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California’s Electric Car Culture

Legal Planet

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) adopts first low-emission vehicle regulation , which would have required that 10% of new vehicle sales be zero-emission vehicles (including plug-in hybrids) by 2003. 2023 25% of California new cars (447,000) are EVs, with 1.5 8% of new cars are ZEVs. 19% of new cars sold are ZEVs.

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California’s Climate Leadership: A Timeline

Legal Planet

The Golden State has adopted a slew of climate change laws over the past twenty years, and an even greater number of regulations. 2011 CARB adopted cap and trade system. 2023 SB 253. California seems to have conceived of its role as alternatively a backup for weak federal regulation or a model for future federal action.

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Climate Reality vs. Public Perception: Will Toxic Haze and the 2023 Danger Season Make a Difference?

Union of Concerned Scientists

To date in 2023, the United States has already suffered nine climate and weather disasters resulting in at least a billion dollars of damage, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. A decade ago, a review of nearly 12,000 studies conducted between 1991 and 2011 found that 97.2 This doesn’t make anybody cough.

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Is Russia Helping China Expand Its Nuclear Weapons Program? 

Union of Concerned Scientists

The CEFR reached criticality in July 2010 and connected to the grid in July 2011. One of the CFR-600s may have reached criticality in mid-2023, though whether it is connected to the electricity grid remains unclear. billion in 2023. U-235) for China’s CEFR. The cooperation was extended in December 2016.

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Germany’s Role in Climate Policy

Legal Planet

Germany agrees on EU regulation to make cars carbon neutral by 2035 (either zero emissions or net-zero). Renewable Energy Act sets fixed feed-in tariffs and gives renewables priority on the grid. New rates are large enough to spark expansion of renewable industry. Fifteen percent of electricity is renewable.

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DEP Secretary Negrin Resigns Effective Dec. 8, On Medical Leave; Jessica Shirley Named Interim Acting Secretary

PA Environment Daily

Jessica Shirley Jessica Shirley was named Acting Executive Deputy Secretary at DEP in February 2023. She joined the DEP Policy Office in 2011 and worked as the Policy Director and most recently served as the Infrastructure Implementation Coordinator for programs related to the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Act. Read more here.

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Energy & Climate CounselFoley Hoag LLP Amendments to Massachusetts’ Clean Energy Standard Finalized, Accelerating Progress Towards Decarbonization of the State’s Electricity Sector

Law and Environment

The regulations were amended in 2020 to include a program for existing generation units, CES-E, which has several distinct requirements. Increasing the CES-E stringency from 20% to 25% of 2018 retail sales starting in 2023. These changes will set the CES standard at 60% in 2030 and 80% in 2050.