Legal Planet

APRIL 9, 2025

Theres a consolation prize for coal companies: Trump promised them that the big law firms who have caved to his threats would be dispatched to represent them in court pro bono. Taking advantage of a loophole in the Clean Air Act, Trump is extending the deadline for coal plants to comply with new mercury restrictions from 2027 to 2029.

Clean Air Act

National Law Center

JULY 21, 2025

Specifically, the instructions direct the committee to amend current budget-related laws to achieve the goals of the budget resolution. As the Congressional Research Service states , it “reconcile[s] current law with the fiscal objectives of the budget resolution.”

2013

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 6, 2025

“It is crucial that we take immediate action by submitting robust and constructive testimony and comments, ensuring that all segments of the industry can thrive beyond March 2029. The time to engage is now; tomorrow is uncertain. If you’re not part of the solution, you risk being part of the problem. Read more here.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 29, 2025

Scott Perry -- PA Capital-Star: Out-Of-State Group Cant Sue For PA Voter Registration Records, Federal Appeals Court Rules -- TribLive: PA Educators Push For Additional Dollars To Equitably Fund Schools -- WHYY: PA Companies Brace For The Cost Of Retaliatory Tariffs On Products They Export As A Result Of Presidents Trade War [PA Companies Exported (..)

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2024

The permit will become effective December 8, 2024 and will expire on December 7, 2029. 11 PA Fertilizer Law, Homeowner Lawn Care For Healthy Watersheds Webinar [PaEN] -- York County Master Watershed Stewards Host Sept. Click Here for related documents. 24 [PaEN] -- York County Master Watershed Stewards Host Sept.

2029

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Interns Present Stream Morphology Surveys On Lebanon County Streams [PaEN] -- Friends Of The Wissahickon Host Nov. 23 [PaEN] -- Erie Times Guest Essay: We Have A Path To Reduce Climate Pollution, It Is Time To Launch market-Based RGGI - By Environmental Defense Fund & Ceres -- 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund Holds Nov.

Natural Gas

Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 22, 2023

A 2021 North Carolina law requires the N.C. More below on the requirements of Session Law 2021-165 (also referred to as House Bill 951) and NCUC action in response. The law limits offsets to 5%. First, the law is directed to the Utilities Commission rather than the electric utilities. The Reduction Goal.

2021

Renewable + Law

JULY 5, 2022

The bill allows a person proposing to construct any of those facilities to file an application for certification (“AFC”) with the CEC on or before June 30, 2029.

2029

Renewable + Law

JULY 5, 2022

The bill allows a person proposing to construct any of those facilities to file an application for certification (“AFC”) with the CEC on or before June 30, 2029.

2029

CEQA Developments

APRIL 11, 2023

Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for fifty years. For nearly all that time, the firm also has written Miller & Starr, California Real Estate 3d, a 12-volume treatise on California real estate law. “The Coon of Miller Starr Regalia.

2018

Law Columbia

MARCH 11, 2024

Part Two will contextualize the SEC’s final climate disclosure rule alongside California’s recent climate-disclosure laws and the EPA’s GHG emissions reporting regime. Part One, below, offers a summary of the final rule, and delves into the materiality threshold that was added for emissions disclosure.

2026

Law Columbia

AUGUST 3, 2018

EPA and DOT estimate that “upstream” carbon dioxide emissions from oil production, transportation, refining, and distribution would increase by 159 MMT (over the lifetime of the vehicles produced from MY1979 through MY 2029). The safety benefits of the rule may have been overestimated.

Carbon Dioxide

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

MAY 10, 2024

This opens the door for ground truthing the concept at NRCS, should this provision of RPFSA become law. Extending authorization of the Farming Opportunities Training and Outreach (FOTO) program, which includes 2501 and the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program (BFRDP), through 2029 (Sec.

2024

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

billion tonnes by 2029-2030. Furthermore, in July 2023, India passed a new law that has made it easier to clear forests, including for coal mines. According to India’s 2023 National Electricity Plan, the country’s 2026-2027 domestic coal requirement will be an estimated 866.4 million tonnes, rising to 1.025 billion tonnes by 2031-2032.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

AUGUST 22, 2022

The funding is set to remain available until September 30, 2029. The funding is set to remain available through September 30, 2029. The DOE may also use this appropriation to make grants for economic development activities for communities affected by transmission projects. Department of Transportation is to make available $244.5

Clean Air Act

Legal Planet

MARCH 15, 2023

The Rule and Other Potential Developments By adopting this rule, BAAQMD is exercising its legal authority under both federal and state law to regulate nitrogen oxides. The phaseout would apply throughout the air district’s territory and is expected to cut more than 3,000 tons of NOx emissions each year.

Nitrogen Oxides

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2024

The 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) is one of the main sources of this federal funding, alongside the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). trillion investment gap in critical infrastructure between 2020 and 2029. But the United States is not doing well at maintaining these critical infrastructure systems.

Clean Energy

Capaccio

MAY 21, 2024

If their findings reveal that the water systems exceed the set MCLs for these six PFAS, water providers will have until 2029 to implement mitigation measures and notify the public of the violation. Water providers will have three years (until 2027) to complete PFAS testing and release their findings to the public.

Regulations

Renewable + Law

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Procedural and Legislative Background In February 2020, the Administrative Law Judge assigned to the proceeding entered a draft TEF, prepared by Energy Division staff, into the record and invited party comment on the proposal. On September 30, 2020, Governor Newsom signed Assembly Bill (AB) 841 into law (Stats.

Electricity

Renewable + Law

OCTOBER 17, 2022

In February 2020, the Administrative Law Judge assigned to the proceeding entered a draft TEF, prepared by Energy Division staff, into the record and invited party comment on the proposal. On September 30, 2020, Governor Newsom signed Assembly Bill (AB) 841 into law (Stats.

Electricity

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Environmental groups are generally opposed , as are some environmental law professors ; a list of climate researchers signed a letter in opposition ; but clean energy groups support. The basis of debate is the Energy Permitting Reform Act (EPRA) co-sponsored by Senators Manchin and Barrasso. Is the deal on the table worth taking?

Renewable Energy

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The programs funded by these laws represent hundreds of millions of dollars invested into Pennsylvania farms, businesses, and communities. Since the law was passed in 2022, DEP has received $734.6 Governor Shapiro has taken action to ensure that these critical funds are available to Pennsylvania.

2024

Legal Planet

JUNE 3, 2025

It mentions New Yorks and Vermonts climate superfund laws by name; as well as Californias cap-and-trade policy. Theres a 70% chance that the 2025-2029 period will be more than 1.5C decrease in grants to states, Bloomberg Law reports. Theodore J. Boutrous Jr. hotter than pre-industrial times.

Climate Change