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. Latham & Watkins will continue to monitor SCAQMD rulemaking efforts on additional ISRs.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Million Settlement, Largest Of Its Kind, Over 2019 Philadelphia Refinery Explosion [Includes Copy Of Proposed Settlement] -- WHYY - Sophia Schmidt: EPA Reaches Historic $4.2 Million Settlement Over 2019 South Philly Refinery Explosion, Fire -- AP: EPA Reaches $4.2

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 2, 2023

And in all likelihood, they are not breaking any current law or regulation. Launching weather balloons is a very lightly regulated activity, pursued by hobbyists and citizen scientists in many countries. Relevant FAA regulations here , FCC regulations here , with a clear summary from a citizen-science NGO here ).

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 31, 2023

That in turn means that we need people with legal expertise relevant to permitting generators and transmission, both of which are highly regulated. In 2019, we put together a list of every professor teaching an energy law class and everyone who had written an academic article about energy in the previous few years.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Recently General Motors made headlines in saying they are looking at restarting production of PHEVs after moving to only BEVs in 2019. PHEVs can be part of the climate solution, but automakers need to make them more efficient, and regulators like the EPA need to correctly value their contributions. BEV or PHEV? Not necessarily.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Pipeline Safety Rulemaking The action by the Commission is the latest step forward in a comprehensive process to explore and address pipeline safety regulations in Pennsylvania. The proposed rulemaking would create a new heading within Chapter 59 of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission’s regulations (52 Pa. L-2019-3010267.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

including the Mariner East Pipelines) and Laurel Pipe Line – and the new HVL regulations would apply to them, as well as any other future intrastate HVL public utilities. Additionally, there are no retroactive design or construction regulations for those pipeline facilities that exist when the rule is made effective by operation of law.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 22, 2022

A recent analysis from UCS studied how gas plants operated in regional wholesale electricity markets in the Midwest in 2019. This analysis looked at each week in 2019 at when power providers were operating gas plants in the regional markets MISO and SPP (covering 20 states across the central United States).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulates emissions of EtO, yet the agency is years behind on updating standards and control requirements, despite mounting evidence of the harm of long-term EtO exposure. A decade overdue , EPA is finalizing updated regulations for commercial sterilizers now.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The plants’ operating costs have been consistently higher than the average PJM market price of energy and capacity, and this difference accumulated to a loss of more than $900 million between 2015-2019 (see Table 4 here ). If other state regulators follow suit and the $1.3 The post-2020 subsidies tell a very similar story.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 2, 2021

percent of disposable income on water and sewer in 2019, up from 10.9 Regulators and public-interest groups were initially concerned about community-level affordability — whether a town’s residents, in aggregate, could raise enough money to operate and maintain their systems while meeting all water quality standards.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The Environmental Quality Board is scheduled to meet on November 12 to consider a proposed regulation on notification of spills, corrections to Air Quality regulations on RACT requirements for nitrogen oxide and volatile organic compounds and final-omitted regulations on noncoal mine blasting.

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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 transportation fuel policy is knee deep in cow poop, and it’s not a good look.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

In the United Kingdom, regulators have temporarily given water utilities permission to treat wastewater to a lower standard. Government regulators expect that the chemical distribution problem will be short-lived. Though the current irrigation season is nearly over, the emergency regulation extends for one year. Transcript.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 6, 2022

EPA proposed changes to its MON rule in 2019, regulating toxic emissions for about 200 chemical plants that produce solvents, plastics, and pesticides across the country. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has also acknowledged that it has a role to play in identifying alternatives to EtO for sterilizing medical equipment.

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Clean Energy Law

MARCH 15, 2024

Regulated Entities Under the Guidelines, the top 180 companies listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange and the top 50 companies on its Science and Technology Innovation Board of the Shanghai Stock Exchange must publish SDRs annually, within four months of the end of their fiscal year.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Smaller vehicles and big fleets are leading the charge Where just a handful of zero-emission trucks and buses were deployed annually in the US just a few years ago (around 600 total in 2019), over 27,500 zero-emission MHDVs were deployed in 2023. While this represents a small fraction of the national MHDV sales (around 2.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 25, 2022

The employer-reported data on illness cases more than quadrupled to 544,600 cases, up from 127,200 cases in 2019, an increase driven by a nearly 4,000 percent increase in reported respiratory illness cases in 2020. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics , private industry employers reported 2.7

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Energy and Climate Law

DECEMBER 8, 2020

For France, the “Affaire du Siècle” case was filed in the Administrative Court of Paris in May 2019 by four NGOs against the government for its failure to act on climate change. Two months later, in January 2019, the claimants sued the state before the Conseil d’Etat for rejecting their demands.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 7, 2021

And while state laws across the region regulate how, when and why water rights are sold, some worry it won’t be enough to hold back the tide. “I In 2019, that same company was in the news for purchasing water rights throughout the state and attempting to sell and lease them, prompting an ongoing legislative review of water marketing.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Since 2019, the Department of Energy’s ReCell Center has been researching effective and affordable battery recycling technology. Because batteries can be hazardous if improperly handled, transporting them involves additional regulations and can constitute 40 to 60% of battery recycling costs. Source: Courtesy of Li-Cycle.

