The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 27, 2023

4] To fund these projects, a $50 billion overall budget was selected, which will be evenly divided between restoration projects, such as marsh creation and barrier island restoration, and risk reduction projects, like improved levees and elevating homes.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

DCNR’s Bureau of Recreation and Conservation staff will present about grant program selection criteria, review current program priorities, and discuss eligible project categories. 2023 potential applicants are strongly encouraged to attend. The deadline to submit applications for the fall grant round is October 27.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 17, 2021

Drought Monitor categories. Gavin Newsom did propose $27 million in his budget request to respond to drinking water emergencies in the drought. Eighty-five percent of California — and the entirety of the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys — is in severe or exceptional drought, the two worst U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 6, 2023

New supply projects and conservation or demand management programs are examples of the type of adaptation projects that could strain water systems and state budgets. Adaptation investments can be costly, especially in the water sector.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Climate-Smart Agriculture and Forestry Practices, EQIP FY2021 CSAF Category Practice Name Financial Assistance Total FA For CSAF Category Percent of Total EQIP Financial Assistance Soil Health Conservation Cover $5,134,163 $142,748,326 11.3% billion of budget authority in FY22 to $2.025 billion in FY23. Appendix Table 1.

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Energy and Climate Law

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

At least 30 % of the EU´s multiannual budget shall be dedicated to `climate relevant spending´ (p.4), The forthcoming Sustainable Product Legislative initiative of the EU will look into widening the Ecodesign approach to other product categories (p.20). Spending money will be a key component.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 18, 2024

The Western Energy Alliance has already announced it will challenge the rule, apparently arguing that the new lease categories do not count as “uses” under FLPMA’s multiple-use mandate. It remains to be seen how significant this rule will be. My hunch is that actual competing bids will be infrequent. We will find out soon enough.

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Clean Energy Law

MAY 16, 2022

2] Governor Newsom, citing the Draft Scoping Plan Update’s reliance on CCS, included $100 million in new monies for carbon removal projects in his updated budget proposal. Regarding transportation, the Proposed Scenario envisions the rapid deployment of zero emission vehicles across all vehicle categories.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 21, 2021

Drought Monitor categories. Gavin Newsom did propose $27 million in his budget request for drinking water emergencies in the drought. Major reservoirs are less than half their historical average for mid-June, and the state has begun cutting off surface water deliveries to farmers. Trucks came every week or two to refill the tanks.

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Ohio Environmental Law

DECEMBER 23, 2021

In July 2021, Ohio’s 2022-2023 budget allocated $500 million in new brownfield funding under various development programs: $350 million for the investigation, cleanup, and revitalization of brownfield sites and another $150 million for the demolition of vacant or abandoned commercial or residential buildings. Brownfield Remediation Fund.

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Frontiers

APRIL 26, 2022

Compressed hydrogen energy storage falls into this category as well,” noted co-lead author Anthony Abel, a chemical and biomolecular engineering PhD student at UC Berkeley. The new paper establishes a baseline for the electricity and hydrogen budget that would enable these sorts of applications.

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Smith Enviorment

JULY 9, 2019

The pace picked up in the last month as both the House and Senate passed versions of a budget bill (House Bill 966) and then agreed on a final budget. Governor Cooper immediately vetoed the budget bill for reasons unrelated to environmental provisions. This blogpost looks at some of the environmental provisions in the budget.

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Law and Environment

DECEMBER 20, 2021

W for projects below 1 MW, with initial block sizes of 30 MW for each size category, incentivizing a total of 150 MW across multiple blocks. Through the Roadmap, NYSERDA requests a total budget of nearly $1.5 Con Edison Non-residential/C&I. New MW Block with initial incentive rates of $0.75/W Community Adder. Ratepayer Costs.

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The presence of sustainability in the design phase ensures that the various components of cities (buildings, infrastructure, and natural spaces) are created and maintained through a cognizant allocation of resources while working within constrained budgets. One of the research studies by Charles L.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 7, 2022

ETC Northeast Pipeline was issued the most NOVs for its construction activities related to repairing the Revolution Pipeline, along with EQM Gathering lines for pipeline and compressor station violations.

