Clean Energy Law

MAY 24, 2022

Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), required CARB to develop a scoping plan, to be updated at least once every five years, that describes the approach California will take to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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Clean Energy Law

MAY 16, 2022

Originally, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 required CARB to develop a scoping plan, to be updated every five years, that describes the approach California will take to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 12, 2022

PJM’s all-time one-day highest power use was recorded in the summer of 2006 at 165,563 MW. Due To Rise In Natural Gas Prices [Posted: May 12, 2022] PA Environment Digest While warm ocean waters suggest this year may be slightly warmer than 2021, PJM is expecting demand consistent with last summer.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Peter Petokas , from Lycoming College Clean Water Institute , found habitats of the rare Eastern Hellbender salamander are being significantly impacted by sediment plumes from natural gas pipeline crossing and shale gas drilling-related water withdrawal construction projects.

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Clean Energy Law

JUNE 1, 2022

Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), requires CARB to develop and update every five years a scoping plan that describes the approach California will take to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 29, 2023

Many have suggested the State’s GHG emission goals can only be met with the elimination of natural gas and the resultant corporate transformations. Of import the largest source of electricity used in Maryland is by far natural gas, followed by nuclear, then coal, and only then renewables.

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 24, 2018

Humankind just had to stop using coal and natural gas and replace them by solar PV. I am confident that switching from fossil fuels to renewables (and efficiency , as I learned during my Master’s thesis in 2006) can be done relatively fast in wealthy nations (ten to fifteen years) and by mid-century in developing ones.

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Edouard Stenger

AUGUST 16, 2017

I saw last week An Inconvenient Sequel by Al Gore, the sequel of 2006 hit documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. I have mix feelings about it. Likewise, the movie is centered on switching the world to solar and wind. Climate change is not limited in any way to the energy we consume.

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Greenbuilding Law

APRIL 17, 2022

The bill explicitly requires the State to reduce statewide GHG emissions by 60% from 2006 levels by 2031, a near term target unmatched by any other state.”. something the legislative branch authorized, but the executive branch balked at) before January 1, 2023 and then adopt subsequent triennial versions.

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 11, 2022

The statute explicitly requires the State to reduce statewide GHG emissions by 60% from 2006 levels by 2031, a near term target unmatched by any other state.”. Make no mistake, natural gas will be out.

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 9, 2007

In 1988, FERC, pursuant to the Natural Gas Act of 1938, issued Standards of Conduct to regulate natural gas pipelines’ interactions with their marketing affiliates. In National Fuel Gas Supply Corp. 2006), , the D.C. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission , 468 F.3d 3d 831 (D.C.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

million put into budgetary reserve in 2008-09 from the Department of Environmental Protection and Department of Conservation and Natural Resources; -- $5 million reduction in Resource Enhancement and Protection (REAP) farm conservation tax credit program in FY 2009-10; -- $102.8 million from DEP, $1.5 million; DCNR: $1.5 million; and DEP: $4.2

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Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

If this estimate is accurate, solar would not compare favorably with natural gas, which is around 50 gCO2/kWh with carbon capture, and 400 to 500 without. The disruption happened in under a decade, with China’s global share of PV production surging from 14 percent in 2006 to 60 percent by 2013.

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Electricity Fossil Fuels Government Carbon Emissions 140

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 2, 2022

In Australia, a shareholder advocacy NGO sued oil and gas company Santos for claiming to provide clean energy despite using natural gas and providing a misleading plan to achieve net zero emissions ( Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility v. TotalEnergies SE and TotalEnergies Electricité et Gaz France ).

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Fossil Fuels Climate Change 2017 Greenhouse 98

The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 4, 2007

The proposed rule extends deep gas royalty relief to GOM leases in 400 meters of water (up from the current limit of 200 meters), and would increase the royalty suspension volume to 35 Bcf for qualifying ultra-deep wells at least 20,000 feet total vertical depth subsea in less than 400 meters of water. MMBtu expressed in 2006 dollars.

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The Energy Law Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

12, 2009), a panel of the United State Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit heard an action arising from a contract to supply natural gas condensate in south Texas. In 2006, Flint Hills received information that PMI/Pemex had been experiencing thefts of condensate.

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Edouard Stenger

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

I have been advocating this since the writing of my Master’s thesis at Audencia all the way back to 2006. — Ditching coal and natural gas for solar and wind. Source: Bloomberg ) as their prices dropped in the past decade, making them already more than competitive with coal and natural gas.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 2, 2024

PJM’s all-time, one-day highest power use was recorded in the summer of 2006 at 165,563 MW. Higher Peak Demand Than Last Summer PJM also projects higher peak demand for electricity this summer at approximately 151,000 MW compared with the 2023 summer peak load of 147,000 MW. One megawatt can power about 800 homes.

