A Greener Life

JUNE 30, 2023

We are still heading in the opposite direction to that required by the Paris Agreement.” And to reduce emissions drastically to meet what was agreed at the Paris Agreement now seems an uphill task. Overall gas production remained stable.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In response to the report, the bank told TBIJ that its investments remain “science-based,” under a presumption that “net zero-aligned scenarios require continued, though declining, financing of fossil fuel supplies to meet energy demand, security, and affordability during the transition.” It was another corporate spit in the face of science.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 24, 2023

With renewable energy, like solar and wind, becoming cheaper and easier to scale up, there has never been a better moment for governments to transition away from the fossil fuel industry and its destructive impacts on the environment, the climate and communities. What we need to see in the Energy Futures report?

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 21, 2021

In a remarkable new report, the International Energy Agency (IEA) finds that in order to limit warming to 1.5 For example, it has stubbornly underestimated the growth in renewables for years, leaving much more room in its analysis for oil and natural gas. 2) Drive a “massive clean energy expansion” over next decade.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 30, 2019

Back to North Carolina developments in late 2018: Executive Order on Climate Change and Clean Energy: On October 29, 2018, N.C. Governor Roy Cooper issued an executive order on climate change and clean energy. The most direct effect of the executive order will be on state government operations.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Pick up any newspaper and it is clear that much of the world is experiencing a series of interrelated energy price shocks. In Europe and the UK, natural gas prices are up by more than 500% over the last year , hitting all-time highs earlier this month. None of this is a surprise. Every serious person knows it. In the U.S.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

Fossil-fueled power is expensive Even if you put health and environmental costs aside—which you shouldn’t, and I’ll get to those in a second—fossil-fueled power just doesn’t make economic sense given more affordable energy sources. Coal is the most destructive fossil fuel in terms of its climate impact. degrees Celsius.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 18, 2024

An offshore wind plant requires 9 times the mineral resources of a natural gas-fired power plant. Reaching the Paris agreement goals would require a quadrupling of mineral requirements for clean energy technologies by 2040,” he said. “To China Clean Energy Research Center, or CERC.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2022

Reduce Ontario’s GHG emissions by at least 50 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030 and achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, targets consistent with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the most ambitious aspects of the Paris Agreement. Restoring the powers of the Environment Commissioner of Ontario.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

California Federal Court Barred BLM from Enforcing Delay of Oil and Natural Gas Waste Prevention Rule; States, Trade Groups Asked Wyoming Court to Expedite Review of Rule and Suspend Deadlines. Public Citizen, Inc. Trump , No. 1:17 -cv-00253 (D.D.C.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

Briefs Filed in Challenges to ACE Rule and Clean Power Plan Repeal. Petitioners and amicus parties in the lawsuits challenging the repeal of the Clean Power Plan and its replacement with the Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) Rule filed briefs in the D.C. s decision not to participate in the Paris Agreement.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 9, 2023

One year on, we have a clearer picture of what we vaguely knew already: the biggest-ever climate law and its robust tax incentives is igniting the clean energy transition but is not moving us off fossil fuels fast enough. The oil and gas industry is not yet sweating the competition from clean energy.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

Circuit Decision Vacating Affordable Clean Energy Rule. Circuit’s January opinion vacating EPA’s repeal and replacement of the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan regulations for controlling carbon emissions from existing power plants. If you know of any cases we have missed, please email us at columbiaclimate@gmail.com. .

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Law Columbia

APRIL 20, 2021

On Inauguration Day, the United States also began the process of rejoining the Paris Agreement. These include two major regulatory rollbacks: the weakening of motor vehicle standards and the repeal of methane controls on the oil and natural gas sector. Read more here>>> A Government-Wide Approach.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

Citizens for Clean Energy v. Circuit Decision on Affordable Clean Energy Rule. Circuit’s January opinion vacating EPA’s repeal and replacement of the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan regulations for controlling carbon emissions from existing power plants. Department of the Interior , No. 4:17-cv-00030 (D.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2022

To get an assessment of the progress thus far, as well as an idea if what has to happen next, I turned to two of my colleagues in the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) Climate & Energy Program: Principal Climate Scientist Rachel Licker and Transmission Policy Manager Sam Gomberg. percent; natural gas, 38.3 Another 18.5

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

The federal district court for the Western District of Louisiana issued a nationwide preliminary injunction barring the Biden administration from implementing a “Pause” on new oil and natural gas leases on public lands or in offshore waters. Circuit Vacated Approval for Natural Gas Pipeline in St. 20-472 (U.S. Louis area.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 2, 2022

degrees centigrade “involve rapid and deep and in most cases immediate GHG (greenhouse gas) emission reductions in all sectors.” That clearly includes natural gas—which oil and gas companies continue to tout as a “bridge” fuel from coal to renewable energy.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) authorization of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports from three facilities in Louisiana, Maryland, and Texas. Finally, the court found that DOE adequately considered distributional impacts in its evaluation of “public interest” under the Natural Gas Act. Department of Energy , Nos.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The Washington Supreme Court concluded that the Washington Clean Air Act did not grant the Department of Ecology authority to regulate indirect greenhouse gas emissions of businesses and utilities whose products ultimately generate such emissions. Oregon Court Reinstated Clean Energy Ballot Initiatives. B294231 (Cal.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 3, 2024

She calls herself “the chief-architect” of the Paris Agreement withdrawal while at the EPA, where she “set a record for cutting red tape while minimizing unnecessary interference from the federal bureaucracy.” Bernard L. He served on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, nominated by Trump. Asked if the U.S.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The IRA provides at least $369 billion in funding for clean energy — maybe more, depending on how many people take advantage of its tax credits. Manchin insisted on some provisions favoring fossil fuels, including a natural gas pipeline that was one of his pet projects. And then he did. And quite a deal it was.

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