Law Columbia

JULY 7, 2025

The OBBB Act ushers in a consequential shift for local governments and community groups building clean energy projects, investing in electric vehicles (EVs) and, in some instances, navigating IRA grant programs. This post focuses on developments and considerations specific to local governments and community partners. Commercial EVs.

2026

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 21, 2025

Decades of government vehicle standards to improve vehicle efficiency and cut down on tailpipe pollution have saved car and truck drivers trillions of dollars at the pump, saved countless lives from reduced exposure to toxic air pollution , and avoided the extraction and burning of billions of barrels of oil. In the U.S.,

Nitrogen Oxides

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 3, 2025

Here are 166 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us. 10-11 Navigating Change Policy Conference [PaEN] -- DEP Sets Aug.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JULY 31, 2025

Of course, we recognize that solving the mismatch between energy supply and demand will require many solutions, but the Summit has underscored three actions for right now to govern how large-load customers — i.e., the owners of hyperscale data centers — build, operate and connect to our shared grid. 9 Webinar On Growth Of A.I.

Electricity

Legal Planet

MAY 14, 2025

One more reason were not ready for COP30 is that only 21 countries 11% of the parties have put forward new targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions through to 2035, as required by the Paris Agreement. Brazil is calling on local and state governments to do more, reports Matteo Civillini at Climate Home News. But its not just Brazil.

Paris Agreement

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 25, 2025

This policy sets a declining limit on greenhouse gas emissions and the state distributes emission permits — either directly or through quarterly auctions — to companies, which can then sell them to others if they succeed in reducing their own pollution.

Fossil Fuels

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JULY 16, 2025

In May 2025, as CBO analyzed the House-passed OBBB, it had this to say : After accounting for the reduction in Medicare spending, the required reduction in spending for other programs would exceed the estimated amount of resources available to those programs in each year over the 2027–2034 period.

Conservation

Clean Energy Law

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Goods imported into the UK from countries with a lower or no carbon price will face a levy by 2027. Green , and James Bee On 18 December 2023, the UK government announced a proposal for a new carbon border adjustment mechanism (UK CBAM). Davies , Michael D. For more information on the UK ETS, refer to this Latham blog post.

Government

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 5, 2024

The IPCC is a collaborative panel consisting of 195 member governments. Representatives of these member governments convene in Plenary Sessions, like the one we just attended. Each country sends delegations that can include both government officials and scientific experts, collectively forming the Panel.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2023

ExxonMobil’s reduction pledges do not take Scope 3 emissions into account, and the company’s leadership takes issue with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol’s approach to measuring emissions, as described below. Studies show Scope 3 emissions account for roughly 85% of oil and gas emissions. billion per year.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

AUGUST 1, 2024

In addition, the CPRG program had tight deadlines, and some eligible states, tribes, and local governments may not have been able to apply for CPRG implementation funding due to timing and capacity constraints. But all is not lost. Now, they need capital to implement their strategies.

Clean Energy

Law Columbia

JUNE 21, 2023

The country is the largest greenhouse gas (GHG) emitter on the African continent , ranked in the top 15 globally, with higher per capita emissions than many developed countries. But that has not deterred the South African government from planning to add 1500 MW of new coal-fired power between 2023 to 2027.

Climate Change

Acoel

APRIL 24, 2023

Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Economic Sector in 2021. California’s Bay Area Air Quality Management District also recently enacted zero-emission standards for newly sold appliances that take effect starting in 2027. Posted on April 24, 2023 by Kristen Boyles Total U.S.

Fossil Fuels

Capaccio

APRIL 22, 2024

Keeping this in mind, there is no one-size-fits-all solution for compliance with the new rules. Greenhouse Gas Emissions The rules require large accelerated filers (LAFs) and accelerated filers (AFs) to disclose material Scope 1 (direct) and Scope 2 ( i.e., electricity, steam, heating, or cooling) greenhouse gas emissions.

Greenhouse

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2024

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) just finalized its Phase 3 greenhouse gas regulation as a part of the administration’s plan to decarbonize the transportation sector. The Phase 3 regulation will cut new greenhouse gas emissions from trucks in 2032 by 32 to 62 percent for vocational trucks (e.g.,

2027

Ivy Protocol

MAY 18, 2023

This will require markets and governments to come together to invest significantly in sustainable business models. These nature-based solutions actively contribute to mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and harnessing the immense potential of forests as carbon sinks. climate threshold by 2027, scientists warn. 2023, May 17).

2023

Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Climate breakdown and greenhouse gas emissions. . Recent scientific analysis shows that the tunnel project and pipeline could contribute an additional 27 million metric tons of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere annually, and generate $41 billion in climate damages between 2027 and 2070.

