Legal Planet

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Strong industrial policy and fiscal support for renewable energy, paired with ever more ambitious targets for clean energy deployment, have brought the country to this point. China is also a world leader on offshore wind energy production, an area Newsom has sought to emphasize in California.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

It’s widely viewed as the “gold standard” for energy projections, even though there’s much debate in the energy community about the validity of the assumptions behind these projections. Source: US Energy Information Administration, Annual Energy Outlook 2022 (AEO2022). This year’s projections are a bit grim.

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E2 Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The changes are designed to support a renewable energy grid, make buildings more energy efficient, support the use of electric vehicles, and reduce waste and stormwater runoff. Create the newly defined use “energy infrastructure equipment” (EIE), and add it to Use Groups 4, 6, and 14 (ZR 12-10, 22-14, 32-15, 32-23).

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Legal Planet

MARCH 6, 2023

Hydrogen’s supply-side has been buttressed by incentives from state and federal governments, refineries and utilities looking to extend the life of fossil fuel infrastructure, and renewable energy companies seeking to take advantage of the huge amounts of clean energy needed to produce green hydrogen.

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E2 Law Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Enacted in 2019, the CLCPA transformed the state’s earlier clean energy standard efforts from administrative fiat to law and sets more aggressive goals to reduce statewide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions economy-wide to 60% from a 1990 baseline by 2030, and 15% from a 1990 baseline by 2050.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 9, 2022

On June 30, 2022, the State of California joined the State of New York in adopting legislation that allows state authorities to bypass local laws in permitting large-scale renewable energy projects. Credit: New York Office of Renewable Energy Siting. b)(1) (emphasis added); and. emphasis added). Law § 94-c(2)(h).

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2023

Fossil gas prices have skyrocketed in the last year and if the gas plants are forced to shut down due to the coming Federal Clean Electricity Regulations, ratepayers will be on the hook for the bill until the end of the contracts – even if they stop producing electricity because they are too polluting.

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The Energy Law Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

from the Plan focuses on prioritizing offshore wind strategic planning for outreach, workforce, and impact assessments in order to reach an offshore wind power generation goal of 5 gigawatts by 2035. many other strategies and actions are connected to offshore wind energy development as well.

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Cresforum

JANUARY 16, 2024

Increased electrification in both the industrialized and the developing world is projected to help meet emissions reduction goals, and nuclear power could provide much of the future needs for electricity. GAO would be required to conduct a new report on the NRC’s actions to implement the section. Title II of H.R.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Australia’s new pro-climate action government has meant an acceleration in clean energy interest and capacity. To meet that target, 96 gigawatts (GW) of new renewable energy capacity is needed. Offshore wind developers, Orsted , Shell and Equinor have already shown a strong interest in helping.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Last week the Sabin Center and the American Bar Association held an event on addressing landowner concerns in renewable energy siting. Wind and solar farms often spark siting battles between local residents who welcome renewable energy projects and their neighbors who are concerned about visual or other impacts.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

GW of gas capacity set to retire, but also slightly outpacing the planned additions of wind power. More gas plants, uncertain coal retirements As you may have noticed in the first table toward the top of the page, about 7.4 GW of new gas capacity is planned to come online in 2023, outpacing not only the 4.8

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2023

On November 16, 2023, the Department of Energy (DOE) published a proposed rule to expedite the environmental review process for certain renewable energy infrastructure projects through the use of categorical exclusions.

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 28, 2021

2] New Mexico’s 2021 Legislative Session will consider a bill that would significantly change how the state regulates oil and gas operations. However, Governor Charlie Baker vetoed the bill, citing concerns related to the interim emission target and the requirement that utilities procure more offshore wind power, among others. [7]

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 28, 2021

New Mexico’s 2021 Legislative Session will consider a bill that would significantly change how the state regulates oil and gas operations. However, Governor Charlie Baker vetoed the bill, citing concerns related to the interim emission target and the requirement that utilities procure more offshore wind power, among others. [7]

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Law Columbia

MARCH 25, 2016

As detailed in the RGGI investment plan , these funds are typically used to support energy efficiency and renewable energy programs in New York State. Most of the carbon allowances are auctioned and the proceeds of those auctions are typically used to promote energy conservation and renewable energy programs.

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Vermont Law

JUNE 22, 2020

The modern electric grid is an economy, albeit a heavily-regulated one. [20]. Usually, the model works like this: consumers want cheap electricity, and the cheapest electricity provider wins the bid to provide that power. [21]. Like most economies, it is driven by supply and demand.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 5, 2023

This regulation requires 100% of new medium- and heavy-duty trucks (anything from delivery vans to big rigs) sold in California to be zero emissions by 2036 and 100% of large fleets to be zero emissions by 2045. But it also would require California to give up some of its energy autonomy.

