Clean Energy Law

JUNE 1, 2021

At a contentious board hearing on May 7, 2021, the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) approved a first-in-the-nation rule to regulate trucking emissions from warehouses by a 9-4 vote. Bledsoe and Jennifer Garlock. Transferring and Banking Points. The ISR includes several provisions intended to provide compliance flexibility.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Though testing capabilities and our knowledge of the risks have improved, regulations to protect America’s waterways, and ultimately its drinking water, from a range of troubling contaminants have been slow to follow. Environmentalists have long complained that regulators are too quick to green light new chemicals.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Government adopts a sector-by-sector plan to reach 2050 climate goals. Germany agrees on EU regulation to make cars carbon neutral by 2035 (either zero emissions or net-zero). The government proposes new measures to help meet the 2030 climate target, including 80% renewables by 2030. Fifteen percent of electricity is renewable.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 14, 2021

When California voters legalized cannabis in 2016, a key argument for legalization was that legalization would benefit the environment. Only a relatively small fraction of cannabis cultivators are believed to have entered into the legal, regulated market, leaving many cultivators still in the black market.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

The Alberta government has allowed 1.4 Any credible solution to the toxic tailings problem starts with replacing the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) with an effective and fair regulator that works in the public interest, not for the industry it is intended to regulate. times the size of the city of Vancouver. Less than 0.1

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Circle of Blue

MAY 11, 2022

Clair River Corridor is just one place where state regulators are pushing towns to consolidate water systems for greater efficiency as aging, costly plants near their expiration date. Michigan regulators also lack almost any authority to oversee water systems’ financial health. . Other examples include: . and nearly 1,400 in Michigan.

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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 LCFS is causing problems for other states and the federal government.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

On November 30, the Environmental Quality Board voted 15 to 2 to approve the emergency regulation setting VOC/methane emission limits for conventional oil and gas facilities. Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler) voted no on the regulation. Representatives for Sen. Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming) and Rep. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here. “We

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

President-elect Gabriel Boric’s new government must address issues of decarbonisation, water crisis and lithium nationalisation, all while rewriting the country’s constitution. In our government, it will be a priority to avoid this destruction and to have development that is compatible with the environment.”. By Francisco Parra Galaz

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2025

Read more here ] The Grand Jurys two-year investigation uncovered systematic failure by government agencies in overseeing the fracking industry and fulfilling their responsibility to protect Pennsylvanians from the inherent risks of industry operations. million in restitution for Pennsylvania landowners. Read more here.]

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 15, 2021

It has left Benton Harbor with a water treatment plant in such disarray that regulators say it can’t reliably produce clean water, even before that water is shunted into a delivery system that includes pipes made of toxic metal. State and federal regulators note they’re not yet recommending any particular course of action.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

There is similar lack of regulation on the nitrogen-rich manure produced by contemporary animal agriculture. The result is that nitrates are causing health and ecological trauma in farming regions across the country and around the world as farmers and governments intensify their efforts to produce more food from each acre of land.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 8, 2022

With that said, by revising and enforcing setback regulations to EHP’s recommended distances, people who live near shale gas operations could be less exposed to dangerous associated emissions — 20 to 40 times less exposed, according to inventory from the PA Department of Environmental Protection and EHP’s air exposure model. Read more here.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 25, 2024

Canada promised to cut its greenhouse gas emissions after the 2016 Paris Agreement. The federal government has set targets and policies for most sectors in the economy….except Why financial regulation? Regulations are like the guardrails on the highway – they ensure safety and order.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 21, 2024

Our brief speaks in particular to the important role that local governments play in reducing GHG emissions statewide, and the chilling effect that a lack of certainty about preemption by the State’s 2019 Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, or CLCPA, could have on their ability to pass ambitious laws to address climate change.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

In 2016 Taylor was awarded the Michigan Environmental Council’s Petoskey Prize, the state’s top honor for grassroots activists, for her meticulous research on CAFOs, and for managing ECCSCM’s water quality monitoring program, which has 56 sampling sites across the county. Government agencies, nevertheless, are trying.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 21, 2021

It’s rekindling memories of the historic drought of 2012 to 2016, when over 2,600 wells across the state stopped producing water. The trend lines aren’t promising, so government agencies and nonprofit groups are preparing for a difficult summer in which thousands of wells could fail. They have more data and sharper insights….and

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In this case, environmental and human rights organizations, including Greenpeace and Oxfam (“the plaintiffs”), had taken legal action against the Government of Spain, alleging inadequate action on climate change. However, the Supreme Court found that the Spanish Government had complied with the Paris Agreement and the EU legislation.

