Clean Energy Law

MARCH 11, 2021

In December 2018, after having successfully reduced greenhouse gas emissions from the power sector by 53.3%, a majority of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) jurisdictions announced plans to design a program to address carbon emissions from the combustion of transportation fuels. Core Principles and Mechanism.

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Legal Planet

MAY 11, 2023

still does not limit carbon emissions from existing power plants, which generate 25 percent of our greenhouse gases. Today’s the day for the long-awaited release of Environmental Protection Agency regulations to tackle planet-warming pollution by the nation’s power plants. In the year 2023, the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 25, 2023

The Inflation Reduction Act’s new hydrogen production tax credit , known as code 45V, is intended to incentivize a shift to low-carbon hydrogen production by offering producers a credit that increases in value as the carbon emissions associated with produced hydrogen declines.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

Fossil fuel and chemical polluters, business lobbyists and conservative private land interests have fought these laws and the EPA since their inception and they made fresh headway during the Trump administration, which undertook a widespread effort to gut environmental protections and slashed staffing of the EPA back to levels of the 1980s.

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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. per gallon clean fuel tax credit, plus an $85 tax credit for every ton of carbon dioxide it permanently disposes in deep subsurface caverns.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

Now comes the court’s crippling of the most important federal weapon available to avoid catastrophic climate change and its associated killing of tens of thousands of Americans every year with fossil fuel air pollution. The talks ended with no serious agreements and carbon dioxide levels soaring to new records.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Adopting an arbitrary and generous “reference level” baseline for the forest sector that gives Canada a free “accounting contribution” towards its 2030 emission reduction goals. Exempting the logging industry’s emissions from carbon pricing regulations on other sectors.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 6, 2023

Hydrogen’s supply-side has been buttressed by incentives from state and federal governments, refineries and utilities looking to extend the life of fossil fuel infrastructure, and renewable energy companies seeking to take advantage of the huge amounts of clean energy needed to produce green hydrogen.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 18, 2023

ignited the controversy last Monday when he said his agency, which regulates dangerous household products, should consider banning gas stoves because of the threat they pose to public health and the environment. At least one fossil fuel-friendly Democrat stoked the fire, too. The federal government,” West Virginia Sen.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 30, 2022

Chief Justice Roberts’s majority opinion leaves EPA other options to reduce carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants. In order to regulate existing power plants—especially existing coal-fired plants—EPA turned to section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act. Background .

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

That includes 5 million deaths linked to breathing in the emissions of fossil fuels. In the United States, a 2022 study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin found that more than 50,000 lives per year would be saved by eliminating those emissions. The implications for human life are direct and deadly.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2022

Two key things have changed since last year: 1) Evidence has piled up that sharp cuts in fossil fuels are needed to keep the goals of the Paris climate agreement within reach—and that major oil and gas companies’ climate claims are greenwashing. That would be shortsighted and dangerous. degrees Celsius.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 11, 2022

Tom Wolf vetoed and disapproved Senate Concurrent Regulatory Review Resolution 1, which would have disabled the Commonwealth’s opportunity to enter the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) and effectively achieve climate goals and reduce carbon emissions. Wolf for vetoing the General Assembly’s ill-advised S.C.R.R.R.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JULY 27, 2023

derasa ) shell from a 1955 Palau expedition courtesy of the ANS Malacology archives collection Marine organisms with shells made of calcium carbonate, like giant clams and corals, encounter formidable obstacles in the face of increasing acidity in the ocean. Giant clam ( T.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2023

While that may have been the early objective of the “responsibly sourced” movement, Project Canary provided a description of how they and the concept has evolved in response to the development of more federal and state regulations that limit methane emissions from natural gas facilities. So that is a concern.” So you are correct.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

As the fourth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the United States, Pennsylvania has a responsibility to lead when it comes to implementing climate solutions and reducing carbon emissions. But sadly, pro-fossil fuel legislators in Harrisburg are expected to challenge the regulation this fall.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 23, 2022

While the facility had finished its planned lifespan, it could have run longer, but environmental regulations and market conditions made that impractical. Energy-Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions To Increase In 2022, 2023, Including From Natural Gas -- Utility Dive: 2022 Outlook: U.S. EIA Expects U.S.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 2, 2022

We can decrease production of virgin plastic that comes from fossil fuels and pollutes our ocean as well. We can protect coastal habitats, like mangroves and sea grasses, which can serve as critical tools to guard communities from intensifying storms while also safely storing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

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Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 11, 2022

This electricity must include “24/7 carbon pollution-free electricity” that matches “actual electricity consumption on an hourly basis” and is “produced within the same regional grid where the energy is consumed.”