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Legal Planet

JULY 22, 2021

One of the most important success stories for climate policy has been its ability to dramatically reduce the cost of various renewable energy technologies such as wind power and solar photovoltaics – and the same cost reduction appears to be occurring for battery storage as well.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Investing in renewable and battery storage: Under DTE’s proposed plan, the company would add 15,400 megawatts (MW) of new solar and wind power by 2042, which it says is enough to power approximately 4 million homes. DTE currently has 3,000 MW of existing and approved solar and wind resources.)

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The plan must specifically address how EPA will consider the effects of Clean Air Act regulation on the coal industry. Murray Energy Corp. The groups said FERC’s review was at odds with EPA and Council on Environmental Quality guidance, caselaw, and the NEPA regulations. McCarthy , No. 5:14 -cv-39 (N.D. Sierra Club v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 16, 2022

Truly resilient communities would have the infrastructure (including renewable energy infrastructure) and support in place to move from surviving to thriving. Using collective power, she sees people demanding their cities adopt disaster mitigation plans to ensure they’re not left vulnerable to the next disaster as they try to rebuild.

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

Advocates of renewable energy have argued since the 1970s that the variable, weather-dependent nature of sunlight and wind is a modest obstacle at best to relying on 100 percent renewables. Some have argued that weather-dependent energies would, paradoxically, make electricity even more reliable.

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Acoel

JULY 30, 2021

Like Dangerfield, advocates for the clean energy technology known as offshore wind power (OSW) have confronted a regulatory field of danger from hesitant environmental and utility regulators, legislators, beachfront home owners, and a most difficult set of critics—fishermen. Fishermen were here first.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 30, 2023

I sometimes ask students to guess what state produces the most wind power. And not just that, but Texas is by far the biggest producer of oil, with a governor who has pledged to protect the industry from climate regulation at all cost. Which seems a little hard to square with the state’s reliance on renewable energy.

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Environment Blog

MARCH 25, 2020

However, Bitcoin’s lack of intrinsic value, the ease with which it can be lost, its lack of regulation, and its price volatility are not the only aspects of digital gold that have been criticised. Estimates have suggested that the total energy consumed to send and receive money is more than 19 European countries and approximately 0.7%

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Batteries are key to enabling the renewable energy transition. When the sun isn’t shining or the wind isn’t blowing, batteries help store clean energy to continue supplying electricity to the grid and to customers consistently and reliably. A fossil fuel energy grid extracts and expends finite resources.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

4] Meanwhile, many experts see in recent trends an inevitable transition away from coal and nuclear power plants, designed to function as baseload capacity, toward variable renewable energy sources with just-in-time natural gas back-up. 7] Nuclear plants are among the most reliable components of America’s power grids.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 7, 2022

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (left) visits a hybrid power plant where “green” hydrogen is made using wind power and fed into the gas grid. Germany is not doing all it can to cut back energy use and increase economic pressure on Russia, argues Arne Jungjohann. Germany will be fully renewable by 2035.

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Acoel

MARCH 8, 2023

A host of federal, regional, state and local government agencies have significant roles in permitting energy installations as well as expanding transmission lines connecting new energy producers to energy users. Fossil fuel interests may also oppose categorical exclusions for competitive renewable energy infrastructure.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The first approach is more ambitious and would push the boundaries of past market regulation, though in ways that are consistent with both the law and FERC practice. In light of the urgent need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, perhaps a little ambition is exactly what’s needed.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 8, 2024

The state’s Chamber of Commerce said regulators are “asking industry to jump out of a plane with a needle, thread and cloth, with the hopes that a parachute can be stitched.” Maine Maine adopted legislation calling for the state to procure 3 GW of offshore wind power by 2040. Massachusetts. Prior law required annual 1.5%

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Local resistance impedes clean energy development in Ohio. Economic development and innovative energy technology is always welcome in the State of Ohio, but not at the expense of rural communities who do not want them.’”. — Matt Huffman, Ohio State Senate majority leader. Looking Ahead. Upcoming Events.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

Virginia Federal Court Said Challenge to NEPA Regulations Was Not Justiciable. Hawai‘i Supreme Court Upheld Denial of Request to Re-Open Order Approving Wind Power Purchase Agreement. Living Rivers v. Hoffman , No. 4:19-cv-00057 (D. Utah June 21, 2021). Washington State Dairy Federation v. Washington Department of Ecology , No.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The elected board members who run these utilities did little or nothing about renewables until the past decade. During the 2010s, wind power went from 1% of generation to 20%. In 2019, the Utah State Legislature passed the Community Renewable Energy Act (HB 411). That has changed quite quickly.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The court said the trade group had satisfied the stringent requirements for a stay pending judicial review and stayed the rule “insofar as it purports to regulate trailers.” Both sets of intervenors also said the court should limit any abeyance period to 120 days. million rate increase.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 14, 2024

Shapiro Calls For PA Carbon Cap-And-Trade Market, Plus Higher Clean Energy Requirements -- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Gov. Million Gallons Of Water For Fracking For 22 Days Without Permission [PaEN] -- TribLive: Friends, Neighbors Remember Victims Of Crescent Twp.

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