Force is charged with making recommendations to achieve these 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. 2005 Congress passes first tax credit for solar. 2009 EPA formally finds that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health and welfare. This to-and-fro is a sobering reminder of how much elections matter.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

A friend asked me if a discussion paper published on Statistics Norway’s website, ‘ To what extent are temperature levels changing due to greenhouse gas emissions? ’, was purposely timed for the next climate summit ( COP28 ). I don’t know the answer to his question. But this discussion paper is problematic for sure.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 31, 2022

67% cut from 2005 by 2025. Did the companies initiate plans to cut emissions or were they forced to do so by state law? thanks to Jetta Cook, Berkeley Law ’22). (1) Carbon Reduction Goal : Reduce CO2 emissions rate by 67% by 2025 from an adjusted 2005 baseline. Fossil Fuel Use. VHC = Coal + Oil). Carbon Goal. Duke Power.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 22, 2023

A 2021 North Carolina law requires the N.C. More below on the requirements of Session Law 2021-165 (also referred to as House Bill 951) and NCUC action in response. The law limits offsets to 5%. First, the law is directed to the Utilities Commission rather than the electric utilities. The Reduction Goal.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 25, 2022

EPA in defense of EPA’s authority to effectively regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. The case involves a group of challenges to EPA’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from existing stationary sources under the 1970 Clean Air Act, a monumental piece of environmental and public health legislation.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 3, 2024

Congress passes intentionally vague laws that delegate decision-making over a given issue to a federal agency,” the document reads. Before that, he worked as a registered lobbyist for Koch Industries and served as the Koch Industries Director of Federal Affairs from 2001 through 2005, according to the Intercept.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 17, 2022

On August 7, the Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (Act), which would provide about $369 billion to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 40 percent below their 2005 levels by 2030 as well as reduce carbon emissions and invest in renewable energy.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

While “natural” gas is mostly composed of methane, a greenhouse gas that’s 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide during its first 20 years in the atmosphere, Ebel and his industry counterparts have succeeded in minimizing the perception of its climate impact.

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2021

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. student at Berkeley Law in the class of 2022. Utilities enacted renewable programs traditionally led by states. Jetta Cook is a J.D.

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Manning Law

MARCH 15, 2022

Work on clean electricity, the Minister says, will also be key to reaching Canada’s ambitious and achievable emissions reduction target of 40 to 45 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 and net-zero emissions by 2050. Manning Environmental Law is a Canadian law firm based in Toronto, Ontario.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

compared to 2005. Following the EU’s lead with the approval of the European Green Deal , Spain has produced a new framework to address climate change, including strategies, plans, and laws. The PNIEC and the Law on Climate Change include a target of GHG emission reduction of 23% by 2030 compared to 1990.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

o C in 2100, relative to pre-industrial times, is still avoidable, but whether or not we are able to stay within these limits and avert catastrophic climate change depends on achieving our climate goals of emissions reductions at least 50 percent below 2005 levels in 2030, on the way to net-zero emissions in 2050.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2022

As with many environmental issues, when it comes to climate change and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, this is no ordinary election. . As the province with the second highest greenhouse gas emissions in Canada, not doing enough to reduce these emissions is bad for the future of not just Ontario, but the whole country. .

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Law Columbia

MARCH 23, 2023

Key international actors understand CCS as a mitigation action aimed at achieving overall greenhouse gas emission reductions (rather than being a replacement). It also highlights the importance of planning and cooperation in international law, ultimately incentivizing other countries to pursue similar navigation courses.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Further, while gas emits less carbon dioxide than coal, its main component is methane, an extremely potent greenhouse gas that is released into the atmosphere when gas is burned—a fact that ConocoPhillips conveniently left out on its website. Methane is also a fast-acting greenhouse gas in terms of its impact on the climate.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate, a multi-school online forum run by student editors from the nation’s leading environmental law reviews. . Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Transportation A Cap-and-Invest Approach . emissions from the power sector. [3].

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 25, 2023

On August 24, a coalition of fifteen organizations based in Western Pennsylvania has sent a letter to the Shapiro administration denouncing the formation of a secret committee, whose members and meeting minutes are not known to the public, in an apparent attempt to scuttle Pennsylvania’s entrance into the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI).

