Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Starting in 2017, cities, counties, and states across the United States have filed claims (see here and here ) in state courts against fossil fuel companies seeking redress for the climate harms their products have caused. By Korey Silverman-Roati. Background. Many of these cases asserted nuisance and other tort law claims.

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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. The fossil fuel lobby meddles with Canadian politics and inserts itself into international climate change politics and diplomacy. We need governments to regulate industry.

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

The bench trial took place last month in the state capitol, Helena, where 16 youth plaintiffs ages 5 to 22 made the case that Montana’s unwavering promotion of fossil fuels violates the state constitution’s guarantee to a “clean and healthful environment.” Whether Montana’s GHG emissions can be measured incrementally.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 6, 2024

Statement by Emilia Belliveau, Energy Transition Program Manager Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – At today’s Parliamentary Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development (ENVI), Members of Parliament grilled the fossil fuel industry about their climate pollution. Jun 6, 2024.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Switching from fossil fuels like gasoline to increasingly clean electricity sources is vital for hitting climate and air pollution goals. Gasoline consumption is down by more than two billion gallons per year since 2017, when 15.6 billion gallons were sold in the state.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

That’s a far cry from just six years ago, when EVs were considered a niche technology (and the fossil fuel baron Charles Koch and his minions wanted to keep it that way). We conducted an analysis in 2017 that found that it was cheaper to charge an EV than fill up a gasoline car in the 50 largest US cities.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Carolyn Comitta (D-Chester), Minority Chair Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee, announced new regulations enhancing pipeline safety and governing hazardous liquids pipelines owned by public utilities in Pennsylvania are expected to be published as final this month and take effect in November.

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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

In California, we see this, among other places, in the Scoping Plan process, and through such oversight institutions as the Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) and the Independent Emissions Market Advisory Committee (IEMAC) – established in 2017 under AB 398. – Do no harm. Implications for China.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The industry is trying to stop much-needed federal regulation of plastics, and we’ll be there to greet them. Warns investors in a recent Annual Report that “new or more restrictive regulations and rules related to plastic waste could reduce demand for the Company’s plastic products and could negatively impact the Company’s financial results.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Alito famously said that carbon dioxide from fossil fuel burning, a key contributor to global warming, is not a pollutant. A 2020 study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that wetland losses in Florida between 1996 and 2016 resulted in an additional $430 million in property damage from Hurricane Irma in 2017.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 19, 2024

Since then, the Conservative government has made a series of U-turns on its own net zero policies, attacked Labour’s green spending plans, and doubled down on its support for new fossil fuel projects, approving more than 100 new North Sea oil and gas licences. This comes as DeSmog and Democracy for Sale reveal that £6.8 percent (£1.8

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 19, 2024

All the CEOs tried to evade this fact and the CEO of Cenovus even denied it, falsely claiming emissions peaked in 2017. During the hearing, they opposed regulations, including the government’s proposed cap on oil and gas emissions, that would ensure they actually decrease their pollution. Together, we can make a difference!

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Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2022

Japan’s dependency on fossil fuel s had been slightly declining until 2010. But the country changed course as a result of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, which led to the forced shutdown of nuclear power plants and greater reliance on fossil fuels. In September 2017, in Sendai Citizens v. Civil law cases.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Stop environmental regulation of plastics. million tonnes) between 2017 and 2021. The plastics industry wants the government to fund experimental “advanced” recycling, which mostly involves trying to turn non-recyclable waste into fossil fuel. Big Plastic wants to keep the plastic tap running.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 3, 2023

As a result, between 2005 and 2017 greenhouse gas pollution from Ontario’s electricity system dropped by 93 per cent. According to the Independent Electricity System Operator greenhouse gas emissions from Ontario’s gas plants are set to increase by over 400 per cent by 2030 and by almost 800 per cent by 2040 (compared to the 2017 level).

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 13, 2021

And if that’s not gross enough, Big Plastic is also suing the federal government to try to prevent regulations to reduce plastic pollution that is harming the environment and threatening human health. There were at least six spills of toxic substances reported at Sarnia-area NOVA plants between 2017 and 2020. Imperial Oil.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 29, 2021

We’re still waiting for regulations to ban six single-use plastics that were supposed to be in place as early as 2021. Plastic is made almost entirely from fossil fuels in a process that releases greenhouse gases — which is why plastic is being called the new coal. . A gannet wades through plastic debris.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Circuit concluded that EPA had acted arbitrarily and capriciously in determining that the four elements of the regulations that had been stayed met these requirements. Six environmental groups launched the proceeding challenging the stay after EPA published notice of the stay in the June 5, 2017 issue of the Federal Register.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

He was appointed as a mediator by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to work with the environmental community and industry to establish better regulations for water quality monitoring in areas impacted by coal ash. He was concerned about the worldwide consumption of fossil fuels and its impact on climate change.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 12, 2022