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Electricity Natural Gas 2024 2006 104

Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

The California Supreme Court declined to review an intermediate appellate court’s decision upholding the statewide greenhouse gas cap-and-trade program. The California Supreme Court denied three petitions for review.

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Greenbuilding Law

MARCH 26, 2023

This means that buildings must use electric heating, cooling, and hot water systems instead of natural gas or oil. In 2022, the Maryland legislature enacted the Climate Solutions Now Act (SB 528) which mandates a 60% reduction in the state’s GHG emissions by 2031 relative to 2006 levels and net zero GHG emissions by 2045.

Electricity 52

Electricity Fossil Fuels Natural Gas Greenhouse 52

Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Sydnee Owens, who contracted non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2006, died six year later at age 14. Tyler Larson was diagnosed in 2010 with neurofibroma sarcoma, which resulted in tumors on nerve endings. He was 19 when he died. Alyssa Sandmeier died at age 10 from leukemia.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Rex Tillerson, ExxonMobil CEO from 2006 to 2016. Chevron CEO Mike Wirth, one of the oil company executives who testified before the House Oversight Committee in October 2021, boasted that Chevron “returned more cash to shareholders and produced more oil and natural gas [in 2023] than any year in the company’s history.”

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Fossil Fuels Climate Change 2007 Carbon Emissions 338

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2022

Bush’s words from his January 2006 State of The Union message, “America is addicted to oil.” From World War II to the two Wars in Iraq to Putin’s war on Ukraine, control and access to fossil fuels have been center-stage. With so many conflicts being financed and inflamed by fossil fuels, we would do well to remember President George W.

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Fossil Fuels Natural Gas Ozone 2006 95

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. The answer is that there was a lot more generating capacity in 2006 than in 2020. 5] The U.S.

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Environmental Progress

AUGUST 3, 2020

We should want to move up the energy ladder — from wood and dung to hydro-electric dams, liquified petroleum gas (to replace wood and dung), natural gas (to replace coal), and then, yes, nuclear energy — and not down the energy ladder, which is what Malthusian environmentalists advocate. wood, coal, and natural gas).

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Fossil Fuels Climate Change Atmosphere Natural Gas 124

Vermont Law

APRIL 8, 2022

2) Therefore, various state agencies administer their jurisdiction’s “methane gas” policy. (3) 3) Here in the United States, the federal government, through the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), is responsible for managing gas and oil exploration and extraction on Native American and national lands. (4) Turner, Jr.

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Environmental Progress

AUGUST 8, 2020

In fact, both Environmental Progress’ web site and the central argument of Apocalypse Never is that energy, environmental, and moral progress are united, e.g., that hydro-electric dams and coal are better than burning wood and dung, that natural gas is better than burning coal, and that nuclear is better than natural gas.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

In recent years, states in New England and the mid-Atlantic region have made significant progress in reducing climate change-inducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the electricity generation sector. [1]. All fuel suppliers that deliver or import 10,000 metric tons or more of annual CO.

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

For example, the IPCC notes that France had 4,000 fewer deaths than anticipated from a heat wave in 2006 thanks to improved health care, an early-warning system and greater public consciousness in response to a deadly heat wave three years earlier. Better preparedness for heat waves, which could increase in a hotter world, will save lives.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Other witnesses said expanding renewable energy would reduce energy costs, avoid increasing over-reliance on natural gas and its price spikes, improve electric grid reliability, is needed to keep Pennsylvania competitive and generate business investment and jobs. The cost of doing nothing grows larger every single day.”

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

billion PennEast Pipeline** in Luzerne and Carbon Counties, two natural gas projects that would have boosted the Pennsylvania economy with the creation of over 12,000 new jobs and significantly furthered U.S. efforts to wean Europe off their dependency on Russian oil and gas. trillion cubic feet of natural gas.

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Natural Gas Climate Change Electricity Greenhouse 52

ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The agreement also allows countries to continue to export liquefied natural gas. The backstory: The question of which streams and wetlands are federally regulated under the Clean Water Act has been in limbo for the past decade and a half, since the Supreme Court issued a muddled decision in the 2006 case Rapanos v.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Kaine has pledged to vote against the measure because it would permit the construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, which would carry natural gas from West Virginia to southern Virginia. The fungal infection was first discovered in New York in 2006 and is now found in most of the tricolored bat’s range, which spans North America.

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