Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

In that case, Our Children’s Trust represented a group of Oregon youths who sued the federal government, seeking redress for what the children claimed was the government’s failure to protect them from the environmental, health and economic damage wreaked by climate change. United States. The August 14th Held v.

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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 9, 2022

We suggest rephrasing the query such that it is about using renewable energy to reduce the environmental harms associated with fossil fuel energy, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increase the supply of renewable energy and foster a just transition to an ESG driven economy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Governments, including COP28 host the United Arab Emirates, acknowledge this fact. What’s lacking is political will. But we can alter our energy trajectory. This moment presents not only a challenge but an opportunity to reshape our energy landscape and mitigate the impending climate crisis.

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Environmental Europe

JULY 1, 2020

The EU is facing a key challenge in climate and energy governance. Deploying renewable energy technologies is a key way to reduce emissions, but the EU’s own Environment Agency warned in late 2019 that current policy efforts are insufficient to reach the 2030 and the 2050 (net zero) emissions targets.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The federal government has gotten a late start in cutting US emissions anyway, due to Republican resistance. Trump continues to loathe renewable energy, in particular wind. Right now we have energy that’s weak, substandard and unaffordable,” Trump said in announcing his energy plan. “It’s

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

At the global level, however, Germany has its own claim to a leadership role, particularly in its early support for renewable energy. Although its track record has some complexities, this timeline of German actions shows just its early and sustained attention to clean energy policy: 1990. Renewables are 6% of power.

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Legal Planet

MAY 23, 2022

Australia has had a change of government. The Liberal Party — conservative in everything but name — lost control of the federal government to Labor. Together we can take advantage of the opportunity for Australia to be a renewable energy superpower.”. So the change in government is more than welcome.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 6, 2022

However, there are a range of other policy tools in the electricity sector that might help advance decarbonization, policy tools that might be less politically polarizing. We then examined whether restructuring policies at the state level were associated with greater renewable energy capacity or production. Download as PDF.

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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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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2023

Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- -- Gov. Mastriano, After Big Defeat To End 2022, Climbs Back Onto Political Stage -- PennLive: Republican Sen. Mastriano, After Big Defeat To End 2022, Climbs Back Onto Political Stage -- PennLive: Republican Sen. Shapiro -- Gov. Senate/House -- PennLive: Sen.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 14, 2024

Cornyn’s Senate website emphasizes expansion of fossil fuel production but also touts Texas as a “trailblazer in renewable energy.” This is part of the cult, or religion, of renewable energy.” John Thune (SD). Lifetime LCV score of 11% (half of Susan Collins’s lifetime score).

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 8, 2024

State governments began cutting emissions at a time when the federal government was essentially doing nothing about climate change. The Commission also issued new rules governing the state’s 18 most polluting facilities, including the world’s largest maker of mozzarella cheese. State climate policy is a big deal.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 30, 2023

Republicans have an iron grip on Texas government. Which seems a little hard to square with the state’s reliance on renewable energy. The state will soon get more power from renewables than natural gas. If anything, use of clean energy is about to accelerate.

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Cresforum

MARCH 13, 2024

In the ever-evolving world of renewable energy, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) emerged as a piece of legislation aimed at accelerating the adoption of clean energy practices have become a point of contention among political parties. The panelists agreed finding common ground will allow everyone to find solutions.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The hope is that a high-level statement from Chinese and American leaders like this one will unleash more activity among climate experts, private companies, and other governments when they meet in Dubai. this is an affirmation from this administration that the goal is to deploy renewable energy in a way that supplants coal, oil and gas.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The EU and its 27 member countries have some of the world’s most ambitious renewable energy targets with a legally binding goal to produce 42.5% of electricity from renewable energy sources by 2030. Made in Europe The crisis is particularly biting in Europe’s offshore wind sector.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 17, 2024

