Legal Planet

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Energy law used to be an obscure niche subject. Energy law is a hot topic. Law students are thronging to the field, seeing an opportunity to combine social relevance with good-paying jobs. Top law schools are responding by competing for faculty. Energy use accounts for the bulk of greenhouse gas emissions.

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 29, 2021

Fossil fuels. Burning oil, coal and natural gas is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions globally, responsible for 75% of global emissions. Plastics are also made from fossil fuels, which means that more fossil fuel extraction leads to more plastics that can pollute our ocean.

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Manning Law

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Although criticized for half measures and loopholes, blamed in part on the influence of petrostates, the agreement reached at the conference should be welcomed as a significant step in the move away from fossil fuels. C within reach. But it notes Parties are off track when it comes to meeting their Paris Agreement goals.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 3, 2023

Last year’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) included a clean hydrogen production tax credit (known as “45V”) that is one of a slew of new incentives intended to help catalyze the next and necessary phase of advancing the nation’s clean energy transition as a whole. The costs will be too great otherwise.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Exxon , the cities and towns allege that the fossil fuel companies were liable because they knowingly produced and marketed products that have caused climate change harms, while concealing and misrepresenting the associated dangers. have filed more than twenty cases seeking damages from fossil fuel companies for climate harms.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 25, 2024

Canada promised to cut its greenhouse gas emissions after the 2016 Paris Agreement. It was part of the global agreement where 195 countries all agreed to reduce their emissions, and Canada has set this promise into law. Rather, they need to have proper plans on how they will build clean energy across the country.

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Law and Environment

MAY 12, 2023

The proposed rule also repeals the Affordable Clean Energy, or “ACE,” Rule—President Trump’s power plant rule that was meant to replace Obama’s Clean Power Plan. The post EPA Proposes New Power Plant Rule That Promises Major Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions in the Coming Years first appeared on Law and the Environment.

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Legal Planet

MAY 11, 2023

still does not limit carbon emissions from existing power plants, which generate 25 percent of our greenhouse gases. The EPA is proposing a new standard for fossil fuel-fired power plants to avoid 617 million metric tons of carbon dioxide through 2042. In the year 2023, the U.S. Read the announcement here and the full text here.)

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 22, 2021

On December 22, seven environmental groups, representing tens of thousands of Philadelphia residents, announced they issued a letter to Philadelphia City Council, Mayor Jim Kenney, and Controller Rebecca Rhynhart expressing concern over the efforts of Philadelphia Gas Works (PGW) to undercut the city’s ability to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2022

When we interrogate Putin’s war alongside many of the other armed conflicts of the 20th and 21st centuries, a common thread emerges – energy. From World War II to the two Wars in Iraq to Putin’s war on Ukraine, control and access to fossil fuels have been center-stage. Our own kids, far from the conflict zone, can’t wait either.

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Law and Environment

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The report seeks to establish a framework for a long-term reduction in emissions from heating fuels, to align with the Commonwealth’s emissions reduction target of net zero by 2050 and the 2050 Decarbonization Roadmap. Governor-elect Healey has her work cut out for her!

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

To avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis, it’s crucial that we shift energy production away from the unsustainable fossil fuels that cause climate change and towards those that release little to no greenhouse gases (GHG), such as solar and wind power. Clean energy is key to national security.

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Law and Environment

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Publish an annual report card on the Commonwealth’s progress to achieve mandated greenhouse gas emission reductions. Massport and MassDOT should continue to develop a plan to reduce aviation emissions, including consideration of alternative fuels and reduced availability of certain short hop flights where rail exists as an alternative.

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 1, 2024

by Patrick Parenteau, Vermont Law & Graduate School Electric power generation in the U.S. is shifting rapidly away from fossil fuels toward cleaner and lower-carbon sources. State clean energy targets and dramatic declines in the cost of renewable electricity are the most important reasons.

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Greenbuilding Law

JULY 30, 2023

As concerns about climate change intensify, businesses and individuals alike are seeking effective ways to set and meet the goals of net zero energy and greenhouse gas emissions to contribute to a sustainable planet. This, in turn, displaces fossil fuel energy, reducing GHG emissions associated with power generation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2023

Energy choices are key to climate resilience—but there’s resistance within state government Science tells us the extent and degree of future flooding depends on how fast we can reduce heat trapping emissions from the burning of fossil fuels. It cannot be a plan that reflects the opinions and interests of the powerful.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The Governor approved a notable slate of climate legislation with a package that includes more stringent greenhouse gas (GHG) emission targets and measures designed to reduce the state’s reliance on fossil fuels. In the past several years, UCLA law students from both our Frank G. Climate Change Mitigation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 25, 2024

