Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2022

AB32 then provides an extensive list of factors that the board must consider in crafting regulation to implement the plan. The 2012 scoping plan was challenged in court but upheld because of the painstaking process that the Board had followed. b) The range of projected air pollution reductions that result from the measure. (c)

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The Energy Law Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2012

2012-N06 (2012), [hereinafter NTL 2012-N06]. For instance, the regulations require that the Emergency Response Plan identify a qualified individual who has “full authority to implement removal actions. . . .” NTL 2012 N-06, 3. NTL 2012 N-06, 5. NTL 2012-N06, at 28 (emphasis added). By Sarah Y.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The first step in regulating agricultural methane emissions (and emissions in general) is to develop an accurate inventory of emissions, which can be used to set a baseline for future targets. Agricultural Methane Regulation. Emissions Inventorying and Baselining. million metric ton reduction in CO 2 equivalent over ten years.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Given the exponential growth of utility distribution grid investments, regulators and stakeholders also will require an open distribution grid planning process. According to the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC), Ameren’s distribution grid expenditures nearly doubled between 2012 and 2020, jumping from $456 million to $857 million.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 12, 2023

Connecticut facilitated more than 6,300 projects totaling over $97 million of financing between 2012 and 2022, and Michigan facilitated more than 36,000 residential projects exceeding $460 million in financing between 2009 and 2022. And an incremental approach can be a good alternative if deep retrofits are not possible.

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Clean Energy Law

MAY 24, 2022

The market-based compliance mechanism deigned by CARB went into effect in 2012 in the form of the California Cap-and-Trade Program. Today, the Program regulates roughly 450 entities responsible for roughly 85% of the state’s GHG emissions. The AB 398 changes to Cap-and-Trade Program started to phase-in on January 1, 2021.

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Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

Boyd is recognized as one of the country’s leading energy and environmental law scholars and has written pathbreaking articles on public utilities, risk regulation, forestry, and the role of science and technology in environmental law. Alex has also led trainings in environmental law for judges in both the U.S.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 21, 2024

Conservative groups have claimed since then that virtually every government regulation raises a major question. None of these apply to the new car rule: The new rule is based on a legal provision that EPA has applied for decades to regulate cars, rather than an obscure and rarely used legal provision. The rule is not unprecedented.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

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

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 31, 2022

He was the Research Director of the interdisciplinary UK Energy Research Centre until 2012, leading the Phase I Energy 2050 project. University of California, Los Angeles) is a professor in the Department of Sociology and Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. -- Andrea Prontera (Ph.D.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 25, 2021

It is almost impossible to see, yet so vast it takes NASA scientists using satellite technology to fully grasp. The foundations of Mexico City churches have famously tilted, and one 2012 study found that Venice was subsiding at a rate of.07 Corcoran is sinking. Over the past 14 years, the town has sunk as much as 11.5

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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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Vermont Law

AUGUST 24, 2020

The space treaties and conventions of the 1960s and 1970s failed to account for today’s rapid growth of technological capabilities in space, especially the proliferation of non-state commercial activity in space. [9]. The IADC Space Debris Mitigation Guidelines provides a basis for international regulation of orbital debris.

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2007 Ocean Law Regulations 52

Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Sponsors should ensure that they are able to submit patient-level data for any RWD analyzed as part of a clinical study included in a marketing application when required by regulations for new drug applications or biologic license applications.

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Acoel

JUNE 29, 2022

For example, EPA projected a total of just 4,700 MW of coal capacity retirements under the 2012 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards rule. Existing stationary sources in nonattainment areas are subject to Reasonably Available Control Technology (RACT) – the least stringent standard in the Clean Air Act’s alphabet soup of controls.

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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 outcome of the ERCOT inspection may subject a generator to a PUCT enforcement investigation or civil penalties pursuant to 16 Texas Administrative Code §22.246.

