Law and Environment

JUNE 16, 2021

On June 10, 2021, the Transportation Climate Initiative Program (TCI-P) states released a final model rule creating a regional cap-and-trade-program to reduce carbon emissions from the transportation sector. We wrote about the draft model rule and its implementation challenges when it was released at the beginning of March.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The Federal Cabinet adopts its first climate target, a 25-30% cut in carbon emissions by 2005 under 1987 levels. Note: the estimates of 1990 emissions that I found are not entirely consistent, with one estimate closer to 1.2 Climate law makes emission targets legally binding 2019. trillion tons.]

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Nuclear Power Renewable Energy 2030 Carbon Emissions 203

Legal Planet

AUGUST 26, 2021

This gave EPA the power to impose limits on carbon emissions by vehicles and industry. 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.

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Clean Air Act Endangered Species Act Regulations Carbon Emissions 246

Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

Emissions trading systems are often launched with relatively lenient design features, typically justified as giving the system a chance to “learn-by-doing” and to gain political buy-in for approval of a program. Yet it can be difficult to make emission trading systems more environmentally ambitious after program launch.

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Government Politics Climate Change Paris Agreement 241

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 22, 2022

Minnesota’s current goal is to reduce statewide carbon emissions 30 percent by 2025 compared to 2005 levels and 80 percent by 2050. The Minnesota House has proposed legislation to update the state’s target for reducing heat-trapping emissions to achieve “net zero” emissions by 2050 and reach 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2040.

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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

Is this as opposed to a political purpose on the part of the managers? because the company engages in the exploration, production, utilization, transportation, sale, or manufacturing of fossil fuel based energy. ” Suppose instead that the company refuses to do business with firms with high carbon emissions. “.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 3, 2024

One of those ways could be summed up by saying “Carbon is Forever.” So today’s carbon emissions will still be warming the planet far into in the future. Forever is only a bit of an overstatement: NASA says CO2 stays in the atmosphere three hundred to a thousand years. This fact makes delays in climate policy really costly.

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Climate Change Atmosphere Carbon Emissions Politics 246

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Last week, the Federal Highway Administration finalized an important regulation–the greenhouse gas performance measure. Declining targets: State departments of transportation and metropolitan planning organizations are required to set carbon emission targets but figure out for themselves how they go about it.

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Greenhouse 2012 Carbon Emissions Law 325

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

CO 2 emissions remain mostly level through 2050—nowhere close to meeting US climate goals. Carbon emissions remain high. It’s widely viewed as the “gold standard” for energy projections, even though there’s much debate in the energy community about the validity of the assumptions behind these projections.

Natural Gas 290

Natural Gas Renewable Energy Climate Change Electricity 290

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

However, the bill’s definition of what constitutes clean energy includes nuclear power (which doesn’t emit carbon but isn’t “clean”) and fossil gas power plants that capture and store at least 90 percent of their carbon emissions.

Clean Energy 279

Clean Energy Fossil Fuels Renewable Energy Nuclear Power 279

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 16, 2024

This needs some thought, as both the laws of physics and the principles of supply and demand will apply, even if legislatures and regulators have not yet spoken about allocating costs and resources related to data center energy demands. We just need to bring the political will. We have the ways and means to do that.

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Electricity Clean Energy Nuclear Power Renewable Energy 290

Legal Planet

MARCH 30, 2023

Carbon emissions stayed about constant under Bush, with an average around 5.6 It took the Obama Administration time to gear up its regulatory efforts, so the Bush policies were in effect for part of his Administration — emissions that should really be assigned to Bush rather than Obama. billion tons per year.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 14, 2021

My point is this: No matter how many battles we end up losing in the fight to stop carbon emissions, we can never afford to give up. It’s not hard to see why some people despair about the climate. The Paris Agreement’s goal is to keep global warming well below 2°C, preferably to 1.5° C, over pre-industrial levels.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 11, 2022