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Energy and Climate Law

MAY 19, 2020

The German energy regulator Bundesnetzagentur rejected an application of the Nord Stream 2 operating consortium to obtain an exemption from EU unbundling rules after the Gas Directive was amended in 2019. The argumentation of the regulator strikes at a crucial point - is a pipeline already built when 160 kilometres are still missing?

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

On November 12, the Environmental Quality Board approved for public comment a proposed regulation on notification of spills and corrections to Air Quality regulations on RACT requirements for nitrogen oxide and volatile organic compounds. Also approved was a final-omitted regulations on noncoal mine blasting.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 28, 2022

6 , the notorious law the Legislature passed in 2019 that slapped Ohio ratepayers with a monthly surcharge to bail out two struggling nuclear plants. 6 in 2019 because it was bad for consumers, bad for the economy, and bad for the environment. Ohio regulators need to act. The Union of Concerned Scientists opposed H.B.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

ExxonMobil cited IPAA’s lack of support for policies related to climate change or reducing carbon emissions, as well as its opposition to strong methane regulations, as reasons for ending its membership (IPAA was also classified as “misaligned” two years ago in the company’s inaugural lobbying report, but the company maintained its membership).

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

In the face of disappointing legislation and regulation, activists have increasingly turned to courts in the last fifteen years. Environmental Protection Agency (2007) forced the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. However, given the unprecedentedruling’s questionable logic, I doubt that it stand on appeal. Third is causation.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 14, 2023

Governor Newsom, the state legislature, and state regulators are aligned in leading the state toward carbon neutrality by 2045, codified in statute and in the California Air Resources Board’s Scoping Plan in 2022. Cuts would also deal a heavy blow to California’s statewide climate targets.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 1, 2023

Any serious news coverage that’s going to touch on possible regulations should distinguish between these various classes of e-bikes, as should policymakers. increase from 856 in 2019. How are other countries regulating e-bikes? Class 3 are electric-assist, reach speeds up to 28 mph, but motor capacity less than 750W.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2022

On January 5, the Department of Environmental Protection reported their inspections found 4,386 violations of environmental regulations at conventional oil and gas operations during 2021 -- nearly two and a half times the violations reported just two years ago in 2019 and 337 more than in 2020. Read more here.]

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2024

While municipalities may have some flexibility in how they zone or regulate oil and gas operations – provided they do not exceed limitations in state or federal law – doing so in an unreasonable manner which prevents future natural gas development should render the municipality ineligible for state collected and distributed impact fees.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Million Settlement Of Air Pollution Violations For 2019 Philadelphia Refinery Explosion, Fire; Public Comments Invited [PaEN] -- Baker Hughes: PA Natural Gas Drilling Rigs Down 2 From Last Week; Down 38% Since Aug. Million Settlement Over 2019 South Philly Refinery Explosion, Fire -- AP: EPA Reaches $4.2 16 [PaEN] -- EPA Files $4.2

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

In 2019, the state convened a group of experts and stakeholders – thanks to Assembly Bill 2832 – to develop policy recommendations that would increase EV battery recycling. California is taking steps to change that. That stakeholder group informed a recently released report containing policy recommendations for the state.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Climate law makes emission targets legally binding 2019. Germany agrees on EU regulation to make cars carbon neutral by 2035 (either zero emissions or net-zero). Government adopts a sector-by-sector plan to reach 2050 climate goals. Feed-in tariffs are replaced by auctions for renewables. Renewables are 42% of electricity.

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Background The Blueprint aims to reduce domestic aviation emissions [i] from airport operations by 20% from 2019 levels (404ktCO2) in 2030 and achieve net zero domestic and international aviation emissions by 2050. This facility would turn waste into feedstock to generate electricity or biofuel for use within the airport.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The EPA Administrator discusses farm issues with state agricultural regulators. EPA Administrator Michael Regan told state agricultural regulators that the agency will soon appoint an agriculture adviser, Capital Press reports. The Rundown. The Bureau of Reclamation releases five-year projections for lakes Mead and Powell.

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

This represents a moderate shift from 2019, when the plurality of CEQA cases (44%) centered around Attorneys’ Fees, Justiciability, and Other Procedures, and 31% of cases focused on EIRs. As was the case in 2018 and 2019, the Sixth District was the only district in which the public agency prevailed in all cases.

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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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