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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 outcome of the ERCOT inspection may subject a generator to a PUCT enforcement investigation or civil penalties pursuant to 16 Texas Administrative Code §22.246.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2024

In January 2012, at a hearing of the California Air Resources Board I attended, the board considered updates to the Zero Emission Vehicle standards through model year 2025. 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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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Seawater desalination is a hopeful technological solution for industry, farmers, and residents that do not want their businesses interrupted by water shortage, drought, and rising cost. One can also imagine more stringent regulations being proposed regarding ocean and coastal ecosystems as these environmental impacts are studied more.

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Ocean 2015 Cooling 2012 40

Law Columbia

JULY 16, 2013

Prices this low fail to send the signal needed to stimulate investment into low carbon technologies and undermine the ETS’s ability to meet higher reduction goals in the long-term. The back-loading regulation aims to help prop up this ailing market. As a result, the EUA price hit bottom: a record low of 2.63

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

million fine New Gas Plant Threatens Indigenous Livelihoods in Russia’s Far North Total oil project hurts 'tens of thousands' in rural Uganda: watchdog NGOs Brazil environment regulator denies Total permit to drill Foz do Amazonas basin Total settles U.S. Issued on: 09/01/2024 - 17:26 2 min Corporation TotalEnergies S.E. *in

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Acoel

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Trisko Coal production and mining jobs over the past half-century have been influenced by several factors, principally demand from the utility sector, technological breakthroughs in natural gas production, railroad deregulation, and environmental regulation. Source: US DOE/EIA. Source: US DOE/EIA.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

For the past four centuries, legal criteria to regulate the environment and satisfy diverse interests have emerged as part of the environmental movement. As such, the Center is calling for regulations requiring the use of the best available science and technology when implementing wildlife control.

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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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Clean Energy Law

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The Basin does not meet the state or federal ambient air quality standards for ozone and particulate matter, and existing regulations have to date proved insufficient to bring the Basin into compliance. According to the 2016 AQMP, mobile sources contributed about 88% of total NO x emissions in the Basin in 2012.

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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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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

in 2012: “In an increasingly carbon- constrained world, our existing environmental laws and regulatory process no longer achieve their underlying goals of long-term ecosystem conservation. Since my 2012 “Fiddling as the World Floods and Burns” warnings, . Indeed, at a Sept. Yet—climate change impacts are outpacing development of p.

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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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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Most of these pieces were about the company’s support for a seemingly independent network of anti-regulation, “free-market” nonprofits that spread falsehoods about the reality and seriousness of climate change. See no evil I wrote more columns about ExxonMobil and its top executives than any other major source of climate lies.

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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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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2018

As a result of state and corporate leadership, facilitated by a remarkable decline in development costs for renewable energy technologies, the. In 2018, we will set a. new record for coal power plant retirements. strongly assisted by low natural gas prices and competition in wholesale energy markets. clean energy industry is humming.

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Regulations 2018 Natural Gas 2016 52

Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

In 2012, 2017, and 2021 the National Academies of Science and Engineering published three separate reports on threats to the grid, resilience, and the future of electricity. [1] 11] Part of the reason for inadequate in-state electricity supply in California last August was that state regulators had closed in-state baseload power plants.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 24, 2023

23 PA Bulletin [PaEN] -- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Invites Comments On Cooperative Fish Nursery General Permit; Hearing Set For Feb. 22 RiverWatch Video Report -- First Street Foundation: Over 3.2 22 RiverWatch Video Report -- First Street Foundation: Over 3.2

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 30, 2022

11] Reducing methane emissions by least 65% below 2012 levels – either through Congressional Legislation or regulation – is necessary to sufficiently safeguard our children’s health from pollution and the growing threats of climate change. This Is Fixable Here’s the good news: these leaks sprout from fixable sources.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 22, 2016

Whether the Paris agreement can avoid being another Kyoto Protocol depends on the technology and lifestyles that developing nations choose to adopt as they eventually earn more income and whether the American government steps up to be a leader in environmental protection. COP 21: A Kyoto Protocol Redux? appeared first on.

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 11, 2014

Summary: New drone technology is offering environmental groups an innovative way to ensure compliance with environmental laws. Both federal and state authorities can regulate drone technology. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) generally regulates all domestic aircraft matters. Section 333 of the.

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