Cresforum

DECEMBER 21, 2023

It’s time for the United States to expand its energy infrastructure, but due to regulatory barriers imposed by both federal and state governments, many companies are being forced to delay projects that would help advance the clean energy transition. Watch the full discussion here.

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Washington Nature

APRIL 24, 2023

The Washington State Legislature has adjourned for the 2023 session, and our team is reflecting on some of our biggest successes, and where we can build to from here. An additional bill directs planning for energy generation and transmission expansion to ensure Washington has a connected, affordable, and reliable clean energy grid.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Join the Pennsylvania Solar Center and a panel of experts to learn more about Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) on November 17 starting at Noon for an opportunity to learn more about how Pennsylvania boroughs are advancing clean energy in their communities. Posted: November 8, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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Washington Nature

JANUARY 9, 2023

Today kicks off the 2023 state legislative session for our elected state leaders. As 2023 is the first year in which the state will be collecting revenue from the Climate Commitment Act, the stakes for these budget decisions are especially high. © Courtney Baxter/TNC. Aerial view over Plum Creek / Checkerboard Forest Lands.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 31, 2023

Petro indicated that his government will not allow the mine to proceed. Instead he favors support for clean energy production. The post What’s Up With Water – January 31, 2023 appeared first on Circle of Blue. The mine is expected to produce 3 billion pounds of copper over 23 years.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In the final days of 2023, the Ontario Energy Board released a decision that is good for the climate and reduces energy costs for existing gas users and new home buyers. Some 15 hours later, the Government of Ontario threatened to pass legislation that would reverse that decision.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 23, 2023

Toronto | Traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabeg, the Haudenosaunee, and the Huron-Wendat – Keith Brooks, Programs Director: Ontario continues to talk up its “Clean Energy Advantage” though the province is planning to build new gas plants and increase our reliance on gas, making the electricity grid dirtier.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 25, 2023

As recently as last September, the government issued warnings to fishermen because shellfish in the area had been exposed to algal biotoxins, and were dangerous to eat. Petro took office last August with “clear positions” against mining and fracking expansion in favor of clean energy, Bloomberg Línea reports.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

to Noon. -- May 18: Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG): What Small Businesses Need To Know Webinar. PaEN] Related Article: -- PA Solar Center: USDA Offering Grants To Install Solar Energy To Reduce Skyrocketing Energy Bills For Businesses, Municipalities, Nonprofits [PaEN] [Posted: February 13, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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Cresforum

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

With the doors closed on 2023, the new year offers the chance to look back at the progress the United States has made in emissions reduction and clean energy deployment. The 2024 Sustainable Energy in America Factbook found a combination of natural gas (43 percent) and renewable energy (23 percent) provided the majority of U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 16, 2022

Department of Energy announced its partnership with Carnegie Mellon University to launch and host the 2022 Global Clean Energy Action Forum in Pittsburgh September 21–23. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. The Global Energy Forum will also for the first time hold a joint plenary of CEM and MI. Granholm. “We

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 29, 2022

Department of Energy issued a Request For Information (RFI) to inform a $500 million program funded by the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to place clean energy demonstration projects on current or former mine lands across America. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. million acres in the United States.

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Washington Nature

APRIL 18, 2023

This came up especially when talking about HB 1216, a priority bill to expand clean energy development while taking local needs into consideration. Trustee Lobby Day is a highlight every year for the Government Relations team here at The Nature Conservancy.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 20, 2023

For the first time ever, the CER, an independent energy regulatory agency, has modelled a net-zero scenario in their Energy Futures 2023 report – and what they found is no surprise. To keep global average temperature to 1.5 degrees, we must quickly transition off of fossil fuels.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

These two pieces of legislation have historic amounts of funding available for climate work, clean energy, clean water, dealing with legacy pollution issues, really a lot of money and a lot of opportunity. “So, But grants will be made available to anyone who can prove that they have the equipment to plug a well.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 26, 2024

The Premier of Alberta has a problem with renewable energy. In August of 2023, Premier Smith imposed a seven-month industry-wide moratorium on new approvals for wind, solar, geothermal, and other forms of renewable energy. We’re falling behind Europe, China, much of Asia, and the United States in investment in renewable energy.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

On December 31, 2023, he retired from the Clean Air Council after serving as the organization's executive director and chief counsel for over 35 years. Throughout his career, Minott and the Clean Air Council earned a reputation for holding government agencies and fossil fuel companies accountable.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2024

Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released final regulations for their elective pay program , which allows many non-taxpayers, including local governments and their agencies and instrumentalities, to recoup the value of certain climate and clean energy tax credits as cash payments.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Not only does this not align with the global momentum to move beyond oil and gas, it’s yet another black mark for the Government of Canada’s promises to end fossil fuel subsidies. It’s meant to provide subsidies for clean energy projects in order to help Canada reach its greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Although its track record has some complexities, this timeline of German actions shows just its early and sustained attention to clean energy policy: 1990. Government adopts a sector-by-sector plan to reach 2050 climate goals. trillion tons.] Fifteen percent of electricity is renewable.

