Greenbuilding Law

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

The California Corporate Data Accountability Act (SB 253) and Greenhouse Gases: Climate Related Financial Risk Law (SB 261) are groundbreaking pieces of legislation that, if signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom, will establish California on the bleeding edge of climate disclosure and climate financial risk reporting.

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Acoel

APRIL 24, 2023

Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Economic Sector in 2021. New York City is taking another approach: instead of regulating the efficiency of appliances, it sets indoor air quality standards for fuels burned in new buildings that make burning fossil fuels impracticable. Posted on April 24, 2023 by Kristen Boyles Total U.S.

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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.,

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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.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 13, 2023

Heavy-duty vehicle emission requirements would be more stringent starting with model year 2027, according to a proposed rule, and move the industry ”beyond what was finalized″ in a Phase … Continue reading EPA proposes tougher emission rules for heavy-duty trucks

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Law Columbia

MAY 1, 2024

A key and underrated aspect of the recent triad of climate rulings of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) is that the ECtHR has brought to the fore the role of trade-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in states’ carbon footprints.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

According to India’s 2023 National Electricity Plan, the country’s 2026-2027 domestic coal requirement will be an estimated 866.4 On-the-ground research in states like West Bengal suggests that weak regulation and enforcement mechanisms allow deforestation to continue apace – in contrast to the rosy picture painted by the government.

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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. This is the first time EPA has sought to limit emissions in over two decades, and it is long overdue. EPA has proposed three different early credit programs.

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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.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 13, 2022

This new regulation would apply to delivery vans, big rigs, box trucks, and buses. This new regulation would apply to delivery vans, big rigs, box trucks, and buses. Regulate more tractor trucks, including the smaller fleets. However, lowering the threshold to 10 could deliver around 15 percent greater GHG, PM2.5,

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

These settlements are the latest in EPA’s urgent efforts to limit the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change and hold corporate polluters accountable for jeopardizing public health.” Uhlmann for EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance. Specifically, by Dec. million to plug or remediate them.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Coming off its recent decision requiring all new passenger cars and trucks be zero-emission by 2035, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) is developing a first-of-its-kind regulation to reduce emissions from heavy-duty vehicles like delivery vans, big rigs, box trucks, and buses. There are more than 1.8 pollution from vehicles.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 26, 2024

They will go into effect in model year 2027 and steadily increase in stringency through model year 2032. From a consumer perspective, the vehicles at the dealership in 2027 and beyond will in many ways be “more of the same.” These new rules apply to all auto manufacturers and only affect new vehicle sales. Far from it.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 21, 2023

We need to make sure regulators like EPA and CARB restrict its usage before it gains a fossil-fueled foothold in the marketplace. Importantly, however, CO 2 is not the only greenhouse gas directly produced: N 2 O is a greenhouse gas 265 times more potent than CO 2 , directly produced as a combustion byproduct.

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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.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The Advanced Clean Trucks standard modeled in the report would require manufacturers, beginning in 2027, to increase their zero-emission truck sales to between 30-50 percent by 2030 and 40-75 percent by 2035. The report was prepared by ERM and commissioned by NRDC and the Union of Concerned Scientists. These gains include $1.3

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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.

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Vermont Law

JUNE 29, 2020

greenhouse gas emissions. Also, under energy efficiency, utilities must achieve energy savings that increase to 2% a year by 2027. Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. DEQ’s carbon regulations. The energy sector is one of the biggest polluters when it comes to.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

The Securities and Exchange Commission regulations on climate disclosure, first proposed in March 2022 and likely to be issued in final form in October 2023, [1] have drawn considerable controversy and face an uncertain fate in the inevitable litigation. [2] This piece previously appeared in the CLS Blue Sky Blog.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 9, 2024

EPA as part of our ongoing amicus efforts to support strong federal climate regulations. The case involves EPAs 2024 Vehicle Standards that set new air pollutant and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions standards for model year 2027 through 2032 Light- and Medium-Duty Vehicles, which have been challenged by states and industry groups.

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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. Currently, you and me (taxpayers) are on the hook for CARBs critical work.

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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. Transportation is now the source of 28% of U.S.

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Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 11, 2022

A 65% reduction in scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions from federal operations by 2030 from 2008 levels: To meet these targets, the EO requires agencies to, among other things, pursue building electrification strategies, procure carbon pollution-free energy, and use performance contracting to reduce emissions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Regulations like Californias Advanced Clean Trucks rule (ACT) have been key to driving increased ZET model availability and deployment in the early years of on-road freight electrification and will be crucial to accelerating this in the coming years.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 10, 2025

And the search for gold bars has shockingly been fruitless EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has said that the greenhouse gas reduction program was vulnerable to waste, fraud, and abuse. Maryland is one of the states that aimed to spur the adoption of electric vehicles by adopting California’s clean-car and clean-truck regulations.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

This is true even for an administration as anti-regulatory as the Trump Administration was: remember the Executive Orde r requiring that for every new regulation adopted two had to be withdrawn? But regulations don’t just disappear and can’t just be withdrawn with the stroke of a pen. Rulemaking includes repealing a regulation.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 22, 2025

Environmental Protection Agencys (EPA) 2024 greenhouse gas emissions standards for heavy-duty vehicles (the HDV Rule) that went into effect on June 21, 2024. EPA , represents the Centers most recent effort to support strong federal climate regulations that protect and advance the wellbeing of cities and their residents. In Nebraska v.

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ESA

JANUARY 31, 2022

2027 ) and Rural STEM Education Research Act ( H.R. White House: President Biden met with the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology after a meeting of the council, which focused on efforts to improve monitoring of greenhouse gas emissions and accelerate innovation in energy technology.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Some, such as the Seychelles’ NDC, include more specific targets such as to “protect at least 50% of its seagrass and mangrove ecosystems by 2025 and 100% by 2030, with external support,” and to “include the greenhouse gas (GHG) sink of Seychelles’ blue carbon ecosystems in the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory by 2025.”

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ESA

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The bill authorizes $5 million for this study each year through Fiscal Year 2027. More News: NASA cancels greenhouse gas monitoring satellite due to cost – Associated Press. Visit this page on ESA’s website for updates on opportunities from the Federal Register , including upcoming meetings and regulations open for public comment.

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ESA

JULY 18, 2022

Court strikes down Trump administration Endangered Species Act regulations. The bill increases the authorized funding level for the Climate Adaptation Science Centers from $97 million in FY 2023 to $145 million in FY $145 million in FY 2027. Describes How It Will Regulate Power Plants After Supreme Court Setback – The New York Times.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 21, 2025

In other words, if a regulation mentions electric vehicles, its probably on the target list. In March of last year, EPA finalized the “ Phase 3″ Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for heavy-duty vehicles that would reduce pollution from new trucks between model year 2027 through 2032.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2018

So far, they have repealed multiple Obama-era regulations aimed at reducing pollution from fossil fuels and combating climate change. billion in compliance costs, while still reducing greenhouse gas production by the energy sector. EPA replaced the federally-based Obama-era CPP with the state-based. Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule.

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