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. 556.400; 30 C.F.R. 585.107(a). 585.107(a). REN-N03 (May 27, 2020).

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Yet the Cambodian government revived the project in 2007, and in 2012 the dam became a joint venture between Cambodia’s Royal Group and China’s state-owned Huaneng Group, which remains the majority stakeholder. But like most Cambodians, he is reluctant to criticize his government and its policies. “I

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The United States needs to accelerate this momentum and ramp up renewables to much higher levels to meet climate goals. EN: What does your report recommend that the federal and state governments do going forward? Regardless, major oil and gas companies are doubling down on fossil fuels. Your thoughts?

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Environmental Europe

JANUARY 26, 2017

As one previous post on this blog detailed, the current political turmoil in Northern Ireland was sparked by a subsidy for renewable energy production. Though it is tempting to blame political carelessness, the ongoing RHI scandal prompts a broader reflection about renewable energy policy instruments. data: SOeS ).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 16, 2024

How we do this, and how well it happens, depends on planning and collaboration across local, state and federal government. At the state level, governments need to do more to facilitate new transmission lines. The obstacles to new technology and more effective investments need to be addressed.

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

For years, grid parity – the time when solar and wind would be cost-competitive with fossil fuels and nuclear – was the holy grail of renewables energy, a target to reach in a distant future. The numbers for this year’s edition are quite impressive: Nuclear is the most expensive per MWh: $148 (+20% since 2009).

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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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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. In the short term, low supply and high demand for gas has enabled oil and gas companies to make up for a bad financial decade, with 2020 being the worst year for them.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), site of the COP28 conference at the end of the month, where government representatives from all UN countries will discuss global efforts to limit climate change and adapt to its effects. Photo credit: Frank Peters / Alamy. But this number pales in comparison to what the latest research tells us is needed.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2022

Local governments, businesses, school districts, hospitals, and nonprofit organizations are eligible to apply. The fund helps commercial building owners take energy efficiency projects above and beyond building code standards, which many other lenders are less willing to do. Click Here to read about just a few of the success stories.

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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 22, 2023

Just as there is no one homogeneous building type, this topic has implications that vary from place to place, but in jurisdictions from Maryland to California, New York City to Denver, and Seattle to Washington, DC, building energy performance standards that are driving reductions in GHG emissions have already been enacted. It is time to act.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 28, 2023

The ways in which the IIJA and IRA address the need for new transmission capacity will be the subject of the second panel in our symposium, Transmission Case Study: Remaking our Power Grid for Renewable Energy. Property and permits can be hard to come by, for many of the same reasons that renewable-generation projects face.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 5, 2024

Denmarks incoming king Crown Prince Frederik attending the Nordic Climate Solutions in 2009. He has participated in expeditions, forums and events on climate, and has represented Denmark as a promoter of renewable energy. Photo credit: Johannes Jansson / norden.org, CC BY 2.5 dk via Wikimedia.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 22, 2022

Only portions of the legislation apply directly to units of local government, but taken as a whole it can be expected to help U.S. cities move toward their greenhouse gas reduction goals via a cleaner national electric grid, increased vehicle and building electrification, and new distributed renewable energy resources.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 21, 2023

Environmental Defence is calling on the Minister to fulfill the government’s promise and use this budget to finally eliminate fossil fuel subsidies. Yet, the federal government extended even greater financial support in 2022 than the previous two years, which totalled $8.6 billion and $18 billion respectively.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

Investors and governments will be expected to refer to the Taxonomy in order to determine whether an activity they want to pursue can be considered sustainable, and under what conditions (screening criteria). Extending the license of existing installations is particularly efficient in environmental and economic terms.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Instead, key figures in business, government and international bureaucracies such as the International Energy Agency are disrupting the status quo, finding new ways to make profit, while lowering global emissions. The shift will only occur when government regulations hold carbon-emitting companies accountable for emission costs.

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Law Columbia

MAY 8, 2024

Decarbonizing the industrial sector is key to achieving these targets, as it is responsible for around 20% of the EU’s total emissions (not including emissions associated with energy consumption by industry).

