The Energy Law Blog

AUGUST 11, 2022

In response to multiple requests from stakeholders and interested parties during the third Gulf of Mexico (GOM) Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Task Force meeting , the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management agreed to extend the public comment periods for the two potential wind energy areas (WEAs) and the draft Environmental Assessment (EA).

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 23, 2023

BOEM anticipates that this change would eliminate the SAP requirement for nearly all future development of OCS renewable energy. Establishing a Renewable Energy Leasing Schedule: Currently, BOEM announces offshore renewable lease sales individually.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Interior’s authority to regulate offshore wind comes from the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which amended the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to expressly authorize Interior to issue leases for renewable energy projects in federal waters. 585.107(a). 585.107(a). REN-N03 (May 27, 2020).

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The Energy Law Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

. § 250.1403; NTL No. 2023-N02 (March 24, 2023). 250.1409 (applicable to appeals of penalties assessed to federal offshore oil, gas, and sulphur leases) and § 290.4

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The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 9, 2021

On June 8, 2021, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management issued a Request for Interest (RFI) to assess interest in possible commercial wind energy leasing in the Gulf of Mexico OCS.

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The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 9, 2021

On June 8, 2021, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management issued a Request for Interest (RFI) to assess interest in possible commercial wind energy leasing in the Gulf of Mexico OCS.

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The Energy Law Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

One priority area where Louisiana plans to advocate for increased federal support is in accelerating offshore wind energy development. An important next step in wind energy leasing was announced earlier this year.

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The Energy Law Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In addition, recent legislation, including the 2022 Investment Reduction Act, which revised the requirements and qualifications criteria for the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Section 45Q carbon capture credit (part of the renewable energy tax policy created to meet U.S.

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The Energy Law Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Governor John Bel Edwards has identified offshore wind energy as a feature component of his recently announced renewable energy initiative for the Gulf of Mexico. As the nation’s number one source of renewable energy, offshore wind energy will be crucial to this initiative. offshore wind energy.

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The Energy Law Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Governor John Bel Edwards has identified offshore wind energy as a feature component of his recently announced renewable energy initiative for the Gulf of Mexico. As the nation’s number one source of renewable energy, offshore wind energy will be crucial to this initiative. offshore wind energy.

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 24, 2023

On May 17, 2023, the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts dismissed plaintiffs’ challenges to the Vineyard Wind Project—the United States’s first major offshore wind project.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 9, 2014

The world watched as oil continued to ooze into the ocean, but people only saw the oil sheen on atop the ocean. Tar sands oil would seep into freshwater resources bathing aquatic life in toxic muck you wouldn’t wash your hands with, let alone drink. You proposed investing in renewable energy. Tar sands oil.

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 4, 2023

What started in 2020 as a proposed joint rulemaking between the DOI’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (“BSEE”) and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (“BOEM”) was recently finalized as a stand-alone BSEE rule addressing decommissioning.

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Environment Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Seas are rising and oceans are acidifying. Heatwaves are scorching and natural disasters are multiplying. planets are needed to meet the current economic demand for Earth’s natural resources. The ISO 14000 framework supports renewable energy use, reducing corporate risk to a looming “ energy crisis ”.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

State Air Resources Board , No. Second Circuit Rejected Challenges to Connecticut Renewable Energy Programs. Allco is an owner, operator, and developer of solar energy projects throughout the country, including in Georgia and New York. at its theme park in Jackson Township in Ocean County. S241948 (Cal.

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The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 14, 2023

On June 8, 2023, the Ocean Policy Committee (composed of members from the Council on Environmental Quality and Office of Science and Technology Policy) published a Request for Information, seeking input on developing an “Ocean Justice Strategy.” Comments are due by July 24, 2023.

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The Energy Law Blog

AUGUST 31, 2023

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) held its long-anticipated offshore wind lease sale for the federal Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) on Tuesday, August 29, 2023. based offshore wind industry supply chain that would facilitate this or other renewable energy projects permitted by BOEM.”

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Environmental law, or sometimes known as environmental and natural resources law, is a term used to explain regulations, statutes, local, national and international legislation, and treaties designed to protect the environment from damage and to explain the legal consequences of such damage towards governments or private entities or individuals (1).

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JUNE 14, 2023

In North Carolina, where many hog CAFOs lie within 100 miles of the Atlantic Ocean, several hurricanes have struck and caused lagoons to overflow, including Hurricane Florence in 2018, Hurricane Matthew in 2016 and Hurricane Floyd in 1999. Once captured, methane gas is often channeled into natural gas pipelines. 6 How does EQIP work?

