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Law and Environment
JULY 1, 2022
EPA on Thursday, June 30, 2022, curbing the power of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants across the country. The decision focuses on EPA’s authority under a specific section of the Clean Air Act. What does this mean for clean energy projects?
Law Columbia
JANUARY 25, 2022
The case concerns the scope of the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from existing fossil fuel power plants under Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act (CAA). These impacts will only increase as climate change worsens. In January 2021, the D.C.
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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.
Law and Environment
DECEMBER 20, 2023
It also announces that the Department of Energy (“DOE”) will release an updated GREET model in early 2024 that meets Section 40B’s requirements for determining SAF’s lifecycle greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions reductions. Or, they may use “any similar methodology that satisfies the criteria under § 211(o)(1)(H) of the Clean Air Act.”
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 18, 2024
But hydrogen can be cleanly produced and, with the right guardrails in place, that clean hydrogen can then be used to clean up polluting parts of the economy that can’t readily convert to running on renewable electricity. Otherwise, hydrogen will slow the clean energy transition, not speed it. the “three pillars”).
PA Environment Daily
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
Shapiro released the consensus recommendations by the Climate and Energy Work Group of organized labor, energy industry, consumer and environmental stakeholders to discuss Pennsylvania’s energy future, including the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
PA Environment Daily
JUNE 30, 2022
Environmental Protection Agency to limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants under the Clean Air Act. Today’s decision does not change how we must respond to climate change: boldly, quickly, and with love for our neighbors. Supreme Court released its decision on West Virginia V.
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