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The Serious Risks Around Treatment of Biomethane in 45V

Union of Concerned Scientists

In December, the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service proposed regulations governing implementation of the 45V Clean Hydrogen Production Tax Credit , passed as part of 2022’s Inflation Reduction Act. But that assertion ignores a potentially glaring loophole in 45V: carbon offsets.

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How Tobacco Companies Created the Disinformation Playbook

Union of Concerned Scientists

While they had several theories, the scientific evidence linking lung cancer with tobacco products started to especially build from the 1930s to 1950s. These documents suggest that by the 1950s, tobacco executives knew without a shadow of a doubt that their products increased the risk of lung cancer.

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New Bill Takes Up Local Oil Drilling Phase-Outs

Legal Planet

The Court found that by removing the drilling of new wells and wastewater injection techniques from the menu of permitted oil and gas production activities in Monterey County, Measure Z regulated the “methods and practices” of production, in conflict with state law. ” (Emphasis added).

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What’s Been Killing U.S. Coal?

Legal Planet

Coal began to really plunge in 2012, three years before Obama’s Clean Power Plan was issued. Declining population growth and the shift of heavy industry to China seems like other possible factors. Labor productivity is much higher for Western coal, which accounts for much of the production. Download as PDF

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Proposed Electrolyzer Requirements for the Hydrogen Tax Credit: Strengths and Risks

Union of Concerned Scientists

In late December, the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released proposed regulations for the Section 45V Clean Hydrogen Production Tax Credit. The tax credit, passed as part of 2022’s Inflation Reduction Act, provides a generous incentive for the production of clean hydrogen. the “three pillars”).

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Food and Farming Makes the Menu at UN Climate Talks

Legal Planet

Missing in action, I thought, was a frank discussion of the impact of industrial farming, the role of carbon sequestration, and agriculture’s potential to transition from being an emitter of greenhouse gases to being a mitigator. That puts it on par with the industrial and power sectors. In the U.S.,

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Not just another dot on the graph?

Real Climate

In the GISTEMP product, the record was easily broken, and by a record amount. Through a glass, darkly The comparison figure above neatly illustrates another issue that has come to the fore recently related to questions of exactly what is the warming from the “pre-industrial”? This leads to a roughly 0.1 to 0.03ºC).

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