Clean Energy Law

JULY 16, 2019

EPA’s electric power sector proposal follows nearly ten years of litigation filed by environmental non-governmental organizations (eNGOs) and resulting court-ordered EPA rulemaking. EPA therefore concluded that the electric power industry overall is financially stable, pointing to diversified fuel sources and vertical integration.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The Clean Power Plan (CPP) was the Obama Administration’s signature climate effort. This 2015 regulation aimed to move state power grids away from coal and toward renewable energy. Even without the Clean Power Plan, carbon emissions from power generators fell about 15% from the 2015 level.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

In 1966, vehicles were responsible for nearly 60 percent of the 146 million tons of pollutants discharged into the air across the United States. More than 20,000 Americans died prematurely in 2015 from tailpipe emissions, according to a 2019 study. Yes, premature death. Below is an abridged version of our conversation.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2025

Violations Increased Dramatically The number of total violations issued to conventional oil and gas well owners by DEPs Oil and Gas Program have increased dramatically since 2015-- -- 2024-- 7,294 Read more here. -- 2023-- 6,860 Read more here. -- 2022-- 5,416 Read more here. -- 2021-- 4,514 Read more here. -- 2015-- 1,024 Read more here.

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Acoel

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The federal Clean Air Act (CAA) was enacted in 1970 and amended in 1977 and 1990. From 1970 to 1980, coal mining jobs increased rapidly due to rising electric demand and the construction of large baseload coal plants. Source: US DOE/EIA. Source: US DOE/EIA.

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 3, 2015

is a shift for this historically Clean Air Act-friendly Court. EPA) is one for the Clean Air Act (CAA) record books. Since the Clean Air Act was enacted in 1970, EPA has been directed to regulate the emission of toxic chemicals by coal and oil fired power plants but had neglected to do so.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

France: Paris Is Covered In Fake Ads That Mock the Climate Talks' Corporate Sponsors George Dvorsky | Gizmodo | December 1, 2015 Brandalism says the 600 fake ads critique “the corporate takeover of the COP21 climate talks,” while exposing “the links between advertising, consumerism, fossil fuel dependency and climate change.”

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

France: Paris Is Covered In Fake Ads That Mock the Climate Talks' Corporate Sponsors George Dvorsky | Gizmodo | December 1, 2015 Brandalism says the 600 fake ads critique “the corporate takeover of the COP21 climate talks,” while exposing “the links between advertising, consumerism, fossil fuel dependency and climate change.”

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

France: Paris Is Covered In Fake Ads That Mock the Climate Talks' Corporate Sponsors George Dvorsky | Gizmodo | December 1, 2015 Brandalism says the 600 fake ads critique “the corporate takeover of the COP21 climate talks,” while exposing “the links between advertising, consumerism, fossil fuel dependency and climate change.”

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

France: Paris Is Covered In Fake Ads That Mock the Climate Talks' Corporate Sponsors George Dvorsky | Gizmodo | December 1, 2015 Brandalism says the 600 fake ads critique “the corporate takeover of the COP21 climate talks,” while exposing “the links between advertising, consumerism, fossil fuel dependency and climate change.”

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

France: Paris Is Covered In Fake Ads That Mock the Climate Talks' Corporate Sponsors George Dvorsky | Gizmodo | December 1, 2015 Brandalism says the 600 fake ads critique “the corporate takeover of the COP21 climate talks,” while exposing “the links between advertising, consumerism, fossil fuel dependency and climate change.”

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

France: Paris Is Covered In Fake Ads That Mock the Climate Talks' Corporate Sponsors George Dvorsky | Gizmodo | December 1, 2015 Brandalism says the 600 fake ads critique “the corporate takeover of the COP21 climate talks,” while exposing “the links between advertising, consumerism, fossil fuel dependency and climate change.”

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

France: Paris Is Covered In Fake Ads That Mock the Climate Talks' Corporate Sponsors George Dvorsky | Gizmodo | December 1, 2015 Brandalism says the 600 fake ads critique “the corporate takeover of the COP21 climate talks,” while exposing “the links between advertising, consumerism, fossil fuel dependency and climate change.”

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

France: Paris Is Covered In Fake Ads That Mock the Climate Talks' Corporate Sponsors George Dvorsky | Gizmodo | December 1, 2015 Brandalism says the 600 fake ads critique “the corporate takeover of the COP21 climate talks,” while exposing “the links between advertising, consumerism, fossil fuel dependency and climate change.”

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 12, 2023

France: Paris Is Covered In Fake Ads That Mock the Climate Talks' Corporate Sponsors George Dvorsky | Gizmodo | December 1, 2015 Brandalism says the 600 fake ads critique “the corporate takeover of the COP21 climate talks,” while exposing “the links between advertising, consumerism, fossil fuel dependency and climate change.”

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

This can be developing energy-efficient homes to reduce raw materials burnt to produce electricity or efficiency savings of water resources. President John F Kennedy introduced the Clean Air Act in the US as one of many introduced in developed nations with heavy industry (15). Sponsored Content.

