Legal Planet

MARCH 28, 2023

The clean-energy transition that is one focus of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) will require big changes in our electric grid. On the demand side, switching our buildings, industries, and vehicles to electric power could double our electricity usage.

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Law of the Lands

JANUARY 16, 2019

On November 8, 2018, the Board issued its Reasons for Decision in a case involving allegations of disturbances due to odour, flies, dust, light, noise and vibration arising from the operation of a biodigester at a large greenhouse operation. The Application was brought by a number of residents living in the vicinity of the operation in 2015.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 12, 2023

California has set ambitious climate goals, which include reducing state greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 40 percent by 2030 and reducing GHGs 85 percent (and achieving statewide carbon neutrality) by 2045.

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Energy and Climate Law

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Those changes were implemented (more or less) simultaneously for gas and electricity and focused on similar issues of organizing markets and stimulating competition. This is a positive development, given that the applicability of the 2009 Gas Directive to hydrogen has been discussed controversially in the past. 2 (11) rGD).

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Law Columbia

MARCH 25, 2016

This is not the first time that the legislature has diverted RGGI proceeds for other purposes—it also diverted $90 million in 2009 and $41 million in 2015 to the general fund. For those unfamiliar with the program – RGGI is an interstate cap and trade program aimed at reducing CO 2 emissions from the electric power sector.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

As I blogged about last October, the Northeast’s Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) is currently undergoing its 2012 program review. When the program’s allowance budgets were set for the years 2009 through 2012, administrators assumed that natural gas prices would remain high and that electricity demand would be robust and growing.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2022

And it helps lower greenhouse gas emissions to slow climate change and its negative effects.” These measures will cut electricity use by over 51,000 kilowatt hours annually. Background DEP and Reinvestment Fund launched the Green Energy Loan Fund in 2009 with $12 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

The Regulation’s proposed criteria for gaseous fossil fuels (which includes both conventional natural gas, and synthetic gas derived from coal gasification) allow investment in their consumption without restriction in function, scale, or time period, as long as greenhouse gas emissions are no higher than 100 gCO2eq/kWh (see §4.29-31

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 22, 2022

The bill is sprawling, covering climate and energy topics as diverse as electric vehicles, building decarbonization, clean energy manufacturing and supply chains, agriculture, and greening the electricity system, all through a range of tax incentives and direct grants. Still, how does a local government tap in?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Global net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions 1990–2019. Global net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions include carbon dioxide from fossil fuel combustion and industrial processes, net carbon dioxide from land use, land use change and forestry, methane, nitrous oxide, and fluorinated gases.

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Clean Energy Law

JUNE 1, 2022

Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), requires CARB to develop and update every five years a scoping plan that describes the approach California will take to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. emphasis added) [4].

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

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Environmental Progress

JULY 6, 2020

Keeley published a paper in 2018 finding that all ignition sources of fires had declined in California except for electric power lines. The 2019–2020 fires ranked sixth in fatalities, about half as many as the fifth-place year, 1926, and a fifth as many fatalities as the worst fire on record in 2009. more land and wind 5.8x

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Last Thursday, December 15, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NOPR) seeking comments on proposed changes to its regulations governing the siting of interstate electric transmission lines. greenhouse gas emissions by 50 to 52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. How could this happen?

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Edouard Stenger

JULY 27, 2018

For example nuclear energy has become uneconomic if not exhorbitant and clean coal is still not a reality (although this might change ). – Factor Five (2009). Verdict: This book should enable you to better grasp what is behind green growth and how it could benefit us all. – Crossing the Energy Divide (2009).

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 17, 2013

In other words, rather than just considering the greenhouse gas emissions from individual projects, environmental impact statements are now regularly considering how a proposed project will be affected by anticipated sea level rise, increased storm surges, more intense heat waves, and the like. Adaptation/Resilience Assessment. 3] [link].

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

US ratepayers very likely will pay even more for electricity and heating this winter compared to the already-expensive winter of 2021-2022. The US Energy Information Administration is forecasting the wholesale price of gas to reach its highest level since the winter of 2009-2010 in inflation-adjusted terms.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

A second bill would require annual reporting of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused by a covered firm’s operations. Scope 2 emissions are those attributable to producing the energy (principally electricity) that the company buys. Scope 3 emissions are those from its supply chain, both upstream and downstream. [22]

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Mensch Introduces Bill To Encourage Development Of Clean Vehicle Infrastructure- Electric, Natural Gas, Hydrogen -- 35 Senate, House Democrats Urge Gov. Rural Communities On The Front Lines Of Solar's Growth -- Sen. Wolf To Investigate Health Impacts Associated With Natural Gas Fracking -- EPA Honors Energy-Efficient Bimbo Bakeries USA, Inc.

