Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The amendments are intended to accelerate progress towards decarbonization of the electricity sector and further ensure the state meets its goal of net zero emissions by 2050. The CES, first enacted in 2017, requires retail sellers of electricity in Massachusetts to provide increasing quantities of clean electricity over time.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 25, 2023

These include jobs in battery and electric component manufacturing, charging infrastructure construction, and electricity generation. -- $2.3 Transportation accounts for twenty-two percent of Pennsylvania's greenhouse gas emissions, which the state must address to reach its climate goals. These gains include $1.3

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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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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 11, 2023

Pennsylvania electricity customers can choose who they want to supply electricity to their homes. Clean electricity is available, even without installing solar. This session will offer a step-by-step workshop on buying clean electricity. You just need to buy it. Have a copy of your utility bill handy for the workshop.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Shapiro's Administration in support of Pennsylvania reaffirming its commitment to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. Already, utility scale wind- and solar-produced electricity is cheaper to generate , and now is a critical time for Pennsylvania to invest in clean energy jobs.

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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.

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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. The regulations are very specific that on and after January 1, 2025 (.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Required the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to set standards for greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) new vehicles. Effectively prohibited California utilities from using electricity from coal-fired generation. 2023 SB 253. 2006 AB 32. Required CARB to create an inventory of GHG emissions. 2015 SB350.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 4, 2023

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. This post will describe draft rules being considered by the N.C. The proposed N.C. As a result, the N.C.

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Law and Environment

MARCH 26, 2024

In 2022, Pennsylvania became the 12th member of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (“RGGI”). 1, 2023, declaring the RGGI rulemaking void. In December 2023, the DEP initiated an appeal of the decision to the state’s Supreme Court by filing a notice of appeal. The Commonwealth Court issued an Order on Nov.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Hydrogen, like electricity, is an energy carrier – it can be used to store and deliver usable energy, for example to a cement or steel factory or to produce fertilizer. Hydrogen is all the rage because when it is burned, it doesn’t create any greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. A new fossil fuel subsidy in 2023! The post What?

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2023

The $10 million grant will be utilized by PRT to replace four 40-foot diesel transit buses with electric buses. The grant will also support the purchase and installation of two electric chargers along with necessary infrastructure in the garage to which the buses would be assigned. Posted: April 10, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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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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Law and Environment

AUGUST 11, 2022

The Department shall approve the rebates not later than June 30, 2023; and. The proposals shall ensure equitable participation by all electric vehicle owners and lessees. Not later than October 31, 2025 the department shall issue at least 1 order that responds to distribution.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Electric trucks are ready for work We’ll need to tackle these issues from many fronts, and one promising avenue is electrifying our trucks and buses. There are currently over 100 models of electric trucks available or coming in the next two years in the US, made by over 40 manufacturers. The short answer is yes.

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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. Climate action in Canada needs to increase in pace and in its ambition to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. To keep global average temperature to 1.5

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The Legislature also increased efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions with the passage of Assembly Bill 1279 and Senate Bill 1020, setting net zero emissions targets and renewable energy and zero-carbon targets for California retail electricity sales. None of the amendments, however, more broadly limit CEQA’s reach.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

Together, these standards will accelerate California’s necessary transition to a cleaner and more efficient freight system, increasing the estimated number of electric trucks on our roads and highways by 70 percent in 2050. A full transition to electric drayage truck operations in 2035. There are more than 1.8 pollution from vehicles.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2023

Twenty-one school, business and community projects were honored with the 2023 Governor's Award for Environmental Excellence. Utilizing manure nutrients efficiently means that risk of loss of nitrogen, phosphorus, sediment, and greenhouse gas is minimized. The overarching goal of Manure Expo is based on environmental quality.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Shapiro released the consensus recommendations by the Climate and Energy Work Group of organized labor, energy industry, consumer and environmental stakeholders to discuss Pennsylvania’s energy future, including the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 28, 2023