Department of the Treasury (Treasury) to carefully implement multiple new Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) tax credits, including the Section 45V Credit for Production of Clean Hydrogen (“45V”). Upstream methane emissions are a potentially substantial share of the overall emissions rate of fossil fuel-based hydrogen production facilities.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 31, 2022

It turns out that most of them are 50-60% reliant on fossil fuels, with a lot of the remainder coming from nuclear and hydro. This table shows how much power is generated from fossil fuels by the top ten utilities (ranked by market value). There was more fuel oil in use in some places than I expected. Carbon Goal.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 17, 2024

Solar PV Project in Cuba (Photo credit: IRENA ) Today, the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) jointly published a new report titled Building a Cleaner, More Resilient Energy System in Cuba: Opportunities and Challenges. Cuba’s power system is currently heavily reliant on fossil fuels.

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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. Section 40B establishes a tax credit equal to $1.25

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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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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

Notably, in the same proposal, the Commission has also included screening criteria for gaseous fossil fuels. Their inclusion appears to be the result of a political compromise with Member States rather than of scientific appraisal as in the case of nuclear energy.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 25, 2023

we can’t afford to continue extracting and then burning more fossil fuels. It was the largest investment in climate action our country has ever made and makes millions of dollars of tax credits available to help build clean, renewable sources of energy. But building out clean, renewable offshore wind isn’t enough.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Our national overreliance on gas is evidently undermining energy access, not strengthening it, as some fossil fuel industry players would want you to believe. Likewise, pipeline giant Williams Companies now refers to its gas projects as “clean energy” projects. Don’t believe the industry spin.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Similarly, a study from the Netherlands based on long-term testing also showed the country’s newest facility is emitting much higher levels of dioxin and furans than is allowed by European law. Ok, but can’t we make clean energy from burning waste? Sorry, but no again.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

When the sun isn’t shining or the wind isn’t blowing, batteries help store clean energy to continue supplying electricity to the grid and to customers consistently and reliably. Generating and storing clean energy is a lifeline for the planet’s future; burning coal, oil, and gas fossil fuels causes 75% of greenhouse gas emissions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 11, 2024

This is one reason why the US transportation system is the most carbon-intensive among wealthy countries, and why transportation is the largest contributor to US greenhouse gas emissions. Today, most vehicles burn fossil fuels or plug in to a grid partially powered by fossil fuels—so every avoided driving trip means avoided climate emissions.

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2021

The survey revealed that in the absence of federal guidance, these actors generally seized the opportunity to follow economic and social forces to move away from fossil fuels. The City of Atlanta committed to 100 percent clean energy by 2035 after its leaders concluded the state of Georgia was not meeting their policy goals.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 15, 2024

Environmental Defence and West Coast Environmental Law, represented by West Coast lawyers Anna Johnson and Andrew Gage, are one of 11 groups of intervenors. We think that this misses the point: the Ontario government, through its laws, policies and actions, is actually contributing to climate change. What’s the case about?

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In response to ongoing dialogue with energy experts and advocates and state gas utilities, the BPU retained an independent expert, London Economics, International (“LEI”), to study whether New Jersey gas distribution utilities needed additional fossil fuel pipeline capacity to serve their customers. Why is planning so essential?

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 26, 2023

Today, hydrogen technology has more momentum than ever , driven by the promise of a clean, carbon-free energy source, deployable at scales necessary to decarbonize large sectors of the economy. Before diving into our first discussion, I’ll note that I approach the conversation of hydrogen energy with some skepticism.

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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). In January 2021, the D.C. Read the brief here.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 25, 2023

we can’t afford to continue extracting and then burning more fossil fuels. It was the largest investment in climate action our country has ever made and makes millions of dollars of tax credits available to help build clean, renewable sources of energy. But building out clean, renewable offshore wind isn’t enough.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 25, 2022

EPA in defense of EPA’s authority to effectively regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. The case involves a group of challenges to EPA’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from existing stationary sources under the 1970 Clean Air Act, a monumental piece of environmental and public health legislation.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Pennsylvania is at a deciding moment in the clean energy transition. Other states in the PJM Interconnection footprint are surpassing the Commonwealth in attracting clean energy generation, manufacturing, and investment, as well as achieving greater grid diversification. LWVPA opposes SB 1058.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2024

“The Appalachian Hydrogen Hub is a vehicle for environmental racism, threatening Black communities already overburdened by air and water pollution with even more harmful fossil fuel and carbon capture infrastructure," said Archbishop Marcia Dinkins, Founder and Executive Director of the Black Appalachian Coalition. "In

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