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Acoel

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The group quickly agreed that it should support the environmental agencies’ budget requests in two broad categories: water quality improvement and land conservation. It created a board of directors half of whom were from the business community and the other half from leading not-for-profit environmental groups.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 13, 2023

The September 5 incident resulted in a heavy sediment plume in the Loyalsock Creek that ran for several miles downstream impacting aquatic life and the habitat of the rare Eastern Hellbender salamander in what DEP classifies as an Exceptional Value stream, the highest stream classification category. Read more here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2023

The standard includes 15 categories of Scope 3 emissions, such as transportation and distribution of products, employee travel, and use of commercial products. IPIECA’s methodology —coauthored by the American Petroleum Institute, the biggest US oil and gas industry trade organization—is comprised of several Scope 3 emissions categories.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

Perhaps there are long-term trends in all-category tropical cyclones, however, we are more certain that the heavy rainfall brought by them has increased due to a stronger greenhouse effect for which we are responsible. The sixth assessment report from the IPCC presents new and improved carbon budgets.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Passed as a budget trailer bill (with a mere $50k appropriation inserted into the bill) Through Senate Bill 118, the Legislature overturned the trial court’s injunction and the Court of Appeal’s holding, by amending Public Resource Code section 21080.09

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

FY 2023 CIG Classic Priorities Each year, NRCS identifies priority categories within CIG that can advance new or emerging high priority natural resource issues. It is up to each state office to choose to administer its own CIG competition in FY 2023, using a portion of its state EQIP funds.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

These two categories allow for flexibility in meeting the sector’s changing needs for workforce training. It does so by supporting training programs in both institutions – such as technical colleges, nonprofits, and worker training centers – and small and very small plants.

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Ohio Environmental Law

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Ohio’s major cities are already facing significant budget shortfalls from the economic downturn brought on by the pandemic. If applications exceed $20 million for projects which are not in a major city, then the State will rank the non-major city projects against one another.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The report charts continued progress in several important categories in 2021, including PV module efficiency, system costs, and the prevalence of batteries, which are a more and more important piece of the solar picture. But the price drops also mean that a given solar budget can likely get you more solar.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

It really allows us to do monumental overhauling that we’d have to budget for years to do.”. 1 will make are one of four broad spending categories authorized by the act. Coastal Louisiana is no stranger to severe weather, with Category 4 hurricanes Laura and Ida hitting the state in the last two years.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 19, 2022

According to the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) Green Drop Report for 2022 – an audit of all wastewater treatment works in the country for the period July 2020 to June 2021 – Standerton wastewater treatment works is 164% over capacity, achieving an overall score of just 17%, which puts it into the ‘critical risk category.’

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 8, 2022

There are nine award categories open for public nominations each year. Due to capacity and budget restraints, the Allegheny National Forest was originally going to close Twin Lakes. Friends of Twin Lakes saved the area and is now bringing in guests every weekend during camping and travel season.

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Brag

MARCH 24, 2023

The FY 2024 budget includes $29 million and 69.2 full-time equivalents (FTE) to support the P2 Program in the Environmental Program and Management (EPM) appropriation, an increase of $16 million and 18 FTEs above the FY 2023 enacted budget. According to the CJ, work in the Pollution Prevention (P2) Program supports Objective 7.2:

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

He told Circle of Blue “It really allows us to do monumental overhauling that we’d have to budget for years to do.”. One of four broad spending categories authorized by the act are water infrastructure improvements like those needed by Iberia Parish. In the last two years it’s been hit by Category 4 hurricanes Laura and Ida.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Parties likely to engage in this process regularly will need to budget for these new expenses. The law also places an annual administrative fee on parties partaking in the IDR process during that year, in an amount that will be established by HHS in future rulemaking.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Issues include determining whether a breakthrough device falls within a Medicare benefit category, the sites of service in which it may be used, whether there is an appropriate billing code, and whether an existing payment methodology applies. Volume of breakthrough devices. Protection of Medicare beneficiaries.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 5, 2023

CBF scientists compile and examine the best available data and information for 13 indicators in three categories: pollution, habitat, and fisheries. Pollution In the pollution category nitrogen, toxics, and dissolved oxygen indicators were unchanged, the phosphorus indicator improved, and overall water clarity declined.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 2, 2023

As part of this action, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has proposed updates to Circular A-4 , a bedrock guidance document, which will greatly improve how federal agencies account for the benefits and costs of their actions and therefore better serve the public interest.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

On September 1, the Pennsylvania Chapter of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers said they were "disappointed" in the actions taken by the Senate in the Fiscal Code budget bill House Bill 1300 that proposes to transfer $150 million from the Game Fund to the Clean Streams Fund. Those dollars are inextricably linked with hunter license fee dollars.

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Arnold Porter

JULY 22, 2021

Federal agencies could prepare programmatic environmental impact statements (EIS’s) for categories of CCS projects, for example, which would allow much shorter and faster environmental assessments on a project-specific basis. In addition, the Biden-Harris’ FY 2022 discretionary budget request includes $46.1

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2022

Share with us your artistic view on the importance of clean water and the role of forests in a healthy watershed by submitting to the following categories: Water Is Life; Raindrop To River; Forests; Caught In The Rain; Reflections; Youth Photographers ages 12-17). The contest is open to amateur and professional photographers alike.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 22, 2023

Are You Telling Your Story? Senate returns to voting session Feb.

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