Law and Environment

JANUARY 26, 2022

million to aid in evaluating the safety of new fuels, and over $61 million for projects to advance biofuels and support reduced cost of SAF pathways. The proposed tax credit would require at least a 50% reduction in lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions to receive at least a $1.25

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Frontiers

JANUARY 18, 2023

Yet climate change and human environmental impacts threaten our long-term food security. This variation on the iconic US advertising slogan from the beef industry may sound funny, but it’s no joke that the current agriculture system is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions and environmental pollution.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

In a previous blog post , I briefly reviewed some of the innovative strategies to reduce methane emissions from agricultural livestock and rice operations, which have the potential to combat a significant source of global greenhouse gas emissions. This appears to be the only national level agricultural methane target currently in law.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 4, 2023

By coincidence rather than design, two different approaches to reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the electric power sector have been under discussion by North Carolina agencies since 2021. The two approaches share goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 70% by 2030 (from a 2005 baseline) and achieving carbon neutrality by 2050.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 31, 2023

Shapiro’s agenda to create a bold, comprehensive climate and energy plan that will grow Pennsylvania’s economy, protect and create jobs, and address climate change. It also helps lower the level of carbon dioxide, helping to address climate change. It builds on Gov. The deadline is December 15.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Second, while Popkin correctly notes that forests, like solar farms, offer climate-change benefits, the essay does not provide any information on the relative emissions benefits of forested land versus solar farms. For comparison, nearly 3% of solar power is currently sited in urban areas. [1].

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Brag

JANUARY 24, 2023

BETO states that methanol has “rich potential for uses that contribute to lower greenhouse gas emissions and help in the fight against climate change.” According to BETO, the goal is to identify catalysts that can make beneficial products, such as sustainable aviation fuel, efficiently and selectively.

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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 Electricity Sector Greenhouse Gas Emissions Historical and Forecast. It increases carbon emissions and makes climate change worse, and the impacts of climate change are not distributed equally.

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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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JANZEN AG

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The Inflation Reduction Act (“IRA”) created many market incentives to combat climate change. Under 40B, producers of SAF that reduced the greenhouse gas emissions of the fuel by at least 50 percent are eligible for the tax credit for every gallon produced. 1 and apply to renewable diesel and other biofuels in addition to SAF.”

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) is perhaps the single most ready-made tool for farmers to voluntarily tackle climate change. billion, a crucial investment that is already helping to meet farmer demand and making progress toward climate goals through this high impact program.

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 10, 2023

This follows our post last week alerting commercial real estate owners and tenants in those buildings in Maryland about these regulations requiring Greenhouse Gas Data Must be Collected Beginning January 1 in Maryland. The regulation of Energy Use Intensity is not authorized by the statute. This is a major void.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Here are some major actions by EPA: Opening three grant competitions under the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund including the $7 billion Solar for All competition , the $14 billion National Clean Investment Fund , and the $6 billion Clean Communities Investment Accelerator. USDA also awarded 59 domestic biofuel projects totaling $25 million.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

We know that we do not have time to waste; our neighbors are suffering from the weight of climate change now, and our future is in danger. “We We cannot afford to ignore climate change any longer. farmers do their part to save the Bay and reduce greenhouse gases?with conservation programs?would?allow?USDA

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 9, 2023

An EPA draft report outlines the damage that federal biofuels policy has wrought on land and water. And lastly, the White House issues new climate accounting guidelines for environmental impact statements. Environmental Impact of Biofuels. residents displaced last year by weather disasters. By the Numbers. Studies and Reports.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2024

Similarly, the amount of biofuels and hydrogen is reduced by approximately 15 percent each, and the amount of CCS is reduced by almost 20 percent, adding on even more cost savings as well as energy savings. This difference is enough to power more than 35 million homes. This grows to almost $1.3

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 5, 2022

With proposed federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions by the Securities and Exchange Commission requiring GHG disclosure and new state statutes, including a new Maryland law that requires not only disclosure, but also a mandated reduction in GHG emissions, a greater appreciation of the subject of GHG appears in order. See, Weather.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 14, 2021

SG would cool the Earth, temporarily and imperfectly offsetting some of the climate effects of elevated greenhouse gases, by reflecting a bit (around 0.5% Climate-change risks are severe and growing, even if uncertain in their precise character, timing, and incidence. to 1%) of incoming sunlight.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2022

Applications were evaluated for their degree of environmental protection, innovation, partnership, economic impact, consideration of climate change, sustainability, and environmental justice, as well as outcomes achieved. “Each of the projects awarded this year will leave a positive lasting legacy for Pennsylvania.” Read more here.

