Clean Energy Law

JUNE 1, 2022

The program’s original target was to reduce the carbon intensity (CI) of transportation fuel used in California by 2020 at least 10% from a 2010 baseline. A fuel supplier with deficits must generate or acquire an equivalent number of LCFS Credits on an annual basis, creating demand for low-CI fuels in California.

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

While solar PV and wind power are grabbing headlines, another clean energy revolution is silently taking place. Anaerobic digestion is a biological process happening naturally that breaks down organic matter in an airless environment, resulting in the generation of methane and carbon dioxide (among other things, see below).

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Sentencing was scheduled for February 3, 2017. The petitioners said they wished to obtain a ruling on the merits prior to the scheduled May 2017 completion date for the pipeline in the event that the D.C. The count to which the defendant pleaded guilty involved a request for reimbursement of $363,668.50 United States v. Ruffatto , No.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

How moving toward clean energy can save consumers money Unlike gas, clean energy does not suffer from wild price fluctuations. Fuel costs don’t change for wind- and solar-powered electricity over time because the wind and sun are free, and clean energy produced in the U.S. stays in the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 20, 2021

DEP’s Climate Change Advisory Committee is scheduled to meet August 24 to review the latest Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventory for Pennsylvania and hear an overview of DEP’s Energy Office Clean Energy Program Plan. million tons in 2017 to 241.12 million tons in 2018. million tons to 235 million tons. There was also a 14.3

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule repealing the Clean Power Plan and finalizing the final Affordable Clean Energy rule in its place. States and Cities Challenged Rule Preempting State Regulation of Vehicle Carbon Dioxide Emissions. West Virginia v. 15-1363 et al. Center for Biological Diversity v.

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Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 25, 2024

By Joshua Bledsoe , Kevin Homrighausen , and John Detrich On December 2, 2023, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a final report that substantially increases estimates of the social cost of greenhouse gases (GHG), including carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide (collectively, SC-GHG). 2017), [link]. [7]

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

A few days after the California court issued its order, North Dakota and Texas asked the Wyoming federal court to lift a stay that the court had imposed in December 2017. DOE estimated that the standards would reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 99 million metric tons and save consumers and businesses $8.4 2017 CA 006685 B (D.C.

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Legal Planet

MAY 11, 2023

The EPA is proposing a new standard for fossil fuel-fired power plants to avoid 617 million metric tons of carbon dioxide through 2042. The ZEV regulation is not sustainable,” John Bozzella, CEO of industry trade group Global Automakers, told USA Today in 2017.  How’d that work out?

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Several factors¾including the effects of the economic recession, shifts in energy markets from coal to natural gas and renewable energy sources, and carbon pollution mitigation and clean energy programs like renewable portfolio standards¾have been identified as principal drivers of these reductions. [2].

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

Obama’s “Clean Power Plan” was repealed in 2017 by Trump’s EPA. Their attempted replacement, the “Affordable Clean Energy Rule”, would lead to an insignificant reduction in GHG emissions compared to no regulation at all [6]. 5] Environmental Protection Agency, “Fact Sheet: Clean Power Plan”. [6] Miller, Carol J.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Peabody, a coal company, filed for bankruptcy in April 2016 and emerged from bankruptcy under a plan that became effective on April 3, 2017. Reorganized Peabody Energy Corp. County of San Mateo (In re Peabody Energy Corp.) , No. Circuit Upheld Department of Energy LNG Export Authorizations from Three More Facilities.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 4, 2021

Million In Grants To Benefit PA Portion Of Bay Watershed [PaEN] WBTimes: Cong.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in December 2017 and March 2018 because the environmental assessments for the lease sales failed to meet National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requirements, including by failing to take a hard look at cumulative climate change impacts. Briefs Filed in Challenges to ACE Rule and Clean Power Plan Repeal.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

It was also mentioned recently by Senator Casey, who proposed that natural gas — fitted with CCS technologies — be used, along with renewables, to increase clean electricity. So, what could be wrong with a technology that promises to capture carbon dioxide and remove it from the atmosphere as a way to bring those emissions under control?

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. The Obama Administration set the first vehicle GHG emissions standards in 2010 for vehicles manufactured in model years 2012 through 2016, and set revised standards in 2012 for model years 2017 through 2025. Last year, local governments in the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

That would of course include fossil gas, which consists of 85 to 90 percent methane, a significantly more potent heat-trapping gas than carbon dioxide. And in 2022, Atmos Energy, Black Hills Energy, Summit Utilities, and Xcel Energy were among the founders of Coloradans for Energy Access.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

Circuit Decision Vacating Affordable Clean Energy Rule. Circuit’s January opinion vacating EPA’s repeal and replacement of the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan regulations for controlling carbon emissions from existing power plants. Keystone XL was authorized under the 2017 NWP 12. FEATURED CASE.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 20, 2021

In the meantime, the Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases issued a technical document providing interim estimates, including a cost of $51 per metric ton of carbon dioxide, using estimates developed prior to 2017 and adjusting for inflation. Circuit struck down last year.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

On June 23, 2021, Chevron Corporation filed notice in the district court of its voluntary dismissal of third-party complaints against the energy company Equinor ASA (formerly Statoil ASA). Circuit Decision on Affordable Clean Energy Rule. North Dakota and Second Coal Company Asked for Review of D.C. Trump , No. 4:19-cv-00028 (D.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Comitta To Introduce Bill Investing RGGI Proceeds In Helping Communities & Workers In Clean Energy Transition, Environmental Justice Areas, Promote Energy Efficiency -- Rep. -- Natural Lands, Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership Host Feb.

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ESA

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Ahead of COP, ESA issued a statement calling on world leaders attending the United Nations Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP26) in Glasgow to pledge immediate action to reduce carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and other greenhouse gas emissions that limits rising temperatures to 1.5? This position requires Senate confirmation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

It eliminates or slashes funding for clean energy and energy efficiency efforts throughout the Department of Energy and defunds a national Climate Corps , modeled after the New Deal era Civilian Conservation Corps. It blocks funding for state net zero programs and tighter building energy codes.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

Climate: The Environmental Protection Agency does not list a timetable to act on a new carbon dioxide rule for existing power plants. The Trump administration approved an oil and gas lease sale in January 2021, as directed by the 2017 Tax and Jobs Act. The court determined that the U.S.

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Science Blogs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

This post covers from approximately mid-June, 2017 up to August 31, 2017. San Diego commits to 100% clean electricity. . Energy Department aims to close international clean energy office. EPA head met with multiple energy execs in his first weeks. July 2017. . And now the full list: .

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ESA

AUGUST 16, 2021

However, the world could avoid the more extreme scenarios in the report if governments sharply reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions. billion for electric vehicle charging infrastructure and $27 billion for clean energy research, development, demonstration and commercialization. Chair : Sen.

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