Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Last month, DOE solicited applications from states to develop clean energy projects. The possibility of snagging some of this funding may also help nudge some lagging states to think seriously about cutting carbon emissions. Another development with multi-state implications involves electric vehicles.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Here’s more: “California’s climate ambitions will be met only by deploying clean energy and transportation on an unprecedented scale, and China has a lot to offer on that score. China is also a world leader on offshore wind energy production, an area Newsom has sought to emphasize in California.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

This is despite the clean energy progress the power sector has experienced to date—and despite the groundwork laid for more progress from leading states, as well as the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). EPA ruling, EPA can still establish rigorous carbon emissions standards. And more gas is slated to come.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 22, 2022

Unfortunately, the Minnesota Legislature failed to act on climate and clean energy investments this session, leaving progress toward a more affordable, equitable, healthy Minnesota on the table. Most Minnesotans are familiar with their local electricity utility, since that’s who bills them for electricity they provide.

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore will also launch 12 key initiatives, including a levy on sustainable aviation fuel and low-carbon electricity imports. By the end of 2023, Changi Airport generated approximately 4% of its 2019 electricity consumption [ii] through solar power deployment.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

They just released their 2022 “Annual Energy Outlook” (AEO), which is a big deal: it tells us where electricity is headed over the next 30 years. It’s widely viewed as the “gold standard” for energy projections, even though there’s much debate in the energy community about the validity of the assumptions behind these projections.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

That’s because the case, which was about the nature and scope of EPA authority in regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants, turned on a rule that does not exist. EPA did not revoke EPA’s underlying authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2021

The company's Edison Electric Institute and American Gas Association report provides investors access to the most commonly requested metrics about investor-owned utilities' ESG performance. Net-Zero Carbon Goal PPL has set a goal to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.

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E2 Law Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The Renewable Action Through Project Interconnection and Deployment (RAPID) Act The RAPID Act proposes to streamline the environmental review and permitting of major renewable energy generation and electric transmission facilities. Applicants that have initiated the Article VII process may opt into the new process under ORES.

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Cresforum

AUGUST 2, 2021

Considering recent summer and winter weather-induced blackouts, accomplishing this critical goal while reducing carbon emissions and maintaining affordable electricity prices is challenging states, regulators, investor-owned utilities, and retail power providers alike.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 26, 2022

We as the consumer have the burden of paying for a lack of regulation, mandates, and policies on water contamination.”. The costs of cleaning up toxic algae are falling on Ohio ratepayers, Grist reports. While federal regulation is on the way, the state of Illinois currently does not regulate PFAS in drinking water.

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Law and Environment

JUNE 16, 2021

On June 10, 2021, the Transportation Climate Initiative Program (TCI-P) states released a final model rule creating a regional cap-and-trade-program to reduce carbon emissions from the transportation sector. We wrote about the draft model rule and its implementation challenges when it was released at the beginning of March.

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E2 Law Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2021

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.

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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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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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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Despite a significant uptake of renewable energy, India still relies on coal plants for more than half of its installed electricity supply. By Rejimon Kuttappan Along with a major expansion of renewable energy, India is also pushing for big increases in its coal production, casting doubt on its climate commitments.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

This is the second post in our series on the recently enacted Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act , covering how the Act invests in strengthening our electric grid, which could better prepare us for the shift from fossil fuel generated electricity to renewable power. One in particular is the state of our electric grid.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 9, 2024

Meanwhile, defining “clean hydrogen” to reward hydrogen that is actually clean results in the scale-up of a hydrogen sector readily and robustly climate-aligned, with the right technologies built in the right places at the right times and the right pace. Where things diverge is in the sourcing of that clean electricity.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 1, 2022

DTE’s proposal, known as an integrated resource plan, describes how the utility intends to fulfill its customers’ electricity needs over the next 20 years. These types of long-term energy plans include forecasting the amount of electricity customers will need and examining different options for supporting that need.

