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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Regulations Ozone Air Pollution Clean Air Act 130

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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Electricity Renewable Energy Politics Government 130

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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Electricity Natural Gas Clean Energy Fossil Fuels 109

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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Government Politics Climate Change Paris Agreement 167

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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Clean Energy Government Electricity Climate Change 91

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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Electricity Natural Gas Renewable Energy Nuclear Power 98

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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Regulations 2027 Nitrogen Oxides Technology 211

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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Electricity 2022 Clean Water Act Government 130

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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Electricity Regulations 2026 Climate Change 90

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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Electricity Wind Power Solar Power Climate Change 56

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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Government Natural Gas Clean Energy Electricity 70

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 Renewable Energy Fossil Fuels Regulations 232

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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Electricity Toxic Substances Control Act Regulations 2015 130

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 4, 2023

This Post was Co-Authored by Sharon Jacobs and Dave Owen For many decades, most people in the United States have obtained their electricity from a large investor-owned utility company (IOU). Indeed, it has grown so quickly that CCAs might be the most influential recent innovation in the field of local-government law. Much of U.S.

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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. 2002 SB1078.

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Carbon Emissions Renewable Energy Climate Change 2002 200

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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Clean Energy Government Electricity 2017 52

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 21, 2023

How would that change if I hopped on the electric bus route at the end of my block? Even when accounting for pollution from electricity generation, electric trucks can significantly reduce air pollution and get us on a better track to addressing climate change.

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Nitrogen Oxides Electricity Fossil Fuels Air Pollution 255

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

In late April, California air regulators are poised to pass one of the most meaningful regulations to reduce pollution from commercial trucks, vans, and buses. A full transition to electric drayage truck operations in 2035. After 2036, all new MHDVs sold in California will be electric. There are more than 1.8

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The federal government is now supporting that role with federal funding for states. A key provision (IRA § 60114) appropriates $250 million to support emission reduction planning by state governments. Another development with multi-state implications involves electric vehicles. States have played a critical role in U.S.

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Carbon Emissions Clean Air Act Electricity 2030 217

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

On February 21, the PJM Interconnection and three other regional electric grid operators made a series of 14 recommendations to overcome vulnerabilities in natural gas infrastructure operations to improve electric grid reliability and gas-electric coordination, especially during adverse weather conditions.

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Environmental Leader

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Falling battery costs and increasing government regulations and financial incentives are increasing the electric bus market. The post Cost of Batteries, Increased Incentives Drive Electric Bus Market appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 29, 2021

Environmental Defence applauds Canada’s federal government for strengthening Canada’s electric vehicle (EV) sales target. As referenced by Minister Alghabra, the International Energy Agency recently said that 100 per cent of light-duty vehicle sales must be electric by 2035 if we hope to limit warming to 1.5 Toronto, Ont.

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Electricity Climate Change Government Regulations 98

Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The Canadian auto industry receives significant taxpayer subsidies to build electric vehicle battery plants. Regulating zero-emission vehicle supply is the only way to ensure Canadians are the first to access the zero-emission vehicles we are paying to help build.

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Regulations Climate Change 2023 Electricity 54

Environmental Leader

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Falling battery costs and increasing government regulations and financial incentives are increasing the electric bus market. The post Cost of Batteries, Increased Incentives Drive Electric Bus Market appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Electricity Regulations Government 63

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 12, 2023

What happens when promise of electricity reliability fails in bad weather? We know that consumers pay for electricity reliability and bear the cost when supplies are tight. Three decades of deregulation allowed private companies, as opposed to public regulators, to make critical decisions about reliability.

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Fossil Fuels Renewable Energy Electricity Regulations 185

Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 11, 2022

To accomplish this the law advances everything from “food residuals” and organic materials diversion, a new environmental justice litmus test, a solar panel “recovery, reuse, and recycling working group,” an electric school bus mandate, recognizes “nuclear power” as a carbon free energy source, and much, much more.

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Regulations 2025 Law Climate Change 59

Renewable + Law

MAY 19, 2023

During its May 18 voting meeting, the California Public Utilities Commission (Commission) voted to open a new rulemaking proceeding that will consider improvements to its permitting procedures for electric infrastructure projects that fall under its jurisdiction.

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Electricity Renewable Energy Regulations Government 52

Renewable + Law

MAY 18, 2023

During its May 18 voting meeting, the California Public Utilities Commission (Commission) voted to open a new rulemaking proceeding that will consider improvements to its permitting procedures for electric infrastructure projects that fall under its jurisdiction.

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Electricity Renewable Energy Regulations Government 52

Law Columbia

MAY 24, 2023

New York State Office of Renewable Energy Siting , a lawsuit challenging the state’s March 2021 regulations for siting and permitting major renewable energy facilities. Lawsuit Challenging ORES’s Regulations In March 2021, ORES promulgated regulations to implement the new siting process, as required by statute.

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Renewable Energy Regulations Law 2030 59

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Gas, which now generates 40 percent of US electricity, is considered by some to be critical to maintain grid reliability. For example, Dominion Energy, an electric and gas utility in Virginia, is planning to build a mammoth 1,000-megawatt gas plant in an area with a high percentage of residents who are people of color and low-income.

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Law and Environment

JULY 5, 2022

EPA need look no farther than Massachusetts, which issued its Clean Energy and Climate Plan for 2025 and 2030 the same day that the Supreme Court extended its crusade against the modern world by limiting EPA’s authority to regulate in the absence of a clear delegation by Congress. First, a caveat. There is no panacea. States can do a lot.

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2025 2030 Regulations Clean Energy 130

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 18, 2022

Right now, states and the federal government have a choice that will define our country’s options for clean energy and planning the power grid for the challenges ahead. This choice reveals how the electric grid, and the work to cut global warming emissions, are shaped by our political structures. Shared Duties, with Leadership.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

President-elect Gabriel Boric’s new government must address issues of decarbonisation, water crisis and lithium nationalisation, all while rewriting the country’s constitution. In our government, it will be a priority to avoid this destruction and to have development that is compatible with the environment.”. By Francisco Parra Galaz

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

And in both cases, the electric grid and climate change are part of the equation. Until very recently, Australia’s government was never able to get its act together in terms of climate change. It takes a Texas-like approach to electricity regulation, with the free market as the icon.

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