Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Governments across the United States are for the first time regulating greenhouse gas emissions. If it is January 1, 2024, most commercial building owners not already measuring greenhouse gas emissions for reporting to the government under the Maryland Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022, may be in violation of law.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 amended the Clean Air Act to create the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, a new program which will deploy $27 billion in competitive grants to mobilize financing for clean energy and climate projects that reduce or avoid greenhouse gas emissions, especially in disadvantaged communities.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 27, 2022

For example, a recent review blog from NOAA stated that, despite many study findings, one “cannot confidently detect a trend today in observed Atlantic hurricane activity due to man-made (greenhouse gas-driven) climate change.”. Will 2022 surpass 2020 and 2021 in number of billion-dollar extreme weather events or hurricane-associated costs?

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

This winter, Big Oil companies are announcing their 2022 profits, and records are being shattered. How big are the 2022 profits? How big are the 2022 profits? International giant Exxon Mobil reported $56 billion (USD) in profit for 2022 , “setting not only a company record but a historic high for the Western oil industry.”

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 14, 2022

It would raise the cost of electricity for 5 million retail power customers, increase greenhouse gas emissions associated with alternate sources of electricity generation, and eliminate key grid-support services that hydropower provides. The post What’s Up With Water – June 14, 2022 appeared first on Circle of Blue.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

In this UN forum, the main agenda items are reducing greenhouse gas emissions, adapting to climate extremes, and compensating poorer countries for damage caused by a warming planet. The post What’s Up With Water – November 8, 2022 appeared first on Circle of Blue. This is Eileen Wray-McCann – thanks for being here.

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CEQA Developments

JUNE 8, 2023

In late April the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (“BAAQMD”) promulgated its revised 2022 CEQA Guidelines (“2022 Guidelines”), available here. Thus, BAAQMD drafted the 2022 Guidelines (first blogged on here , which originally consisted of thresholds of significance but have now been substantially expanded and revised.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The World Wildlife Fund argues that this startling loss of biodiversity is intimately linked with the warming of the planet caused by greenhouse gases. The post What’s Up With Water – October 18, 2022 appeared first on Circle of Blue. One complicating factor is water.

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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. The post 2021-2022 California Environmental Legislation: What’s Been Enacted? Climate Change Mitigation. Download as PDF.

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 3, 2023

This post is adapted from a Client Alert to commercial real estate owners and tenants in those buildings in Maryland about the new regulations requiring that beginning January 1, 2024 greenhouse gas emission data be collected for reporting to the state government.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 5, 2024

There were fewer buses in service in peak periods across Canada in 2022 than there were in 2013, a year when transit systems served 2.7 Read the full report here The post How Canada Can Unlock the Power of Public Transit to Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions appeared first on Environmental Defence. million fewer people.

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Environmental Law Reporter

JULY 1, 2022

NOAA Annual Greenhouse Gas Index, 2021. Fri, 07/01/2022 - 05:52. Rachel Jean-Baptiste.

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SPR Law

JULY 15, 2022

On June 30, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court restricted the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in its 6-3 decision for West Virginia v.

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Manning Law

JUNE 15, 2022

Under most emissions trading systems, regulated industries, which fail to meet their greenhouse gas emission target must make up the shortfall either with a punitive payment or by purchasing emissions trading credits. Regulated parties whose emissions are less than their target will receive credits for that emissions saving.

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Law and Environment

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The Council must then issue its final Scoping Plan by the end of 2022. The post New York Climate Action Council Approves Draft Scoping Plan to Achieve the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions first appeared on Law and the Environment.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 18, 2023

On October 18, the Safety Division of the Public Utility Commission announced it is continuing their investigation into the circumstances surrounding a December 2022 house explosion and fire in Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County. Shapiro, Let's Hold Them Accountable - Support The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative - By Rev.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 24, 2022

This year’s winners displayed excellence in areas such as methane and other greenhouse gas reduction practices as well as water use efficiencies that support … Continue reading Innovation Center For U.S. Dairy announces 2022 Sustainability Award Winners.

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Guest Post by Julieta Juncosa Calahorrano , 2022-2023 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. greenhouse gas emissions in the year 2020. Candidate in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University Growing up in Latin America, food was at the center of many family gatherings. trucks), ruminant animals (e.g.,

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 18, 2022

Mar 24, 2022, 10:30 am CDTRegister here. The science says we have until 2030 to cut global greenhouse gas emissions by 45%. Climate journalism is at a turning point, as the day-to-day impacts of the climate crisis deepen and people everywhere search for the next, best thing they can do to make a difference.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 6, 2024

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted 3-2 to adopt climate reporting standards that will mandate publicly-traded companies disclose some of their greenhouse gas emissions. The upshot: California’s laws remain the strongest disclosure requirements in the nation.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

2022 was no different, with courts further delineating the procedural dimensions of climate cases and expanding on the responsibilities of stakeholders for climate mitigation and adaption. In June 2022, the Prague Municipal Court ruled in Klimatická žaloba ČR v. See a detailed analysis of the decision here.).

