Legal Planet

MAY 5, 2022

This being Cinco de Mayo, it seems like an appropriate time for a look at Mexico’s climate challenges. Mexico’s carbon emissions are about the same as those of Texas, the highest-emitting US state. Per capita emissions, however, are far lower, given Mexico’s much larger population.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2024

But first, it’s critical to understand this phenomenon’s connection to climate change. Forests in western North America are particularly susceptible to wildfires due to development, land management, and climate change. That 37% equates to 19.8 million acres scorched in the western United States and southwestern Canada.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 15, 2021

That’s because the Canadian agency that is supposed to inform public and private sector decision-making on energy development and climate action continues to provide scenarios that are both unrealistic and pessimistic, and are lacking critical information, such as Canada’s expected greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs).

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Gavin Newsom Can Learn from China’s Response to Climate Change.” Yes, the governor was the talk of the town at NY Climate Week where he announced several big California climate initiatives. million electric vehicles , with sales in 2022 accounting for 29% of all auto sales in China. He even got to address the U.N.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 18, 2024

In late December, the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released proposed regulations for the Section 45V Clean Hydrogen Production Tax Credit. Finding careful resolution to these issues will be a key point of focus over the comment period for these regulations, which is set to run through February 26 th , 2024.

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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. Here are five key takeaways from this year’s AEO, focused primarily on the electricity sector: 1. CO 2 emissions remain mostly level through 2050—nowhere close to meeting US climate goals.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

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. There are some aggressive milestone requirements: 35% of new vehicles must be electric by 2026 and 68% in 2030.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 22, 2022

Minnesotans are facing concurrent crises of climate change, high energy prices and inflation, and the inequitable public health impacts of fossil fuel air pollution. Most Minnesotans are familiar with their local electricity utility, since that’s who bills them for electricity they provide.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The Federal Cabinet adopts its first climate target, a 25-30% cut in carbon emissions by 2005 under 1987 levels. Note: the estimates of 1990 emissions that I found are not entirely consistent, with one estimate closer to 1.2 Fifteen percent of electricity is renewable. Renewables are 42% of electricity.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Climate change could hike the cost of maintaining Ontario ’s transportation infrastructure by over $1.5 Indiana regulates the underground storage of carbon dioxide. The company is seeking powers of eminent domain from state regulators. Climate Change Could Cost Ontario Over $1 Billion Every Year.

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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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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

It’s not an environmental law case, but the ruling could impact the authority of states to address climate change. The basic idea is that states can’t adopt rules that have the practical effect of regulating outside their borders. Many state climate change regulations have impacts on other states.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 30, 2023

The upshot was that the US resisted any effort to address climate change and embraced a “drill baby drill” energy policy. Carbon emissions stayed about constant under Bush, with an average around 5.6 billion tons: The average gas powered car today produces about 55 tons of carbon over its dozen-year life.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 3, 2023

Solutions considered in isolation can often appear to yield steady progress in curbing carbon pollution and yet, when those same solutions are considered within the full context of the energy transition, their actual contributions can turn out to be insufficient or, worse, entirely misaligned, resulting in a system-wide increase in emissions.

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Law and Environment

JANUARY 27, 2022

EPA , which challenges EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases, and Sackett v. After all, no less a group of environmental radicals than the Edison Electric Institute has filed a brief in support of EPA’s authority to regulate GHGs. As everyone knows, the Supreme Court has teed up West Virginia v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

The ongoing pollution from these power plants is an affront to public health and wildly incompatible with every climate ambition this country —and this world—has. EPA ruling, EPA can still establish rigorous carbon emissions standards. So what follows from that obligation? Despite the West Virginia v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

Though the case caught fewer headlines, it, too, threatened Earth-shifting implications all its own by thrusting into question a critical EPA lever for addressing climate change. EPA did not revoke EPA’s underlying authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. Simply by taking West Virginia v.