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Clean Energy Law

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

As of April 2018, the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) region, which encompasses the Basin, was home to approximately 34,000 warehouses with 1.17 According to the 2016 AQMP, mobile sources contributed about 88% of total NO x emissions in the Basin in 2012. Facility-Based Mobile Source Measures.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

In a separate but similar Ninth Circuit appeal, the federal government filed a brief on October 18 urging the court to overturn a district court decision vacating the listing of a ringed seal subspecies as threatened based on climate change threats through the end of the century. 24, 2016); Alaska Oil & Gas Association v.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Business is slow Our research references two Bloomberg Terminal ESG (environmental, social and governance) business databases. It is worth noting that these datasets are missing considerable amounts of pre-2016 data for Chinese firms, but the countrys actions and outcomes are clearly lagging behind. This sectors emissions fell by 16%.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The first step in regulating agricultural methane emissions (and emissions in general) is to develop an accurate inventory of emissions, which can be used to set a baseline for future targets. Agricultural Methane Regulation. Emissions Inventorying and Baselining. Incentive and Subsidy Programs.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 2, 2024

Many have questions about the safety of these pipelines and how they will be regulated by the federal and state government. Wolf’s 2016 Pipeline Task Force Report. Huge holes remain in how pipelines are regulated in Pennsylvania (see Resource Links below). Read more here. Read more here. 27 Released 1.1 27 Released 1.1

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 17, 2022

It doesn’t matter what you think of the EPA’s rules: The way the regulations are set up, when the EPA says “jump,” Pennsylvania asks how high. But that regulation has to be rubber stamped by Mr. Metcalfe’s committee, which has objected, arguing that a 2016 state law requires that conventional and shale resources be regulated separately.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 25, 2023

Rather, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has found, the amendment is an invaluable and enforceable provision that empowers the state government to protect all Pennsylvanians’ right to clean air, water and more. The state constitution’s Environmental Rights Amendment is not a gratuitous statement.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 25, 2023

Rather, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has found, the amendment is an invaluable and enforceable provision that empowers the state government to protect all Pennsylvanians’ right to clean air, water and more. The state constitution’s Environmental Rights Amendment is not a gratuitous statement.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The Committee held the last general hearing August 17, 2021 on “environmental and economic benefits of pipelines” and failed to even acknowledge the over $55 million in penalties imposed by DEP and the Public Utility Commission for violating environmental, health and safety laws and regulations between 2016 and 2021. Read more here.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Electricity nerds might be writing off the prospect of new gas plant contracts because of the forthcoming Federal Clean Electricity Regulations (CER). One is that gas plant contracts signed (or renewed) before 2025 will be able to evade meeting the national CERs beyond 2035 which is when the regulations are supposed to kick in. .

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The Regulation targets emissions from auxiliary engines (which supply electricity for non-propulsive functions while a ship is berthed) and boilers (which power steam-driven pumps to offload crude oil from large tankers). On February 13, 2025, the Second District Court of Appeal (Div. 93130 et seq). Western States Petroleum Association v.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

For decades the fossil fuel lobby has masterfully weakened, derailed, and outright blocked government climate policy. We need governments to regulate industry. Under Baiton’s leadership, CAPP has lobbied the federal government 74 times in the first 9 months of 2023 – that’s once every 2.5 billion in 2016 to $11.6

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Circle of Blue

MAY 16, 2023

million homes over the next decade in Ontario, also changes environmental protections and regulations required for development plans. Archipelago has filed a resolution demanding the province’s administration reinstate environmental regulations and conduct analyses that have not yet occurred.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 23, 2023

Of course, Big Oil’s resistance to new setback rules, safety regulations, and climate goals is neither new nor unexpected. million to buy their way onto the California ballot in 2016 in an attempt to veto a statewide plastic bag ban. CalGEM has “ long faced criticism that it was too cozy with the industry it regulated.”

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2022

On October 12, the Environmental Quality Board vot ed 15 to 3 to approve Part II of the final-omitted regulation limiting volatile organic compounds and methane from conventional oil and gas facilities. The regulation would affect 4,719 conventional well owners of approximately 27,260 facilities. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

So as of now, major pipelines have been penalized a total of over $70 million in Pennsylvania for environmental, health and safety violations and convicted of criminal charges related to their construction since 2016. DEP and others submitted comments and some groups, like unions, opposed any new regulations. Read more here.

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Arnold Porter

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Effective September 10, 2021 , the Federal Acquisition Regulation Council revised FAR 52.219-14, Limitations on Subcontracting, and related FAR sections to address an inconsistency between that clause and the corresponding Small Business Administration (SBA) regulation at 13 C.F.R. § 125.6.[[N: N: SBA promulgated 13 C.F.R.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 5, 2024

Environmental Defence is calling for climate finance regulation so that Canadian financial institutions like banks and pension funds help us work towards a safer climate and stable economy by reducing the money flowing into fossil fuels. However, from 2016, the first year of the Paris Climate Agreement, until 2023, RBC has poured over $350.5

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The Energy Law

MAY 12, 2016

On May 4, 2016, environmental groups sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), seeking to compel EPA to “fulfill long-delayed nondiscretionary duties” under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) by issuing revised regulations governing oil and gas wastes. See Appalachian Voices v. McCarthy , 989 F.

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