Legal Planet

AUGUST 18, 2022

One option, a tax on carbon dioxide emissions, gets the most attention but seems politically impossible. The closest we’ve ever come to a carbon tax is a limited fee on methane emissions under the new IRA law. If a carbon tax were politically feasible, there would be a lot to be said in its favor.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 30, 2023

This bill, if left unamended by the Senate, would weaken the carbon price by expanding the definition of eligible farming machinery and extending the exemption from carbon pricing for qualifying farming fuel to include marketable natural gas and propane.

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Law and Environment

DECEMBER 19, 2022

And we need to remember that providing technology to developing countries to reduce carbon emissions can provide significant economic benefit to the United States and Europe. And our carbon debt is growing bigger every day. In any case, we are a long way from Tennessee Ernie Ford’s 16 Tons.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

More than 20,000 Americans died prematurely in 2015 from tailpipe emissions, according to a 2019 study. Writ large, transportation is responsible for 29 percent of US carbon emissions—more than any other sector—and car and truck emissions today represent 81 percent of the US transportation sector’s global warming pollution.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

The IRA gave us effective tools for cleaning up the power sector through dedicated support for the rapid and widescale deployment of renewable resources and the technologies that support them. EPA ruling, EPA can still establish rigorous carbon emissions standards. So what follows from that obligation?

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Law and Environment

MARCH 14, 2023

In the same release, Rhode Island Acting State Energy Commissioner Christopher Kearns added: This will help our regional New England grid make the transition to clean energy, reduce our collective carbon emissions significantly, and deliver a major victory in our fight against climate change.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Gretchen Whitmer is expected to sign into law tomorrow. However, the bill’s definition of what constitutes clean energy includes nuclear power (which doesn’t emit carbon but isn’t “clean”) and fossil gas power plants that capture and store at least 90 percent of their carbon emissions. What Still Needs to be Done?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

CO 2 emissions remain mostly level through 2050—nowhere close to meeting US climate goals. Carbon emissions remain high. Renewable energy generation increases faster than any other technology. Here are five key takeaways from this year’s AEO, focused primarily on the electricity sector: 1.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 21, 2024

The IRA was passed into law to propel our nation’s clean energy transition forward. With the shift to a tax credit premised on technology-neutral framing, the risk is high that heavily polluting power plants—the very polluters this tax credit is meant to drive the shift away from—instead co-opt it for their own.

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The Energy Law Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

CAE thus plays a pivotal role in the oil and gas industry’s efforts to reduce carbon emissions, a goal shared by regulators, buyers, investors, and the general public. natural disasters, Act of God); and (5) determining compliance with new certification standards for low methane gas, and improving production to satisfy these standards.

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The Energy Law Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

CAE thus plays a pivotal role in the oil and gas industry’s efforts to reduce carbon emissions, a goal shared by regulators, buyers, investors, and the general public. natural disasters, Act of God); and (5) determining compliance with new certification standards for low methane gas, and improving production to satisfy these standards.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Pittsburgh and the surrounding region are important to the Department of Energy and to our Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management, or FECM as we call it. Of course, the National Energy Technology Laboratory is part of FECM and has a major presence here in Pittsburgh and nearby in Morgantown, West Virginia.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The projects, funded by the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, may strengthen domestic supply chains, helping to meet the growing demand for critical minerals and materials and reduce reliance on unreliable foreign sources. PA-Related Projects -- Tetra Tech, Inc. PA-Related Projects -- Tetra Tech, Inc. Of Energy Awards $1.95

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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.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The Act prioritizes deploying “technologies to enhance grid flexibility” by appropriating $3 billion to a grant program for smart grid technology development, including for things such as dynamic line rating, flow control devices, advanced conductors, and network topology optimization. Smart Grid Investment Matching Grant Program.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The Decision text of COP26 completed the Rulebook by resolving sticky issues on fundamental norms related to carbon emission markets under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (PA). The Rulebook sets out the functioning of international carbon markets to support global cooperation on ambitious emission reductions.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In its Nationally Determined Contributions ( NDCs ), updated in 2022, India has made three major promises: a 45% reduction in its carbon emissions intensity (CO2 emissions per unit of electricity) based on 2005 levels, by 2030; 50% of installed electricity coming from non-fossil-fuel sources by 2030; and national carbon neutrality by 2070.