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Washington Nature

MARCH 11, 2022

This week, the 2022 Washington state legislative session concluded, with a few notable achievements for the environment in our state. This transportation package strikes directly at the state’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions. That includes reducing our reliance on greenhouse gas pollution from buildings.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

We then drafted state legislation to require disclosure of climate change-related financial risks, which was introduced by California State Senator Henry Stern as SB 449 (Stern) in the 2021-2022 session. While SB 449 was held in the Appropriations Committee in 2022, Senator Stern re-introduced the bill with amendments as SB 261 in 2023.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

On February 28, DEP Interim Acting Secretary Jessica Shirley told the House Appropriations Committee funding for DEP’s Oil and Gas Regulatory Program will be in the red by Fall and an “all sectors” greenhouse gas reduction program will not be recommended to implement the PA Climate Change Action Plan. It wasn't something that we're pushing.

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Washington Nature

MARCH 7, 2022

Last week, HB 1099, a bill that would have added requirements that ensure local jurisdictions are planning for climate-resilient communities while lowering their greenhouse gas emissions, passed out of the state Senate. It was scrubbed of the term “climate change” repeatedly.

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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 22, 2023

It would be one thing if this topic was only prospective, about leases to be entered into in the future, but the reality is there are very large numbers of existing leases including with renewal terms that are for premises that will be regulated by emergent greenhouse gas emission disclosure and reduction statutes, rules, and regulations.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It is 33 years now since the IPCC in its first report in 1990 concluded that it is “certain” that greenhouse gas emissions from human activities “will enhance the greenhouse effect, resulting on average in an additional warming of the Earth’s surface.” Carbon dioxide data from air bubbles enclosed in Antarctic ice.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

An increased focus on water’s role in climate mitigation may bring about solutions — including reducing greenhouse gas emissions, sequestering carbon, protecting biodiversity, and improving soil quality. Bridging this knowledge gap, according to the report, has “not yet been clearly articulated and recognized.”

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 11, 2023

. #22) have taken action to lower the environmental footprint of State government across a wide range of areas, including reducing greenhouse gas emissions, reducing waste, decreasing the use of … Continue reading Greening New York State: 11th Progress Report on Agency Sustainability: Fiscal Year 2021-2022

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2022

Pennsylvania’s power generation sector is one of the nation’s largest — and thus, also, one of the biggest emitters of climate-changing greenhouse gases. Worse, the latest increase reverses a decade-long pattern of gradually but steadily declining emissions. In fact, as the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette recently reported , it’s getting worse.

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Greenbuilding Law

APRIL 17, 2022

With legislation that became law last week, without the Governor’s signature, Maryland has enacted the most rigorous state law in the country reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and otherwise addressing ESG stewardship including climate change. only days from now). only days from now).

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Brag

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Department of Energy (DOE) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) has postponed the webinar originally scheduled for December 13, 2022 , on the “SAF Grand Challenge Roadmap: Soaring Towards Sustainable Fuel Production Goals.” ” According to BETO, the webinar will take place in early 2023. Enhancing fuel sustainability.

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The Energy Law Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Governor Edwards’ Climate Initiatives Task Force published the Louisiana Climate Initiatives Interim Report earlier this month, which outlines the process by which the Task Force plans to develop climate actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Louisiana. The Task Force is charged with making recommendations to achieve these goals.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2022

manufacturing plants earned the agency’s ENERGY STAR certification in 2022. Together, they prevented more than 5 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions from the industrial sector, which is responsible for nearly a third of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. Posted: March 15, 2022] PA Environment Digest

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2023

To identify which fuels should be promoted, CARB calculates the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions from transportation fuels. In these “carbon intensity” calculations, CARB is not allowed to count reductions in greenhouse gas emissions that are already required by law. Agricultural operations are almost uniquely unregulated.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 2, 2022

Last week, Senators Schumer and Manchin announced a compromise on a reconciliation bill, called the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 , that includes significant climate and air quality progress and a goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions nationwide by 40 percent by 2030. A key step towards addressing climate change and air quality.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 4, 2023

By coincidence rather than design, two different approaches to reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the electric power sector have been under discussion by North Carolina agencies since 2021. The two approaches share goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 70% by 2030 (from a 2005 baseline) and achieving carbon neutrality by 2050.

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