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Smith Enviorment

JULY 12, 2022

EPA held the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan Rule exceeded EPA’s authority under the Clean Air Act. Section 111 of the Clean Air Act authorizes EPA to address air pollution from both new and existing sources if the pollutant endangers public health or welfare.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

At least partly—if not largely—because the AGs and their political organization, the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA), receive substantial financial support from fossil fuel companies, electric utilities, and their respective trade groups. Electric utilities, meanwhile, gave her $44,750. How has Paxton responded?

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 21, 2025

He is pulling the United States out of the 2015 Paris Climate Accord , a collaborative international agreement to slow global climate change. Hes c ancelling grants, incentives, and levying tariffs intended to squelch production and sales of clean energy generating equipment and electric vehicles.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

In that time, I’ve watched the electric vehicles available to consumers improve and the offerings grow— from a few low-volume models with limited range and features in 2015 to today’s marketplace where prospective buyers can get everything from an electric Mini Cooper to a three-row Rivian SUV with range over 400 miles on a charge.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 14, 2023

percent of US electricity and utility-scale solar generated 3.4 In 2012, coal generated 37 percent of US electricity. Coal’s decline and the rapid growth of renewables helped cut the US electricity sector’s carbon emissions by 24 percent over the last decade. Last year, wind generated 10.2 Add hydropower’s contribution of 6.2

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The Washington Supreme Court concluded that the Washington Clean Air Act did not grant the Department of Ecology authority to regulate indirect greenhouse gas emissions of businesses and utilities whose products ultimately generate such emissions. Trump , No. 4:19-cv-00028 (D.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Look at it this way: In 1970, when the Clean Air Act was passed, the unemployment rate was twice what it is today. A March 2022 article in the Journal of Economic Literature took a careful look at the impact of the Clean Air Act on jobs. The Act applied everywhere in the U.S.,

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Greenbuilding Law

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Circuit vacated both the Trump Administration’s decision to repeal the 2015 Clean Power Plan, which established guidelines for states to limit carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, and the Affordable Clean Energy Rule that the Trump administration issued in its place. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 20, 2017

12, 2015, 195 countries signed the historic Paris Agreement creating a firm foundation for meaningful action on climate change through. of the Clean Air Act, California can set stricter tailpipe emission standards. deep decarbonization. of energy, transportation, and other economic sectors. mpg by 2025.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

First, the court said the cities’ novel theories of liability based on the defendants’ sales of their product did not differentiate their claims from earlier transboundary pollution suits in which the Supreme Court ( American Electric Power Co. 34-2015-80002005 (Cal. Connecticut ) and Ninth Circuit ( Native Village of Kivalina v.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 23, 2025

About 90 percent of the sampled cleaned surfaces showed Pb levels below the EPA limit, indicating that cleaning is often, but not always, effective at removing heavy metals from surfaces. Rivian R2 is getting (and giving) some EV competition: Subaru unveiled its newest electric vehicle: the Trailseeker, a crossover.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

EPA of a 2015 rule barring replacement of ozone-depleting substances with hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are powerful greenhouse gases. Circuit vacated the 2015 rule to the extent that it prohibited continued use of HFCs by companies that previously switched to HFCs from an ozone-depleting substance. In Mexichem , the D.C.

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ESA

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Perciasepe said the administration would likely include efforts to expand natural carbon sinks, the next generation of regulations for vehicle emissions, and the likelihood of new clean energy and electric vehicle tax credits. EPA – Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit.

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ESA

AUGUST 16, 2021

World leaders agreed in the 2015 Paris climate agreement to try to limit to warming to 1.5 billion for electric grid resilience and infrastructure improvements, $7.5 billion for electric vehicle charging infrastructure and $27 billion for clean energy research, development, demonstration and commercialization.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

DEP’s 2022 Oil and Gas Annual Report said 5,416 notices of violation were issued to conventional operators in 2022 and 4,514 violations in 2021 and in 2015, DEP issued just 1,024 violations to conventional operators. And these trends are not encouraging. Read more here. Read more here. In separate agreements, XTO Energy Inc.

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ESA

JUNE 1, 2021

Global Change Research Program since 2015. FERC – Climate Change, Extreme Weather, and Electric System Reliability Technical Conference (June 1 & 2). EPA – Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit. EPA – Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2016

as a pollutant at all to the Clean Power Plan, which has no chance of clemency before its swift execution at some point in 2017. [14]. that it should “Amend the Clean Air Act to clarify that it never delegated to the EPA the authority to enact climate policies through the Act.”. [18]. on the climate front.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 20, 2021

In anticipation of stronger rules, several major automakers have announced they are transitioning to entirely electric fleets. The ACE Rule was the Trump administration’s replacement for the 2015 Clean Power Plan, which would have reduced greenhouse gases by encouraging states to shift from coal and natural gas to renewable energy sources.

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