Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

At the global level, however, Germany has its own claim to a leadership role, particularly in its early support for renewable energy. Although its track record has some complexities, this timeline of German actions shows just its early and sustained attention to clean energy policy: 1990. Renewables are 6% of power.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2021

This 2015 regulation aimed to move state power grids away from coal and toward renewable energy. Yet the Supreme Court is now set to address numerous challenges to this zombie regulation. When fully implemented, the Clean Power Plan was intended to cut carbon emissions 30% below the 2005 level by 2030.

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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. Bush EPA denies waiver to allow California to regulate CO2 emissions from new cars. Obama stimulus bill provides $90 billion for renewables. 1998 U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Last November, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) released an interdisciplinary study exploring the various pathways to meeting US goals to cut heat-trapping emissions economywide 50 to 52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 and achieve net-zero emissions no later than 2050. The good news?

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The era of renewable energy is knocking at the door. In this year’s edition of World Energy Outlook , the International Energy Agency showed that with the rapid roll out of renewable energy technologies, the demand for fossil fuels – gas, coal and oil – will peak this decade. What does this mean for Canada?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Most of these pieces were about the company’s support for a seemingly independent network of anti-regulation, “free-market” nonprofits that spread falsehoods about the reality and seriousness of climate change. Later in the hour, Tillerson told Rose that the federal government should end subsidies for renewable energy. “I

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 21, 2024

Pennsylvania’s energy leadership with the sustained development of clean natural gas is generating substantial benefits for our environment, economy and, as this data shows, the well-being of our communities,” said MSC President, David Callahan. Overall carbon emissions from the state’s power sector are down 46% compared to peak 2005 levels.

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Law and Environment

APRIL 22, 2021

The President today formally announced that the United States was pledging to reduce its emissions by 50% from 2005 levels by 2030. One way will be to speed up permitting of significant new renewable energy generation. The announcement isn’t a surprise, but that doesn’t lessen its importance.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

It’s widely viewed as the “gold standard” for energy projections, even though there’s much debate in the energy community about the validity of the assumptions behind these projections. Renewable energy generation increases faster than any other technology. This year’s projections are a bit grim.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Embedded in the new statute are more than $140 billion in direct payments and tax incentives for renewable fuels and cleaner electrical generation to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions 40 percent below 2005 levels by the end of the decade. The statute also includes $19.5 Five billion more gallons of ethanol equates to applying 1.5

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 3, 2024

This latest document is dripping with disdain for federal bureaucracies, especially environmental regulators. A second Trump administration would do more than ignore climate science; it would work to undermine successful climate policies, as well as current and future environmental regulations, during a critical 4-year window.

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The Energy Law Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Prior to the Act’s passage, OCSLA (as amended by the Energy Policy Act of 2005) authorized the United States Department of Interior to issue leases in federal waters for certain types of renewable energy projects. However, these provisions did not directly address leasing for carbon sequestration.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Earlier this year, the MPSC approved a settlement agreement on Consumers Energy’s integrated resource plan that commits the company to retire all its remaining coal-fired power plants by 2025, construct no new fossil gas infrastructure, and build large amounts of new solar power between now and 2040. What’s in DTE’s proposed plan?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Hurricane Ian, for its part, made landfall as a high-end Category 4 with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph, decimated western Florida communities, causing the second-largest insured loss after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and was the costliest disaster of 2022. The city of Fort Myers was hit by a record 7.26-foot

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Despite a significant uptake of renewable energy, India still relies on coal plants for more than half of its installed electricity supply. By Rejimon Kuttappan Along with a major expansion of renewable energy, India is also pushing for big increases in its coal production, casting doubt on its climate commitments.

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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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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Interior’s authority to regulate offshore wind comes from the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which amended the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to expressly authorize Interior to issue leases for renewable energy projects in federal waters. The following summarizes those requirements. Qualification Requirements.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 3, 2023

As a result, between 2005 and 2017 greenhouse gas pollution from Ontario’s electricity system dropped by 93 per cent. In fact, the current government is actively making our energy grid a lot dirtier. Early in its first term, it canceled over 750 renewable energy projects , some of which had already been built.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2022

However, policies to deliver on the Biden administration’s commitment to cut US heat-trapping emissions by 50 to 52 percent from 2005 levels by 2030 have not yet been enacted and implemented. President Putin and his cronies aren’t the only ones raking in billions from the oil and gas industry.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 3, 2022

Instead, the Court has ruled that, though the agency can still regulate carbon emissions, it must do so narrowly and set standards solely based on options available at individual power plant facilities, such as efficiency measures to improve plant-level heat rates.

