Law and Environment

JANUARY 13, 2022

Today, January 12, 2022, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced that on February 23, 2022 it will hold a wind energy lease auction for six areas in the New York Bight (NY Bight), the coastal area between Long Island and the New Jersey coast. Figure 1, Final Wind Energy Lease Areas.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

To meet our climate goals, a massive acceleration in the global deployment of clean- energy technologies is needed now. These two key ocean-climate solutions were featured at the Global Clean Energy Action Forum (GCEAF) which brought together clean-energy leaders from around the world to accelerate the clean-energy transition.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 8, 2023

Department of Agriculture (USDA), Department of Energy (DOE), Department of the Interior (DOI), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)—to implement the IRA. Similarly, other agencies have made significant progress towards implementing the IRA programs they administer.

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Breezometer

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Clean Energy - Ensure access to affordable and reliable modern energy sources for all nations. Enhance international and promote investment in energy-efficient infrastructure and clean energy technology. Reverse land degradation, stop biodiversity loss.

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Legal Planet

JULY 18, 2023

There are many forms of carbon capture, including nature-based (in trees, soil, wetlands, ocean, regenerative agriculture, etc.), Right now, direct air capture is relatively expensive, uses a lot of energy (to drive air through catalysts that capture carbon), and will require a lot of land if implemented at scale.

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Global Green

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Ultimately, the message conveyed by Moore is renewable technology is not enough to save our planet from climate change and the only way forward is for the human race to slow down. What are the limitations of renewable technologies? In the UK, the energy produced from biomass currently accounts for ca. Ocean energy.

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Greenbuilding Law

MAY 20, 2023

Commercial properties account for a significant portion of global emissions, making it crucial to find innovative ways to fund energy efficiency upgrades to those existing buildings. The webinar is complimentary, but you must register here.

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Washington Nature

JULY 11, 2023

By Anya Blaney A childhood love of sea turtles led Jennifer Lee Clinchy to her life's work protecting the oceans and their inhabitants. © Jennifer Lee Clinchy However, Jennifer’s most transformational chapter unfolded during her tenure at the White House, where she played a pivotal role in shaping international ocean policies.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The case for phasing out of fossil fuels and making a just and equitable transition to clean energy has never been more clear. Contrast that with some of the wider benefits of the clean energy transition, such as phasing out coal generation by 2030, which are realized by everyone including historically disenfranchised groups.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 3, 2022

Congress is working hard on legislation to bolster the United States’ leadership in science and technology and support a clean energy economy that is “made in America.” This is great news for our ocean because a healthy ocean is essential to our ability to thrive as a nation, grow our economy and advance climate solutions.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This year’s list includes a diverse array of topics, from concerns over our energy and transportation infrastructure; housing and land conservation; international and local climate change; food security and contamination; and water quality of our world’s oceans.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Already reeling from the impacts of climate change and plastic pollution, our ocean now faces another threat: deep-sea mining. The massive machines that would be deployed to mine the seabed for critical minerals would destroy ocean ecosystems that developed over tens of millions of years.

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Science & Climate

APRIL 22, 2021

Importantly, a major upfront investment in clean transportation through incentives and new charging and hydrogen infrastructure will soon pay off in net economic savings to the California economy, with net savings within a decade growing to tens of billions of dollars per year by 2045. Key policy strategies.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 18, 2023

A proposed offshore wind procurement bill in Maine would go a long way to enable the state to meet its climate and clean energy targets and become a national leader in floating offshore wind technology. That said, offshore wind development will be critical to meet state and regional climate and clean energy requirements.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

This investment into American infrastructure is a huge achievement for our ocean and represents a significant opportunity for the United States to begin to invest in solutions to mitigate and make our communities more resilient to climate change. But the IIJA will lay important groundwork and benefit our ocean and coastal communities.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

STILL FIDDLING, AT 100 SECONDS TO MIDNIGHT, AS THE WORLD WARMS, FLOODS AND BURNS: OCEANS’ SURVIVAL NEED FASTER SITING AND TRANSMISSION OF OFFSHORE WIND FARM PROJECTS. in 1931: “We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy -- sun, wind, and tide.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2023

Which only reaffirms, with greater urgency, what we must (still) do to address climate change: phase down fossil fuels sharply and quickly while transitioning to clean energy, make deep cuts in heat-trapping emissions, and rapidly shore up resilience to worsening climate impacts. Even at about 1.1˚C

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 17, 2022

This requires accelerating the energy transition to clean and renewable sources in a way that is equitable. An equitable energy transition must expand access to clean energy technologies and expand decision-making to include environmental justice and communities that rely on fossil fuels while phasing out coal and gas plants.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced the provisional winners of the first offshore wind energy lease auction in the Pacific. uncertainty about buyers for the energy produced (compared to some East Coast states’ approach of setting procurement goals or requirements ).