We are at a game-changing moment for all of humanity, as climate science tells us exactly where we’re headed if we don’t reduce carbon emissions urgently. These communities contain the expertise, resilience, and knowledge that are necessary to plot the way forward—along with the political power necessary to win on issues of policy.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Across the country, these anxieties are gradually translating into political momentum. Recreational fishermen are a demographic that leans politically conservative, and the issue has begun changing minds about climate change. David McCool, the master angler, hopes that state officials will go farther and begin put regulations in force.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The issue has begun changing minds about climate change among recreational fishermen, a demographic that leans politically conservative. Across the country, these anxieties are gradually translating into political momentum. McCool, the angler, hopes that the DNR will begin to enforce these regulations.

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Climate Change Conservation Politics Natural Resources 306

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Most land-use regulation in the United States is done by local governments: cities, counties, towns, villages. In California, much of the legislation intended to increase housing production has sought to strip away or limit local control over land-use regulation.

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Government Regulations Carbon Emissions Politics 130

Legal Planet

MARCH 6, 2023

But with the recent influx of government incentives for hydrogen production, new and improving production and storage technologies, and greater political will than ever before, H 2 ’s reputation is gaining favor. Because of this, a 30% hydrogen mix by volume delivers only a 10% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions.

Natural Gas 147

Natural Gas Fossil Fuels Carbon Emissions Carbon Dioxide 147

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

Gas prices: Without a cap, the flood of bio-based diesel into California will continue, requiring a rapid increase in stringency to stabilize LCFS credit markets, sending 2030 stringency from the 30 percent proposed in the regulation to 34.5 The lower stringency results in lower costs and reduced economic impact of the regulation.

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Biofuels Deforestation 2030 Fossil Fuels 352

Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 12, 2024

The outcome for climate policy in Canada is that regulations have been diluted with loopholes or have been moving at a snail’s pace to the finish line. And we’ve seen the government prioritize and pour taxpayer dollars into the oil industry’s carbon capture pipe-dream instead of cost-effective and readily available climate solutions.”

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Fossil Fuels Natural Resources Climate Change Government 145

Legal Planet

AUGUST 23, 2022

As I noted in an earlier post , it is projected to cut carbon emissions by roughly a billion tons a year by 2030, while eliminating 4-6 billion tons while ramping up. To see the full context, you have to keep in mind the efforts that EPA and states are already making to cut carbon emissions through regulation.

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Carbon Emissions Clean Energy Regulations Law 264

Enviromental Defense

MARCH 2, 2022

Other companies and sectors–electricity, heavy industry, and light manufacturing in particular–have reduced their carbon emissions as those from oil and gas companies have gone up and up and up. The cap should include all carbon emissions from oil and gas production and use.

Carbon Emissions 98

Carbon Emissions Fossil Fuels Climate Change Climate Scientist 98

Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

This is not a surprise, particularly after Governor Lamont’s statement that there is no political support for TCI in Connecticut. It is difficult to implement a region-wide program to reduce carbon emissions from transportation fuels when only one state in the region is prepared to do so. .

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Sea Level Carbon Emissions Politics Law 100

Circle of Blue

MAY 31, 2022

Minnesota moves to regulate pipelines transporting liquid carbon dioxide. Minnesota Moves to Regulate Liquid Carbon Dioxide Pipelines. Minnesota utility regulators decided that pipelines carrying pressurized carbon dioxide are considered hazardous, and therefore require state approval, according to MPR News.

Electricity 130

Electricity Carbon Dioxide 2022 2020 130

PA Environment Daily

MAY 18, 2023

Forest Service Sign MOU Enhancing Long-Term Partnership [PaEN] -- PennDOT, DCNR, York County Officials Encourage Bicycle Safety, Discuss Benefits Of Biking -- Fish & Boat Commission Gives Final Approval To License Fee Changes -- Post-Gazette - John Hayes: Fee To Fish In PA Will Increase In 2024 -- Warren Times: Audubon Nature Center Student Investigators (..)

