Law Columbia

MARCH 8, 2023

The IRA extends and expands several tax credits and incentives, including those for renewable energy investments and production, clean vehicles, carbon capture and sequestration, biofuels, and commercial and residential energy efficiency.

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Brag

JUNE 10, 2021

Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy (EERE) announced that the United States, Denmark, and Norway joined forces with the Global Maritime Forum and the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping to lead a new Zero-Emission Shipping Mission.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

billion available to support rural electric cooperatives through the Empowering Rural America (New ERA) program to for clean energy projects. Announced the availability of $1 billion to fund dozens of new clean energy projects and energy storage to serve rural Americans across the U.S.

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E2 Law Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Enacted in 2019, the CLCPA transformed the state’s earlier clean energy standard efforts from administrative fiat to law and sets more aggressive goals to reduce statewide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions economy-wide to 60% from a 1990 baseline by 2030, and 15% from a 1990 baseline by 2050.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 24, 2023

Funding improves health outcomes and lower energy costs for people in rural communities. Letter of Interest (Required): 9/15/2023 Powering Affordable Clean Energy Program … Continue reading USDA Rural Development funding opportunities through the Inflation Reduction Act Federal Register Notice.

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Washington Nature

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The new law includes hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of investments in building clean energy infrastructure, improving the resilience of our forests and farms and taking steps toward environmental justice. The IRA’s investments in clean energy infrastructure could transform our economy. Photo by Courtney Baxter.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 18, 2021

The rest of our power comes from a mix of nuclear power, renewables like hydro, wind and solar power, and biofuel. Ontario Energy Output by Fuel Type: 2020 . It’s mostly due to a combination of poor planning coupled with an ideological opposition to renewable energy. Ontario has built a clean energy supply.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2024

Department of Agriculture is funding more than 700 clean energy projects to lower energy bills, expand access to domestic biofuels and create jobs and new market opportunities for U.S. On April 23, Agriculture Deputy Secretary Xochitl Torres Small announced that the U.S. farmers, ranchers and agricultural producers.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Minnesota Federal Court Said State Biofuel Mandate Was Not Preempted. The federal district court for the District of Minnesota ruled that the “Minnesota Mandate,” which requires diesel fuel sold in the state to contain a specific percentage of biodiesel, was not preempted by the federal Renewable Fuel Standard. United States v.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Today’s choice to pass the most ambitious and transformative climate and clean energy investments in our nation’s history will reverberate throughout the generations that follow, making our air purer, our communities safer, our economy stronger, and our families and neighbors healthier.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

300 billion in tax credits for renewable power, biofuels and energy efficiency. 29 billion for a green development bank, the Clean Energy and Sustainability Accelerator. $30 29 billion for a green development bank, the Clean Energy and Sustainability Accelerator. $30 billion for electric bikes.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 29, 2020

The High Cost of Renewables House Democrats propose spending hundreds of billions of public and ratepayer money on renewable energy, new transmission lines, energy efficiency, mass transit, electric vehicles, carbon capture and storage, and advanced nuclear energy. I am honored to address the Committee.

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 6, 2021

Transformative investments in clean energy transmission, EV, and hydrogen infrastructure through provisions incorporated in the Energy Infrastructure Act ( S. Division D—ENERGY. More than $91.1 The remaining $2.5 Critical Minerals.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 14, 2024

Cornyn’s Senate website emphasizes expansion of fossil fuel production but also touts Texas as a “trailblazer in renewable energy.” This is part of the cult, or religion, of renewable energy.” John Thune (SD). Lifetime LCV score of 11% (half of Susan Collins’s lifetime score).

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 14, 2021

The plan builds on his Build Back Better campaign platform, which emphasized the jobs these investments will create as the nation transitions to a clean energy economy. The following summarizes the major climate, renewable energy and other environmental provisions included in the American Jobs Plan.

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