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Introducing Our Blog Series on Clean Hydrogen

Law and Environment

Each week or so we’ll post an article on different legal, regulatory, and technical opportunities and challenges facing companies who are developing or exploring clean hydrogen projects. Wind, solar, and electric vehicles are undoubtedly important, but they will only take us so far. Clean hydrogen could be one of those solutions.

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Walkable Neighborhoods and Public Transit are Part Of the Clean Energy Transition

Union of Concerned Scientists

By expanding public transportation and rail, and by planning our communities in ways that let people meet their needs with biking, walking, and shorter driving trips we can make the clean energy transition more achievable and affordable. Technologies like biofuels and hydrogen, while necessary, come with potential drawbacks.

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Dear Oil and Gas CEOs: Here’s How You Should Spend Those Record Profits

Union of Concerned Scientists

DO: Dramatically increase your investment in renewable energy. “High energy prices are largely a result of underinvestment by many in the energy industry over the last several years and especially during the pandemic,” said ExxonMobil in a statement on its huge profits.

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New York Climate Action Council Approves Draft Scoping Plan to Achieve the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions

Law and Environment

The Council’s draft plan recommends a broad array of regulatory measures, legislation, and other state actions across every sector of the state’s economy – any and all of which could have significant implications for New York’s clean energy markets for decades to come.

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

Law Columbia

The IRA extends and expands several tax credits and incentives, including those for renewable energy investments and production, clean vehicles, carbon capture and sequestration, biofuels, and commercial and residential energy efficiency.

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IRA Implementation: The State of Play

Legal Planet

Announcing $400 million in grant funding available for school districts to purchase electric or low-emission school buses. Nearing the opening of a $14 billion National Clean Investment Fund competition that will fund 2–3 national nonprofits that will serve as green banks.

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New York State Environmental Regulator Issues Draft Plan to Achieve GHG Emissions-Reduction Goals

E2 Law Blog

Enacted in 2019, the CLCPA transformed the state’s earlier clean energy standard efforts from administrative fiat to law and sets more aggressive goals to reduce statewide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions economy-wide to 60% from a 1990 baseline by 2030, and 15% from a 1990 baseline by 2050.