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U.S. Climate Law: A Broad & Rapidly Growing Field

Legal Planet

In preparing to teach a course on climate law, I was really struck by how broad and rich the field has become. Back in the day, it was nearly all international law, but nowadays there’s a huge amount of U.S. domestic law. and international law. and international law. Vehicle biofuels requirements.

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IRS Releases Guidance on SAF Tax Credit and Signals Forthcoming Revisions to GREET Model for Determining Lifecycle GHG Emissions Reductions

Law and Environment

It also announces that the Department of Energy (“DOE”) will release an updated GREET model in early 2024 that meets Section 40B’s requirements for determining SAF’s lifecycle greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions reductions. Or, they may use “any similar methodology that satisfies the criteria under § 211(o)(1)(H) of the Clean Air Act.”

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Livestock Operations Are Responsible for Over Half of California’s Methane Emissions—Why Won’t CARB Regulate Them?

Legal Planet

To identify which fuels should be promoted, CARB calculates the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions from transportation fuels. In these “carbon intensity” calculations, CARB is not allowed to count reductions in greenhouse gas emissions that are already required by law. Agricultural operations are almost uniquely unregulated.

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New Inflation Reduction Act Tracker Launched by the Sabin Center and EDF

Law Columbia

The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and Environmental Defense Fund have just launched IRAtracker.org. Section 60103 creates a “Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund” (GGRF), which the EPA Administrator can use to make grants for the deployment of zero-emission technologies, and to carry out other greenhouse gas emission reduction activities.

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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

Law Columbia

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. The plan must specifically address how EPA will consider the effects of Clean Air Act regulation on the coal industry. and non-U.S. McCarthy , No.

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Reading the Tea Leaves: Biden’s and California’s Vehicle Regs at the D.C. Circuit

Legal Planet

greenhouse gas emissions, more than the electric power sector. EPA is an effort by conservative states and fuel suppliers to block EPA regulations of greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. I’m an appellate litigator with a focus on climate and Clean Air Act cases.

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ESA Policy News: February 20, 2023

ESA

EPA : The draft annual greenhouse gas emissions inventory finds that U.S. Potential climate actions identified in the letter include developing a national climate adaptation strategy and adapting new greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. EPA – Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit.

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