Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
The Golden State has adopted a slew of climate change laws over the past twenty years, and an even greater number of regulations. Required state to reduce emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and gave broad authority to CARB to implement the standard. 2011 CARB adopted cap and trade system. 2002 SB1078. 2006 AB 32.
Circle of Blue
DECEMBER 1, 2022
A wave of frontline resistance is now breaking across the Upper Midwest and around the country as organized campaigns aimed at regulating concentrated animal feeding operations, known as CAFOs, are being felt at every level of government, and in state and federal courts. That may be changing. Milking parlor in Lenawee County.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 23, 2024
The governing bodies that regulate California’s energy system are almost as complicated and arcane as the sprawling network of wires, poles, and power plants they oversee. That starts with one of the state’s most important, but historically inaccessible regulators. Really important decisions.
Legal Planet
JANUARY 12, 2023
EPA’s power to regulate greenhouse gases, established in litigation in 2007, now seems beyond question. Bush EPA denies waiver to allow California to regulate CO2 emissions from new cars. EPA approves waiver for California to regulate CO2 from new cars. 2012 EPA adopts regulation limiting carbon emissions for new cars.
Law Columbia
DECEMBER 13, 2022
On December 2, 2022, the Renewable Energy Legal Defense Initiative (RELDI) , in collaboration with the law firm Sidley Austin LLP, filed an amicus brief on behalf of five New York farmers and three community groups urging a New York appellate court to uphold the State’s new regulations for siting renewable energy projects. Docket Nos.
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Germany agrees on EU regulation to make cars carbon neutral by 2035 (either zero emissions or net-zero). Renewable Energy Act sets fixed feed-in tariffs and gives renewables priority on the grid. New rates are large enough to spark expansion of renewable industry. Fifteen percent of electricity is renewable. Renewables are 42% of electricity.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 26, 2022
For years, state and local air quality districts have implemented polices and regulations aimed at curbing these different sources of pollution, like working to phase out burning as a method of disposing of agricultural waste, incentivizing transitions to gas-powered heat, and creating regulations to limit vehicle pollution.
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