Environmental News Bits

JULY 28, 2025

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Recycling

Law Columbia

JANUARY 21, 2025

International Climate Finance Plan DECLARING A NATIONAL ENERGY EMERGENCY [link] Declares national energy emergency, primarily based on high energy prices Use any lawful emergency authorities to facilitate the identification, leasing, siting, production, transportation, refining, and generation of domestic energy resources.

Endangered Species Act

Environmental News Bits

JUNE 16, 2025

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Recycling

Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 1, 2025

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Recycling

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JUNE 4, 2025

Further, under current law, farm operations with an Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) above $900,000 are not eligible for subsidies. Under current law, subsidies for administrative and operative (A&O) expenses to AIPs already amount to almost $4 billion annually and sometimes surpass annual payments to farmers.

Conservation

Legal Planet

APRIL 3, 2023

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.

Law

Energy and Climate Law

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Yesterday and today the European Parliament approved of the central backbone legislation of the European Green Deal, the so called European Climate Law. This blog entry takes a look at the main points of the proposed European Climate Law, the European Parliament`s take on it and the likely prospects of the law.

Law

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2023

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.

Regulations

Energy and Climate Law

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Until 2030 the EU shall emit 55 % less Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHG), compared to 1990 levels. Technically this shall be included in an amendment to the proposed Climate Law. Moreover, via a shift towards growing woody biomass on cropland in a sustainable manner, including as a feedstock for advanced biogas and biofuels (p.12).

Paris Agreement

Law and Environment

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The Climate Act requires that the scoping plan “inform the state energy planning board’s adoption of a state energy plan,” and the State’s energy law requires that all state entities must make “any energy-related action[s] or decision[s] … reasonably consistent with the. state energy] plan.”.

Greenhouse

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Let’s look at the three technological strategies which would lead to decarbonization of the transportation sector and the phaseout of petroleum by midcentury: 1) electrification, 2) strengthening greenhouse gas emission standards and fuel economy standards, and 3) clean liquid fuels.

Electricity

Environmental News Bits

APRIL 13, 2023

The Inflation Reduction Act is setting up a fight over the climate footprint of biofuels for aviation, with significant implications for the nation’s emissions trajectory, the U.S. transportation sector and rural communities.

Biofuels

Law and Environment

JANUARY 26, 2022

million to aid in evaluating the safety of new fuels, and over $61 million for projects to advance biofuels and support reduced cost of SAF pathways. The proposed tax credit would require at least a 50% reduction in lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions to receive at least a $1.25 For more information, read the White House Announcement.

2030

Law Columbia

MARCH 8, 2023

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.

Renewable Energy

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

(This post was authored by Eric Peshkin, a JD candidate at NYU School of Law and CLEE summer research assistant). This appears to be the only national level agricultural methane target currently in law. Last week , global leaders announced a commitment to reducing global methane emissions. Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification.

Renewable Energy

Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 4, 2023

By coincidence rather than design, two different approaches to reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the electric power sector have been under discussion by North Carolina agencies since 2021. The two approaches share goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 70% by 2030 (from a 2005 baseline) and achieving carbon neutrality by 2050.

Greenhouse

Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 13, 2020

The LCFS is a key pillar of California’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the transportation sector.

Regulations

Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2022

In Virginia, where the primary source of electricity is natural gas, the emissions intensity of electricity is 679 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt-hour (MWh), not including other greenhouse gases. According to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, utility-scale solar power produces between 394 and 447 MWh per acre per year.

Carbon Dioxide

Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 10, 2023

This follows our post last week alerting commercial real estate owners and tenants in those buildings in Maryland about these regulations requiring Greenhouse Gas Data Must be Collected Beginning January 1 in Maryland. The regulation of Energy Use Intensity is not authorized by the statute. In section 26.28.02.C., This is a major void.

Regulations

E2 Law Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2021

20, 2021, the New York State Climate Action Council (Council) voted unanimously to approve the most recent draft of the scoping plan, a roadmap to achieve compliance with the state’s landmark climate law, the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA).