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Environment Blog

MARCH 25, 2020

It was created in 2009 by the anonymous programmer, Satoshi Nakamoto, and was designed to make it easier to transfer wealth from one party to another regardless of their geographical location. Once the mining company has paid for the solar panels, turbines, and other equipment, their energy expenditure is greatly reduced.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Meanwhile, renewable energy is being sidelined. Pakistan’s production of natural gas peaked in 2009, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA), but gas has continued to increase as a percentage of total energy supply steadily since then. Forgetting a green energy future. By Zofeen Ebrahim.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

When the Obama administration attempted to implement the Clean Power Plan , it said that the new standards would fight climate change, create tens of thousands of jobs in renewable energy and avoid up to 3,600 premature deaths from soot and smog. They appear to have a sympathetic ear in Justice Alito. There is now a 99.9

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 21, 2021

For almost three decades, world governments have met nearly every year to forge a global response to the climate emergency. There are also question marks over the commitment of the new Japanese government. Poor countries were promised at the Copenhagen Cop in 2009 that they would receive $100bn a year by 2020. What is COP26?

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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. transportation and buildings) which will further increase the need for renewable generation.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 29, 2020

The High Cost of Renewables House Democrats propose spending hundreds of billions of public and ratepayer money on renewable energy, new transmission lines, energy efficiency, mass transit, electric vehicles, carbon capture and storage, and advanced nuclear energy. percent of its land for energy.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2022

So when this industry and its drilling took off in the late otss, you know, 2009, 2010, we were sort of in the right place at the right time. Fully fund and staff government agencies that protect public health. Work toward a quick and just transition away from fossil fuels and toward renewable energies.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 12, 2023

Perhaps most importantly, the federal government has invested billions of dollars in clean energy. 2009 EPA formally finds that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health and welfare. Even many GOP controlled states have embraced renewable energy, though they still prefer to avoid any mention of climate change.

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Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 25, 2024

2] In 2009, the Obama administration formed the Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Carbon (IWG) to provide federal agencies with tools for quantifying the benefits of reducing carbon dioxide emissions. [3] National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. [2] 9] The current IWG’s work on its final SC-GHG estimates is ongoing. [10]

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

municipalities face from climate change, the special role that federal vehicle emissions regulations play in protecting municipal public health, and the threat that Petitioners’ radical interpretation of the major questions doctrine poses to the day-to-day operations of state and local governments. Last year, local governments in the U.S.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Several factors¾including the effects of the economic recession, shifts in energy markets from coal to natural gas and renewable energy sources, and carbon pollution mitigation and clean energy programs like renewable portfolio standards¾have been identified as principal drivers of these reductions. [2].

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

The California Court of Appeal reversed a trial court’s determination that the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Reform Act of 2009 required the Delta Stewardship Council to adopt performance measure targets as legally enforceable regulations in the long-term management plan for the Delta to achieve certain objectives of the Act. 120,436 (Kan.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

The City also alleged that the companies engaged in a “greenwashing” campaign by creating misleading impressions of the role of renewable energy in the companies’ businesses and of their efforts to reduce their carbon footprints. 15,2 2009). Anne Arundel County v. BP p.l.c. , C-02-CV-21-000565 (Md. Department of Interior , No.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 13, 2022

And lastly, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory identifies the most suitable spots for pumped storage hydropower. Nobody is producing a product with this scope and granularity for the United States.” — Stuart Cohen, a model engineer at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. government water policy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 31, 2022

They included Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt and White House Legislative Affairs Director Marc Short. The Koch network, with its toxic anti-government bias, will likely cast a long shadow over Washington for years to come. Ted Cruz , Florida Gov.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The court said its August 2017 decision rejecting challenges under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and Natural Gas Act to DOE’s authorization of LNG exports at another Texas facility largely governed the resolution of the instant cases. The anti-backsliding study was due in June 2009, 18 months after EISA’s enactment.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Here are 1,198 articles published in local news media and in the PA Environment Digest during 2021 that tell the stories of thousands of individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us.

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ESA

APRIL 3, 2023

Courts Environmental groups sue the federal government for failing to protect corals. The state of Texas and industry groups sued the federal government, arguing that the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. USGRP aims to include advances in climate and social science since 2009 and adds a focus on informed climate decisions.

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