2006 2015 Carbon Emissions Government 
Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
Required the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to set standards for greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) new vehicles. 2006 AB 32. Required state to reduce emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and gave broad authority to CARB to implement the standard. Required CARB to create an inventory of GHG emissions. 2015 SB350.
HumanNature
OCTOBER 8, 2021
Challenges There are many challenges to the effective implementation of tax-credit or tax-funded payment programs for carbon-related ecosystem services, with two of the most significant being reasonably accurate quantification and valuation of carbon storage, sequestration, and production 8,11,12. Denver Colorado (2015).
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Law Columbia
JULY 6, 2017
The plaintiffs in lawsuits challenging the cap-and-trade program had argued that it was not authorized by the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 and that the requirement to purchase emissions allowances constituted a tax that required approval by a two-thirds majority of the State legislature. filed June 13, 2017).
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 29, 2024
Rex Tillerson, ExxonMobil CEO from 2006 to 2016. In my retelling of the show, I quickly pointed out that the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had by then concluded that “most” of the increase in average global temperatures since 1950 was “very likely” due to the increase in human-made carbon emissions.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 19, 2022
At issue in this case is whether and how the EPA can set standards for carbon emissions at power plants. In the 2006 Rapanos decision , Justice Anthony Kennedy determined that a wetland should have a “significant nexus” such as a navigable lake or river to be eligible for protection under “Waters of the US.”
Environmental Progress
MARCH 11, 2021
People wonder how we made it through the heat wave of 2006,” said the CEO of California’s grid operator, CAISO, at the time. The answer is that there was a lot more generating capacity in 2006 than in 2020. 23] In response to Fukushima, the Japanese government shut down its nuclear plants and the cost of electricity went up.
Vermont Law
FEBRUARY 25, 2018
emissions in the RGGI region would have been approximately 24 percent higher in 2015 but for the program, which took effect in 2009. [5]. At the same time, it is estimated that through 2015, RGGI generated approximately $2.9 and that the investment of RGGI allowance auction proceeds in 2015 alone will return $2.31
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