Law and Environment

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Although no National Corridor designations are currently in effect, the Inflation Reduction Act provides $2 billion for loans to support electric transmission lines in National Corridors. But a 2009 decision of the Fourth Circuit struck down that interpretation. Background. FERC Order No.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

US ratepayers very likely will pay even more for electricity and heating this winter compared to the already-expensive winter of 2021-2022. 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.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 22, 2022

We all know that to successfully address climate change we need to phase out fossil fuels and switch to electric power. A s we transition our homes and vehicles to electric power, it’s imperative that the electricity sector be clean. Luckily it’s entirely possible (and cost effective!) This is completely doable.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 10, 2023

The cost of wind and solar power have been falling for over a decade, making them the world’s cheapest source of new electricity. The fossil fuel industry has a vested interest in keeping the economy tied to its unsustainable, toxic products.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 19, 2023

Uber founded in 2009; Lyft in 2012), public micromobility systems such as scooters and bikeshares, electrification, shared automated vehicles : all came with the promise of “ faster, smarter, greener ” cities that would be “ connected, heterogenous, intelligent and personalized.” New ride hailing services (e.g.,

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A Greener Life

JUNE 22, 2022

The Himalayan country currently depends on hydropower for nearly all its electricity generation. Solar power is seen as a quick way to meet the growing demand for electricity. Today solar energy has reached grid parity with hydropower, meaning the per-unit cost of electricity is almost equal to that of hydro,” Namgyel said.

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Clean Energy Law

JUNE 1, 2022

The California LCFS Program was adopted in 2009 as one of the key measures to reduce GHG emissions in California under AB 32. In terms of transportation fuels, while electricity and hydrogen are currently the primary fuels for ZEVs, the Draft Scoping Plan acknowledges the need for low-carbon liquid fuels during the transition to ZEVs.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 12, 2023

Although households may end up paying less in energy costs in the long run, many measures to reduce emissions such as electric heat pumps and envelope upgrades can come with up front costs that run tens of thousands of dollars or more.

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Physics World

MAY 28, 2021

His research has been recognized by many awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship (2009), Lemelson-MIT Prize (2011), National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship (2012), Smithsonian Award for American Ingenuity in the Physical Sciences (2013), MRS Medal (2018), and the Benjamin Franklin Medal from the Franklin Institute (2019).

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 31, 2024

It also owns a sprawling network of railroads, ships, and ports used to transport this ore as well as a number of major hydro-electric plants. Website Summary Vale Vale is the largest producer of iron ore and nickel in the world. It was partially privatized in 1997 but the Brazilian government retains control. to adequately repair.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

It also owns a sprawling network of railroads, ships, and ports used to transport this ore as well as a number of major hydro-electric plants. Website Summary Vale Vale is the largest producer of iron ore and nickel in the world. It was partially privatized in 1997 but the Brazilian government retains control. to adequately repair.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 7, 2023

PA Bulletin, page 2009 ) -- Adelphia Gateway, LLC - New Pipeline Compressor Station: DEP issued Air Quality Plan Approval for a compressor station in Lower Chichester Twp., PA Bulletin, page 2009 ) -- Perennial Energy CMM PA, LLC - Coal Mine Methane Flaring Site: DEP issued Air Quality Plan Approval for the flaring site in Wayne Twp.,

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

percent of the state’s total electricity generation and has created a local solar market with hundreds of solar businesses across the state, installing primarily customer-sited solar. megawatt solar project in Middelburg that is saving the Midd-West School District over $350,000 annually and offsetting 100 percent of its electricity needs.

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Environmental Europe

JANUARY 26, 2017

From the abrupt halt to support to photovoltaics in Spain in 2009 to issues with the territorial planning of incentivised wind power in France and Germany (or near Donald Trump’s golf course …) renewable energy policy can prove hard to manage, even (or especially?) data: SOeS ). speculative ones. speculative ones.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2022

These measures will cut electricity use by over 51,000 kilowatt hours annually. Background DEP and Reinvestment Fund launched the Green Energy Loan Fund in 2009 with $12 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The Leon H. Sullivan in 1978. million square feet of building space.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Lower Sesan 2 is not living up to its promise of dropping the price of electricity and providing for power to Cambodia’s power sector, because of a lack of water availability,” says Brian Eyler, who is the Southeast Asia director with the Stimson Center in Washington, DC.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 27, 2022

Sponsors and partners of the 2022 Envirothon include the Department of Environmental Protection, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Digital First Sponsor PSECU, Shell Oil Company, PPL Electric Utilities, EQT Foundation, Weis, UGI Utilities, PA Trappers Association, Chesapeake Energy, Seneca Resources, and Pennsylvania American Water.

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Energy and Climate Law

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Those changes were implemented (more or less) simultaneously for gas and electricity and focused on similar issues of organizing markets and stimulating competition. This is a positive development, given that the applicability of the 2009 Gas Directive to hydrogen has been discussed controversially in the past.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Norway is a leader in renewable energy and on the adoption of electric cars. I remember writing, all the way back in 2009, about an announcement from the New Zealand government that they wanted to be zero carbon by 2025. Thanks to its sovereign wealth fund, future generations of Norwegians have little to fear.