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 5, 2024

EQT noted "China's current energy mix mirrors that of Pennsylvania and Ohio in 2005" saying with US-supplied natural gas, China could replicate the model for emissions reduction. CEO Toby Rice argued China needs US natural gas to reduce its dependency on the use of coal to generate electricity and reduce power plant emissions. Read more here.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 28, 2023

Modeling from Evolved Energy Research (where our panelist Jeremy Hargreaves is a principal) and Princeton University shows that reaching the IRA’s full potential for greenhouse-gas reductions will require transmission capacity to grow at a rate of about 2.3% per year—double last decade’s growth rate. appeared first on Legal Planet.

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Acoel

JULY 5, 2022

First Court did not eliminate the Agency’s ability to require greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions reductions under section 111 or any other section of the Clean Air Act. Second, it has been widely endorsed by leading practitioners and environmental law professors. What is significant is what the majority opinion did not do. 7602(h).

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The Inflation Reduction Act, President Joe Biden’s signature piece of legislation passed into law in 2022, allocated $19.5 We’ve seen this issue rear its head before— the 2005 Renewable Fuel Standard was designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by replacing fossil fuels with fuels made from crop biomass.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 11, 2024

The comment came in response to a PA Environment Digest Tweet posting a news article on the hearing and pointing out EQT’s very public position that the gas industry has a ‘duty’ to provide Pennsylvania and US-produced gas to China so they can reduce greenhouse gas emissions just like Pennsylvania and Ohio did.

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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 The first NDC was based on the second inventory, which estimated 2005 emissions in 2.1

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Harvard law students ramp up protest against ExxonMobil climate firm Emily Holden | The Guardian | January 15, 2020 Harvard law students have disrupted a recruiting event for Paul Weiss, the law firm representing ExxonMobil in climate lawsuits, in an escalation the protesters hope will open a new front in climate activism in the legal world.

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Cresforum

MARCH 10, 2022

In the Unites States’ march to transition to clean energy and reduce greenhouse gasses, resilience may be the most important word to summarize 2021. Over the past decade, economy-wide emissions are down 15 percent from 2005 levels. It will also help plug abandoned oil and gas wells leaking potent greenhouse gases.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 30, 2019

Executive Order 80 supports the 2015 Paris Agreement and sets several goals for the state to meet by 2025: Reduce state greenhouse gas emissions by 40% from 2005 levels. For background on the REPS law, see an earlier post on the first of several unsuccessful attempts to repeal the REPS standard.) The order creates a new N.C.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In its Nationally Determined Contributions ( NDCs ), updated in 2022, India has made three major promises: a 45% reduction in its carbon emissions intensity (CO2 emissions per unit of electricity) based on 2005 levels, by 2030; 50% of installed electricity coming from non-fossil-fuel sources by 2030; and national carbon neutrality by 2070.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Harvard law students ramp up protest against ExxonMobil climate firm Emily Holden | The Guardian | January 15, 2020 Harvard law students have disrupted a recruiting event for Paul Weiss, the law firm representing ExxonMobil in climate lawsuits, in an escalation the protesters hope will open a new front in climate activism in the legal world.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Seven employees have been killed by or died from injuries at Georgia-Pacific since Koch Industries bought the company in 2005. billion combined in income taxes each year from the Trump tax law―and that doesn’t even count how much the brothers might save in taxes. The fine was $30 million. Koch Brothers Could Get Up To $1.4

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Acoel

APRIL 8, 2022

The bipartisan infrastructure law funds clean energy demonstration projects to improve energy storage, advanced nuclear technology, carbon capture from fuel burning as well as direct carbon capture from the atmosphere. These proposals have garnered extensive support from the business community. appeared first on ACOEL.

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Vermont Law

MAY 2, 2023

emissions 50% below 2005 levels by 2030. Many fear that the project will encourage an increase in drilling sites across the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, leading to more oil extraction, and ultimately greater greenhouse gas emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 12, 2022

For the first time since 2005, we'll add three new parks to our national award-winning system to bring our total to 124. Through the Clean Streams Law, which will assist farmers with best management practices, the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources will receive $8.8

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Litigation against major corporate greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters has proven extremely tough. A civil law breakthrough came in 2021, with the ruling of a Dutch court against Shell. In Smith v Fonterra , decided by New Zealand’s Supreme Court this week, we have perhaps the biggest common law breakthrough.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005). This case is unique because it is the first time a Dutch company has been sued in a Dutch court of law and held liable for the l damage it caused abroad. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 20, 2017

In particular, California and the nine states that comprise the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) have taken strong action to fill the void left by Trump’s defection from Paris. Jerry Brown pushed through a package of amendments (AB398) last July extending the law through 2030 and insulating it from further legal attack.

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