2028

A Greener Life

JUNE 11, 2023

In early 2021, ICLEI , a global organisation that coordinates sustainable development action by local governments, worked with the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre to prepare an unofficial HAP for Rajshahi in western Bangladesh. But the extent to which this is being followed by the municipal government is unclear. C by 2027.

Climate Change

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

On the same day at COP28, the Indian government submitted its third “National Communication” to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). According to India’s 2023 National Electricity Plan, the country’s 2026-2027 domestic coal requirement will be an estimated 866.4 billion tonnes by 2029-2030.

Fossil Fuels

Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

Investors and governments will be expected to refer to the Taxonomy in order to determine whether an activity they want to pursue can be considered sustainable, and under what conditions (screening criteria). Extending the license of existing installations is particularly efficient in environmental and economic terms.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 4, 2023

leader in cleaning up the light duty fleet quietly released its own proposal in August: the Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has proposed to improve fuel economy of passenger cars and trucks steadily from 2027 through 2032 and heavy-duty pickups and vans from 2030 to 2035.

Electricity

Law Columbia

AUGUST 22, 2022

Only portions of the legislation apply directly to units of local government, but taken as a whole it can be expected to help U.S. cities move toward their greenhouse gas reduction goals via a cleaner national electric grid, increased vehicle and building electrification, and new distributed renewable energy resources.

Clean Air Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 15, 2022

However, the truck manufacturers have responded to the proposal by pressing hard to exclude additional data from the in-use testing or use such data to erroneously increase the conformity factors used by EPA to govern in-use compliance, including around low temperature operations. EPA has proposed three different early credit programs.

Regulations

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) rule has the potential to significantly reduce climate-warming greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as well as harmful air pollutants like fine particulates (PM2.5) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) from the numerous commercial and government fleets of MHD vehicles in the state.

Electricity

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

All in all, the rule as currently proposed is estimated to have a net societal benefit of nearly $47 billion through 2050, accounting for significant reductions in health expenditures, savings to fleets from reduced fuel and maintenance costs, and costs to governments and businesses for the buildout of vehicle charging infrastructure.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Wolf on April 21, 2021 (Earth Day) they would reject all future nominees to the PUC until he withdraws his executive order joining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to reduce carbon pollution from power plants. The PUC has nothing to do with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Program. “We His new term expires April 1, 2027.

2017

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This year, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) proposed new emissions and fuel economy standards (respectively) for model year 2027-2032 passenger cars and light trucks (sedans, utility vehicles, pickups, etc.). However, the agency considered a range of alternatives.

2026

Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

A second bill would require annual reporting of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused by a covered firm’s operations. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has adopted a Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rule [25] requiring facilities that emit more than 25,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent to report their direct GHG emissions. [26]

Regulations

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 8, 2025

Congress and the Trump administration are trying to address rising imports with preferences for North American fuels and feedstocks in tax policy and penalties for imports in the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed standards for 2026 and 2027 under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). Click here to jump to the conclusion.

Biofuels

Legal Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

Does anyone really imagine that this project’s greenhouse gas emissions would not adversely affect the habitat of polar bears, or other ice-dependent listed species? That blinkering is more a symptom of weak political will than of weak law.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

greenhouse gas emissions, more than the electric power sector. 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. Q: The federal government raised some threshold argument about standing and other issues.

Clean Air Act

Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 11, 2022

On December 8, 2021, President Biden issued an Executive Order on Catalyzing Clean Energy Industries and Jobs Through Federal Sustainability (EO), which aims to set the federal government — the largest purchaser in the country with an annual purchasing power of $650 billion — on a path to net zero emissions by 2050.

Greenhouse

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Here’s one of the best kept secrets of the federal government: nothing gets done without effective civil servants. Firing the most senior and experienced federal employees from the government will undermine, not strengthen, the effectiveness of a presidential administration. That is true regardless of which party is in power.

Politics

ESA

JANUARY 31, 2022

2027 ) and Rural STEM Education Research Act ( H.R. 3531 ) that requires the federal government to develop a National Climate Adaptation and Resilience Strategy and authorizes a chief resilience officer position in the White House. The bill also includes the Combating Sexual Harassment in Science Act ( H.R. Legislative updates: Sen.

2022

Law Columbia

JULY 28, 2025

That already represented a dramatic shift by a federal agency that only recently completed a painstaking effort to develop and finalize the rule, and stands as a vivid rebuke of the Biden administration’s whole-of-government effort to embed climate risk analysis across the financial sector.

Regulations

ESA

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The bill authorizes $5 million for this study each year through Fiscal Year 2027. The Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Council on Environmental Quality announced government-wide guidance for agencies to recognize and include Indigenous Knowledge in research, policy and decision-making. Mitt Romney (R-UT) and Sen.

2022