Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

I attended the climate conference as part of the UCLA Law delegation. To me, environmental law and climate policy are about people, protecting people, and advocating alongside those disproportionately affected by climate change. By contrast, this year there was an unprecedented number of fossil fuel lobbyists in attendance.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 31, 2023

That means a lot of energy law profs to teach them — many more than we have today. Law schools are waking up to the need to hire in the area. So if you’re thinking of law teaching, it could be worthwhile to dive into this field. John Erwin did a study of the entry-level professors hired in 2021, a very active hiring year.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The flares from the refinery burned so bright after Hurricane Ida in 2021 that they could be seen 25 miles away. In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Seven workers were killed in a 1988 explosion at the refinery.

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Environmental Law Reporter

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Global Fossil Fuel Production Gap. Wed, 12/01/2021 - 05:30. Rachel Jean-Baptiste.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Exxon , the cities and towns allege that the fossil fuel companies were liable because they knowingly produced and marketed products that have caused climate change harms, while concealing and misrepresenting the associated dangers. have filed more than twenty cases seeking damages from fossil fuel companies for climate harms.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

According to the Energy Information Agency , South Korea’s power sector is heavily reliant on fossil fuels. Two thirds of generation capacity is based on fossil fuels, split evenly between coal and natural gas, with 17% nuclear, and 14% hydro and other renewables. 50% coal, 26% gas, and 25% nuclear.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The Governor approved a notable slate of climate legislation with a package that includes more stringent greenhouse gas (GHG) emission targets and measures designed to reduce the state’s reliance on fossil fuels. Implementation of these new laws will be the true test of that statement, but they provide an exciting starting point.

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Acoel

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Posted on October 28, 2021 by Jonathan M. and Canada, did not violate the Equal Protection or Due Process clauses of the Constitution, and did not run afoul of state law. So add this to the growing list of decisions allowing local regulation of fossil fuel facilities.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 26, 2023

That would be the straw man erected by defenders of the fossil fuel industry who claim that facing climate change is a doctrinaire liberal policy. One group that has filed resolutions in the past is the far-right National Center for Public Policy Research, which fossil fuel companies including ExxonMobil have funded.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 26, 2022

Drawing on research by the Union of Concerned Scientists and others, the commission report found that fossil fuel companies fully understood their products’ impact on climate as early as 1965, when their own scientists discovered them. The commission’s trailblazing work is only the beginning.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 3, 2023

Along with interim goals and priorities for pollution reduction in environmental justice areas, the law provides authorization and resources for state agencies to enable the transition to clean, renewable energy. Illinois legislators and clean energy advocates celebrate CEJA’s signing in September 2021. What does that mean exactly?

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Federal government releases new policy aimed at ending international public financing for fossil fuels, next step is ending domestic financing . This new policy will end a significant portion of EDC’s support for fossil fuels and redirect those funds to support the clean energy transition.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

They accounted for most of the failed generating capacity in a number of recent extreme weather events, including Winter Storm Uri in 2021 and Winter Storm Elliott in 2022, according to Gas Malfunction , a new Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) issue brief. EN: US infrastructure planning has a long history of discrimination.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

At RePlanet Nederland, we are delighted that the European Commission has proposed, on December 31, 2021, to include nuclear energy in the sustainable finance taxonomy. Notably, in the same proposal, the Commission has also included screening criteria for gaseous fossil fuels.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 21, 2023

A 2021 meta-analysis of over 40 peer-reviewed studies on the subject concluded that “there is no particular type of shopping that has an absolute environmental advantage and it is in no way possible to shop ourselves out of the environmental crisis.” How would that change if I hopped on the electric bus route at the end of my block?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2022

The November 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), also referred to as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, or BIL, includes an $8 billion “regional clean hydrogen hubs” program that charges the Department of Energy (DOE) with the development of at least four hydrogen hubs to advance the nation’s clean hydrogen sector.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 2, 2022

UCS has laid out the reasons why mandatory and standardized climate disclosure will help communities, spur climate action, stabilize the financial system, and hold fossil fuel companies accountable. The good news is that this rule meets a lot of the criteria we set, although there are some areas that could be improved.

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Law and Environment

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The report seeks to establish a framework for a long-term reduction in emissions from heating fuels, to align with the Commonwealth’s emissions reduction target of net zero by 2050 and the 2050 Decarbonization Roadmap. Governor-elect Healey has her work cut out for her!

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Legal Planet

MARCH 31, 2022

It turns out that most of them are 50-60% reliant on fossil fuels, with a lot of the remainder coming from nuclear and hydro. This table shows how much power is generated from fossil fuels by the top ten utilities (ranked by market value). There was more fuel oil in use in some places than I expected. Carbon Goal.

