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California’s Climate Leadership: A Timeline

Legal Planet

The Golden State has adopted a slew of climate change laws over the past twenty years, and an even greater number of regulations. 2011 CARB adopted cap and trade system. 2016 SB 32. California seems to have conceived of its role as alternatively a backup for weak federal regulation or a model for future federal action.

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Germany’s Role in Climate Policy

Legal Planet

Germany agrees on EU regulation to make cars carbon neutral by 2035 (either zero emissions or net-zero). New rates are large enough to spark expansion of renewable industry. Fifteen percent of electricity is renewable. Germany decides to phase out nuclear power, complicating efforts to decarbonize the power sector.

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Everything You Wanted to Know About Biodiesel and Renewable Diesel. Charts and Graphs Included

Union of Concerned Scientists

Back in 2016 I wrote a long post about biodiesel , explaining what it is made from (mostly vegetable oil) and arguing that EPA should show restraint in setting targets for biodiesel because of the limited availability oils and fats and the harmful consequences of drawing too heavily from these limited sources.

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Derivatives: ISDA Announces 2016 New York Law Variation Margin Credit Support Annex

The Energy Law Blog

On April 14, 2016, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. ISDA ) announced the 2016 ISDA Credit Support Annex for Variation Margin for use with New York law transactions (the 2016 CSA ). Parties to the 2016 CSA are able to negotiate collateral terms for variation margin in accordance with rules issued by U.S.

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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

Law Columbia

24, 2016); Alaska Oil & Gas Association v. The plan must specifically address how EPA will consider the effects of Clean Air Act regulation on the coal industry. 451962/2016 (N.Y. Alaska Oil & Gas Association v. Pritzker , Nos. 14-35806, 14-35811 (9th Cir. opinion Oct. Pritzker , Nos. 16-35380, 16-35382 (9th Cir.

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Wildfires and Power Grid Failures Continue to Fuel Each Other

Union of Concerned Scientists

That percentage was actually the same for wildfires between 2016-2020 in California – a high-risk wildfire state. From 2000 to 2016, wildfire damage to California’s transmission and distribution systems amounted to more than $700 million.

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Asimow Named to Daily Journal's 2021 ‘Top Antitrust Lawyers’ Report

Arnold Porter

The Raiders case poses the question of “whether a sports league can regulate the number of teams it governs and who has standing to challenge its decisions,” he told Daily Journal.

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