Clean Energy Law

JUNE 1, 2022

CCS Protocol : The 2018 amendments adopted a protocol to allow crediting of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) projects. CCS projects must incorporate monitoring, reporting, and verification requirements to demonstrate that the GHG reductions are permanent in order to generate LCFS Credits.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2022

Through its Organic Consulting Service established in 2019, Rodale Institute has witnessed the proliferation of misinformation that exists in the conversation around transitioning farms to organic. The final case studies will include examples from farms across a wide range of categories.

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2022

The median income among renters alone was about $52,900 in 2019; adjusting for inflation, this would be about $58,800 in 2022 dollars. Because this approach ignores HUD’s high-housing-cost adjustment, it has substantially lower rent caps than Schedule 1 across all income categories—about 36% less in 2021. Where TOC projects are built.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

One recent review in Science estimated that only 6% of 89 million carbon offsets issued to 26 projects under one of the voluntary crediting standards would be associated with real carbon reductions. Assessing progress over a larger area also reduces the risk of leakage between or from smaller projects.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

To dig into how the country got here, it’s helpful to split up the contributing factors into the three main “gas value chain” categories: the production of gas via drilling (“upstream”), the transportation of gas via pipelines (“midstream”), and the facilities that receive the gas, such as gas-fired power plants (“downstream”).

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Washington Nature

DECEMBER 8, 2022

In 2019, the Water 100 Project kicked off an effort to identify, assess, fund, and implement the 100 most substantive solutions for improving system conditions, benefiting humans and nature in ways that extend well beyond stormwater pollution. How did their rankings compare with other experts? How could the tool be applied?

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Credit: Mesa Schumacher Funding is, of course, essential to advance ocean CDR research but other factors could also have a major bearing on future projects. As previously reported on this blog, ocean CDR research could implicate various international and domestic laws that might affect whether, when, where, and how projects take place.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 2, 2023

In a 2019 scenario exercise examining governance responses to four scenarios of unauthorized SAI deployment, the scenario of a widely distributed grassroots effort using weather balloons was the only one the expert participants rejected as pure political symbolism, unable to achieve a meaningful climate impact.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

A top-down approach begins with atmospheric emissions as recorded by sensors or satellites which can then, by a variety of methods, be attributed to geographic regions or particular categories of emitters. Current AMMP projects are anticipated to reduce GHG emissions by about 1.1

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 2, 2022

The case holds that the City’s water allocations to the City’s agricultural lessees were authorized under its existing 2010 leases and thus did not constitute a new project subject to CEQA review before they could be lawfully implemented. The trial court ruled in favor of the County. The City appealed and the Court of Appeal reversed.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 17, 2023

Dark green (Category 1 Protection) represents existing Provincially Significant Wetlands. Dark green (Category 1 Protection) represents existing Provincially Significant Wetlands and habitat for endangered and threatened species. Source: Natural Ottawa Official Plan 2019. Map showing wetlands in the Region of Halton.

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Acoel

OCTOBER 1, 2021

VIRGINIA forever was established as a 501(c)(4) organization in 2006 as a project of The Nature Conservancy utilizing a grant from the Virginia Environmental Endowment. The group quickly agreed that it should support the environmental agencies’ budget requests in two broad categories: water quality improvement and land conservation.

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CEQA Developments

JANUARY 2, 2023

In a published opinion filed December 6, 2022, the Third District Court of Appeal reversed in part and affirmed in part the trial court’s judgment denying writ petitions in consolidated actions challenging the EIR for a major state government project affecting the Historic State Capitol Building and Annex in Sacramento. Save Our Capitol!

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CEQA Developments

MAY 2, 2023

The case has its origins in the operation of the Oroville Dam on the Feather River, which is part of the large statewide plumbing system with the prosaic name of State Water Project (“SWP”). It was also undertaking environmental review under CEQA by preparing an EIR for the project. Department of Water Resources (2019) 39 Cal.App.5th

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Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

Perhaps there are long-term trends in all-category tropical cyclones, however, we are more certain that the heavy rainfall brought by them has increased due to a stronger greenhouse effect for which we are responsible. Wm 2 over the period 1750-2019 because we have added extra greenhouse gases into Earth’s atmosphere.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 21, 2022

In 2019, New York State enacted a landmark climate law called the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA). The CLCPA will require siting and developing a very large number of major renewable energy projects at an unprecedented pace throughout New York State. Background. Law § 75-0107(1)(b). Law § 94-c(1).

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 30, 2019

January 30, 2019. In the first instance, the new limitation on stormwater controls for redevelopment projects may conflict with the local government’s federal permit. 26 that could not by any normal definition fall into any of those categories. Leopard: Thornybush Game Preserve (photo G.Whaley). The limits in G.S.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 10, 2022

The company, which now has projects underway in more than 25 cities, including Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Baltimore and Oakland, also plans to take its Civilian Climate Corps model with it as it expands, eventually implementing the program nationwide. . Robert Clark falls into this latter category.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

In the American West, funds approved in 2014 for water storage projects in California have not been used and a town in Utah completely runs out of water. The Category 4 hurricane made landfall on August 29 as one of the strongest storms to hit the United States. Funds For Water Projects in California Have Yet to Be Used, Years Later

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 19, 2022

According to the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) Green Drop Report for 2022 – an audit of all wastewater treatment works in the country for the period July 2020 to June 2021 – Standerton wastewater treatment works is 164% over capacity, achieving an overall score of just 17%, which puts it into the ‘critical risk category.’

