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California’s Climate Leadership: A Timeline

Legal Planet

2011 CARB adopted cap and trade system. 2015 SB350. Effectively prohibited California utilities from using electricity from coal-fired generation. 2009 CARB established Low Carbon Fuel Standard for vehicles. Renewable energy target raised to 50% by 2030. 2016 SB 32. 2018 SB100.

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Germany’s Role in Climate Policy

Legal Planet

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. Germany decides to phase out nuclear power, complicating efforts to decarbonize the power sector.

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A Breach of Fiduciary in the Oil Patch

Energy & the Law

From 2011 to 2015 he arranged to hire companies owned by his close friend Robertson to perform post-frac drillout operations. A “fiduciary duty” apples to a person who occupies a position of particular confidence towards another and requires a higher standard of behavior than in just about any other relationship.

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(Mis)Estimating Regulatory Costs

Legal Planet

In 2011, EPA had estimated that the compliance cost would work out to $9.6 For example, natural gas production went up by around 50% from 2011-2015, displacing a lot of coal-fired generation. EPA confronted some of these issues recently in its reevaluation of a regulation limiting mercury emissions from coal power plants. (You

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How molecular catalysts mediate the electrochemical generation of fuels

Physics World

Harry B Gray and Dr Jay R Winkler at the California Institute of Technology, completing her PhD in 2011. From 2011–2012, Prof. As an NSF graduate research fellow, she carried out research with Prof. Dempsey was an NSF ACC postdoctoral fellow with Daniel R Gamelin at the University of Washington. She joined UNC in 2012.

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DEP: Shale Gas Operator Found Responsible For Water Supply Contamination After Investigation Documents Chemical Contamination Spread Across 3 Townships In Greene County

PA Environment Daily

On April 7, 2023 , DEP posted an inspection report to document that it had requested Greylock to provide the pre-drill survey it had conducted prior to drilling the wells in 2011, along with all the water sample results associated with the site. [ Background There were six shale gas wells on Mohr A drilled in May, June and July of 2011.

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The Stream, April 13, 2022: Water Pollution Tops Environmental Concerns in the U.S., Poll Finds

Circle of Blue

Nearly two dozen Iranians were sentenced to prison for taking part in a 2015 protest over water diversions. The analysis discovered that average uranium concentrations in more than two percent of these systems exceeded EPA maximum levels between 2000 and 2011. This Week’s Top Water Stories, Told In Numbers. 7 YEARS IN PRISON.

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