A Greener Life

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Last week, regulators in the local assembly of Tokyo , the capital of Japan , ruled that all new homes constructed by large-scale homebuilders after April 2025 must install solar panels to cut emissions. But the country switched off most of its nuclear generators following the 2011 Fukushima disaster. By Anders Lorenzen.

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Energy and Climate Law

APRIL 29, 2020

The latter regulates so called ´essential public services´. The Netherlands is currently in the midst of a transition, during which its renewable energy subsidy scheme SDE+, that has been running since 2011, will be switched to the so called SDE++ (Stimuleringsregeling Duurzame Energietransitie) scheme in 2020.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Perry was named Deputy for Oil and Gas Management in September 2011 by Gov. Corbett when that Deputate was formed to focus more attention on regulating unconventional (shale) gas drilling in Pennsylvania. No other comments on personnel actions were made. No replacement has yet been named. Read more here.] Read more here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

Gas prices: Without a cap, the flood of bio-based diesel into California will continue, requiring a rapid increase in stringency to stabilize LCFS credit markets, sending 2030 stringency from the 30 percent proposed in the regulation to 34.5 The lower stringency results in lower costs and reduced economic impact of the regulation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

Biodiesel and renewable diesel are mostly made from vegetable oil Biodiesel and renewable diesel are made from the same starting materials, are both blended into diesel fuel, and are supported by the same regulations. More than 80 percent of bio-based diesel is made from vegetable oil (the rest is mostly animal fats).

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Physics World

MAY 4, 2021

In 2011, during her undergraduate degree at Georgia Institute of Technology, Ghanaian-US computer scientist Joy Buolamwini discovered that getting a robot to play a simple game of peek-a-boo with her was impossible – the machine was incapable of seeing her dark-skinned face. 16 e2004956 ).

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Renewable + Law

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

It is not entirely clear as to the penalties that will be issued for noncompliance with the new regulations. The rule also requires affected entities to fix any known, acute issues that arose from winter weather conditions during the 2020-2021 winter weather season.

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Renewable + Law

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

It is not entirely clear as to the penalties that will be issued for noncompliance with the new regulations. The rule also requires affected entities to fix any known, acute issues that arose from winter weather conditions during the 2020-2021 winter weather season.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 23, 2021

In addition, we already have regulations in place to achieve methane reductions, so we are essentially subsidizing compliance with existing rules. In some cases, these funds even went to paying companies to comply with existing regulations. In 2020, the only measure included in our report was $2.37

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Frontiers

APRIL 24, 2023

In the case of climate change, there is unequal access to the knowledge, technology, and finances that would help to combat it. There’s one estimate that says that 80% of the carbon emissions between 1850 and 2011 (more than one and a half centuries) were caused by rich countries who made up 14% of the global population.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

To meet these goals, the state is facilitating burgeoning carbon capture and sequestration (or storage) (CCS) technologies that capture carbon from point sources to store, as well as carbon dioxide removal (CDR), which removes carbon from the atmosphere. Land Use and Building Decarbonization.

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Acoel

JUNE 29, 2022

EPA MATS Regulatory Impact Analysis, 2011. The history of the Clean Act clearly shows that Congress intended state-of-the-art controls such as SCRs to be applied to new sources through New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) and Best Available Control Technology (BACT) reviews in clean air areas.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Moreno: On August 23, 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published in the Federal Register a proposed rule that significantly expands the applicable air emissions standards for the Oil and Natural Gas Sector. The public comments period for the proposal ends on October 24, 2011. By Carlos J. See 76 Fed. 52738 (Aug.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Grid Safety: How Cost-of-Service Ratemaking Creates Tension Between Regulators and Utilities and Slows Grid Hardening By: Michael Murphy and Professor Genevieve Byrne The number of wildfires each year is increasing, which cost billions of dollars in damage and take hundreds of lives.

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HumanNature

APRIL 10, 2023

Key diseases of concern can increasingly be managed in other ways, and one of the most lethal, rinderpest, has been globally eradicated thanks to advances in veterinary medicine and vaccine technology. Still, the fences remain.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2024

The market at the time (all of 6,743 California sales in 2011) was dominated by the 73-mile range Nissan Leaf, the plug-in hybrid Chevy Volt (with a 35-mile electric range ). Today, sales in California not only far exceed these targets, but ahead of schedule, because regulators in part underestimated how fast technology would improve. ).

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

And newly-developed drilling technology allows operators to first drill downward and then horizontally for thousands of feet. Application of these “monster fracking” technologies has in recent years made the United States the largest oil and gas producing nation in the world. According to the Times article, since 2011 U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 30, 2024

This is due in no small part to the “ nuclear bros ”: an active and seemingly tireless group of nuclear power advocates who dominate social media discussions on energy by promoting SMRs and other “advanced” nuclear technologies as the only real solution for the climate crisis.

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 3, 2015

regulate toxic emissions from power plants, rather than consider the cost when determining . regulate emissions. The issue in the case, put simply, is whether EPA should consider compliance costs when determining anti-pollution power plant regulations. Mercury and Air Toxics or MATS rule. ,” the regulation at issue in the.