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Acoel

JANUARY 16, 2024

Less than a quarter of cropland is devoted to food directly eaten by humans, with the rest going to mostly to animal feed and biofuel feedstock, and it takes many pounds of grains to produce a pound of beef. The two primary greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture are methane and nitrous oxide. The millions of cows in the U.S.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JUNE 2, 2023

Department of Agriculture (USDA) first announced details of its Partnerships for Climate Smart Commodities (PCSC). The PCSC is a centerpiece of the Biden Administration’s strategy to help farmers and ranchers address climate change. PCSC 101 The PCSC is divided into two rounds of funding, referred to by USDA as “pools”.

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Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Testimony before the House Agriculture Committee for a Hearing on “Climate Change and the U.S. Technological change and agricultural modernization will significantly outweigh climate change in the U.S. Vegetarianism is not important for protecting the environment or reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Advocates are focusing on the Glasgow meeting to highlight water’s indispensable climate role. Demonstrators took to the streets at the 2009 global climate convention in Copenhagen. Adaptation, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and accounting for climate damages will be prominent topics at the UN climate convention in November.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 10, 2023

These pollutants are not only a major culprit of advancing climate change, but also impact air quality in marginalized port communities and cause approximately 250,000 premature deaths and 6 million childhood asthma cases around the world each year. reaching its goal of a net-zero greenhouse gas economy by 2050. If the U.S.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 10, 2023

These pollutants are not only a major culprit of advancing climate change, but also impact air quality in marginalized port communities and cause approximately 250,000 premature deaths and 6 million childhood asthma cases around the world each year. reaching its goal of a net-zero greenhouse gas economy by 2050. If the U.S.

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Greenhouse Ocean Technology Technology 40

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

This week, Circle of Blue reports on how water fits into the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference. When diplomats and government ministers converge on Glasgow this fall, they hope to rekindle pivotal negotiations on global climate that were dampened during the pandemic. Ingrid Timboe is a co-chair of the water pavilion.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 14, 2021

The American Jobs Plan calls for $621 billion in transportation infrastructure and resilience, which includes various climate priorities for President. Climate resilience of infrastructure. President Biden notes the role climate change-fueled extreme weather plays in harming our infrastructure.

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 6, 2021

The legislation also includes provisions to reduce climate change impacts in the transportation sector and identifies opportunities to enhance the resiliency of the surface transportation system. Roads, Bridges, & Major Projects. The remaining $2.5 Investment in Public Water Systems.

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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. In all three cases, challengers invoked the major questions doctrine.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Climate change is inevitably a complex subject. Our audience isnt just people who live and breathe climate law. A requirement that gasoline contain a certain percentage of biofuel. How did the EPA get its power to issue climate change regulations? A greenhouse gas, Acrylic Bicarbonate-32.

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ESA

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

EPA : The draft annual greenhouse gas emissions inventory finds that U.S. Potential climate actions identified in the letter include developing a national climate adaptation strategy and adapting new greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. emissions increased 5.5% Arctic: A new report from the U.S.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 24, 2025

For example, Section 60103 of the IRA , which establishes the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) , specifies that $15 billion of the $27 billion allocated to the GGRF should be used for the purposes of providing financial assistance and technical assistance in low-income and disadvantaged communities.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 21, 2025

The general thrust of these is to encourage the rapid development of fossil fuel resources and all associated infrastructure, and remove any regulatory obstacles; to reverse federal actions on climate change, energy efficiency, and environmental justice; and to prevent wind farms from being built on federal lands and waters.

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Acoel

JANUARY 21, 2025

The general thrust of these is to encourage the rapid development of fossil fuel resources and all associated infrastructure, and remove any regulatory obstacles; to reverse federal actions on climate change, energy efficiency, and environmental justice; and to prevent wind farms from being built on federal lands and waters.

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