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HumanNature

OCTOBER 8, 2021

The dimensions of global urban expansion: Estimates and projections for all countries, 2000–2050. Generic methodologies applicable to multiple land-use categories. Natural Capital Project. Science of The Total Environment 685 , 1181–1192 (2019). Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C 110 , 195–202 (2019).

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Arnold Porter

JULY 22, 2021

The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) recently issued a report to Congress on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) that outlines a variety of policy recommendations to bolster CCS projects in the US. Expedite Permitting: The CEQ report highlights legal mechanisms available to facilitate timely CCS project implementation.

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Manning Law

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The stocktake recognizes the science that indicates global greenhouse gas emissions need to be cut 43% by 2030, compared to 2019 levels, to limit global warming to 1.5°C. But it notes Parties are off track when it comes to meeting their Paris Agreement goals.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The map was produced by Corona Environmental Consulting based on a data-collection project funded by the Water Quality Research Foundation. Even with that record of risk nitrate pollution is in a category to itself. The map shows a combination of nitrate and nitrate-nitrite data from state and federal sources. It did not get very far.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 28, 2021

In 2019, over 200 environmental activists were killed, according to data from the advocacy group Global Witness. The Global Witness data found that 40 percent of all victims in 2019 were Indigenous, and more than a third of the attacks between 2015 and 2019 targeted Indigenous peoples. ———. Drought Monitor.

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Law Columbia

MAY 10, 2023

The so-called “ Willow Project ” will be developed by ConocoPhillips and involve the drilling of up to 199 new oil wells, spread across three well pads, along with the construction of various related infrastructure, including pipelines, processing facilities, roads, and boat ramps. million acres between 1999 and 2019.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

In that same time, EIA projects renewable electricity will rise from 28 percent to 50 percent of global generation. [6] In that same time, EIA projects renewable electricity will rise from 28 percent to 50 percent of global generation. [6] While energy sources across all categories failed in mid-February, they didn’t all fail equally.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

The case involves an Olympus Energy land use application for the Dionysus shale gas well pad submitted to West Deer Township, Allegheny County in 2019. Click Here for a summary of 2022 shale gas and conventional violations. It also offers a review of trends in research findings.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The case involves an Olympus Energy land use application for the Dionysus shale gas well pad submitted to West Deer Township, Allegheny County in 2019. Click Here for a summary of 2022 shale gas and conventional violations.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 28, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen In a bid to shore up its climate agenda ahead of the November US election, the Biden Administration has unveiled $6 billion worth of funding for carbon reduction projects. The US Department of Energy announced funding that would subsidise 33 industrial projects in 20 states. ExxonMobil won a $331.9

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Science Blogs

APRIL 11, 2019

How do we ensure natural solutions are carried out democratically and without echoing the technocratic arguments of many geoengineering projects? No project should be pursued that undermines their land rights, economic security and well-being. On the contrary, all projects should seek to strengthen them. Categories.

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E2 Law Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

64 MAP 2019 (Pa. There is a greater potential, however, that courts could nullify any attempt by the legislature to exempt specific projects or categories of governmental action from environmental review. Comm’n , 83 A.3d 3d 901 (Pa. 2013)(setting forth a history of the Article I, section 27, jurisprudence); see also Pa.

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Environmental Progress

AUGUST 3, 2020

Gleick falsely accuses me of cherry-picking a quote from a 2019 New York Times story on Amazon fires. “If felt that India, among others, was probably in this category. If you look at the actual article he cites,” writes Gleick, “the journalist makes clear the “influence” of climate change just two sentences later.”

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

EPA countered that what the agency did here is just what it has traditionally done under this core provision of the Clean Air Act (Section 202), including in three previous GHG rules for the same source categories: EPA examined available emissions-reduction technologies, costs, and lead time and then set technology-neutral performance standards.

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 26, 2023

The decision narrows federal agency permitting authority over projects impacting wetlands but may lead to increased state regulatory authority in permitting and enforcement over non-covered water bodies. 1] Sackett v. 21-454, at 22. [2] 2] Rapanos v. United States , 547 U.S. 715, 739 (2006). [3] at 782 (Kennedy, J. concurring).

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Circle of Blue

MAY 24, 2021

between 2015 and 2019 that were linked to swimming pools, hot tubs, and other treated recreational waters, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report. The Colorado Basin River Forecast Center lowered its projected runoff into Lake Powell by two percentage points, to 26 percent of normal. Geological Study report.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 28, 2022

There are more than 31,000 EVs registered in Pennsylvania, nearly triple the roughly 9,700 that were registered in March 2019. million to 205 projects by municipalities, businesses, and organizations for alternative fuel vehicles and fueling infrastructure, including a growing number of electric vehicle and charging projects.

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