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 23, 2016

In 2011, the city of Munroe Falls, Ohio sought to prevent Beck Energy Corporation from drilling until the company complied with the city’s relevant municipal ordinances. In 2015, the Ohio Supreme Court decided that the local ordinances conflicted with state law, which regulated oil and gas production within Ohio. Summary. : or 4513.34

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 11, 2023

And I'm telling you right now, that's coming from firsthand experience where they let a pipeline company in 2011 blow out my creek in my backyard eight times, Secretary Negrin, over two and a half months. “My Not because we don't like the individuals working for them, but the leadership sucks,” said Stevens.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

In his book Making the Modern World , the Czech-Canadian energy researcher Vaclav Smil estimates that China used more cement between 2011 and 2013 than the US did in the entire 20th century. But if deployed at scale, carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology could be crucial in reaching net-zero global emissions by 2050.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

In an economy that features no battery storage technology, a blackout occurs when at the given price of power aggregate demand exceeds aggregate supply. If climate change risk is a "known unknown", then a regulator with a taste for Robustness will sign up more customers for CPP. Read Frank Wolak's 2011 paper.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 29, 2021

Researchers at the Center for Neighborhood Technology, a think tank that works on urban sustainability issues, analyzed flooding data across Chicago neighborhoods. Chicago‘s Stormwater Management Ordinance, or SMO, governs new development and redevelopment in the city and regulates how rainfall is captured, stored, or released at each site.

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Arnold Porter

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The firm's national Environmental practice has been consistently ranked in the top tier by Best Lawyers since 2011. Financial Services Regulation Law. Information Technology Law. Securities Regulation. Technology Law. Appellate Practice. Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law.

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HumanNature

JANUARY 26, 2024

Thankfully, our understanding of these interactions is expanding rapidly as technology, experimental assessments, and synthesis efforts are improving. This “food chain” is a drastic oversimplification of what occurs beneath our feet at any given moment. Simplified visualization of key contributors to the soil food web. Had enough yet?

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The plan must specifically address how EPA will consider the effects of Clean Air Act regulation on the coal industry. The groups said FERC’s review was at odds with EPA and Council on Environmental Quality guidance, caselaw, and the NEPA regulations. The court ordered EPA to file a plan and schedule for compliance within 14 days.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

On November 16, 2011, at 6:12 p.m., This map shows nitrate concentrations in drinking water between 2016 and 2018 for federally regulated water systems. With fresh eyes, Coulter came to the issue after caring for Jacob and another pediatric cancer patient in 2011. It was a career shift. If the U.S.

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

4] Some energy experts and reporters have contended that Texas regulators did not expect to rely on wind to provide much electricity during the cold snap, and rather had relied on natural gas and other thermal power plants. This hour saw a difference of 28.9 GW between expected demand and delivered generation. [4] percent of the grid’s power.

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Ohio Environmental Law

OCTOBER 23, 2021

This week the Biden Administration released their PFAS Strategic Roadmap which sets forth ambitious action on regulation of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) pollution, including targeted action with deadlines for eight different federal agencies. Regulation of PFOA and PFOS in Drinking Water on an Accelerated Schedule.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Considering social commentary, we look at the FCA’s proposals to regulate diversity and inclusion within the financial services sector, and consider various proposals to address ethnic and racial bias within the criminal justice system.

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Environmental Progress

MAY 21, 2020

Most commonly the term is associated with the degree of increase in input factors such as energy, fertilizers, pesticides, financial capital, and “technological sophistication” used, irrespective of the actual output or cost-benefit of the system. A 2011 Nature paper found species-area model overestimate extinction.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Clean Air Regulations have focused on reducing the emissions of new cars, new factories and new power plants. Old cars, old factories and old power plants have often been "grandfathered" and haven't faced regulations. Given the durability of capital, this differential regulation creates long lags between "cause" and "effect".

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 15, 2022

In 2004, the International Agency for Research on Cancer concluded that formaldehyde is a human carcinogen, and the US Department of Health and Human Services listed it is as a known human carcinogen in 2011. Public and external scientific review are vital.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

There's no kind of technology that you can roll out for the bedrock that would prevent these problems. And of course, regulations cannot stop air pollution. Radioactivity We know that regulations cannot stop radioactive emissions. It also offers a review of trends in research findings. So there's no kind of containing that.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 16, 2022

Rick Krajewski (D-Philadelphia) and Dan Frankel (D-Allegheny)-- said in announcing the bill -- “The 2020 Attorney General [Grand Jury] Report called for the Department of Health (DOH) to have an active and defined role in regulating the fracking industry to protect the health and safety of Pennsylvanians above all else.” Read more here.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

The price of solar panels and wind turbines has declined 75 percent and 25 percent, respectively, since 2011. [5] 8] The hardening required of nuclear plants first in response to 9/11 and then in response to the loss of Fukushima Daiichi in 2011 has further ensured their contribution to reliability, resiliency, and affordability. [9]

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