Legal Planet
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Germany decides to phase out nuclear power, complicating efforts to decarbonize the power sector. My foray into Germany climate policy left me with unanswered questions: What was the politics behind Germany’s history of climate action? Germany has dragged its feet on EVs because of its powerful car industry.
Law Columbia
NOVEMBER 1, 2016
24, 2016); Alaska Oil & Gas Association v. The court cited Healey’s participation in the AGs United for Clean Power Press Conference in March 2016 and her attendance at a pre-press conference closed-door meeting with a climate change activist and a lawyer with a “well-known global warming litigation practice.” opinion Oct.
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Environmental Europe
JANUARY 26, 2017
As one previous post on this blog detailed, the current political turmoil in Northern Ireland was sparked by a subsidy for renewable energy production. Though it is tempting to blame political carelessness, the ongoing RHI scandal prompts a broader reflection about renewable energy policy instruments. data: SOeS ). speculative ones.
Vermont Law
MARCH 16, 2018
On October 11, 2016, in an effort known as #ShutItDown, a group dubbed the “Valve Turners” traveled to five remote locations in North Dakota, Minnesota, Montana, and Washington, cut through locked enclosures, and turned the shut-off valves on five pipelines carrying tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada into the United States. Northeast Jud.
Environmental Progress
MARCH 11, 2021
4] Meanwhile, many experts see in recent trends an inevitable transition away from coal and nuclear power plants, designed to function as baseload capacity, toward variable renewable energy sources with just-in-time natural gas back-up. 25] And that amount does not include the costs associated with local and state political opposition.
Law Columbia
AUGUST 23, 2022
For example, the IRA extends and expands existing tax credits for renewable electricity production, and creates a new credit for electricity production at certain nuclear power plants. Starting with methane was likely more politically feasible than carbon dioxide for several reasons. To put that in perspective, on average, U.S.
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 4, 2023
Yaw noted the IEO would be modeled after Pennsylvania’s Independent Fiscal Office , which was created by Act 120 of 2010, and Act 100 of 2016. Yaw did not mention renewable energy in this announcement.] Click Here for a copy of Sen. Obviously, that doesn't add up quite, but there's a little bit of renewables included in that. “We
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