On August 23, the PJM Interconnection Critical Issue Fast Path Resource Adequacy stakeholder group heard testimony and suggestions on the issue of making electricity market changes to address nonperformance of natural gas and other generators during emergencies and events like Winter Storm Elliot in December. Read more here. Read more here.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 17, 2024

2023 was the hottest year on record The degree of devastation across Canada in 2023 was difficult to comprehend. July and August 2023 were the hottest months ever recorded globally. Lytton, BC was Canada’s hot spot in 2023 at 42.2°C Greenhouse gas emissions are causing the climate crisis. C on August 15.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The Department of Environmental Protection is now accepting nominations for the 2023 Governor’s Award for Environmental Excellence. The deadline for nominations is December 21.

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Law and Environment

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

On September 21, 2023, the Biden administration outlined plans to expand federal agencies’ consideration of the social cost of carbon—a metric for the economic cost of each additional ton of carbon dioxide emitted to the atmosphere.

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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). All of which is true, but.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Analysis from the green think tank, Ember shows high inflation rates are driven by the surge in coal-fired electricity as it is more financially viable than purchases of expensive natural gas. In 2023, the Mediterranean country generated a record 117.6 during 2023 increasing coal’s share in the electricity system increased from 35.4%

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Ontario is failing to reduce the province’s greenhouse gas emissions. This is pitiful, especially because p rovinces hold sizable levers that can reduce (or increase) greenhouse gas emissions in Canada. Ontario does have a target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 4, 2023

This is the last in our series of posts previewing the Emmett Institute’s 2023 Symposium , coming up on April 12. The sector—including personal transportation like passenger cars, as well as air, marine, and surface goods and people movement—is the largest source of greenhouse gasses in the U.S.: Many ( 92% ) U.S.

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E2 Law Blog

JANUARY 5, 2024

26, 2023, applicable to clean hydrogen production facilities. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) issued proposed regulations , published in the Federal Register Dec.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 21, 2024

Canada’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are still rising, although they are still lower than pre-COVID levels. Some industries however, such as electricity, are reducing their emissions, the pollution from the production of oil and gas is increasing. The Government of Canada released a framework for the emissions cap in December 2023.

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

First off, some facts and figures from Ember, which recently stated that both fossil fuels generation and CO2 emissions from the European electricity sector fell 19 percent last year alone. Renewables now account for 44% of the EU electricity mix and wind power is now producing more electricity than natural gas.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2023

On May 1, the Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee was told the wholesale prices of electricity in the PJM regional electric grid are too low to support coal and natural gas power plants. Electric vehicle proliferation, just look at all the mandates related to electric cars.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Background Coal mine operators now have a greater interest in installing flares to reduce methane - a potent greenhouse gas - to participate in programs that allow them to generate and sell credits to other companies participating in greenhouse gas emission reduction programs. million metric tons. million metric tons.

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E2 Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

11, 2023, the City Planning Commission approved amendments to the New York City Zoning Resolution, called “City of Yes for Carbon Neutrality,” proposed by Mayor Adams’ administration to advance the city’s climate goals, including an 80% reduction in carbon emissions by 2050.

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Law and Environment

JULY 10, 2023

On June 26, 2023, the Cambridge City Council voted to amend the city’s Building Energy Use Disclosure Ordinance (BEUDO) to require large non-residential buildings to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2035 and mid-size non-residential buildings to do so by 2050.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In 2023, Canada experienced its worst ever wildfire season , with 167,000 people forced to evacuate their homes under 211 federal evacuation orders. While the federal and some provincial governments made key announcements in 2023 that will support climate action and improve the cost of living, they have more to do.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 16, 2024

By making it cheaper to find, extract, process, transport and export fossil fuels, subsidies encourage more fossil fuel production, increasing the risk of locking in greenhouse gas emissions for decades to come. They’re an efficient way to use electricity for both heating and cooling – which means you don’t need a separate air conditioner.

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