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Germany’s Role in Climate Policy

Legal Planet

Germany decides to phase out nuclear power, complicating efforts to decarbonize the power sector. Climate law makes emission targets legally binding 2019. German parliament adopts a law to end coal use by 2038 at the latest. German parliament adopts a law to end coal use by 2038 at the latest.

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Wildlife For Everyone Foundation Names Judy Onufrak Interim Executive Director, Alexander Deveney New Board Member

PA Environment Daily

Alexander Deveney Deveney was raised in suburban Philadelphia and graduated from Penn State in 1970 with a degree in Law Enforcement and Corrections. The ability of the dogs did not go unnoticed and Deveney and his partner were "loaned" to numerous Federal and local law enforcement organizations. Customs as a Sky Marshal.

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Opinion: So, Germany, you want to do more to tackle climate change?

A Greener Life

The country’s struggle to reduce its reliance on coal was significantly helped by the purely ideological and populist decision to phase out all its nuclear power stations by 2022 (initially following the Fukushima accident in 2011 in Japan) .

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Guest Blog: Powering Data Centers with Clean Energy: Google’s Clean Transition Tariff

Law Columbia

Clean energy generators are likewise reluctant to make the financial commitment to build new facilities, knowing that state retail competition laws also constrain their ability to sell power to anyone other than the local utility. Renewable Energy Credits or RECs, to support their corporate sustainability goals.

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Another RGGI Raid? New York State Senate Proposes Pulling $138 million from the RGGI Fund

Law Columbia

million in auction proceeds that have been collected since the program was launched in 2008. The amount that the Senate has proposed diverting from the RGGI fund for FY 2017 is more than 80% of the total value of RGGI auction proceeds earned by New York in FY 2016 (which totaled approximately $166 million ).

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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

Law Columbia

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. The court rejected Exxon’s argument that it could withhold documents based on an accountant-client privilege under Texas law. and non-U.S. Avista Corp.

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Should countries issue binding unilateral declarations on GHG emission targets?

Law Columbia

In 1978, during a phase of the Cold War when relationships between East and West began to relax, the United States and 4 other nuclear powers (China, France, the Soviet Union and the UK) made unilateral declarations granting security assurances to non-nuclear- weapon states. By Christoph Schwarte* .