Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The Golden State has adopted a slew of climate change laws over the past twenty years, and an even greater number of regulations. Required state to reduce emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and gave broad authority to CARB to implement the standard. To help you keep track, here is a timeline of California’s most important actions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 28, 2022

6 , the notorious law the Legislature passed in 2019 that slapped Ohio ratepayers with a monthly surcharge to bail out two struggling nuclear plants. 6 is still driving up Ohioans’ electricity bills—and undermining the state’s prospects for a clean energy future. 6 was signed into law by Ohio Gov. Since H.B. But thanks to H.B.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Fifteen percent of electricity is renewable. Renewables are a third of electricity consumption. Climate law makes emission targets legally binding 2019. Climate law makes emission targets legally binding 2019. Renewables are 42% of electricity. German parliament adopts a law to end coal use by 2038 at the latest.

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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. Pursuant to court order, EPA must finalize this regulation by December 2, 2020. State law requirements. O’Brien and Stacey L. VanBelleghem.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

A few years later, it introduced the Half the Oil Plan , which spelled out how to slash oil use through greater fuel efficiency and new, innovative technologies, such as electric vehicles and biofuels. Soon thereafter, it began extolling the virtues of battery electric vehicles , which it continues to do today.

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Vermont Law

JUNE 29, 2020

Under Governor Northam’s direction, Virginia’s Energy Policy shifted quite dramatically from when he first took office in January 2018 to what we have at the end of the 2020 Legislative Session. The new decade has been a busy start for Virginians as the General Assembly started its 2020 session on January 8. By Antonia Douglas.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 16, 2022

Columbia Law School’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), and the Initiative on Climate Risk and Resilience Law today released an Electric Resilience Toolkit to support policymakers and stakeholders working on issues around electric sector regulation and climate resilience planning.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 1, 2023

The New York Times–with its international reach–used these incidents in Encinitas, a beach town north of San Diego with a population of about 60,000, to explore safety issues around electric bikes. Electric bikes are proving to be a viable alternative for commuting and making short and medium trips, as NPR reported in January.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 24, 2022

The dam was upstream of Raqqa, the Islamic State’s command center, and it supplied drinking water, electricity, and irrigation water. The dam did not collapse in the bombing, but it suffered badly, with damage to its electrical systems and flood gates. In 2020, Circle of Blue researched a dozen large cities and found 1.5

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

from coal-fired electric generating units is roughly twice as high as the risk posed by PM 2.5 According to the article, there were roughly 460,000 excess deaths in the United States from 1999-2020 resulting from exposure to PM 2.5 first appeared on Law and the Environment. from other sources. from coal-fired EGUs.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 31, 2022

On the last day of the 2022 Minnesota legislative session, state legislators had a real case of the Mondays: They failed to deliver on climate and energy policies that would have accelerated renewable energy enough to forge a clear path to carbon-free electricity and set the state on track to meet science-based emission reduction targets.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 31, 2022

American Electric Power. Did the companies initiate plans to cut emissions or were they forced to do so by state law? thanks to Jetta Cook, Berkeley Law ’22). (1) Energy Mix (2020): [link]. Generated Energy Mix (2020): [link]. Energy Mix (2020): [link]. 6) American Electric Power. VHC 4% Gas 27%*.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

They just released their 2022 “Annual Energy Outlook” (AEO), which is a big deal: it tells us where electricity is headed over the next 30 years. Here are five key takeaways from this year’s AEO, focused primarily on the electricity sector: 1. This year’s projections are a bit grim. Carbon emissions remain high.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

The EIA reports that: “Fossil fuel sources accounted for about 69% of South Korea’s electricity generation in 2019, and the share of nuclear power accounted for 25%. Coal-fired power, which is a baseload source, is the dominant fossil fuel used to generate electricity (40%), and natural gas-fired capacity is the second-largest source (26%).”.

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Energy and Climate Law

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

In essence the court agreed with Vattenfall that it had been expropriated because it was not allowed to make use of the so called residual electricity volume (Reststrommenge) that had been allocated for this particular plant. The residual electricity volumes are a key-instrument of the Atomic Energy Act and the German nuclear phase out.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 9, 2022

On June 30, 2022, the State of California joined the State of New York in adopting legislation that allows state authorities to bypass local laws in permitting large-scale renewable energy projects. Law § 94-c(2)(h). Credit: New York Office of Renewable Energy Siting. b)(1) (emphasis added); and. emphasis added). 94-c(4)(g).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Replacing petroleum with renewable electricity as the primary source of transportation energy will leave us all much better off. To achieve net-zero emissions in 2050 we must have 100% of new sales of light-duty passenger vehicles be electric by 2035, and of medium- and heavy-duty trucks at the latest by 2040.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 2, 2022

Scotland set a 2020 goal of 100% renewable energy electricity generation. In 2020, they just missed this goal, at 97.4% This covers electricity, heating, transportation, etc., and is separate from their 2020 goal which centered just on electricity. This covers electricity, heating, transportation, etc.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

US ratepayers very likely will pay even more for electricity and heating this winter compared to the already-expensive winter of 2021-2022. The bankruptcies were set in motion even before 2020. A smaller percentage of homes are heated by other sources, such as electricity or propane.)

