Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
GW of gas capacity will no longer be needed as early as 2026. While there were plenty of gas plant retirements in the first half of the 2010s, there haven’t been many in recent years due primarily to reliability concerns. However, the IRP modeling shows that, as California builds more and more clean resources, roughly 2.7
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 15, 2022
The EPA is getting ready to finalize a critical regulation limiting emissions of smog-forming nitrogen oxide (NO X ) and soot (or particulate matter, PM 2.5 ) from new heavy-duty trucks. State regulations have strict inducements, so the degree to which EPA aligns with such parameters is important. Limits on mal-maintenance/tampering.
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Environmental News Bits
MAY 9, 2024
EPA has issued Draft FY 2025 – 2026 National Program Guidances (NPGs) for comment by June 4, 2024, for eight of EPA’s National Program Offices: The NPGs communicate operational planning priorities, strategies, and key activities for advancing EPA’s Strategic Plan and guide grant work planning with states, Tribes, and territories.
Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
Critically, AB 3233 clarifies and confirms local government authority to regulate, and even prohibit outright, oil and gas operations. After March 2026, those wells can only operate as low-producing wells for another year. And all wells in the field will need to be plugged and abandoned by December 2030.
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.
Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 22, 2022
California’s air pollution regulator, the Air Resources Board, is poised to adopt one of the most important steps that the state has ever taken to reduce exposure to air pollution and limit climate changing emissions. The ACCII regulations have several key components that make sure gasoline tailpipe pollution is greatly reduced.
Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) adopts first low-emission vehicle regulation , which would have required that 10% of new vehicle sales be zero-emission vehicles (including plug-in hybrids) by 2003. CARB is aiming for 35% ZEV sales in 2026. The goal was to eliminate conventional pollutants, not greenhouse gases.
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