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

We should do more to address climate change but in a framework that prioritizes energy abundance, reliability, and security. carbon emissions declined 22% between 2005 and 2020, global emissions were flat over the last decade, and weather-related disasters have declined since the beginning of this century.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 31, 2021

In some cases, such as Governor Schwarzenegger’s 2005 executive order on GHG emission reduction , the Legislature establishes these targets in statute. A new governor could roll back these orders, and would be unlikely to continue the state’s progress. Climate Change Scoping Plan.

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 30, 2024

The New York City Council approved the “City of Yes for Carbon Neutrality” initiative and an ensuing set of zoning changes to support the city’s goal of slashing carbon emissions 80% below 2005 levels by 2050, according to a Dec.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

EPA decision where the Supreme Court said the EPA had the authority to regulate global warming gases. That’s saying a lot since gun and drug deaths are at all-time-record levels and vehicle fatalities last year were at their highest number since 2005. Many other studies show that reducing PM 2.5

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 1, 2023

As a result, between 2005 and 2017 greenhouse gas pollution from Ontario’s electricity system dropped by 93 per cent. In fact, the current government is actively making our energy grid a lot dirtier. Early in its first term, it canceled over 750 renewable energy projects , some of which had already been built.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 1, 2023

Between 2005–2019, heat pump use increased by just one per cent, from four to five per cent of Canadian homes. But, after cancelling 750 renewable energy contracts, Ontario is now attempting to take advantage of a loophole in the draft regulations that permits new gas plants to be built before 2025 and operate beyond 2035. “The

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 4, 2023

The two approaches share goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 70% by 2030 (from a 2005 baseline) and achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. Seven northeastern states created RGGI in 2005. rules have the net auction revenues return to the regulated generating units. Background on RGGI. The draft N.C. As a result, no N.C.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

4] Meanwhile, many experts see in recent trends an inevitable transition away from coal and nuclear power plants, designed to function as baseload capacity, toward variable renewable energy sources with just-in-time natural gas back-up. While energy sources across all categories failed in mid-February, they didn’t all fail equally.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 22, 2023

Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Superstorm Sandy in 2012, Hurricanes Harvey and Irma in 2017, and Hurricane Irma in 2021 were all accompanied by the same question. should take steps toward being carbon neutral by 2050 and should prioritize renewable energy over expanding fossil fuel exploration. Will this smoke alarm wake us up?”

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Last Thursday, December 15, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NOPR) seeking comments on proposed changes to its regulations governing the siting of interstate electric transmission lines. greenhouse gas emissions by 50 to 52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The US Energy Information Administration is forecasting the wholesale price of gas to reach its highest level since the winter of 2009-2010 in inflation-adjusted terms. Henry Hub is the national benchmark for wholesale gas prices (Source: US Energy Information Administration ). There are examples from across the country.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

DOE Hosts March 30 Webinar On Repurposing Fossil Energy Assets [PaEN] -- Senate Republicans File To Intervene To Oppose The DEP Lawsuit To Publish Final RGGI Carbon Pollution Reduction Regulations [PaEN] [To help with today’s energy prices?

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 10, 2021

In 2005, the OCSLA was amended to also authorize the issuance of leases for activities that “produce or support production, transportation, or transmission of energy from sources other than oil and gas” (43 U.S.C. coal fired power plants” because those projects support energy production from a source other than oil and gas (i.e.,

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Photo: The 70 MW solar array in Franklin County.) ( Reprinted from Penn State News.

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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. Even the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement had only a small impact on employment.

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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. We also are taking steps to reduce the pollution causing climate change by promoting electric vehicles, wind and solar renewable energy, and cutting down carbon pollution from power plants.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 22, 2023

Session Law 2021-165 set a goal of reducing CO 2 emissions from EGUs 70% (from a 2005 baseline of 75,865,188 short tons) by 2030 and achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. regulated by the Utilities Commission; and 2. The order also directs Duke Energy to further evaluate both onshore and offshore wind projects.

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