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The Energy Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2022

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) held its third Gulf of Mexico (GOM) Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Task Force meeting on July 27, 2022 (3 rd Meeting). The first two meetings were held on June 15, 2021 , and February 2, 2022 , respectively.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

The key difference according to the US National Park Service is that conservation ethics seeks the “proper use” of natural resources while preservation seeks to protect nature against any kind of use. This concern about natural resources meant the 19 th century was also a great expansion in conservation in other areas.

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Environmental Science

JUNE 15, 2018

It created new paradigms and accepted evidence from geography - understanding how ground geology can affect soils, rock layering and profiles of the ocean, and how rock acidity impacts the flora and fauna that inhabit the area. One of the potential areas for geologists and geological engineers to move is towards geothermal energy production.

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Ocean Conservancy

APRIL 18, 2022

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. She set the gold standard for our state, our country and our ocean by leading the effort to fight for robust funding for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). billion in NOAA funding during the madness of the Fiscal Year 2022 appropriations process.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

That approval came a day after the administration said it would bar drilling in some other areas of Alaska and the Arctic Ocean. energy goals. “If renewables keep growing at their current rate, it projects, renewable energy would account for 38 percent of global electricity by 2027—two years before Willow oil would finally start flowing.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

The court stated: “Plaintiffs’ claims for public nuisance, though pled as state-law claims, depend on a global complex of geophysical cause and effect involving all nations of the planet (and the oceans and atmosphere). Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. Perry , No.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Although the district court acknowledged that BLM provided “a lengthier explanation” of its reasons for not quantifying foreign emissions than the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management provided in the earlier case, the court found that BLM still did not “thoroughly explain” why an estimate of foreign emissions was impossible.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

As a threshold matter, the court found that Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and one of the state petitioners (New York) each had standing based on potential injuries from climate change which were caused in part by HFC emissions and which would be redressed by restrictions on such emissions. Department of Energy , No.

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ESA

APRIL 25, 2022

The next day, the House Science Committee will hold a hearing about climate change with Ko Barrett of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and NOAA; Dr. Dominique David-Chavez, an assistant professor of indigenous natural resource stewardship at Colorado State University; and Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

Ninth Circuit Said Biden Action Mooted Case Challenging Trump Revocation of Withdrawal of Oceans Lands from Oil and Gas Leasing. In both cases, the New York plaintiffs argue that the allocation of the summer flounder quota is based on obsolete data that does not reflect the fishery’s northeast shift, which may be due in part to ocean warming.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 2, 2022

That clearly includes natural gas—which oil and gas companies continue to tout as a “bridge” fuel from coal to renewable energy. BP, Shell, Aramco and two Texas oil and gas companies, Pioneer Natural Resources and Diamondback Energy, all received between $23 billion and $31 billion in financing.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 3, 2021

“There is no better place to do [both carbon capture and storage] than right here in Pennsylvania,” Denise Brinley, executive director of the Pennsylvania Office of Energy, told state senators at a March meeting. Some scientists and energy experts say the U.S. can’t wholly abandon fossil fuel as it ramps up renewable energy sources.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 28, 2022

It provides for private contributions to existing funds “for the purposes of addressing the changing climate, sequestering carbon, improving wildlife habitat, protecting sources of drinking water, and addressing other natural resource priorities.” DOE’s new Grid Deployment Office will get $59.5

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. CEI also sought email correspondence between the two officials and people at the Natural Resources Defense Council or World Wildlife Fund. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , No. Alternatively, the states and environmental groups asked the D.C. filed Oct.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Legislators provide $200 million to NOAA for weather, coasts, oceans and climate research, $100 million for NOAA competitive climate research grants and provides $100 million to NOAA for development and dissemination of climate science information products and services. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gets $1.5

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ESA

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

and Japan, wealthy countries announced a $20 billion agreement to help Indonesia transition away from coal-fired power plants and to clean, renewable energy. House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-AR) will take over as the chair of the committee. Geological Survey, the U.S. Interior: The U.S.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management said it anticipates issuing a proposed rule in September updating its regulations for renewable energy generation. The Biden administration has made it a priority to rapidly scale up the country’s offshore wind energy production. This definition prohibits the U.S.

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ESA

JULY 26, 2021

billion for climate and clean energy-related research. This includes research about atmospheric composition, water and carbon cycles, computational modeling of climate systems, renewable energy technologies, materials sciences, and social, behavior and economic research on human responses to climate change. NOAA receives $6.46

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