Regulations

Greenbuilding Law

JULY 24, 2022

The claim is not that any of that is not true, but rather that sustainable and ESG advertising claims appeal to consumers who will fly KLM and other airlines when the only current means of airlines to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is to fly less. Just how sustainable a particular company really is can be a matter of debate.

Biofuels

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

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 court rejected Exxon’s argument that it could withhold documents based on an accountant-client privilege under Texas law. and non-U.S. 451962/2016 (N.Y.

2016

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Once signed into law, Build Back Better will create jobs, improve the economy, and build more resilient communities, all while addressing the climate crisis. farmers do their part to save the Bay and reduce greenhouse gases?with We cannot afford to ignore climate change any longer. conservation programs?would?allow?USDA in helping?farmers

Clean Energy

Law and Environment

AUGUST 17, 2022

Yesterday, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act, creating a law that contains the most significant climate-related incentives in U.S. Further, the law allows for “direct pay” with respect to 45Q, meaning that tax liability is not needed to receive a refund from the IRS. Biofuel infrastructure funds.

Biofuels

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. Photo © Keith Schneider/Circle of Blue Other Developments In January, Avapco LLC, a biofuel company that operates an ethanol refinery in Thomaston, Ga.

Carbon Dioxide

Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 5, 2022

With proposed federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions by the Securities and Exchange Commission requiring GHG disclosure and new state statutes, including a new Maryland law that requires not only disclosure, but also a mandated reduction in GHG emissions, a greater appreciation of the subject of GHG appears in order.

Greenhouse

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 14, 2021

SG would cool the Earth, temporarily and imperfectly offsetting some of the climate effects of elevated greenhouse gases, by reflecting a bit (around 0.5% All research is governed, mostly through normal processes of peer review, research-program management, and compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

Climate Change

Clean Energy Law

MAY 16, 2022

Originally, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 required CARB to develop a scoping plan, to be updated every five years, that describes the approach California will take to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

Fossil Fuels

Acoel

JANUARY 16, 2024

The Farm Bill is likely the most significant environmental law Congress will address this year. More detail can be found in my book, Farming for Our Future; The Science, Law, and Policy of Climate-Neutral Agriculture , and related Columbia , Harvard , NYU , and Yale Law School blogs). The millions of cows in the U.S.

Fossil Fuels

Clean Energy Law

JUNE 1, 2022

Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), requires CARB to develop and update every five years a scoping plan that describes the approach California will take to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

2030

Arnold Porter

JUNE 14, 2021

This Advisory is intended to be a general summary of the law and does not constitute legal advice. The American Jobs Plan calls for $621 billion in transportation infrastructure and resilience, which includes various climate priorities for President. © Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP 2021 All Rights Reserved.

Clean Energy

Arnold Porter

AUGUST 6, 2021

50% of funding is authorized for EV school buses and the remaining funding is directed toward low-emission (LNG, natural gas, hydrogen, propane, and biofuel) and zero-emission buses. This Advisory is intended to be a general summary of the law and does not constitute legal advice. The remaining $2.5 Made in America Office.

Electricity

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

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. Transportation is now the source of 28% of U.S. In all three cases, challengers invoked the major questions doctrine.

Clean Air Act

Acoel

JANUARY 21, 2025

International Climate Finance Plan DECLARING A NATIONAL ENERGY EMERGENCY [link] Declares national energy emergency, primarily based on high energy prices Use any lawful emergency authorities to facilitate the identification, leasing, siting, production, transportation, refining, and generation of domestic energy resources.

Endangered Species Act

ESA

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

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. emissions increased 5.5% Arctic: A new report from the U.S.

2023

Circle of Blue

JANUARY 20, 2025

EPA evaluates environmental impact of federal biofuels mandate. News Briefs Fluoride Appeal The EPA appealed a September ruling in federal district court that the agency needs to regulate fluoride in drinking water, Bloomberg Law reports. USGS releases study on water supply and demand in the Lower 48 states.

Biofuels