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NRDC: PJM Interconnection Delays In Queue To Approve Renewable Energy Projects Threatens State Transition To Clean Energy; PJM Has Approved 35,000 MW Of Renewables

PA Environment Daily

On May 18, the Natural Resources Defense Council released a new report illustrating how the PJM Interconnection plans to speed up the queue for new generation projects will likely be insufficient for states committed to renewable portfolio standard requirements. They include solar, wind or energy storage facilities.

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California Advances Corporate Climate Accountability Amid New Evidence of ExxonMobil’s Deception

Union of Concerned Scientists

Under Woods’s leadership, ExxonMobil claims to be “ advancing climate solutions ” while investing $25 billion per year through 2027 in capital expenditures, all but a fraction of it in expanding the corporation’s oil and gas business. Woods is apparently following the playbook drafted by Exxon’s former head of corporate research in 1988: “1.

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Cities & the Inflation Reduction Act

Law Columbia

cities move toward their greenhouse gas reduction goals via a cleaner national electric grid, increased vehicle and building electrification, and new distributed renewable energy resources. Only portions of the legislation apply directly to units of local government, but taken as a whole it can be expected to help U.S.

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Did Biden have to approve the Willow oil project?

Legal Planet

The NPRPA, for example, requires that BLM “provide for such conditions, restrictions, and prohibitions ” on activities within the Reserve as it determines necessary to protect the Reserve’s surface resources. And there will certainly be more litigation.