2022 Clean Air Act Fossil Fuels 
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 31, 2023
The destruction we see today is a direct result of decades of dependence on fossil fuels, enabled by decades of deception and obstruction on the part of the fossil fuel industry, and prolonged by decades of inaction on the part of policymakers who have been in their thrall.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 20, 2023
Through the Clean Air Act , and as affirmed—and reaffirmed—through multiple legal sagas, EPA is statutorily obligated to address carbon pollution from fossil fuel-fired power plants. The Supreme Court clipped the agency’s wings in its 2022 West Virginia v. EPA decision, but it did not ground EPA.
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Law and Environment
JULY 1, 2022
EPA on Thursday, June 30, 2022, curbing the power of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants across the country. The decision focuses on EPA’s authority under a specific section of the Clean Air Act. What does this mean for clean energy projects?
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 26, 2023
CARB’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) seeks to incentivize the production and sale of alternative, lower emissions transportation fuels in order to displace conventional fossil fuels. To identify which fuels should be promoted, CARB calculates the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions from transportation fuels.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 18, 2024
In late December, the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released proposed regulations for the Section 45V Clean Hydrogen Production Tax Credit. The tax credit, passed as part of 2022’s Inflation Reduction Act, provides a generous incentive for the production of clean hydrogen. Time matching.
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Since the beginning of 2022, electric vehicle sales in the United States have been downright electrifying. 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). Those 807,956 EVs accounted for 5.8 percent in 2021.
Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 21, 2024
At the same time, to avoid repeats of prior destructive stop-start policy lapses while simultaneously signaling a long-term incentive off-ramp, policymakers scheduled the tax credit to begin phasing out for resources coming online in 2033 or after power sector emissions are below 25% of 2022 levels, whichever is later.
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