Legal Planet
AUGUST 15, 2023
State of Montana, a Montana trial court ruled that the state Constitution’s guarantee of a healthy and clean environment prevails over Montana’s longstanding fossil-fuel-based state energy system. The court’s 103-page decision in Held v. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
The Energy Law Blog
OCTOBER 12, 2022
Status of Wind Energy in the Gulf of Mexico. Interior’s authority to regulate offshore wind comes from the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which amended the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to expressly authorize Interior to issue leases for renewable energy projects in federal waters. federal waters.
Law Columbia
DECEMBER 21, 2022
A 2020 study found that, in most states, regulators can only approve a transmission line if they determine it is “in the public interest.” will need to rapidly decarbonize its electricity generating system, replacing fossil fuel power plants with renewable energy systems. For more on that, see our 2020 report here.).
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