Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

They just released their 2022 “Annual Energy Outlook” (AEO), which is a big deal: it tells us where electricity is headed over the next 30 years. Here are five key takeaways from this year’s AEO, focused primarily on the electricity sector: 1. This year’s projections are a bit grim. Carbon emissions remain high.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2021

C temperature target, and one that more than 130 countries have adopted, albeit mostly as squishy political declarations, not yet legally binding or implemented. Fossil enterprises and political leaders in major fossil producers ranged from politely dismissive to openly contemptuous.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 9, 2022

On June 30, 2022, the State of California joined the State of New York in adopting legislation that allows state authorities to bypass local laws in permitting large-scale renewable energy projects. Law § 94-c(2)(h). Credit: New York Office of Renewable Energy Siting. b)(1) (emphasis added); and. emphasis added).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Like many other public-serving institutions throughout society, electricity and gas utilities are facing calls to be more equitable in their operations, planning, and treatment of customers. That law created the state’s Community Air Protection Program focused on reducing exposure in communities most impacted by air pollution.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

Because beyond the importance of cleaning up the power sector itself, we also need a clean electricity system to enable the decarbonization of so many other aspects of our economy, from vehicles to homes and businesses to industrial processes. One critical tool for forcing that reckoning comes from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 15, 2023

Is it simply a lack of political will? ( *side eye fossil fuel industry) You don’t have to look any further than the oil and gas lobbyists in government offices every day of the month crying wolf about how unfair and destabilizing climate policy would be to their profits. And these numbers are most likely an underestimate.

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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

Emissions trading systems are often launched with relatively lenient design features, typically justified as giving the system a chance to “learn-by-doing” and to gain political buy-in for approval of a program. – Continual reform to improve ambition, integrity, and buy-in. Most ETS have fallen on the prices-too-low side.

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A Greener Life

JULY 30, 2021

In Germany, fossil fuels are king. While Germany has had a huge focus on renewable energy this has done little to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels. Ironically, the country already gets a lot of its electricity supply via interconnectors from France – produced through nuclear energy.

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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. Implementation of these new laws will be the true test of that statement, but they provide an exciting starting point.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 16, 2024

Much of our electricity system is 50 to 70 years old, yet current plans for domestic manufacturing, electric vehicle fleets, community solar gardens and more clean energy all depend on a modern grid. New demands for electricity and the need to reduce climate-changing emissions are driving new grid planning efforts.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

degrees,” IPCC report review editor Steven Rose, an economist at the Electric Power Research Institute in the United States, told the AP. The latter confirms what other reports have told us, which is that the production, processing, and distribution of fossil fuels must be shut off as soon as possible. Declaring 1.5

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A Greener Life

APRIL 11, 2022

They added that due to the increase in climate-friendly policies and laws we have seen enhanced energy efficiency, reduced deforestation rates and accelerated the deployment of renewable energy. New production processes will be necessary, with low and zero-emissions electricity, hydrogen and carbon capture and storage (CCS) to reach net-zero.

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Greenbuilding Law

MAY 1, 2022

On the cusp of these two regulatory programs, pushing broad sectors of the economy to the next frontier in innovation, SEC Climate Risk Rule is Transformative at a Cost and Maryland Resets its Trajectory with Greenhouse Gas Reduction Law , a quick 800 word refresher about GHG emissions makes an ideal blog post. emission trends.

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Energy and Climate Law

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Germany is a key European country when it comes to hydrogen and the most advanced in Europe in terms of electricity storage via hydrogen, the so called Power-to-Gas technology. There is, however, a problem as hydrogen is often produced from fossil fuels (natural gas, methane) in these countries and can therefore not be considered `green`.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2022

Japan’s dependency on fossil fuel s had been slightly declining until 2010. But the country changed course as a result of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, which led to the forced shutdown of nuclear power plants and greater reliance on fossil fuels. Civil law cases. In September 2017, in Sendai Citizens v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

The CI is determined through a lifecycle analysis of the global warming pollution associated with the production and use of gasoline, diesel, biofuels, electricity, or other alternative fuels. In past rulemakings, CARB accounted for this policy overlap by only including climate benefits that exceed those required by federal law.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

TODAY 1:00: House Consumer Protection, Technology, Utilities Committee holds hearing on House Bill 1578 (Mullins-D-Lackawanna) training and bonding retail electric and natural gas energy suppliers. Million In 2022 To Influence Health Insurance, Health Care Laws In PA -- York Daily Record: Mask Mandates? formal notice) Read more here.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 28, 2023

The creation of NYCI follows the 2019 passage of the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA), under which New York State’s electricity sector must reach zero emissions by 2040. NYCI’s immediate linkage with WCI could also be seen as politically desirable. Unfortunately, no reforms of the cap have been made.

