Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The regulations aim to provide a legal framework for China’s carbon allowance trading market by strengthening requirements and designating responsibilities. The Regulations fill in the regulatory vacuum that has existed since 2021. By Hui Xu , Paul A. Read the Client Alert.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Geologic carbon sequestration—i.e., the storage of carbon dioxide in underground rock formations—has been the subject of much debate in recent years. It is also needed for some carbon dioxide removal (“CDR”) approaches, such as direct air capture, which pulls carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 15, 2024

One scope is the narrow carbon picture , the one that you’ll hear about most readily: what these approaches mean in terms of how much carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) comes out of a gas plant’s smokestack, or how much less a plant can be said to be emitting.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 15, 2023

The Sabin Center today published model federal legislation to advance safe and responsible ocean carbon dioxide removal (CDR) research in U.S. However, existing legal frameworks were not designed to regulate ocean CDR and, in some cases, unnecessarily or inappropriately restrict needed research. reach its climate goals.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 11, 2024

On July 11, the House-- by a vote of 127 to 75 -- and the Senate-- by a vote of 37 to 12 -- passed and sent to the Governor Senate Bill 831 (Yaw-R- Lycoming) establishing a framework for authorizing the geologic sequestration of carbon dioxide through injection wells. This practice could be widespread in a carbon-constrained world.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

These regulations (both state and federal) that UCS has advocated for have saved drivers money and reduced emissions. Burning gasoline in an automobile produces carbon dioxide, the primary cause of climate change. pounds of carbon dioxide emissions per gallon.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

The InfluenceMap dataset includes company-by-company data on emissions of carbon dioxide–the heat-trapping gas responsible for the largest contribution to climate change–and methane, a very potent heat-trapping gas that lasts a shorter time in the atmosphere.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 24, 2024

A new report published today by the Sabin Center examines the laws governing international transport of carbon dioxide for sequestration. We focus, specifically, on the shipping of carbon dioxide that was captured in Europe to the United States for sequestration there.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Our system of environmental regulation divides up regulation of a single substance based on each of its environmental impacts. We think of fossil fuels as a source of climate change, but that’s only a one part of the problem. Thus, the regulatory system sees the “trees,” not the “forest.” Fossil fuels are a case in point.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 23, 2025

Because plastics are produced from fossil fuels the lifecycle of plastics has a huge carbon dioxide footprint and is a driver of climate change. Microplastics have been found in almost every drinking water source in the United States, but there is no federal testing or regulation for this harmful substance.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

What’s most remarkable is that the decision calls for a 45% reduction of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions–of not only its own but also those of its customers–within less than a decade. In the face of disappointing legislation and regulation, activists have increasingly turned to courts in the last fifteen years.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2023

However, industry proponents positioned to capitalize on the proliferation of carbon capture and sequestration and the projects that depend on it are aggressively pursuing its development despite wide-ranging risks and diminishing returns,” said Sarah Carballo of FracTracker Alliance. The DEP has struggled with staffing for years.

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The Energy Law

MARCH 28, 2022

Both categories are regulated by the Office of Conservation within the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources. Enhanced Recovery: Use of carbon dioxide for enhanced hydrocarbon recovery requires the creation of a unit by the Commissioner of Conservation for the purpose of secondary or tertiary recovery under La.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 18, 2022

One option, a tax on carbon dioxide emissions, gets the most attention but seems politically impossible. The closest we’ve ever come to a carbon tax is a limited fee on methane emissions under the new IRA law. If a carbon tax were politically feasible, there would be a lot to be said in its favor.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 25, 2024

On June 25, the House Consumer Protection, Technology & Utilities Committee unanimously amended and reported out Senate Bill 831 (Yaw-R-Lycoming) establishing a framework for geologic sequestration of carbon dioxide. We are greatly appreciative of Chairman Matzie and Senator Yaw’s hard work on these changes.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 10, 2023

As a handy reference for litigators, regulators, investors, and all who are affected by climate change, below is an A to Z of fossil fuel industry denial, deception and delay tactics. However, a 2022 investigation by Global Witness found that the plant actually emits more carbon dioxide than it captures.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 31, 2024

With every spill, every fine for violating environmental rules, every increase in emissions, and every lobbying push for subsidies and looser environmental regulations, Edwards cements his place as a true master of fossil-fueled villainy. million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO₂e) , equivalent to 5.2

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is considering amendments to its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) regulation, but indicated they have no plans to address the problems caused by counter-productive subsidies for manure biomethane. Each credit one metric ton of carbon dioxide equivalent pollution below the standard.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 2, 2023

And in all likelihood, they are not breaking any current law or regulation. Launching weather balloons is a very lightly regulated activity, pursued by hobbyists and citizen scientists in many countries. Relevant FAA regulations here , FCC regulations here , with a clear summary from a citizen-science NGO here ).