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Cresforum

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Clean hydrogen production relies either on electricity, which may be generated through renewable or fossil fuel resources; or directly on fossil fuels, via steam methane reformation (SMR) or coal gasification accompanied by carbon capture, or via methane pyrolysis. According to one estimate , the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2022

The administration’s potential victory – a hollow quest to lower carbon emissions in Pennsylvania – will cost residents $2 billion in the next five years. It won’t exist either, since nothing can prevent carbon dioxide and other air pollutants emitted from power plants in Ohio or West Virginia from drifting across state lines.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Here in New York, for example, we already have three forms of more or less direct carbon pricing. The most direct of these is imposed on certain fossil fuel power plants by requiring them to purchase carbon dioxide emissions allowances as part of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

The SCC is a metric that seeks to capture all of the costs that emitting a ton of carbon dioxide (or equivalent amounts of other greenhouse gases such as methane) imposes on society by contributing to climate change over the hundreds of years it remains in the atmosphere.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

19 EarthTalks Webinar: The Economic Impact Of Carbon Emission Trading Scheme On Building Retrofits [PaEN] -- PA Solar Center, Partners Host Feb. 27 Webinar Creating An Assessment Method For PA Old-Growth Forests. Million In Tax Credits To Subsidize Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County; Total Expected To Be $1.17

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

19 EarthTalks Webinar: The Economic Impact Of Carbon Emission Trading Scheme On Building Retrofits [PaEN] -- Utility Dive: Grid-Enhancing Technologies Could Facilitate 6.6 Million In Tax Credits To Subsidize Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County; Total Expected To Be $1.17

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Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

to reducing their carbon emissions. which will implement national standards to govern carbon pollution from power plants. The fiscal conservative theory is that increased regulation to protect the environment will restrict the market and prevent capitalism from operating efficiently. carbon dioxide.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

The Biden administration laid out its timeline for rolling back major Trump environmental rules, but acknowledged that the process of enacting more protective regulations on climate and air pollution and drinking water will take years — if they can estimate the timeline at all.

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ESA

JULY 1, 2022

At stake was the ability to reduce carbon emissions as written in the ‘Clean Power Plan’ regulation under the auspices of the Clean Air Act that gives the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) power to regulate “the best system of reducing emissions.” Previous regulations weakened these protections.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Circuit found that FERC failed to address the significance of a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulation that the petitioners argued required use of the social cost of carbon or another methodology to assess the impacts of the projects’ greenhouse gas emissions. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission , Nos. Missouri v.

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ESA

AUGUST 16, 2021

However, the world could avoid the more extreme scenarios in the report if governments sharply reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions. Regulation, Litigation – Bloomberg Law. He has proposed paying for the new breaks by ending fossil fuel subsidies. UN Climate Report Expected to Drive U.S.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Several factors¾including the effects of the economic recession, shifts in energy markets from coal to natural gas and renewable energy sources, and carbon pollution mitigation and clean energy programs like renewable portfolio standards¾have been identified as principal drivers of these reductions. [2]. emissions from the power sector. [3].

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

Republicans said the final regulations will increase the cost of electricity for individuals and businesses, have a negative impact on jobs and will not significantly reduce carbon pollution. The DEP estimates that by joining RGGI in 2022, Pennsylvania would have been able to cut carbon emissions by at least 25.5%

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2016

The Trump Watch confidently predicts that Big Oil and Gas are about to receive an unimaginable return on their investments with the Fossil Fuel Dream Team. Coupled with the Fossil Fuel Dream Team Mr. Ebell’s appointment does not bode well for the serious, engaged and continued involvement of the U.S. Carbon dioxide (CO.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

Circuit’s January opinion vacating EPA’s repeal and replacement of the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan regulations for controlling carbon emissions from existing power plants. Circuit erred by “untethering” Section 111(d) standards from the existing source being regulated. Supreme Court seeking review of the D.C.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The plan must specifically address how EPA will consider the effects of Clean Air Act regulation on the coal industry. Healey issued the CID in connection with an investigation into unfair or deceptive acts or practices in trade or commerce with respect to fossil fuel products and securities. Murray Energy Corp. McCarthy , No.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

The plaintiffs alleged among other things that the defendants the two projects’ cumulative impacts on carbon emissions. The current statute provides for an aspirational goal of reducing emissions by 75% below 1990 levels by 2050 and does not create additional regulatory authority for state agencies. Hurst v.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Environmental law, or sometimes known as environmental and natural resources law, is a term used to explain regulations, statutes, local, national and international legislation, and treaties designed to protect the environment from damage and to explain the legal consequences of such damage towards governments or private entities or individuals (1).

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