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Livestock Operations Are Responsible for Over Half of California’s Methane Emissions—Why Won’t CARB Regulate Them?

Legal Planet

Dairy digesters feature prominently in CARB’s 2022 Scoping Plan, California’s sector-by-sector roadmap toward carbon neutrality, as a significant source of emissions reductions. The new biogas subsidization frenzy brings to mind past failures attempting to jumpstart a market for crop-based biofuels.

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New Inflation Reduction Act Tracker Launched by the Sabin Center and EDF

Law Columbia

This free online resource includes a searchable database that catalogues all of the climate change-related provisions in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), as well as a tracker that records actions taken by federal agencies to implement those provisions. The IRA Tracker homepage.

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Ask a Scientist: UCS Transportation Program Adds Equitable Mobility to its Portfolio

Union of Concerned Scientists

In 1966, vehicles were responsible for nearly 60 percent of the 146 million tons of pollutants discharged into the air across the United States. At the end of 2022, there were more than 283 million. Soon thereafter, it began extolling the virtues of battery electric vehicles , which it continues to do today. In 1960, there were 61.6

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EPA Releases Final Rule Setting Biofuels Growth from 2023 to 2025

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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a final rule under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program that will establish the biofuel volume requirements from 2023 to 2025. The final volume targets (billion Renewable Identification Numbers (RIN)) are as follows: 2023 2024 2025 Cellulosic biofuel 0.84 Advanced biofuel 5.94

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Reading the Tea Leaves: Biden’s and California’s Vehicle Regs at the D.C. Circuit

Legal Planet

EPA is an effort by conservative states and fuel suppliers to block EPA regulations of greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. I’m an appellate litigator with a focus on climate and Clean Air Act cases. Q: Hi, Sean. For about 15 years I’ve been practicing in a very small firm.

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ESA Policy News: February 6, 2023

ESA

Lubchenco is ban from participating in National Academies activities and publications for five years, starting in August 2022. Nelson has been a part of OSTP since the beginning of the Biden Adminstration and she led of the office for most of 2022 after former Director Eric Lander resigned in February 2022.

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Day After Earth Day, the Climate Pope, and the 89%

Legal Planet

Another judge temporarily blocked the Department of Energy’s plans to cut $405 million in annual research funds from universities, and a third federal judge ordered the Trump administration to immediately resume disbursing funds from the 2022 climate law and the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law.

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