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Energy & the Law

JULY 31, 2022

A special thanks to Derek Younkers, a soon-to-be 1L at Baylor Law School, who gathered the material for this post. And so it is with the plethora of lawsuits by states, cities and counties against oil and gas producers claiming catastrophic damages from fossil fuels. Some time ago we reported on City of San Mateo v.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Local actors seek climate change damages from the biggest fossil fuel companies through state law litigation. It also leaves untouched the litigation that has been bubbling up in state courts against the fossil fuel industry. Individuals, too, have brought state law cases. In the wake of West Virginia v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

Minnesotans are already experiencing the climate crisis, as well as health impacts, from burning fossil fuels. The Minnesota House has shown strong leadership in addressing the climate crisis and funding the clean energy transition at the scale necessary to swiftly curb heat-trapping emissions from fossil fuels.

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JANZEN AG

DECEMBER 17, 2021

As far as 2021 goes, the year was all about how farms are rising to challenge presented by climate change. Here is my list of the most read and discussed articles from my ag tech blog in 2021. This made me wonder, will these contracts cause us to update some antiquated real estate laws ? Understanding Carbon Credits.

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Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

These laws ban new fossil fuel plants and set aggressive targets for the state’s two major utilities, requiring emission cuts of 80% by 2030, 90% by 2035 and 100% by 2040. Here are a few details about the four bills: House Bill 2021 creates the emission reduction mandate. The cuts are measured from a 2010-2012 baseline.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2023

The state-specific fact sheet, On the Road to 100 Percent Renewables for Minnesota , outlines how it could meet its electricity needs completely and equitably with renewable energy by 2035 and dramatically reduce fossil fuel use in vehicles and buildings.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

If passed, this new law would finally put an end to the millions of tonnes of coal – the world’s dirtiest and deadliest fossil fuel – that are shipped overseas from Canada’ west coast every year. Back in 2021, the federal government committed to ending the export of thermal coal before 2030.

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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. Between 2015 and 2021, 274 North American oil and gas producers filed for bankruptcy with a debt load of $177 billion. The bankruptcies were set in motion even before 2020.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Illinois utilities Ameren and Commonwealth Edison (ComEd) are preparing distribution grid plans for the first time under new requirements established by the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act (CEJA) , which the Illinois Legislature passed in September 2021. The ICC will review the plans and issue a decision by end of 2023.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 8, 2022

To address the challenge, the Center for Law, Energy and the Environment (CLEE) at Berkeley Law and the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at UCLA Law are today releasing a new report, Supercharging Electrolyzers: Boosting Zero-Emission Hydrogen Production and Deployment in California.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

This is where the analysis behind AEO2022 dates itself to November 2021. From their thinking in November 2021, EIA projects that wholesale gas prices will remain less than $4.00/ million BTU through 2050, lower than gas prices in 2021. EIA also recently reported that US coal exports increased 23% between 2020 and 2021.

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Acoel

APRIL 24, 2023

Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Economic Sector in 2021. Source: EPA) As Seth Jaffe posted last week, the 9th Circuit recently struck down the City of Berkeley’s first-in-the-nation electrification ordinance that prohibited the installation of gas infrastructure in new buildings, finding the ordinance preempted by federal law.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 11, 2022

Department of Energy , there were 30,470 EVs registered in the Commonwealth as of December 31, 2021. This law should go a long way in increasing the percentage of ZEVs and helping the Commonwealth achieve its clean transportation goals. Stay tuned for Foley Hoag’s continuing zero emission transportation series.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

But this announcement was seemingly at odds with another made just three days earlier, when coal minister Pralhad Joshi confirmed that India intends to increase production for the fossil fuel. The communication cites a 2021 report from the Forest Survey of India which claims the country’s forest cover has expanded.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2021

It is a highly professional and analytically competent organization, rather conservative, and quite sympathetic to the perspectives and business needs of the energy sector, including fossil-fuel producers. That’s the end of THIS YEAR! First, the fact that it comes from the IEA makes it tough to arbitrarily dismiss the results.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 18, 2023

Since 2019, more than seventy local and state jurisdictions have followed Berkeley’s lead in requiring or strongly incentivizing all-electric or fossil-fuel-free new buildings, with more considering similar approaches. can be fueled by natural gas), and must base these options on a defensible “one-for-one” basis.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2023

Houska, who actively resisted the Line 3 oil pipeline and the Dakota Access pipeline, is heavily involved in the movement to defund fossil fuels. She believes in building a holistic and pragmatic movement, centering values that lead with natural law, humility and empathy, and carrying our words into action. 

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 31, 2022

The compromise included critical investments in solar, weatherization assistance, community energy transition grants, and leveraged funds from the federal infrastructure law. The best hope now for Minnesota legislators to act on the climate and energy agreement is a special session. billion in public health cost savings overall.

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