Legal Planet

JANUARY 8, 2024

The biggest news since July was the passage of two major corporate disclosure laws. In addition, the Energy Commission adopted a new “virtual power plant” rule, allowing consumer-owned batteries to be aggregated and treated as power plants when they deliver power to the wholesale electricity market. California.

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Law and Environment

JULY 5, 2022

EPA need look no farther than Massachusetts, which issued its Clean Energy and Climate Plan for 2025 and 2030 the same day that the Supreme Court extended its crusade against the modern world by limiting EPA’s authority to regulate in the absence of a clear delegation by Congress. Until we do, everything else is just a patchwork.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 11, 2022

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. This law should go a long way in increasing the percentage of ZEVs and helping the Commonwealth achieve its clean transportation goals.

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Greenbuilding Law

MARCH 26, 2023

There is a move toward all electric buildings as a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and combat climate change. The state of Maryland is leading the way in this movement, including several local jurisdictions adopting all electric building code laws. So, the change to all electric buildings is not a simple issue.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The 2008-era slogan is shorthand for the Trump campaign’s energy policy, but we know much more about current conservative thinking on the subject thanks to Project 2025 , the 920-page transition plan for the next administration by policy strategists from the Heritage Foundation. That’s the crux of Project 2025’s energy chapter.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

million over the next five years to invest in electric vehicle charging stations. The funding is from the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Congress and the President are smartly investing in our economy by passing clean energy investments that will power millions of electric trucks, buses and cars built in the U.S. “We

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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 29, 2023

This blog post is a compilation of responses to the top 10 questions from our webinar last week, “ Does Your Lease Address New GHG Laws? ” The top 10 questions we received were: How does a building owner count its greenhouse gas emissions to report to the government under this new Maryland law ? That Alternative Compliance Fee (i.e.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2024

2023 was a milestone year for electric car sales in the US. Sales figure from VELOZ The top selling passenger car AND top selling light truck in CA in 2023, according to California New Car Dealers Association , were both electric vehicles with the Tesla Model 3 and the Tesla Model Y taking the top spots…as they also did in 2022.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 30, 2023

Landmark DTE Energy settlement In July, the Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) approved a momentous sett l e m ent agreement regarding the electric utility DTE Energy’s plan to provide electricity to its 2.3 Consumers Energy will close its remaining coal-fired power plants by 2025 and add 8,000 megawatts of solar by 2040.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 1, 2022

DTE’s proposal, known as an integrated resource plan, describes how the utility intends to fulfill its customers’ electricity needs over the next 20 years. These types of long-term energy plans include forecasting the amount of electricity customers will need and examining different options for supporting that need.

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore will also launch 12 key initiatives, including a levy on sustainable aviation fuel and low-carbon electricity imports. By the end of 2023, Changi Airport generated approximately 4% of its 2019 electricity consumption [ii] through solar power deployment. Davies , Farhana Sharmeen , Michael D.

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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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Legal Planet

APRIL 12, 2024

.’s delegation of federal Clean Air Act (CAA) authority for California to adopt regulations limiting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles and mandating the state’s steady transition from sales of conventional cars and light trucks to electric vehicles. Circuit’s long-awaited decision is State of Ohio v.

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E2 Law Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Specifically, New York is statutorily required to achieve: An economy-wide 85% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050; 70% renewable energy consumption by 2030 followed by a 100% zero-emission electric system by 2040; and. 6,000 MW of solar by 2025, 9,000 MW of offshore wind by 2035, and 3,000 MW of energy storage by 2030.

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Dylan White , and Sam Wong As countries around the world accelerate the transition to clean energy, the race to gain shares in the electric vehicle (EV) manufacturing market is intensifying, with global sales of EVs rising 31% in 2023. [1] News, Global Electric Car Sales Rose 31% in 2023 – Rho motion (Jan. 18741(a)(5). [5]

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 15, 2023

On October 13, the PJM Interconnection formally submitted proposed electric market reforms designed to support reliability of the electric grid now and in the future amid increasingly extreme weather and a changing generation fleet. Click Here for the complete announcement.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 3, 2024

This agenda was facilitated by the Heritage Foundation—the conservative think tank that also has a dark money-fueled activist wing called Heritage Action —under the name Project 2025: Presidential Transition Project. The think tank has published this game plan ahead of presidential transitions since the 1980’s.)