Fires in British Columbia cost the provincial government $1 billion for firefighting and piling up almost $750 million in insurance claims. The only way to avoid increasing levels of climate catastrophe is to keep oil, gas and coal in the ground and to shift to clean renewable energy. What’s missing is political leadership.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Renewable energy target raised to 50% by 2030. Requires 90% renewable energy and zero-carbon electricity by 2035, 95% by 2040 and 100% by 2045 CARB prohibited sale of new gas and diesel cars after 2034. Bush torpedoed climate action by the federal government early in his administration. 2015 SB350. 2016 SB 32.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The best solution: Replace fossil fuels with renewable energy. Climate change is overwhelmingly caused by burning fossil fuels, and the most immediate path to avert climate disaster is to stop investing in those fuels and start powering our economy with an equitable transition to renewable energy.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In political terms, this seems like a lost opportunity to showcase the government’s achievements; it’s also a disservice to those in the policy community who are tracking implementation. 12) Department of Agriculture Another part of the government that has actually done a good job on reporting is, surprisingly, the U.S.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Earlier this month at COP28 countries committed to transitioning off of fossil fuels and massively scaling up renewable energy instead. Not only does this not align with the global momentum to move beyond oil and gas, it’s yet another black mark for the Government of Canada’s promises to end fossil fuel subsidies.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

(Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images) Rose asked Tillerson open-ended questions on a range of subjects, including climate change and national energy policy. But in nearly every instance, Rose listened politely, refrained from challenging Tillerson on the facts, and went on to his next question.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 21, 2023

Government fiscal years, oddly, are labeled by the year that they end, so we’re really talking about spending from Sept. In addition, the bill would eliminate key provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act that are aimed at expanding the use of electric vehicles and renewable energy. 30, 2021 to October 1, 2022.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Coming on the heels of the powerful ‘ March to End Fossil Fuels’ last weekend, this summit continues the pressure on governments to meet the urgency of the moment. He also called for a quantum leap in climate action and announced an Acceleration Agenda for governments, the financial sector, and businesses.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In these “next generation” cases, countries seeking to grow their domestic renewable energy industry were using the traditional tools of industrial policy to do so. states and Canadian provinces.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

CCS is a multi-billion dollar boondoggle that doesn’t come close to the hype, has significant safety risks, and is a substantial distraction from real climate solutions, such as building more renewable energy, increasing electricity transmission infrastructure, and developing and using storage technology. Want proof?

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Because it spans the entire government, though, it has many provisions relating to climate change. But the fact that they can pass as part of a bipartisan spending law is a sign of how climate change is slowly becoming normalized as a political consideration. The omnibus spending bill is by no means a “climate law.”

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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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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

Student in the Department of Economics at Colorado State University As the urgent need to take tough action towards climate mitigation and sustainability gathers pressure, for most major power-holders today, including the markets, institutions, government agencies, media and countries, environmentalism has perhaps become the biggest fashion fad.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

According to the White House , the National Climate Assessment is a critical resource for “[p]eople who make risk management decisions,” a large group that includes “local government officials, city planners, utility managers, healthcare providers, adaptation specialists, educators, farmers, and small business owners.” 175577 (Exhibit C).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

(UCS) UCS’s findings are consistent with the conclusions of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Transmission Needs Study , which it released last October. It’s a contentious issue fraught with political and social dynamics that have largely doomed previous attempts.

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Legal Planet

JULY 22, 2021

Today, I’ll explain how we might advance political feasibility through climate policy, how that is connected to technological innovation, and how we must necessarily balance between all four of these goals (efficiency, equity, political feasibility, and technological innovation) in developing climate policy. Green spirals.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 30, 2023

Michigan’s clean energy future agenda Taken together, the resolution of the DTE and Consumers Energy resource plans represents a solid foundation for a clean economy powered by renewable energy. Reform utility political contribution and lobbying regulations.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2023

But when he ran for Governor in 2010, he attacked a Republican rival’s support for renewable energy. Emmer said: “There are many different factors and variables [increasing energy costs], but one of the primary variables that when government gets involved in mandates that you must have renewables in wind, solar and biofuels.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

The state failed to show that the MEPA limitation serves a compelling government interest,” the decision reads. ” Prioritizing fossil fuels over renewable energy in 2023 for insubstantial reasons does not pass strict scrutiny. That’s not unique to Montana , even though this case focused on state laws.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 19, 2024

May 21-- House Housing And Community Development Committee meets to consider House Bill 1179 (Borowski-D-Delaware) prohibiting bans of outdoor clotheslines and drying racks. Click Here to watch online.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

“A conservative president must be committed to unleashing all of America’s energy resources and making the energy economy serve the American people, not special interests,” it reads. The DOE’s $400 Billion Loan Program Office is helping deploy renewable energy and advanced transportation technologies needed to reach the U.S.

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