Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 26, 2023

There’s no question that the US electricity transmission system has to be modernized to enable a transition to an equitable clean energy economy, but how to do it is up for grabs. The list is not exhaustive, but it illustrates the significant attention that the electric transmission system is already receiving at the federal level.

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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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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Environmental Defence, Équiterre, Ecology Action Centre and the David Suzuki Foundation are responding with a joint statement welcoming the regulations as a strong step towards reducing emissions and the cost of living for Canadians. . Said Nate Wallace, Clean Transportation Program Manager, Environmental Defence. “

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 10, 2023

Statement by Keith Brooks, Programs Director, Environmental Defence Toronto | Traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabeg, the Haudenosaunee, and the Huron-Wendat – We applaud the federal government for moving forward with its commitment to clean electricity.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 13, 2023

Last year, renewables generated more electricity in the United States than coal for the first time, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). US electric car sales, meanwhile, jumped 65% compared to 2021, while overall car sales last year declined from the previous year. Electric vehicles (EVs) accounted for 5.8%

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Last spring, the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) , which operates the electricity grid serving 45 million people across the central United States, found o ut it was at a higher risk of power outages than it believed. The result, as I explain below, was skyrocketing electricity bills for thousands of people.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 13, 2022

This new regulation would apply to delivery vans, big rigs, box trucks, and buses. and nitrogen oxides (NOx) from the numerous commercial and government fleets of MHD vehicles in the state. Regulate more tractor trucks, including the smaller fleets.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 21, 2024

Conservative groups have claimed since then that virtually every government regulation raises a major question. None of these apply to the new car rule: The new rule is based on a legal provision that EPA has applied for decades to regulate cars, rather than an obscure and rarely used legal provision.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Groundwater regulation, legal rights to clean water, and spending measures highlight this election cycle. Voters in parts of Cochise and Graham counties will decide whether to join the state’s more populated districts and regulate groundwater extraction. Photo © Keith Schneider / Circle of Blue. The money would come from a 1.75

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In August, the California Air Resources Board finalized regulations that will phase out the sale of new internal combustion engine automobiles by 2035. The regulations (known as Advanced Clean Cars II) deliver on a commitment Governor Newsom made in a 2020 executive order and build on decades of emissions reduction programs from CARB.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

States and local air quality regulators have the legal authority to set particulate matter (PM), ozone, and nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions standards and adopt regulations for these pollutants when they are already in attainment of the national ambient air quality standards ( NAAQS ) set by the U.S.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 15, 2023

Federal fisheries regulators propose a salmon experiment in northern California. The Department of Energy wants public input on priority electric transmission line corridors. News Briefs Drinking Water Regulation: Perchlorate, Again A federal appeals court ordered the U.S. government water policy.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 6, 2022

Our electricity system will be crucial to decarbonization efforts, both because much of our current energy comes from electricity, and because decarbonizing sectors like transportation will require significant electrification. Restructuring generally addresses one of two parts of the electricity industry: generation and retail.

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Legal Planet

MAY 21, 2024

Last week, the government took steps to improve permitting for new transmission lines. Regrettably, someone else preempted the title, “What the FERC Is Happening With New Electric Transmission Rules?”) These moves have been urgently needed. Transmission has become the Achilles Heel of our energy system.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 3, 2023

The Halton Hills Generating Station in Halton Hills, Ontario (Photo by Ian Willms) The “Clean Energy Advantage” In the budget, the government boasts about Ontario’s “clean energy advantage” even though it is actively whittling away at it. The current government acts like it’s somehow responsible for this feat.

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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

California’s system uses revenues from auctioning allowances to fund its Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) and to limit cost increases to electricity users. Implications for China. What are the implications of the California experience for China’s national carbon ETS? Focusing on data accuracy and MRV.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2024

On March 7, the Independent Fiscal Office issued its latest Pennsylvania Electricity update that reports the electricity grid is dependent on one fuel for 59% of the state’s electricity generation-- natural gas-- followed by nuclear power-- 31.9%, coal-- 5.4% from other sources. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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Law and Environment

JUNE 28, 2022

On June 9, 2022, the Biden-Harris Administration announced a notice of proposed rulemaking to set minimum standards and requirements for projects funded through the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program (“NEVI”), which was created by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Minimum density of provided chargers.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 18, 2024

By John Quigley, Kleinman Center For Energy Policy , University of Pennsylvania The challenge of decarbonizing the electricity grid while ensuring its reliability is acute in Pennsylvania. The Commonwealth is the nation’s third-largest electricity producer , and exports more of it than any other state. per year over the next ten years.