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Law and Environment

MAY 11, 2023

Working with Congressional leaders over the last two years, the Biden-Harris Administration delivered the largest and most ambitious climate investments in American history through the Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Modernize America’s 150-Year-Old Mining Laws and Responsibly Develop Domestic Critical Minerals.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 31, 2022

67% cut from 2005 by 2025. American Electric Power. Did the companies initiate plans to cut emissions or were they forced to do so by state law? thanks to Jetta Cook, Berkeley Law ’22). (1) Carbon Reduction Goal : Reduce CO2 emissions rate by 67% by 2025 from an adjusted 2005 baseline. 6) American Electric Power.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 18, 2023

The law provides $140 billion in tax incentives, direct loans, and grants to replace fossil fuels with cleaner renewable energy that lowers emissions of carbon dioxide. When the plant begins production, scheduled for 2025, it qualifies for a $1.75 That’s not all. “I million gallons of jet fuel per year from wood chips.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The report also noted the US Energy Information Administration projects “stronger pricing is predicted into 2025, as US LNG export capacity increases.” billion cubic feet per day of new LNG export capacity by the end of 2025. This run up in the price of natural gas and electricity cost U.S. billion cubic feet of capacity.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2022

SG: One great example of progress is the dramatic decline in coal-fired electricity in the United States. In 2012, coal accounted for 37 percent of US electricity, while natural gas and renewables—including hydropower—accounted for 30 percent and 11.7 percent respectively, according to US Energy Information Administration (EIA) data.

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Legal Planet

MAY 11, 2023

As this blog has pointed out in , the EPA has discretion for how to design the rules for power plants but not whether to do it at all, in other words, “the President is required to issue the rules, required by law and by the interpretation of the law by the highest Court in the land.”  million electric cars in use by 2025.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 8, 2023

The Netherlands’ Green Deal serves as a successful example, with 30-40 cities committing to implementing ZEZ by 2025. This target has been incorporated into the National Climate Agreement, a binding law that ensures political commitment to implementation.

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Law and Environment

MARCH 22, 2022

If the new rule is adopted, registrants will have to disclose their direct GHG emissions (Scope 1) and indirect GHG emissions from purchased electricity and other forms of energy (Scope 2). The SEC also included a “safe harbor” that would shield registrants from liability under the securities laws for disclosures on Scope 3 GHG emissions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

The CI is determined through a lifecycle analysis of the global warming pollution associated with the production and use of gasoline, diesel, biofuels, electricity, or other alternative fuels. In past rulemakings, CARB accounted for this policy overlap by only including climate benefits that exceed those required by federal law.

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Among the requirements in that statute is that Maryland implements BEPS mandating covered buildings achieve a 20% reduction in net direct GHG emissions on or before January 1, 2030, as compared with 2025 levels for average buildings of similar construction; and, ultimately attain net zero direct GHG emissions on or before January 1, 2040 (.

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Maryland has enacted the most rigorous state law in the country reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and otherwise addressing ESG stewardship including climate change. The law also requires future working groups, including a Building Energy Transition Implementation Task Force.

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Greenbuilding Law

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

electric generation capacity, compared to just 4% in 2010. Overall, more than 3% of electricity in the United States was produced using solar technologies in 2020. While in use, solar panels safely generate electricity without creating greenhouse gas emissions. In 2020, solar panels provided about 40% of new U.S.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 4, 2021

Those standards, which my UCLA Law colleague-turned Chief Counsel of NHTSA, Ann Carlson, wrote about in 2011 , were designed to have cars hitting an average fuel economy of 54.5 mpg by 2025. The new standards to be released this week will represent the agencies’ revision of SAFE Part 2. reduction in GHG emissions year over year.

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The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 22, 2023

The 1,500-ton substation will be installed on a monopile foundation within the South Fork Wind Farm (one of only two active federal commercial offshore wind leases that have been approved for construction) to collect power produced by turbines and interconnect that electric energy to the grid. law, and wholly owned by a U.S.

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Renewable + Law

JUNE 16, 2022

The California Energy Commission (CEC) hosted a workshop on Tuesday, June 14 to discuss its recently issued (June 10) proposal to deploy federal electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure funding under the NEVI Program authorized by President Biden’s federal infrastructure bill signed into law late last year. [1]

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Renewable + Law

JUNE 16, 2022

The California Energy Commission (CEC) hosted a workshop on Tuesday, June 14 to discuss its recently issued (June 10) proposal to deploy federal electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure funding under the NEVI Program authorized by President Biden’s federal infrastructure bill signed into law late last year. [1].

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Electric Vehicle (EV) battery recycling is crucial to a sustainable, electrified transportation system. The EU Battery Law requires the recycling processes to have a recovery rate in 2025 of 90% for cobalt, nickel, and copper and 50% for lithium, increasing to 95% and 80%, respectively, in 2030.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 15, 2023

A policy brief published by the Emmett Institute in March 2022 outlines California air districts’ legal authority to adopt these kinds of regulations and suggests policy mechanisms to help ensure the transition to electric appliances is equitable and affordable. Regulators there and beyond are watching the Bay Area closely.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2024

Warren’s Bill To Help Reduce Single-Use Plastic Bottles Clears House Committee -- York Daily Record: York Plastic Recycling Company Now Charging To Accept Residential Waste -- PUC Reminds Consumers Of Mid-April Public Hearing On PECO Default Electric Service Plan -- PUC Commissioner Kathryn L.

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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 22, 2023

And that state and local government activity targeting building owners lies beneath the surface of national ESG mandates aimed at the businesses that are tenants which new laws are in many instances GHG emission disclosure heavy. A lease is the most common real estate transaction in America.

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