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Legal Planet
OCTOBER 26, 2023
In these “carbon intensity” calculations, CARB is not allowed to count reductions in greenhouse gas emissions that are already required by law. The absence of baseline regulation of dairy operations isn’t limited to greenhouse gas emissions. Timestamp at 2:05:10). Agricultural operations are almost uniquely unregulated.
Circle of Blue
JUNE 17, 2021
In this blistering year in California drinking water wells are going dry in increasing numbers, rekindling memories of the historic drought of 2012 to 2016, when more than 2,600 wells across the state stopped producing water. Counties, not the state, regulate new wells. And that early action is superior to post-failure reactions.
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Legal Planet
JULY 29, 2021
UCLA Professor of Law William Boyd. William Boyd is Professor of Law and Michael J. Klein Chair in Law at UCLA Law, with a joint appointment as Professor at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability ; Alex Wang is Professor of Law at UCLA Law. UCLA Professor of Law Alex Wang.
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
An ambitious law that promises to accelerate the state’s clean energy transition, CEJA provides a detailed framework for greater utility transparency and accountability to update electricity distribution infrastructure to ensure a clean energy future. Illinois utilities contributed to that trend. billion to $2.2 Starting with stakeholders.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 12, 2023
Three decades of deregulation allowed private companies, as opposed to public regulators, to make critical decisions about reliability. In many places state and federal utility regulators delegated decisions about energy supplies to the market. That can prove disastrous. Market forces are moving private investment to renewables.
Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
Last week, the Federal Highway Administration finalized an important regulation–the greenhouse gas performance measure. Currently, only 24 states and the District of Columbia have laws requiring them to set targets and track their greenhouse gas emissions from transportation.
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 26, 2022
AB32 then provides an extensive list of factors that the board must consider in crafting regulation to implement the plan. A 2015 law, AB197, requires that the scoping plan discuss the following for each emission reduction measure: (a) The range of projected greenhouse gas emissions reductions that result from the measure.
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