Legal Planet

APRIL 12, 2024

.’s delegation of federal Clean Air Act (CAA) authority for California to adopt regulations limiting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles and mandating the state’s steady transition from sales of conventional cars and light trucks to electric vehicles. Circuit’s long-awaited decision is State of Ohio v.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The measure proposed acquiring the two investor-owned utilities that distribute 97% of Maine’s electricity and operating them as a new publicly-owned utility called Pine Tree Power, that would be governed by an elected board. Electric Utility Models Electric utilities deliver electricity to customers.

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Legal Planet

JULY 19, 2022

Based on press reports, it now seems likely that Biden will soon declare climate change to be a national emergency. Would it unlock important powers that could be used to fight climate change? In 2019, I was worried that using this precedent to fight climate change will require some real soul-searching.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Now that California has taken the lead and set a goal for all passenger vehicles sold in the state to be electric by 2035, the next logical step is electrifying medium- and heavy-duty vehicles. This is an integral step towards cleaning our air and reducing climate-warming emissions. There are more than 1.8 pollution from vehicles.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In the race to scale up a global supply chain for electric vehicle batteries, mining justice advocates have sought to ensure that the ongoing clean technology minerals boom does not exacerbate longstanding negative impacts from the global mining industry. Chief among these are corruption risks. Download as PDF

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Since the beginning of 2022, electric vehicle sales in the United States have been downright electrifying. Last year, US drivers bought more than 800,000 new electric vehicles (EVs), 65 percent more than in 2021, even as overall car sales declined. Given the climate crisis, which seems to worsen every day, the sooner the better.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

PennFuture celebrated 25 years of fighting climate change and industrial pollution by holding anniversary celebrations in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia to honor seven Pennsylvanians for their contributions to restoring and protecting the environment. from Villanova University School of Law.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 3, 2024

In a new report , the Sabin Center identifies and examines 33 of the most pervasive false claims about solar energy, wind energy, and electric vehicles, with the aim of promoting a more informed discussion. jobs ( it does not ). jobs ( it does not ). Read the full report here.

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New Scientist

MARCH 12, 2024

The computers that secure cryptocurrencies like bitcoin consume large amounts of power, pushing up electricity prices and potentially contributing to climate change. Now, the US government wants to tackle the problem

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 13, 2023

The revolutions in power generation and vehicle technology are gaining momentum, and—given the climate crisis—they can’t come too soon. Last year, renewables generated more electricity in the United States than coal for the first time, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). of total auto sales.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

These changes, if adopted, will allow more gas plants to burn more gas further into the future. We urge the government to strengthen the regulations, rather than weaken them. We urge the government to strengthen the regulations, rather than weaken them. The government must finalize the regulations without further delay.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 13, 2022

They emphasize that narrow interpretations of statutes prevent “government by bureaucracy supplanting government by the people.” This mandate was challenged by two groups of state governments. The post Today’s Vaccine Cases: Implications for Climate Change Regulation appeared first on Legal Planet.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 5, 2022

Ontario’s upcoming election will determine whether our province will be part of the climate change solution. The recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report concluded that the world needs to cut greenhouse emissions in half by the end of this decade to avoid total climate breakdown.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 5, 2022

Lacking faith in government, South Africans take it upon themselves to deliver basic necessities like water to their communities. Researchers, scientists, and government agencies are hoping to implement “smarter” technologies to monitor the Great Lakes. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN. They are instead about which right a diverter has.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2024

By next year, Pennsylvania will get 50 percent of its electricity from ten new solar arrays around the Commonwealth – making Pennsylvania the first state in the country to commit to getting half of its energy from solar power.

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Real Climate

APRIL 6, 2023

The summary for policymakers of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) sixth synthesis report was released on March 20th (available online as a PDF ). There is a recording of the IPCC Press Conference – Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report for those who are interested in watching an awkward release of the report.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 13, 2022

Overly focusing on technological innovation will miss the basic changes needed to drive the clean energy transition at scale and at pace today, including required breakthroughs on collaboration, collective action, communication, governance, and business model reforms. to 80 percent of electricity from zero-carbon resources by 2030.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The Michigan Public Service Commission is best known as the government body that decides whether gas and electric utilities can raise their rates. In an unusual move, the commission is also reviewing what keeping Line 5 operating means for climate change. But, the commission has other duties.