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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. Electricity Generation From Natural Gas Now Falling Like Coal In Face Of New, Cheaper Renewable Power Plants [Not Subject To Whims Of International Energy Markets] -- U.S.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

In July 2022, the High Court of England and Wales in R (Friends of the Earth Ltd and Others) v Secretary of State for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy found that the UK Government’s plans to cut carbon emissions were inadequate and breached national law. In Greenpeace v.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Rhodium reported that “the most rapid investment growth has been in clean technology manufacturing—with annual investment growing 125% year-on-year to $39 billion—and particularly within electric vehicle and solar manufacturing. Investment in clean energy production and industrial decarbonization rose 15% year-on-year to $61 billion.”

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Flynn Wants Reform To Prevent Uncollected Turnpike Tolls -- PG: PA Cong.

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Vermont Law

JUNE 29, 2020

The energy sector is one of the biggest polluters when it comes to. greenhouse gas emissions. Many states are responding to global calls for clean energy and making actual changes which reflect the climate change crisis. Today the energy sector accounts for 30% of the carbon dioxide emissions in.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Department of Energy Secretary Ernie Moniz. Expected to be one of the largest industrial transitions in history, the clean energy transition will affect sectors from electric power to heavy industry and transportation, and is necessary to address global climate change, according to the report. Read more here.]

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2024

Signs Off On Solar Energy Facility -- USDA Funds 31 Local Projects Totaling $5.69 Signs Off On Solar Energy Facility -- USDA Funds 31 Local Projects Totaling $5.69

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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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A Greener Life

JUNE 28, 2023

In China, government plans to peak and neutralise national carbon emissions, and for a wholesale green transition , have caused a boom in “green employment”. The market heats up: ESG and green finance take off As policy and regulation improved, the green job market heated up and ESG became a hot topic within businesses.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 25, 2016

These diversions are inconsistent with New York State regulations aimed at ensuring the proceeds of the auctions would be spent on new programs to further reduce greenhouse gas emissions. For those unfamiliar with the program – RGGI is an interstate cap and trade program aimed at reducing CO 2 emissions from the electric power sector.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2022

The law will provide $379 billion in subsidies to clean energy in the form of direct payments and tax credits. Subsidies aren’t the ideal way to cut emissions, because it’s impossible to target them to the precise behavioral changes you seek. Subsidies indirectly promote stronger regulation. Download as PDF.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 19, 2022

A Pennsylvania judge blocks the governor’s attempt to put a price on carbon emissions. A pivotal decision last week brought New York one step closer to achieving its clean energy goals. This is a big win for New York City…It’s a down payment on the renewable energy future we’ve been promised.”. In the News.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 3, 2022

The majority 6–3 decision sharply curtails the EPA’s authority to set standards based on a broad range of flexible options to cut carbon emissions from the power sector—options such as replacing polluting fossil fuels with cheap and widely available wind and solar power coupled with battery storage. carbon emissions today.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 11, 2022

We are at a game-changing moment for all of humanity, as climate science tells us exactly where we’re headed if we don’t reduce carbon emissions urgently. A just transition to a clean-energy economy is the priority and solution. percent, compared to an average of 2.3 percent for non-low-income households).

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Cresforum

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Introduction Hydrogen has been dubbed the “Swiss army knife” of clean energy, given its potential to become a tool to cut emissions in key sectors, as well as to assert U.S. global energy leadership and increase our nation’s competitive edge. According to the U.S. Siting and permitting. Cost parity.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 27, 2023

They will have to fight to fend off a provincial government and oil and gas industry determined to stop progress on climate action, the creation of clean energy jobs, and a responsible approach to protecting the public from the toxic and expensive consequences of expanding oil extraction. You can read more here.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The federal government will keep its promise to increase the availability and affordability of electric vehicles. Right now, people who want to replace their polluting gas or diesel vehicle with a fully electric one are stuck on waiting lists that can last years. You can learn more here. Find out more: stopthe413.ca.

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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. Murray Energy Corp. Opponents of EPA Carbon Standards for New Coal-Fired Power Plants Filed Initial Briefs. The court ordered EPA to file a plan and schedule for compliance within 14 days. McCarthy , No.

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