Legal Planet

JANUARY 4, 2023

This means that, with few exceptions, new buildings will need to exclusively use electric appliances, and will not be allowed to contain any fossil-fuel infrastructure, like natural-gas lines. All-electric as the new normal. Just as important is the process that led to the new-buildings ordinance.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Municipal zoning laws, meanwhile, allowed companies to build power plants and other industrial facilities in those same neighborhoods. First, there’s air pollution. Gas plants and infrastructure emit nitrogen oxides (NOx) during combustion, which degrade local air quality.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The dangerous impacts of a warming, fossil-fuel dependent world span from wildfires capable of destroying entire towns to cancer-causing air pollution that afflicts the next generation. The climate crisis is one of humanity’s most complex conflicts yet.

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DECEMBER 21, 2023

Upcoming research from my colleague Dave Cooke shows that electric delivery trucks can reduce climate-warming emissions from driving by up to 92 percent and reduce lifecycle public health impacts by up to 85 percent compared to today’s average fossil-fueled delivery trucks.

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MAY 19, 2022

Minnesotans are already experiencing the climate crisis, as well as health impacts, from burning fossil fuels. The Minnesota House has shown strong leadership in addressing the climate crisis and funding the clean energy transition at the scale necessary to swiftly curb heat-trapping emissions from fossil fuels.

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AUGUST 23, 2021

Urban air pollution kills millions of people around the world. Eliminating fossil fuels will radically reduce that problem. We will also get rid of coal mines and oil wells, which produce other kinds of pollution today. Accomplishing that will be no easy feat. What does it buy us?

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JANUARY 30, 2023

The state-specific fact sheet, On the Road to 100 Percent Renewables for Minnesota , outlines how it could meet its electricity needs completely and equitably with renewable energy by 2035 and dramatically reduce fossil fuel use in vehicles and buildings.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Background Japan has heavily relied on the use of fossil fuels for its power generation. According to the Japanese Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, the countrys fossil fuel dependency was 83.2% This blog post provides an overview of those cases and the broader landscape of climate litigation in Japan.

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MARCH 15, 2023

Research shows that halting the burning of fossil fuels in homes and businesses is beneficial for the health of residents and vital to combat climate change. Gas stoves are a significant driver of childhood asthma , leaking methane even while turned off and releasing as much nationwide climate pollution each year as 500,000 cars.

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OCTOBER 18, 2024

The jobs did not come, and while the price of gas didn’t go up, air and water pollution sure did. That means they are going to politicians with their hand out to receive more of your tax dollars with nothing to show for it except receipts from past failures like leaking pipelines, harmful air pollution, and dangerous explosions.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Switching from fossil fuels like gasoline to increasingly clean electricity sources is vital for hitting climate and air pollution goals. Eliminating gasoline combustion also means getting rid of harmful pollutant emissions like nitrogen oxides and reactive organic gases.

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DECEMBER 20, 2022

Our national overreliance on gas is evidently undermining energy access, not strengthening it, as some fossil fuel industry players would want you to believe. These claims just add to the deluge of greenwashing and disinformation from the fossil fuel industry. Don’t believe the industry spin.

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MARCH 21, 2025

I applaud Governor Shapiros continued support for Community Solar and look forward to working with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to get it signed into law. Solar panels do not emit carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen oxides, or other harmful air pollutants when theyre working.

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MAY 31, 2022

The compromise included critical investments in solar, weatherization assistance, community energy transition grants, and leveraged funds from the federal infrastructure law. The best hope now for Minnesota legislators to act on the climate and energy agreement is a special session. billion in public health cost savings overall.

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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. Indeed, EPA still retains the ability to set strong standards that curtail carbon pollution at the scale, speed, and rigor required.

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JUNE 13, 2022

Prior to Glasgow, the NRDC had concluded that India was on track to meet its previous commitment to have 40% non-fossil fuel power generation by 2030. Much of the shift may have been due to recognition that renewables would provide more energy independence and would help get India’s crippling urban air pollution under control.

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OCTOBER 16, 2024

We need to plan for energy infrastructure that supports our economy and reduces harmful air pollution. These firms recognized that they could not assume the risks of exacerbating climate damage from continued burning of fossil fuels. Some forecasting models must use observations of young people, no?

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Legal Planet

APRIL 25, 2022

Most household appliances, like furnaces and water heaters, are powered by fossil fuels and emit nitrogen oxides (NOx) —toxic and highly reactive gases that endanger human health and the environment. Zero-NOx appliance standards would benefit public health, cut greenhouse gas pollution, and create jobs.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 6, 2024

Statement by Emilia Belliveau, Energy Transition Program Manager Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – At today’s Parliamentary Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development (ENVI), Members of Parliament grilled the fossil fuel industry about their climate pollution.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

During the shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources, it is crucial not only to prevent certain groups from being excluded, but also to guarantee that disadvantaged communities can step into positions of leadership and ownership, and that past injustices are remedied.

