Law Columbia

JUNE 21, 2023

All of this makes the transition to cheap, renewable energy a necessity for the country. The combined impact of this litigation – preventing the emission of hundreds of millions of tons of carbon dioxide and other destructive pollutants – arguably ranks this among South Africa’s most successful public interest litigation campaigns.

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A Greener Life

JULY 23, 2021

They have government backing too, with heavy spending on recharging networks. But for other fossil-fuel guzzling transport systems which cannot easily plug into the mains, such as long-distance shipping and aviation, hydrogen may turn out to be the key to lowering carbon emissions. Iceland also has geothermal energy.

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Fossil Fuels Electricity Carbon Dioxide Carbon Emissions 98

Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 11, 2022

On December 8, 2021, President Biden issued an Executive Order on Catalyzing Clean Energy Industries and Jobs Through Federal Sustainability (EO), which aims to set the federal government — the largest purchaser in the country with an annual purchasing power of $650 billion — on a path to net zero emissions by 2050.

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Greenhouse Electricity 2030 Carbon Emissions 130

Legal Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

Even one of the core statutes governing ConocoPhillips’s rights under these existing leases, the Naval Petroleum Reserves Production Act, directs the Biden administration to constrain the exercise of existing lease rights to limit environmental harm. That blinkering is more a symptom of weak political will than of weak law.

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