Vermont Law

APRIL 8, 2022

1) The EPA permits states to draft and execute regulations to satisfy national standards in most circumstances. (2) 2) Therefore, various state agencies administer their jurisdiction’s “methane gas” policy. (3) 6) Natural gas flaring and venting is a significant problem and the very problem that the federal government should address.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2023

PJM’s all-time, one-day highest power use was recorded in the summer of 2006 at 165,563 MW. Generator Nonperformance The failure of natural gas and coal-fired power plants to meet their obligations to generate power during Winter Storm Elliot has heightened concerns about margin projects in the PJM grid area. A record $1.8

Electricity 88

Electricity Natural Gas Carbon Dioxide 2006 88

Vermont Law

MARCH 23, 2015

Summary: A brief look at the fracking industry in Northern Michigan, the laws and regulations, and how fracking is impacting the Grand Traverse Bay Watershed and the Great Lakes. since the late 1980s throughout the northern lower peninsula’s Atrim shale and Collingwood/Utica shale, which contain vast sources of natural gas.

Natural Gas 40

Natural Gas 2010 Regulations Natural Resources 40

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.

Law 52

Law Greenhouse 2025 Natural Gas 52

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

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.

Natural Gas 104

Natural Gas Environmental Protection Conservation Natural Resources 104

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. Endnotes. [1] at 150-51. [5]

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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

This map shows nitrate concentrations in drinking water between 2016 and 2018 for federally regulated water systems. Fertilizer runoff from farm fields is not federally regulated, so the EPA’s announcement on January 26 that it would step up enforcement of polluting facilities has little resonance for nitrate contamination.

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

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Electricity Renewable Energy Nuclear Power 2019 101

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

Republicans said the final regulations will increase the cost of electricity for individuals and businesses, have a negative impact on jobs and will not significantly reduce carbon pollution. efforts to wean Europe off their dependency on Russian oil and gas. That's one of the global more markets that's been drastically affected.

Natural Gas 52

Natural Gas Climate Change Electricity Greenhouse 52

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.

2020 96

2020 Air Pollution Climate Change Natural Gas 96

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.

Greenhouse 52

Greenhouse Law 2025 Electricity 52

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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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]. Through independent regulations, each state’s CO. emissions from the electricity generation sector. [21]. allowance auctions.

Greenhouse 40

Greenhouse 2015 2017 Regulations 40

The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 4, 2007

Hunter MMS has announced proposed amendments to its deep gas royalty relief regulations under the Energy Policy Act of 2005. The additional relief will only be available in years when the annual NYMEX natural gas price is at or below $4.47/MMBtu MMBtu expressed in 2006 dollars. By Jonathan A.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The agreement also allows countries to continue to export liquefied natural gas. EPA unveiled a proposed rule that would take the Navigable Waters Protection Rule off the books and reinstate long-standing regulations defining which streams and wetlands are subject to federal protection, a category known as “Waters of the U.S.,”

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2021 Conservation Endangered Species Act Climate Change 105

Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Circuit concluded that EPA had acted arbitrarily and capriciously in determining that the four elements of the regulations that had been stayed met these requirements. The California Supreme Court declined to review an intermediate appellate court’s decision upholding the statewide greenhouse gas cap-and-trade program.

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2017 Clean Air Act Climate Change Renewable Energy 40