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Acoel

MARCH 8, 2023

Posted on March 8, 2023 by Leslie Carothers During a pandemic paper purge, I found a corporate newsletter showing me and my boss, George David, then CEO of United Technologies Corporation, at the Earth Technologies Forum admiring a display captioned “Why is UTC a Leader on Climate Change?”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 2, 2022

With the significant strides in electric truck technology, vastly reduced operating and maintenance costs compared to combustion vehicles, and the fact that, according to USPS, 95 percent of its routes can be serviced by electric vehicles, one would assume that the USPS would be pursuing electric delivery vehicles in full force.

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Law and Environment

JANUARY 24, 2023

This past year represents a real turning point in the transition to electric vehicles, demonstrated by new major incentives and regulatory activities at both federal and state government levels and several notable accomplishments in the private sector. National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Plan $9,397,238 actual FY 2022.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In turn, CARB’s 2022 Climate Change Scoping Plan Update , which sets the statewide program to achieve GHG emissions reduction targets , relies on 100% zero-emission vehicle sales by 2035 as a core strategy. The post How Can Local Governments Plan for Equity in EV Infrastructure? Download as PDF.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 19, 2022

What has Ontario done about climate change the last 4 years? Once upon a time, Ontario was a provincial leader in fighting climate change. But today, there is virtually no climate policy in place in the province, and the Ontario government has resorted to becoming a climate pretender.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Today, Native Americans communities face another crisis: climate change. Many tribes are at high risk from climate change. Given heat increases due to climate change, and the tendency of climate change to make arid lands even drier, the relocations often put the tribes at climate change ground zero.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Most of these pieces were about the company’s support for a seemingly independent network of anti-regulation, “free-market” nonprofits that spread falsehoods about the reality and seriousness of climate change. Later in the hour, Tillerson told Rose that the federal government should end subsidies for renewable energy. “I

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 11, 2024

The proposed Clean Electricity Regulations (CER) by the federal government are intended to make sure we reduce our greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from fossil fuel generated electricity starting in 2035. In recent years, we’ve seen the effects of climate change. The effects of climate change will only get worse.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 21, 2024

Conservative groups have claimed since then that virtually every government regulation raises a major question. EPA had previously considered electric vehicles as a way of reducing pollution. EPA also modeled non-EV approaches that could be used to meet the standard, so switching to electric power is not the only form of compliance.

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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

Following are some of my key takeaways (detailed in this and another forthcoming report) about the appropriate role of emissions trading in climate change policy and general thoughts on improving the effectiveness of carbon markets. – Emissions trading as part of a portfolio of climate policies.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 3, 2023

To no one’s surprise it contained zero funding to address climate change – not even for clean energy – which the document referred to multiple times. As a result, between 2005 and 2017 greenhouse gas pollution from Ontario’s electricity system dropped by 93 per cent.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency Region 3 Administrator Adam Ortiz, PennVEST Chairman Dr. Brian Regli, and local government partners to celebrate Earth Month and highlight the partnership between federal, state, and local governments to fight climate change. All climate change is local.

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Law and Environment

JULY 1, 2022

The Court found that EPA’s use of “generation shifting” was a sweeping new authority EPA had assumed over the nation’s electricity generation sector, an authority that was not clearly delegated to the agency by Congress. The Court ruled that EPA lacked the authority under the Clean Air Act to issue the Clean Power Plan.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 3, 2023

The Senate Local Government Committee is scheduled to meet March 6 on legislation-- Senate Bill 143 (Yaw-R-Lycoming)-- that would take away the authority of elected local government officials to move to cleaner sources of energy to address climate change. Legislation like this was vetoed by Gov. Wolf in July of last year.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 8, 2024

State climate policy is a big deal. State governments began cutting emissions at a time when the federal government was essentially doing nothing about climate change. it’s not for nothing that 2023 has been called a banner year for state climate action. Who knew cheese was such a pollution problem?)

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Greenbuilding Law

APRIL 23, 2023

The Restaurant Association complaint said, “the drastic step of requiring ‘all-electric’ new buildings stands at odds with the need for a reliable, resilient, and affordable energy supply.” one would think those bona fides would result in those concerned about climate change being cognizant of the Act and these matters).

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The Golden State has adopted a slew of climate change laws over the past twenty years, and an even greater number of regulations. Effectively prohibited California utilities from using electricity from coal-fired generation. Bush torpedoed climate action by the federal government early in his administration.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) rule has the potential to significantly reduce climate-warming greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as well as harmful air pollutants like fine particulates (PM2.5) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) from the numerous commercial and government fleets of MHD vehicles in the state.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 5, 2024

Why would the government be ending it now with little notice?” Canadians are just now learning about heat pumps, the industry is booming, yet the government is pulling the rug out? The groups are calling on the Federal government to not only continue this program but to also expand the incentives to retrofit low-income homes.

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