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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.”. Climate change is expected to intensify harmful algal blooms, as increased rainfall in the Midwest washes more nutrients into the Great Lakes. In Ohio , toxic algal blooms are hiking the cost of water. “We

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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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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Study reveals automakers use ‘greedflation’ to capture value of electric vehicle purchase incentives to boost profits and subsidize sale of gasoline cars. The study finds that enforcing sales targets with a regulation called a Clean Car Standard would cut carbon emissions by 135 million tonnes, equivalent to 57.5

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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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E2 Law Blog

JUNE 6, 2023

Greenberg Traurig cordially invites you to join a webinar focusing on the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) Regulation. Thursday, June 8, 2023 10-11 a.m. ET | 4-5 p.m.

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E2 Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

11, 2023, the City Planning Commission approved amendments to the New York City Zoning Resolution, called “City of Yes for Carbon Neutrality,” proposed by Mayor Adams’ administration to advance the city’s climate goals, including an 80% reduction in carbon emissions by 2050. onshore wind turbines) (ZR 62-825).

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

As noted at the end of last year, 2021 was significant for climate litigation, with several decisions worldwide providing a fresh look at stakeholder responsibility for climate change. A landmark decision recognizing the impacts of climate change on human rights. In September this year, the U.N.

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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

Following are some of my key takeaways (detailed in this and another forthcoming report) about the appropriate role of emissions trading in climate change policy and general thoughts on improving the effectiveness of carbon markets. – Emissions trading as part of a portfolio of climate policies.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 2, 2022

That’s because Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has promised Canadians that he will place a cap on emissions from the oil and gas sector, and reduce those emissions over time until they reach zero by 2050. This will be the defining moment for the Prime Minister’s legacy on climate change.

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E2 Law Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The Council’s release of the draft scoping plan represents a significant milestone in the state’s efforts to implement policies to reduce GHG emissions and achieve the 2040 zero GHG emission target that the CLCPA sets for the electricity-generating sector. The final plan must be sent to the Legislature by Jan.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 17, 2021

New report illustrates how carmakers’ EV pledges mask their push to sell more polluting SUVs, jeopardizing efforts to cut carbon emissions now. Report calls out automaker duplicity on climate change. Meanwhile, they evade regulations and push ever more polluting SUVs on Canadians, all to pad the companies’ bottom line.”.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 13, 2024

Reusing venues and replacing fossil fuel with renewable energy use is essential to cutting emissions at a large sporting event. Approximately 95% of venues for the Paris Games will be pre-existing or temporary facilities, and this factor alone is expected to reduce carbon emissions by one million tonnes compared to new buildings.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

That means addressing transportation sector emissions on every front, including helping Canadians get their hands on affordable electric vehicles, too. We can ensure that electric vehicles are the future of cars , while also ensuring that more cars on the road and more congested streets is not the future of urban mobility.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It is good to see municipalities like Hamilton taking a stand against Enbridge’s campaign to earn more profit at the expense of the customers and the climate. The OEB is an economic regulator and its primary mandate is to keep energy costs low.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 3, 2022

is a serious blow to the EPA’s ability to fight climate change—and could have dangerous repercussions beyond this case. The timing of the decision feels especially harsh, as the nation is in the throes of the “ Danger Season ” for hazards such as heat waves, drought, wildfires and hurricanes, all worsened by climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

The CI is determined through a lifecycle analysis of the global warming pollution associated with the production and use of gasoline, diesel, biofuels, electricity, or other alternative fuels. The lower stringency results in lower costs and reduced economic impact of the regulation. Unfortunately, this is far from the truth.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 28, 2023

Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – Environmental Defence experts on climate change, climate finance, Just Transition, clean transportation and, safeguarding freshwater react to the Federal 2023 budget, released today.

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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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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2024

April 10, Allegheny Courthouse, 4:00 p.m. -- Center For Climate Integrity: PA Municipalities Face $15 Billion In Costs By 2040 To Protect Infrastructure From Climate Change -- Delaware County Hosts 3rd Annual Sustainability Conference May 30 At Widener University [PaEN] -- Reading Eagle: Forested Land In Robeson Twp.

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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

“. because the company engages in the exploration, production, utilization, transportation, sale, or manufacturing of fossil fuel based energy. ” Suppose instead that the company refuses to do business with firms with high carbon emissions. FedEx has a plan to cut carbon emissions, including using 30% “alternative fuels” by 2030.

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