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

F inancial firm Lazard’s annual benchmark shows the Levelized Cost of Energy Analysis (LCOE) for the main electricity sources. The numbers for this year’s edition are quite impressive: Nuclear is the most expensive per MWh: $148 (+20% since 2009). Then comes coal, with $102. Natural gas is at $60.

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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 22, 2023

Of note, Maryland law was amended last year by SB 528 and now provides, ELECTRIC COMPANIES AND GAS COMPANIES SHALL PROVIDE ENERGY DATA, INCLUDING WHOLE BUILDING AND AGGREGATE DATA, TO THE OWNERS OF COVERED BUILDINGS FOR BENCHMARKING PURPOSES.” It is time to act.

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Edouard Stenger

JULY 27, 2018

For example nuclear energy has become uneconomic if not exhorbitant and clean coal is still not a reality (although this might change ). – Factor Five (2009). Verdict: This book should enable you to better grasp what is behind green growth and how it could benefit us all. – Crossing the Energy Divide (2009).

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Physics World

MAY 12, 2022

He worked on designing low-frequency ultrasonic imaging of high voltage switchgear for a consortium of electricity companies. In 2009, when we were starting up, [open innovation] was still quite new and counter-intuitive, and not the way most big organizations were geared. Courtesy: Roland Harwood).

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Both the United States and the European Union electricity generations have 25-30% coal (historically much higher, hence its title of King), natural gas 35%, nuclear 20-25% and renewables make up 15% on both markets. Yet, coal account for two-thirds of the carbon emissions of electricity generation in both regions. Current situation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 18, 2023

It would require the Maine Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to conduct a competitive bidding process to procure 1,000 megawatts (MW) of offshore wind capacity by 2030 and 2,800 MW by 2035, enough to generate more than half of Maine’s electricity demand. Electricity generation is dispatched at the regional level according to increasing costs.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 25, 2016

This is not the first time that the legislature has diverted RGGI proceeds for other purposes—it also diverted $90 million in 2009 and $41 million in 2015 to the general fund. For those unfamiliar with the program – RGGI is an interstate cap and trade program aimed at reducing CO 2 emissions from the electric power sector.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

There was an attempt to repair the well with electrical tape and other measures, but they did not succeed because the inspection report said “an odor of gas was apparent upon approach to the well.” The original notices of violation for venting gas and well abandonment were issued on July 5, 2023.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Currently, Chevron operates the Casper Wind Farm in Wyoming, a former refinery, which was commissioned in 2009 and can produce enough electricity to power approximately 13,000 U.S. Other oil majors such as Chevron and ExxonMobil also have begun to participate in the renewable energy sector. homes for a year.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The natural gas industry is the third largest consumptive water user in the Susquehanna Basin following public water suppliers and electric power plants. Overall, average water use per well for fracturing rose 600 percent between 2009 and 2018. billion gallons. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 26, 2023

2009) (citing McCarthy ex rel. Stallworth v. 3] “Denials of motions to dismiss on sovereign immunity grounds fall within the collateral order doctrine, and are thus immediately appealable.” Caremark, Inc., 3d 655, 658 (5th Cir. Hawkins , 381 F.3d 3d 407, 411-12 (5th Cir. 4] Voyt v. Board of Com’rs of Orleans Levee Dist. ,

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Law of the Lands

JANUARY 16, 2019

Biogas produced by the digester ran a large electrical generator, and the electricity produced was used to heat water to heat the greenhouses.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

When the program’s allowance budgets were set for the years 2009 through 2012, administrators assumed that natural gas prices would remain high and that electricity demand would be robust and growing. States made this decision because RGGI suffers from an allowance oversupply.

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The Energy Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

According to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, CSAPR requires Texas power plants to lower SO2 emissions by 46 percent and NOx emissions by 7 percent compared with 2009 levels. See Kate Galbraith and Ari Auber, Controversial Pollution Rule Still on Track for Texas, The Tex. Tribune, Sept.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Currently, Chevron operates the Casper Wind Farm in Wyoming, a former refinery, which was commissioned in 2009 and can produce enough electricity to power approximately 13,000 U.S. Other oil majors such as Chevron and ExxonMobil also have begun to participate in the renewable energy sector. homes for a year.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 28, 2023

The clean-energy transition that is one focus of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) will require big changes in our electric grid. On the demand side, switching our buildings, industries, and vehicles to electric power could double our electricity usage.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), a sub-agency within Interior, promulgated regulations in 2009 which set forth the procedure for leasing, siting, construction, and operation of offshore wind projects. To date, the development of offshore wind in federal waters has largely been limited to the east coast. 585.107(a).

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 23, 2022

The study examined 405 children who were diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia between 2009 and 2017. Developers say they must now secure commitments to buy all of the project’s electricity. New state and federal legislation will boost electric transportation in Illinois. Children whose birthplace was within 1.2

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