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Energy and Climate Law

JUNE 11, 2020

This step is quite controversial due to the impossibility to ensure that the hydrogen there is really produced from renewables and not from fossil fuels. There is, however, a problem as hydrogen is often produced from fossil fuels (natural gas, methane) in these countries and can therefore not be considered `green`.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2022

The law will provide $379 billion in subsidies to clean energy in the form of direct payments and tax credits. The most recent report , from a Princeton research group, concludes that IRA would: cut annual emissions in 2030 by an additional ~1 billion metric tons below current policy (including the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law).

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2023

Million To Delaware Estuary Program, Including Support For Mussel Hatchery At Philadelphia's Bartram's Gardens [PaEN] -- Dept. Million To Delaware Estuary Program, Including Support For Mussel Hatchery At Philadelphia's Bartram's Gardens [PaEN] -- Dept.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 21, 2023

A lot of this is the scale of funding—the two laws will spend money on climate policies at a far higher rate than any previous federal programs—but the laws will also involve the federal government more in climate policy, in a variety of ways. These changes come at a crucial time for the fight against climate change.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

What is Environmental Law? Humanity has been aware of its environment far longer than there have been laws to protect environments. However, the term “environmental law” does not just cover government legislation. These are not “laws” per se but act as such within a regulatory framework. Useful Environmental Law Terms.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The same month Chinese authorities closed Toyota and Foxconn factories in Sichuan province, a leading manufacturing center, after a record-breaking heat wave curtailed hydropower output and strained the electric grid. Legal scholars called the targeting of essential infrastructure a violation of international law. Keith Schneider.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

For two or three weeks, climate politics gets intense worldwide news coverage. Each of them was adopted at some prior COP, after parties at some still-earlier COP made a political (i.e., The largest decision adopted this year, and the main focus of negotiations and political conflict, was called the “Glasgow Climate Pact.”

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Energy and Climate Law

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Those changes were implemented (more or less) simultaneously for gas and electricity and focused on similar issues of organizing markets and stimulating competition. It transfers a creature that is known from the recast Electricity Directive to the gas world. However, over the last decade new challenges became more prominent.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 29, 2024

The Department of Energy estimates the cost of an electric vehicle lithium-ion battery pack declined 89% between 2008 and 2022. Different batteries may be ideal in settings where charging speed is not a factor, such as utility-scale electricity storage. Prices for battery storage have declined even more sharply.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 3, 2022

The majority 6–3 decision sharply curtails the EPA’s authority to set standards based on a broad range of flexible options to cut carbon emissions from the power sector—options such as replacing polluting fossil fuels with cheap and widely available wind and solar power coupled with battery storage.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 30, 2023

This political rollercoaster ride was also unfolding across last year’s Danger Season , stressing the urgency of the need to act big, and act now. And just as suddenly, on August 16, 2022, the bill became law: the largest-ever one-time federal investment in climate action that humanity has ever seen. It was simply awesome.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

This post was originally published on the Law and Political Economy blog as part of a symposium on inflation. In the early days of the current price shocks, fossil fuel boosters blamed clean energy and climate policy. Photo credit: Matthew Smith, Flickr. The Capacity Story.

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Vermont Law

JUNE 29, 2015

Can it serve as a bridge to moving away from fossil fuels? Just look at the increasing amount of tension and war-like conditions currently developing between local communities and their government over water supply in politically unstable areas such as the Middle East. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. By Allen Smith.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 4, 2023

At the highest level, the contiguous United States is composed of three electrical grids: the Western Interconnection, the Eastern Interconnection, and the Texas Interconnection. Interconnections and regional entities (Source: North American Electric Reliability Corporation). It would change Western energy markets.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 11, 2022

These communities contain the expertise, resilience, and knowledge that are necessary to plot the way forward—along with the political power necessary to win on issues of policy. Democracy : every day, decisions are made that affect all of us—laws, regulations, and policy choices. percent, compared to an average of 2.3

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Legal Planet

MAY 23, 2022

Climate change wasn’t a central issue in the campaign, but resistance to climate action no longer provided a political advantage. It promises AU$20 billion to upgrade the grid, lower taxes on electric vehicles, AU$3 billion to cut emissions from heavy industry, building of 85 solar farms and 400 utility-scale storage facilities. (In

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

Some events last week sent a strong signal that the tide is turning against fossil fuels. To paraphrase Churchill, this may not be beginning of the end for fossil fuels, but at least it is the end of the beginning of the campaign against them. Each of the events standing alone would have been noteworthy.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. The court rejected Exxon’s argument that it could withhold documents based on an accountant-client privilege under Texas law. and non-U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 15, 2023

Billion Over 4 Years -- Independent Fiscal Office: Budget Impact Of New Union Contract FY 24-25 - $696 Million -- The Center Square: In-State Tuition At Penn State, University Of Pittsburgh Among Costliest Nationwide -- York Dispatch: Dr.

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