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 23, 2023

As people around the world grapple with climate change, scientists and engineers are exploring new and exciting ocean-based solutions to generate renewable energy. Tidal energy is emerging as another clean energy source alongside offshore wind farms and wave energy technology. What is tidal energy?

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Having missed the boat on offshore wind , only joining the party decades after the first offshore wind farm was built in Denmark in 1992, the US is intent on not making the same mistake again with floating offshore wind, the relatively new technology still in its infancy.

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Law and Environment

MAY 11, 2023

The fact sheet provides an endorsement of the Building American Energy Security Act of 2023, establishes several major objectives for permitting reform, provides several recommendations to streamline federal permitting processes, and urges Congress to include the objectives and recommendations as part of bipartisan permitting reform legislation.

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Acoel

JULY 30, 2021

Like Dangerfield, advocates for the clean energy technology known as offshore wind power (OSW) have confronted a regulatory field of danger from hesitant environmental and utility regulators, legislators, beachfront home owners, and a most difficult set of critics—fishermen. based) companies. Fishermen were here first.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The Office of Science and Technology Policy solicits feedback about public engagement, organization, scenarios to include in the assessment and more. The Office of Science and Technology Policy is now soliciting feedback from the scientific community and the public about the scope of the assessment. Executive Branch.

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Law and Environment

JANUARY 5, 2023

The capacity required of DAC hubs is quite notable given the current state of DAC technology. This topic area focuses on early-stage efforts to explore the feasibility of potential hub locations, ownership structures, business model development, CO 2 storage/use options, technology partners, stakeholder engagement, and community benefits.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Batteries are key to enabling the renewable energy transition. 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. A fossil fuel energy grid extracts and expends finite resources.

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Washington Nature

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The generated revenue and federal investments support climate resilience funds for Indigenous communities, investment in clean energy, and the preservation of natural areas. CCA holds polluters financially accountable while maintaining a pollution cap.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Photo: Fortune Conferences) For more than two decades, the Koch network has been diligently spreading disinformation to sabotage efforts to transition to a clean energy economy, more often than not by attacking proposed climate policies on economic grounds. Charles Koch, Koch Industries CEO from 1967 to the present.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

A shift of that magnitude will take years to accomplish, just as it took years for Lake Erie to recover after the passage of the 1972 Clean Water Act. Technology for controlling phosphorus is available. Billions were spent on new technology and equipment to ensure water got much cleaner. . That once was the U.S.

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Washington Nature

AUGUST 10, 2021

trillion package would fund a wide range of climate, clean energy, natural infrastructure, coastal restoration, forest restoration and resilience priorities. Some highlights that will touch down for people and nature in Washington include: More than $150 billion for climate and clean energy. Forest resilience programs.

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ESA

MAY 4, 2023

Congress Bipartisan members of Congress introduce legislation to address harassment in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 2990 ) to address sexual harassment and assault in the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). 2988 ) and the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy ( H.R.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The Government Accountability Office issued five new priority recommendations to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. White House : The Office of Science and Technology Policy released draft templates for disclosing current and pending sources of support in federal grant applications. Read the full report here.

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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. Biden signed on Aug.

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Acoel

JUNE 10, 2021

The tag popped off in the open ocean later that summer, east of the Chesapeake Bay. Though some joint research on sharks had occurred before, we never would have been able to secure permission from either government to take technology like satellite tags to Cuba before thawing of relations in 2014. Longfins are highly migratory.

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ESA

MAY 9, 2022

This goal directs 40 percent of the overall benefits of certain federal investments in environmental cleanup, climate mitigation and clean energy to disadvantaged communities. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS®) Advisory Committee Public Meeting (May 11-13). The late Paul G. Allen was the co-founder of Microsoft.

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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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ESA

APRIL 25, 2022

Along with this assessment, the White House Council on Environmental Quality, the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Office of Domestic Climate Policy lead a report to the National Climate Task Force on opportunities for greater deployment of nature-based solutions. Contributions to the UN Ocean Decade,” today, April 25.

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