Natural Gas 106

Natural Gas Politics Carbon Emissions Electricity 106

Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 7, 2021

On hazardous spills , the Auditor General found that the government just isn’t putting in place sufficient regulations to reduce the main sources of hazardous spills, such as natural gas pipelines and fuel tanks, but that it is also failing even to enforce the regulations that do exist.

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Government Carbon Emissions Climate Change Environmental Protection 98

Frontiers

APRIL 24, 2023

Keeping with the topic of climate change, one part of the inequality is evident and it’s the discussion about carbon debt. There’s one estimate that says that 80% of the carbon emissions between 1850 and 2011 (more than one and a half centuries) were caused by rich countries who made up 14% of the global population.

Carbon Emissions 105

Carbon Emissions Climate Change Fossil Fuels Technology 105

Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 24, 2025

Backed by the powerful corn lobby, Marquis Energys push to bury carbon emissions underground has sparked a fierce debate in Illinois politics. The ethanol plant is banking on carbon capture technology to secure federal tax credits. Read the full story from Investigate Midwest.

Carbon Emissions 40

Carbon Emissions Regulations Politics Technology 40

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 8, 2023

From Baseline; Savings Of $59.7 From Baseline; Savings Of $59.7 Billion In PJM Interconnection Winter Storm Elliot Nonperformance Penalties [Primarily Natural Gas-Fired Generation] -- TribLive: Claims For Property Damage Caused By Cheswick Coal-Fired Power Plant Smokestack Implosion Due Friday Evening -- WKBN: PA U.S.

Natural Gas 108

Natural Gas Carbon Emissions Politics Renewable Energy 108

Environmental Progress

JUNE 29, 2020

a lifelong progressive Democrat and environmentalist who testified in favor of carbon regulations. In the final three chapters of Apocalypse Never I expose the financial, political, and ideological motivations. Why did they do that? Because his research proves natural disasters aren’t getting worse.

Climate Change 145

Climate Change Fossil Fuels Deforestation Carbon Emissions 145

PA Environment Daily

MAY 25, 2023

‘Open Mic Night’ [PaEN] -- Warren Times Editorial: Keeping A Natural Lifeline Pure With Environmental Rights Amendment - Environmental Quality A Right Not A Luxury [The Heart Of The Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Industry] [PaEN] -- Observer-Reporter Editorial: Court Drills Down On Environment - Environmental Quality A Right Not A Luxury [The (..)

Natural Gas 109

Natural Gas Air Pollution Carbon Dioxide Politics 109

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 15, 2023

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Natural Gas 104

Natural Gas Climate Change Renewable Energy Fossil Fuels 104

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 27, 2023

Shapiro: Senate Confirms Nominees For Education, Insurance, Office Of State Fire Commissioner -- PA Capital-Star: PA Senate Committee Shapiro’s Pick For Election Chief -- Gov.

Natural Gas 103

Natural Gas 2023 Solar Power Politics 103

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2022

This is partisan politics! Let’s get back to reducing our carbon emissions by joining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) and by reducing our energy dependence on foreign nations.

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Carbon Emissions Fossil Fuels Renewable Energy Natural Gas 54

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 11, 2024

It’s Illegal And A Really Bad Idea PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- AP: PA Senate Passes Bill To Outlaw The Distribution Of Deepfake Material -- TribLive: Sen. Of Environmental Professionals Annual Conference Sept. Of Environmental Professionals Annual Conference Sept.

Nuclear Power 108

Nuclear Power Radiation Carbon Emissions Natural Resources 108

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The Philippines Commission on Human Rights published report on Carbon Majors’ responsibility for climate change. The strategy required the UK Government to set and meet legally binding targets to reduce carbon emissions. The ruling clarifies requirements for standing under primary EU law to challenge a Commission regulation.

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2022 Carbon Dioxide Climate Change Law 132

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Flynn Wants Reform To Prevent Uncollected Turnpike Tolls -- PG: PA Cong.

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Carbon Emissions Politics Clean Energy 2021 62