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Greenbuilding Law

APRIL 23, 2023

The Act expressly preempts State and local regulations concerning the energy use of many natural gas appliances, including those used in household and restaurant kitchens. All three judges held that, by its plain text and structure, the Act’s preemption provision encompasses building codes that regulate natural gas use by covered products.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The EPA is getting ready to finalize a critical regulation limiting emissions of smog-forming nitrogen oxide (NO X ) and soot (or particulate matter, PM 2.5 ) from new heavy-duty trucks. This is the first time EPA has sought to limit emissions in over two decades, and it is long overdue. EPA has proposed three different early credit programs.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

Fortunately, I don’t have COPD and I didn’t contract asthma when I was young, perhaps partly because I grew up in a home with an electric range. The study concluded that these childhood asthma cases could have theoretically been prevented by using electric appliances. But other Washingtonians may not be as lucky.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 28, 2022

Regulators in New York require utilities to perform climate risk assessments. Supreme Court could transform federal climate regulation. Chicago’s heating ordinance already required landlords to regulate apartment building temperatures during cold weather, but it had no similar requirements when the temperature exceeds 68 degrees.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2024

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) just finalized its Phase 3 greenhouse gas regulation as a part of the administration’s plan to decarbonize the transportation sector. The Phase 3 regulation will cut new greenhouse gas emissions from trucks in 2032 by 32 to 62 percent for vocational trucks (e.g., And if so, where?

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 6, 2022

New rain forecasts in Brazil could reduce the electricity sector’s need for financial aid. Reeling from the ongoing megadrought, beekeepers in Chile demand more support from the government. At present, the state has no binding regulations for the contaminants, though such standards could go into place as early as this spring.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The Electric Vehicle Availability Standard is a holiday gift to the planet. This regulation will also help address affordability challenges by ensuring that the budget electric vehicle (EV) models coming to market aren’t just available overseas, but are readily available in Canada too.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 24, 2023

Electric vehicles (EVs) play an important role in reducing carbon pollution from transportation. But there are some false and half true claims being made about electric vehicles. Here we will separate fact from fiction about electric vehicles. Question: Do Electric Cars work in cold weather? grams of CO2 per kilometre.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2024

On May 1, Senate Republicans passed Senate Bill 832 (Yaw-R-Lycoming) giving a state authority the power to take over the review of all necessary permits from any state agency for large-scale energy projects, eliminating any public comment, waiving any regulation needed for the project and providing immunity from prosecution for waived regulations.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 27, 2023

Direct pay – which is already in effect as of January 1, 2023 – allows tax-exempt entities, including local governments, to claim the value of certain clean energy and other tax credits as a cash payment, rather than as an offset to tax liability that they do not have.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Statement by Keith Brooks, Programs Director Toronto | Traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabeg, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat – We are very happy to see the Independent Electricity System Operator’s (IESO) proposal to procure 5,000 megawatts (MW) of non-emitting renewable electricity in the coming years.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Some 15 hours later, the Government of Ontario threatened to pass legislation that would reverse that decision. The OEB is Ontario’s independent regulator of the electricity and natural gas sectors. The post The Ontario Government Should Not Intervene in the OEB Enbridge Rate Decision appeared first on Environmental Defence.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2022

The past few years have been ripe with exciting news of new electric vehicle models hitting the market. Recently, the anticipated release of electric light-duty trucks has dominated consumers’ attention. Nearly everything from delivery vans to semis can be electric now. Electric trucks deliver wide loads of benefits.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 17, 2023

Transmission policy is vital to supplying grid modernization, and some state governments see their role in planning ahead for the grid we need. States should be heard on transmission When regulators make policy, utilities listen. Where do we go for that modern infrastructure?

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Clean Energy Law

JULY 16, 2019

Section 108(b) of CERCLA authorizes EPA [i] to develop regulations requiring owners or operators of certain “classes of facilities [to] establish and maintain evidence of financial responsibility consistent with the degree and duration of risk associated with the production, transportation, treatment, storage, or disposal of hazardous substances.”

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 16, 2021

A proposed commission in Brazil could lead to electricity rationing amid a historic drought. A three-judge panel affirmed Minnesota state regulators’ key approvals of the Line 3 oil pipeline replacement project, the Associated Press reports. The Czech government plans to begin negotiations sometime this week. ON THE RADAR.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 23, 2024

The governing bodies that regulate California’s energy system are almost as complicated and arcane as the sprawling network of wires, poles, and power plants they oversee. That starts with one of the state’s most important, but historically inaccessible regulators. California needs a new approach. Really important decisions.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 1, 2023

The Halton Hills Generating Station in Halton Hills, Ontario (Photo by Ian Willms) The “Clean Energy Advantage” In the budget, the government boasts about Ontario’s “clean energy advantage” even though it is actively whittling away at it. The current government acts like it’s somehow responsible for this feat.

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