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MAY 17, 2022

Along with rising temperatures, drought makes vegetation and forests drier and increases the risk of fires that generate air pollution. Water education should go beyond teaching the hydrologic cycle and incorporate components of local hydrology, regulations, and laws. Water education.

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AUGUST 22, 2024

But these goals will only be achievable if the state has sufficient charging infrastructure to fuel the vehicles, along with available financing to help truck owners purchase or lease them. For this transition to succeed, it will require not just technological innovation but also robust policy support and financial investment.

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DECEMBER 20, 2022

Perhaps most importantly, this rule doesn’t even attempt to grapple with the question of how to eliminate emissions from trucks, focusing exclusively on fossil-fuel powered engines to the exclusion of electrification. Bad news: electric trucks aren’t included in the rule. Sadly, it didn’t.

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JANUARY 25, 2024

This support for EV charging, and by extension EV ownership among individuals and businesses, is key for accelerating the electrification of the transportation sector that we need to make progress on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and local air pollution from transportation. Both programs are set to run for five years.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

If passed, this new law would finally put an end to the millions of tonnes of coal – the world’s dirtiest and deadliest fossil fuel – that are shipped overseas from Canada’ west coast every year. Air pollutants from coal plants are linked to chronic heart and respiratory disease, and a host of acute ailments.

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MARCH 7, 2024

That is A LOT of EVs and A LOT less oil use, air pollution and climate emissions. The bipartisan infrastructure law provided up to $7.5 billion in investments to support the buildout of a nationwide charging network through the Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Grant Program and the National EV Infrastructure (NEVI) program.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 26, 2021

Wind and solar energy facilities emit no air pollution and have minimal environmental effects as compared to fossil fuel plants, but like all types of development, renewable energy projects do have impacts. However, misinformation sometimes leads those impacts to be misunderstood or exaggerated.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 18, 2023

Since 2019, more than seventy local and state jurisdictions have followed Berkeley’s lead in requiring or strongly incentivizing all-electric or fossil-fuel-free new buildings, with more considering similar approaches. can be fueled by natural gas), and must base these options on a defensible “one-for-one” basis.

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OCTOBER 10, 2022

The Governor approved a notable slate of climate legislation with a package that includes more stringent greenhouse gas (GHG) emission targets and measures designed to reduce the state’s reliance on fossil fuels. Implementation of these new laws will be the true test of that statement, but they provide an exciting starting point.

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JUNE 30, 2022

CT , the Supreme Court said this: We hold that the Clean Air Act and the EPA actions it authorizes displace any federal common law right to seek abatement of carbon-dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel fired power plants. at 528–529. 7411(b)(1)(B); see also §7411(a)(2). Connecticut , 564 U. 410 (2011). Post, at 20.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Tailpipes from our cars, trucks and buses are also a major source of toxic local air pollution that disproportionately harms overburdened and underserved communities. An average global temperature change greater than 1.5 Reducing emissions from our vehicles is a huge part of this.

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Law Columbia

MAY 28, 2021

Building electrification requirements – at times called “natural gas bans,” including on this blog – are subject to a complicated interplay of federal, state and local law, and many local governments have been found or determined themselves to be preempted from one or more approaches.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

These communities are often already exposed to lots of air pollution from things like other industries, airports, and nearby highways. Similarly, a study from the Netherlands based on long-term testing also showed the country’s newest facility is emitting much higher levels of dioxin and furans than is allowed by European law.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 17, 2024

Solar PV Project in Cuba (Photo credit: IRENA ) Today, the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) jointly published a new report titled Building a Cleaner, More Resilient Energy System in Cuba: Opportunities and Challenges. Cuba’s power system is currently heavily reliant on fossil fuels.

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JUNE 1, 2022

Japan’s dependency on fossil fuel s had been slightly declining until 2010. But the country changed course as a result of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, which led to the forced shutdown of nuclear power plants and greater reliance on fossil fuels. Civil law cases. In September 2017, in Sendai Citizens v.

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JUNE 21, 2024

PA Bulletin, page 3573 ) Air Quality Permits -- EQT ARO, LLC - COP [state land] Tract 231 Compressor Station: DEP approved an Air Quality Plan Approval for multiple sources of air pollution at the facility located in Snow Shoe Twp., Susquehanna County. ( Beaver County. ( Centre County. ( Juniata County. ( Read more here.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2022

On November 22, the Clean Air Council , PennFuture , and the Center for Biological Diversity announced they appealed an extension of Renovo Energy Center’s air pollution permit for a large gas-fired power plant — a significant source of new pollution within an environmental justice area.

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