Unusually wet conditions lifted the lake to record levels in 2017 and 2019, damaging property and critical infrastructure across the St. Steel invests $150 million in a fuel production plant in Minnesota’s Iron Range. In Wisconsin, potential blackouts spark debate about the role of fossil fuels in the state’s energy grid.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 23, 2023

On January 20, the natural gas industry and Senate Republicans launched an effort to unleash the industry by reducing regulations, requiring automatic approval of permits and limiting opportunities for public review of permits at a hearing of the Senate Republican Policy Committee in Pittsburgh. Read more here. Read more here.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 27, 2023

In 2021, under Corson’s leadership, Imperial Oil joined forces with two other major plastics producers to sue the federal government for trying to regulate harmful single use plastics and reduce industry pollution. The refineries make millions of tonnes of polyethylene, a type of plastic that is used to produce wasteful single-use packaging.

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Clean Energy Law

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The Basin does not meet the state or federal ambient air quality standards for ozone and particulate matter, and existing regulations have to date proved insufficient to bring the Basin into compliance. In other words, if an action was required for compliance with a regulation, then WAIRE Points cannot be generated.

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Energy and Climate Law

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The package consists of a revised Gas Directive (COM(2021) 803 final) (hereafter: rGD), a revised Gas Regulation (COM(2021) 804 final) (hereafter: rGR) and a Regulation on the Reduction of Methane Emissions in the Energy Sector (COM(2021) 805 final) (hereafter: MER). However, it is crucial in setting the tone and the main pillars.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 20, 2023

The world will need large amounts of lithium to reduce fossil fuel emissions drastically. The Chilean case Meanwhile, Chile is facing its own challenges, which are mainly related to the peculiar laws and regulations governing lithium production there. million tons by 2030. I will keep you posted.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 3, 2023

Homer City based its decision on several factors including the low price of natural gas, a dramatic spike in the cost of its ongoing coal supply, unseasonably warm winters and increasingly stringent environmental regulations. The current ownership group took over in April 2017.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 4, 2024

Why Does It Matter? What Can We Do Better To Protect Public Health?

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 10, 2024

In 2017-18, the Township became ground zero in the debate over using public dirt roads for oil and gas wastewater disposal. The fossil fuel industry as well as regulators used this evaporative phenomena as an excuse to dump more oil and gas wastewater. Farmington Township lies in Northwest Pennsylvania.

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

4] Some energy experts and reporters have contended that Texas regulators did not expect to rely on wind to provide much electricity during the cold snap, and rather had relied on natural gas and other thermal power plants. This hour saw a difference of 28.9 GW between expected demand and delivered generation. [4]

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 16, 2023

Ramping up “natural” gas – a fossil fuel – to generate electricity across Southern Ontario will come at a high cost to both the public and the environment, especially when there are cheaper and cleaner alternatives available. It is clear that hydrogen is being used as an excuse to build new gas plants.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Construction and operation of an interstate natural gas pipeline requires a certificate of public convenience and necessity from the Federal Energy Regulation Commission (“FERC”) under Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act. The Corps issued NWP 12 in 1977, and most recently reissued NWP 12 in 2017. In April of this year, the U.S.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 1, 2023

As a result, between 2005 and 2017 greenhouse gas pollution from Ontario’s electricity system dropped by 93 per cent. According to the Independent Electricity System Operator greenhouse gas emissions from Ontario’s gas plants are set to increase by over 400 per cent by 2030 and by almost 800 per cent by 2040 (compared to the 2017 level).

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 20, 2021

million tons in 2017 to 241.12 The biggest factor in the decrease in emissions was from the electricity generation sector and the switch from coal to natural gas as a fuel source which alone accounted for a decrease from that sector from 120.97 million tons in 2018. million tons to 235 million tons. million tons in 2005 to 73.09

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Smith Enviorment

JUNE 4, 2021

FERC also regulates interstate pipeline projects for transportation safety purposes. Based on DEQ’s actions on the two pipeline projects reviewed since 2017, there is no policy against new natural gas infrastructure. Open Questions. What is the Cooper administration policy on natural gas?

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Columbia Climate Law

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

2] Under a cooperative federalism framework, PURPA directed the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) to promulgate regulations to promote development of QFs and delegated to states the role of implementing FERC’s regulations. U-18090, May 31, 2017 Order (Mich. U-18091, July 31, 2017 Order (Mich. Footnotes. [1]

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The Department of Planning denied the Rocky Hill Coal Project application in December 2017, after reviewing the associated environmental impact report. To support this conclusion, the court points to the legislation, regulation, planning documents, and principles of ESD discussed above. An Overview of the Case. Four Key Takeaways.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 10, 2021

They also studied federal regulations, such as the Clean Air Act amendments of 1990 and the acid rain programs of 1995 and 2000, and how power plants adopted technologies to lower their sulfur dioxide emissions as required by the new laws. They found that the shift could have reduced sulfur dioxide emissions by 20.3

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