Legal Planet

AUGUST 2, 2023

Image via PickPik On May 23, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) proposed emission limits and guidelines for carbon dioxide from fossil fuel-powered plants. The IRA has made tax credits for CCS more accessible and generous , bolstering EPA’s case that the technology is adequately demonstrated and cost-effective.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The Ports have replaced some fossil-fuel powered equipment with zero-emission models as they work toward goals set forth in their Clean Air Action Plan , including a goal to transition to 100 percent zero-emission CHE by 2030. Evolving zero-emission technology for some types of cargo handling equipment and high upfront costs.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 22, 2022

billion for a competitive grant and rebate program for the purpose of “purchas[ing] or install[ing] zero-emissions port equipment or technology” at ports. Funds from this appropriation may also be awarded for planning and permitting relating to such zero-emission equipment and technology, and for a port’s climate action planning.

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2026 Clean Air Act Air Pollution Greenhouse 116

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2023

EPA’s final rule leverages the latest cost-effective, innovative technologies and proven solutions to prevent an estimated 58 million tons of methane emissions from 2024 to 2038, the equivalent of 1.5 Methane pollution, however, is a global problem.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 25, 2022

The plan relied on a mix of potential actions by states and power companies likely to include shifting from fossil fuel to renewable sources of energy. The Clean Power Plan never went into effect. The court then paused the litigation while EPA revisited the issue.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 26, 2023

By mandating pollution controls on wastewater treatment plants and industrial facilities, it marked a new era of environmental stewardship — an era in which rivers and lakes were viewed not as dumping grounds but as civic assets that fostered recreation, ecological rebirth, and economic development. “We’re During a storm?

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

In 2022, Texas, along with several other states and industry groups representing fuel manufacturers (together, Petitioners), challenged EPA’s new emissions standards in court. In fact, cities across the country are already planning their infrastructure around a future dominated by electric vehicles.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

As we now know, fossil fuel companies lied about it for decades to protect their profits. Now that there is a desperate need to slash global warming emissions worldwide to avoid the worst consequences of climate change, it is critical to rapidly phase out the use of all fossil fuels. What accounts for that?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 14, 2023

Given the EPA has the responsibility and the obligation to address carbon pollution, these standards—the first to limit carbon emissions from existing coal- and gas-fired power plants—are long overdue. Those currently operating fossil fuel plants generate 25 percent of U.S. And as the West Virginia v.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

billion to the National Science Foundation to start a Directorate for Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP). The directorate is tasked with accelerating use-inspired and translational research in technologies and innovations of national importance. 2225 ) to create a new technology directorate. degrees Celsius.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Canada and other countries pledged to stop public financing of fossil fuel projects abroad by the end of 2023. Over 40 countries pledged to rapidly scale up technologies and policies to achieve a transition away from unabated coal power generation in the 2030s for major economies and in the 2040s globally. The bill provides $1.52

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ESA

MAY 15, 2023

International UAE spokesperson says that the world is not ready to “switch off” fossil fuels ahead of COP28. NOAA and EPA – Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control Program: Proposal To Find That Michigan Has Satisfied Conditions on Earlier Approval. 12 at the Expo City Dubai, UAE. Comments are due by June 12, 2023.

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