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 3, 2024

On September 27, ADM notified EPA they would be temporarily pausing carbon dioxide inspections after discovering a potential brine fluid leak in their second monitoring well. Local officials found out about the leaks on September 13 based on news media reports. Read more here. Read more here. Click Here for a copy of the letter.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 24, 2023

Since 1940, almost all industrial ethylene oxide is produced in this energy intensive process that is a heavy emitter of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. In 1931, the process of making ethylene oxide from ethylene was developed from treating ethylene with extreme heat and pressure.

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Inside Climate News

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Steep reductions in emissions of methane—which traps 81 times as much heat as carbon dioxide in the first 20 years in the atmosphere—are among the most important steps for slowing climate change in the short term. By Phil McKenna The U.S. Combined, the new rules would reduce methane emissions from the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Power companies will therefore have to pay more for the fuel, but utilities are generally allowed by state regulators to pass those cost increases onto their customers in the form of higher electricity rates. Methane is more than 80 times as powerful at warming the planet over a 20-year time frame than carbon dioxide. .

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Environment, Law, and History

AUGUST 3, 2022

The abstract: In the late 1960s, New Zealand and the United States collaborated to establish a southern hemispheric carbon dioxide (CO2) monitoring station on New Zealand’s coastal cliffs. The New Zealand CO2 Project, as it came to be known, is an underappreciated landmark in the history of environmental monitoring.

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 29, 2024

After state regulators rebuffed several proposed carbon transport projects over the past year, lawmakers have moved to formally ban new projects until the federal government sets forth new safety rules. Read the full story from Capitol News Illinois.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The Sabin Center published a new report today recommending actions that federal agencies could take to ensure safe and responsible permitting and regulation of ocean carbon dioxide removal (CDR) research in U.S. A variety of ocean-based CDR approaches—i.e., Those activities could raise a host of legal issues. and the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 10, 2023

Burning gas and coal leads to carbon dioxide emissions and air pollutants. Carbon dioxide is the main cause of global warming overall. MARC FUTERNICK: To be successful in this fight to curb carbon emissions and reduce the worst impacts of climate change, we need all hands on deck.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The Sabin Center wrapped up Climate Week NYC last Friday with an event exploring the opportunities and challenges posed by ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR). Both the LC and LP require parties to adopt domestic laws to regulate the “dumping” of “waste and other matter” at sea. It is not hard to see why.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 26, 2021

Lucas appeared at the time to be the start of a sweeping constitutional attack on environmental and land use regulations. At the time, a regulation said all wetlands used by migratory water birds were under federal jurisdiction. EPA , the Obama Administration issued a series of regulations dealing with greenhouse gases.

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Legal Planet

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. And, most relevant here, §7411(d) then requires regulation of existing sources within the same category.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 25, 2023

How do biomethane, lifecycle carbon accounting, and the tax credit interact? Biogas is the direct product of anaerobic digestion, primarily comprised of a mixture of methane and carbon dioxide, plus much smaller amounts of other gases. If this perspective ever held water, it unequivocally now does not.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 21, 2023

A second company has formally asked state regulators for permission to move ahead with constructing a pipeline capable of transporting for permanent storage in Illinois the carbon dioxide captured from ethanol production. Wolf Carbon Solutions, the Canadian energy infrastructure entity with U.S.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 14, 2021

In the long run, warming will be determined by how much carbon we pump into the atmosphere before we stop. According to the IPCC, every trillion tons of carbon dioxide translates into another half degree of warming. In terms of emissions cuts, the basic rule is simple: Every ton counts.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 30, 2022

Supreme Court Decision Did Not Affect EPA’s Ability To Regulate Carbon Dioxide As A Pollutant, Has No Impact On DEP's RGGI Power Plant Carbon Pollution Reduction Program [PaEN] -- Evangelical Environmental Network: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly Of U.S. Related Articles: -- U.S.

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Clean Energy Law

JULY 8, 2021

The report also identifies the wide variety of ways by which the captured carbon dioxide can be converted into a product of commercial value, also known as carbon utilization. Addressing pollution in overburdened communities. Increasing support for CCUS research. Developing and enhancing incentives such as 45Q Tax Credits.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 30, 2023

The social cost of carbon is an estimate of the harm done by one additional ton of carbon dioxide. The earliest government estimate of the social cost of carbon was for 2010: $21/ton with a 3% discount rate and $35 at a 2.5% That would have been equivalent to eliminating all emissions for six months of Bush’s term.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 24, 2022

Methane pollution from manure lagoons at dairies and other confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs) is a big problem, and regulators in California have been using the LCFS as a mechanism to support the capture of this methane for use in the transportation sector.

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