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Law and Environment

JANUARY 24, 2023

This past year represents a real turning point in the transition to electric vehicles, demonstrated by new major incentives and regulatory activities at both federal and state government levels and several notable accomplishments in the private sector. Let’s see if 2023 pushes the needle even further. 13,522,732 estimated FY 2023.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

During my more than two decades of federal service, I learned many things about the function of government. The goal is to encourage distributed solar programs to reduce energy burden and ramp up a clean energy source critical to achieving climate goals and building community resilience.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 16, 2024

Paying taxes helps governments to fund the services we all depend on, like education, healthcare and funding programs to tackle the climate crisis. Taxes also allow the federal government to provide subsidies to support a specific industry, like sports or culture, or to achieve a desired social outcome.

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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 . The Government of Canada estimates that this policy will redirect $2.5 We applaud the Government of Canada for showing much-needed climate leadership today.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 25, 2024

Department of the Treasury is hosting a public hearing on the December 2023 proposed regulations governing implementation of the Section 45V Credit for Production of Clean Hydrogen. From March 25 to March 27, 2024, the U.S. My comments, to be presented on March 27, are copied below.

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Clean Energy Law

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Green , James Bee , and Kevin Mak The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has published a Code of Conduct for Providers of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Rating and Data Products (Code), and an accompanying compliance checklist for providers (Checklist), following a public consultation conducted from June to August 2023.

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Cresforum

DECEMBER 21, 2023

During the 2023 National Clean Energy Week Policymakers Symposium , Bob Stout , a Senior Fellow at the Duke Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment and Sustainability, moderated a panel discussion on the regulatory barriers facing the transportation industry. That is a mistake,” Romanosky said.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 27, 2023

On June 14, 2023, the U.S. Direct pay – which is already in effect as of January 1, 2023 – allows tax-exempt entities, including local governments, to claim the value of certain clean energy and other tax credits as a cash payment, rather than as an offset to tax liability that they do not have.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

AB 2011: Ministerial Review for Specified Housing Projects on Sites Zoned for Office, Retail, and Parking The most significant CEQA legislative change last year was Assembly Bill 2011 (Wicks), which enacted the “Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act of 2022,” which is codified in Government Code section 65912.101 through 65912.140 (the Act”).

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Earlier this month the Government of Canada delivered on a key climate promise and released new rules which end public funding for fossil fuels abroad, starting January 1, 2023. It also begins to align federal spending with a climate-safe future, by prioritizing public dollars towards climate solutions like renewable energy.

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Clean Energy Law

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Green , James Bee , and Kevin Mak On 3 December 2023, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) unveiled the Singapore-Asia Taxonomy for Sustainable Finance (Taxonomy) at the United Nations COP28 climate conference in Dubai. beyond those that have already been signed by December 2023). Davies , Farhana Sharmeen , Michael D.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 14, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen Despite trying to position itself as one of the leading countries in the world when it comes to climate action and diversifying to clean energy, the US remains the world’s largest oil producer for the sixth year running. million barrels per day (bpd). million bpd, according to the agency.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 23, 2023

Electric power energy issues abound as the world and the industry address environmental policy challenges—climate change, air quality, waste and water policy, environmental justice, and Environmental Social Governance (ESG)—and various technology issues related to energy production and delivery, including the latest cutting-edge options.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 19, 2024

Yet, federal and provincial governments and big polluters are denying the need to prepare workers and our economy for a transition away from the sector. The Act also commits the government to have an Action Plan for sustainable job creation, which it must report on every 2.5 years, and update every 5 years.

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Washington Nature

APRIL 13, 2023

The House and Senate have released their respective draft budgets for 2023-25, and are working together over these last two weeks of the legislative session to pass a joint, final version. 2023 is a generational opportunity for climate investments The Climate Commitment Act is expected to generate around $1.7

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Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 8, 2024

Green , and James Bee On 22 December 2023, the Commission Delegated Regulation specifying the first set of European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) was published in the Official Journal of the European Union (EU). [1] These documents were published in December 2023, and stakeholders have until 2 February 2024 to provide feedback.

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Washington Nature

MARCH 17, 2023

March 8th marked the halfway point for the 2023 state legislative session, and with it came an important deadline. © Hannah Letinich 2023 HB 1181 and HB 1170 have both made it through the House, and are now working their way through the Senate. For now, let’s check in on where our top priority bills are at. © Morgan Heim.

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