Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
2011 CARB adopted cap and trade system. 2016 SB 32. Effectively prohibited California utilities from using electricity from coal-fired generation. 2009 CARB established Low Carbon Fuel Standard for vehicles. 2015 SB350. Renewable energy target raised to 50% by 2030. 2018 SB100.
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 2, 2023
My foray into Germany climate policy left me with unanswered questions: What was the politics behind Germany’s history of climate action? New rates are large enough to spark expansion of renewable industry. Fifteen percent of electricity is renewable. Renewables are a third of electricity consumption.
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Law Columbia
NOVEMBER 1, 2016
24, 2016); Alaska Oil & Gas Association v. The court cited Healey’s participation in the AGs United for Clean Power Press Conference in March 2016 and her attendance at a pre-press conference closed-door meeting with a climate change activist and a lawyer with a “well-known global warming litigation practice.” 451962/2016 (N.Y.
Circle of Blue
MAY 24, 2023
Political violence in the region restricts humanitarian access to refugee camps. Mali The Inner Niger Delta has become a hotspot for two compounding crises: political conflict and water scarcity. Water scarcity is intertwined with political conflict. Fighting in Sudan is not helping the region’s politics.
Energy & the Law
MARCH 7, 2023
And political malpractice is a new category. Lots of cash was flown by private jets to Cameroon and South Sudan from 2011 through 2016. With it being Lent and all, we ask, are this year’s Ferrymen of the River Styx using these 40 days to turn from wickedness and find their way to repentence?
Arnold Porter
JUNE 2, 2021
Ambassador Thomas Shannon, Arnold & Porter, former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (2016–2018). Dodd, Arnold & Porter, former US Senator and member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (1981-2011). Christopher J. Ambassador Paul Myler, Embassy of Australia, Minister-Counsellor.
Circle of Blue
JUNE 24, 2021
They are slow to begin but can last indefinitely, some “megadroughts” upending social and political stability over several decades. The Las Conchas fire in northern New Mexico in June 2011 pumped so much ash into the Rio Grande that the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority had to close its drinking water intake on the river.
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