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2021-2022 California Environmental Legislation: What’s Been Enacted?

Legal Planet

To meet these goals, the state is facilitating burgeoning carbon capture and sequestration (or storage) (CCS) technologies that capture carbon from point sources to store, as well as carbon dioxide removal (CDR), which removes carbon from the atmosphere. Ecological Conservation.

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Evangelical Environmental Network: FERC Approval Of PJM Fast Track Power Plant Plan Favors Natural Gas, Leaves Clean, Abundant Energy Behind For Pennsylvania

PA Environment Daily

to 11% UGI Gas Rate Hike Request -- Utility Dive: New Jersey Residential Customers Face 20% Electric Bill Hikes, Driven By PJM Capacity Prices: NJ Board Of Public Utilities -- US EIA Natural Gas Price Forecast For 2025 Now 21% Higher Than Last Forecast At $3.80; 2026 Forecast Now $4.20

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Clean Power Plan: The Legal Battle Continues

The Energy Law

The group of petitioners challenging the EPA rules imposing strict limits on carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants filed its opening briefs on Friday, February 19. The Clean Power Plan would affect every electricity user in the United States, from the largest manufacturing plant to the smallest home.

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The SEC’s Final Climate Disclosure Rule: Interrogating Preemption and Coherence with Other Domestic Regimes

Law Columbia

The oil and gas industry must also report on the Scope 3 carbon dioxide emissions resulting from utilization of their products, regardless of whether the products are used within the U.S. California has a history as a “first mover” on environmental issues, in part due to the state’s pressing need for pollution controls.

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Emerging Local Legal Pathways for Building Electrification: Air Pollution and Land Use Regulation in New York City & Brookline, Massachusetts

Law Columbia

2317, which would amend the City’s building code to limit greenhouse gas emissions from new and renovated buildings to 50 kilograms of carbon dioxide per million BTUs. that are built all-electric) will receive special permits that endure in perpetuity.

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FRESH, October 4, 2022: Carbon Dioxide Storage and Transport Emerges as Political Flashpoint

Circle of Blue

Indiana regulates the underground storage of carbon dioxide. Wisconsin ’s environment agency once again begins drafting rules to limit PFAS pollution. . In central Illinois , residents are reluctant to make way for an underground carbon dioxide pipeline. CO2 STORAGE: Indiana Gov. Other News.

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Oil Refineries: A Deadly Industry

Union of Concerned Scientists

GHG Emissions by Sector Climate changes pollution and pollution changes climate Another reason to look at the global warming impacts of refineries from a health perspective is that there is an important link between global warming and local pollution.