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Law and Environment

JANUARY 26, 2022

The White House has taken a strong stance in expanding the production and use of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) to reduce carbon emissions in the aviation industry. The Administration has identified the aviation industry as a climate priority in its push to reduce the country’s carbon footprint. Build Back Better.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 25, 2024

Opponents are sure to legally challenge EPA’s new rule to limit carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants. First, EPA’s preferred technology to limit carbon emissions — carbon capture and storage (CCS) — isn’t just pie in the sky. energy mix.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2023

Blue, like grey, is produced using methane, but with carbon capture technology tacked on for the hypothetical removal of CO2 emissions from the atmosphere and then the storage of that carbon underground. There’s nothing low emissions about it at all.” But how clean is it really? We’re tired of all this smoke!

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2023

She also provided a brief summary of new federal and state regulations requiring methane emissions assessments and reductions by the natural gas industry. Project Canary is a climate technology company, and we effectively build enterprise-wide emission data platforms, so that operators in the energy space can understand what's going on.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

What is Environmental Law? Humanity has been aware of its environment far longer than there have been laws to protect environments. However, the term “environmental law” does not just cover government legislation. These are not “laws” per se but act as such within a regulatory framework. Useful Environmental Law Terms.

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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.

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Edouard Stenger

APRIL 11, 2023

Insulating and r enovating the 15-20% of homes that consume the most energy could slash emissions by 50% , based on what is taking place in France and Pareto’s principle / law. As such, the European Union has launched its own Green Deal Industrial Plan , aimed at bringing carbon emissions to Net Zero.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 5, 2024

The stakes are high: whatever version of the code emerges from the appeals process is likely to become law in much of the United States at some point over the coming years. The ICC’s Model Codes Under State Law The actual building codes enforceable in a given U.S. jurisdiction are set under state or local law.

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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

But the next phase of market-based programs for reducing GHG emissions raises significant questions for policymakers, from nitty-gritty design issues like measuring and reporting mechanisms to bigger picture concerns such as whether these systems can reduce pollution at the pace needed to meet climate goals.

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Cresforum

MARCH 10, 2022

The two technologies accounted for a record 14 percent of total U.S. Liquid natural gas (LNG) exports jumped an astonishing 64 percent last year, providing much needed energy security to our allies in Europe and helping Asia meet growing demand while lowering global carbon emissions at the same time. gigawatts in 2020.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Confirming initial projections when the law was passed, models now predict that IRA will significantly cut emissions by 2030. Despite the IRA’s substantial assist to emission cuts, we will need additional policies to push emissions 50% below 2005 levels. The impact by 2035 is likely to be even greater.

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Greenbuilding Law

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Arguably Zoom Video Communications avoids significant emissions. Another example of Scope 4 emissions may be GHG emissions avoided by the efficiency improvements of low temperature laundry detergent.

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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. reduce cumulative GHG emissions by about 6.3 get the U.S. to within ~0.5

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 15, 2021

On October 14, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University-- together with collaborators at Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Boise State University-- released a research study on how Southwestern Pennsylvania can thrive during the transition to a future with net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

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Vermont Law

JULY 31, 2023

Military Pollution is a Reason for Agencies to Implement the Global Social Cost of Carbon By Mariah Bowman , J.D. Candidate, 2024, Pace University Elisabeth Haub School of Law July 31, 2023 The social cost of carbon (SCC) has been the basis for policies such as tax credits for carbon capture technology and zero-emissions credits.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

regulated carbon markets most specifically), it seems to me that we need to be approaching the question of tropical deforestation in the same broad manner as we do for investments in the clean energy and transportation sectors (some of which , by the way, are eligible for offsets in the voluntary market).

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

The following article is part of an Eco-Perspective special in which the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law is collaborating with the VLS COP21 Observer Delegation. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. By Kelsey Bain. Despite this high dollar value, family planning spending is still a relatively cheap option. Click Here.

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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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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2024

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

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Law Columbia

MARCH 25, 2016

Clearly, the diversion of RGGI proceeds to the general budget and for workforce development is at odds with these requirements. Clearly, the diversion of RGGI proceeds to the general budget and for workforce development is at odds with these requirements.

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