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Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Vegetarianism is not important for protecting the environment or reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Irrigation water used per bushel of corn has declined by nearly half since 1980, while greenhouse gases declined 31 percent. [19] Technological change and agricultural modernization will significantly outweigh climate change in the U.S.

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Onya

APRIL 4, 2018

Use less gas, electricity, and water to lower your utilities bill. It also decreases the amount of pollution and greenhouse gasses emitted to create these products. It was started in 2009 to help encourage people to remove trash they find on beaches (or anywhere they visit). Identify unhealthy buying habits you can kick.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 11, 2024

According to Forensic Architecture, over 2,000 agricultural sites, including farms and greenhouses, have been obliterated since October 2023. In 2008–2009, IDF damaged one-third of Gaza’s farmland. Cutting electricity worsened sewage system damage, spreading disease and harming the environment long-term.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The case involves EPAs 2024 Vehicle Standards that set new air pollutant and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions standards for model year 2027 through 2032 Light- and Medium-Duty Vehicles, which have been challenged by states and industry groups. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Kentucky v. Moreover, the Court of Appeals for the D.C.

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Smith Enviorment

JULY 12, 2022

Three key takeaways from the court’s decision: The Court did not rule that EPA lacks authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants or other sources. EPA ) held that CO2 and other greenhouse gasses meet the definition of an air pollutant under the Clean Air Act. Effect on State Greenhouse Gas Policies.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 23, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gases, and that this authority may prove central to addressing climate change under the statute. EPA applies to greenhouse gases emitted from motor vehicles, and under which EPA issued an endangerment finding for greenhouse gases in 2009. Alternatively, the U.S.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Transportation A Cap-and-Invest Approach . In recent years, states in New England and the mid-Atlantic region have made significant progress in reducing climate change-inducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the electricity generation sector. [1].

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Under the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), every country on Earth is treaty-bound to “avoid dangerous climate change”, and find ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions globally in an equitable way. above pre-industrial levels, and greenhouse gas emissions are still on an upward trend.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

EPA , the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has regulated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. Following the 2007 landmark Supreme Court case Massachusetts v. These emissions standards were significantly loosened in the last year of the Trump Administration.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 30, 2025

Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund The IRAs Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) program is the largest of EPAs program terminations by dollars. The Endangerment Finding was EPAs 2009 determination that greenhouse gases endanger public health and endanger public welfare.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 20, 2017

In particular, California and the nine states that comprise the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) have taken strong action to fill the void left by Trump’s defection from Paris. By 2030, the power sector emissions would be 65 percent lower than they were in 2009. RGGI states distribute more than 90 percent of allowances.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

EPA of a 2015 rule barring replacement of ozone-depleting substances with hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are powerful greenhouse gases. In particular, the court found that conclusion that greenhouse gas emissions constituted a significant impact was not clearly erroneous. Circuit’s partial vacatur in Mexichem Fluor, Inc. State , No.

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ESA

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Ahead of COP, ESA issued a statement calling on world leaders attending the United Nations Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP26) in Glasgow to pledge immediate action to reduce carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and other greenhouse gas emissions that limits rising temperatures to 1.5? between FY 2009 and 2020. 12 in Glasgow, Scotland.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 12, 2023

EPA’s power to regulate greenhouse gases, established in litigation in 2007, now seems beyond question. 2009 EPA formally finds that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health and welfare. Progress has been made under one President, only to be battered down by the next one. Senate ratifies the UNFCC treaty.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 24, 2025

For example, Section 60103 of the IRA , which establishes the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) , specifies that $15 billion of the $27 billion allocated to the GGRF should be used for the purposes of providing financial assistance and technical assistance in low-income and disadvantaged communities.

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ESA

OCTOBER 8, 2021

The news: The White House Council on Environmental Quality proposed reversing Trump administration changes to the National Environmental Policy Act regulation, which carries implications for environmental reviews on everything from highway projects and fossil fuel lease sales to pipelines and electric transmission lines.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Several states and industry groups are challenging EPA’s 2024 rules which set greenhouse gas emissions limits for certain fossil fuel power plants nationwide (referred to here as the Power Plant Rules). This case will have a major impact on how and when power plants must reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

s challenge to the constitutionality of the linkage between California’s greenhouse gas emissions cap-and-trade program and Quebec trading program. Developers of Southern California Warehouse Project Agreed to Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Measures to Resolve CEQA Claims. United States v. California , No. 20-16789 (9th Cir. A20-0952 (Minn.

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