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Energy and Climate Law

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Now the government is pushing ahead with settling compensation - but not via a law but via a public law contract. Electricity production from coal shall end in 2038 at latest in Germany. However, German company Uniper threatened, in 2020, to take legal action in front of international arbitration fora to challenge the law.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

However, the new tariff would also apply to electric cars of 2 tonnes and more. ” While Hidalgo has served as mayor of the French capital, the streets of Paris have been transformed, with 84 km of cycle lanes created since 2020 and a 71% jump in bike usage between the end of the COVID-19 lockdowns and 2023, according to City Hall.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The proposed amendment is a brief but powerful statement of principle, according to John Dernbach, a law professor at Widener University Commonwealth Law School. Environmental Protection Agency and passed landmark environmental laws to protect air, land, and water. Dernbach told Circle of Blue. It doesn’t need to be long.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

An ambitious law that promises to accelerate the state’s clean energy transition, CEJA provides a detailed framework for greater utility transparency and accountability to update electricity distribution infrastructure to ensure a clean energy future. Illinois utilities contributed to that trend. billion to $2.2

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Acoel

JUNE 5, 2024

DeGulis For those seasoned rockers, CCR means Creedence Clearwater Revival, but for environmental lawyers, CCR means Coal Combustion Residuals (“CCR”) which is a slurry by-product from the generation of electricity from coal fired power plants. Thus, environmental law practitioners have a new acronym “CCRMU.” EPA, 901 F. 3d 414, (D.C.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

Shapiro’s office supporting “key recommendations” in a 2020 Grand Jury Report that concluded DEP’s oil and gas regulatory program failed to protect public health and the environment. On April 26 Inside Climate News published a comprehensive article by Stacey Burling on issues surrounding the disposal of 2.6 Read more here. 27 Released 1.1

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

On September 8, the Department of Environmental Protection announced it is offering bigger consumer rebates for electric vehicles, with a focus on working-class households, and providing $3.4 For example, a family of two with an income of $69,000 is eligible for a $2,000 rebate for a battery electric vehicle.

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Energy and Climate Law

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The electricity must come from renewable sources, from a private solar-panel or from an energy supplier that only uses electricity from renewable sources. There needs to be a data-connection for the wallbox to communicate with the electricity grid. A number of further requirements need to be fulfilled.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Like many other public-serving institutions throughout society, electricity and gas utilities are facing calls to be more equitable in their operations, planning, and treatment of customers. In 2019 and 2020, I served as a member of a committee involved in the implementation of California’s Assembly Bill 617.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 22, 2024

In order to achieve this target, the United States will need to greatly expand electricity generation while decarbonizing electricity resources. Department of Energy has stated that, in order to meet growing clean electricity demands, the United States must expand its transmission systems by 60% by 2030 and upwards of 300% by 2050.

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Greenbuilding Law

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

In 2020, solar panels provided about 40% of new U.S. electric generation capacity, compared to just 4% in 2010. Overall, more than 3% of electricity in the United States was produced using solar technologies in 2020. While in use, solar panels safely generate electricity without creating greenhouse gas emissions.

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Manning Law

JUNE 8, 2020

In celebration of Environment Day 2020 on June 5, we publish here in full the speech given by Inger Andersen, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme. Now is not the time to set aside environmental laws and norms in the name of recovery, as we have seen done in some places.

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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 27, 2019

A short list of environmental and energy law changes compared to recent years: Fisheries. For stormwater and other nutrient sources, the law continues to require nutrient offsets in the same hydrologic area. The bill creates a task force to report back to the legislature in February 2020 on rules to replace those amended in 2018.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

This would have enabled the CAISO to expand its operations into the rest of the west as a regional transmission organization (RTO), an independent entity that plans and operates the electricity grid. The list goes on, but you get the point. The 2018 bill did not pass, but the idea never faded. Basically, it’s all up in the air right now.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 8, 2023

To further advance sustainable logistics, Rotterdam signed the Zero Emission City Logistics Covenant (ZECL) in December 2020, demonstrating a collective commitment to establishing a zero-emission zone for city logistics (ZECL-zone). Rotterdam, Netherlands serves as an example with its existing Low Emission Zone that affects freight vehicles.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

These days, the world is quickly learning that energy choices are determined by pipelines and electric grid infrastructure. In the face of Russia’s weaponized manipulation of energy supplies, the public and policymakers need to plan for the future. Grid planning is central to energy reliability, affordability and fuel choice.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 24, 2022

With no electricity available, and firewood a scarce commodity, she adds a spoon of bleach to every 20-liter bucket of water. A contractor, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said he oversaw upgrades to the sewage pump stations and refurbishment of the wastewater treatment works in 2020. By Steve Kretzmann, CCIJ — August 25, 2022.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 13, 2023

Last year, renewables generated more electricity in the United States than coal for the first time, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). US electric car sales, meanwhile, jumped 65% compared to 2021, while overall car sales last year declined from the previous year. Electric vehicles (EVs) accounted for 5.8%

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