Legal Planet
OCTOBER 26, 2023
The absence of baseline regulation of dairy operations isn’t limited to greenhouse gas emissions. But here’s the thing: CARB itself has the authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from dairies. CARB can regulate dairy methane. Timestamp at 2:05:10). Agricultural operations are almost uniquely unregulated.
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 10, 2023
The decline probably wasn’t due to environmental regulation. Coal began to really plunge in 2012, three years before Obama’s Clean Power Plan was issued. Regulation may have made a difference, since coal requires more extensive pollution controls than competing fuels. Download as PDF
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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.
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
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is considering amendments to its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) regulation, but indicated they have no plans to address the problems caused by counter-productive subsidies for manure biomethane. California’s transportation fuel policy is knee deep in cow poop, and it’s not a good look.
Legal Planet
MAY 6, 2024
The issue is created by a 2012 Supreme Court. But if the government doesn’t build the levee, it faces no liability from the urban landowners. That’s the adaptation dilemma: preparing for climate disaster is legally disfavored.
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
Given the exponential growth of utility distribution grid investments, regulators and stakeholders also will require an open distribution grid planning process. According to the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC), Ameren’s distribution grid expenditures nearly doubled between 2012 and 2020, jumping from $456 million to $857 million.
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