Legal Planet

AUGUST 9, 2023

One year on, we have a clearer picture of what we vaguely knew already: the biggest-ever climate law and its robust tax incentives is igniting the clean energy transition but is not moving us off fossil fuels fast enough. That’s a political question as we approach an election year and that’s where I’m going to start.

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JULY 3, 2022

The petitioners who brought this case include state-level political officials and coal companies who are single-mindedly determined to block climate action and perpetuate fossil fuel dependence to serve their narrow political or business interests. The West Virginia v. With this decision, the Court has instead hamstrung that authority.

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JANUARY 4, 2023

The state’s grid reliability is also inextricably linked to issues of improving energy affordability and achieving California’s ambitious clean energy goals. This is especially useful when dealing with transmission across state lines that can often face political and financial obstacles.

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Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

UCLA Professor of Law William Boyd. William Boyd is Professor of Law and Michael J. Klein Chair in Law at UCLA Law, with a joint appointment as Professor at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability ; Alex Wang is Professor of Law at UCLA Law. UCLA Professor of Law Alex Wang.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The electric utility sector needs to expand both the wires and energy supply to support the growth of data centers. These owners understood both the need for a supply of energy, and the value and reliability of clean energy. We just need to bring the political will. We have the ways and means to do that.

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APRIL 29, 2024

Climate policy has been boosted by dramatic changes in the economics of clean energy. Cheaper renewable energy attracts private investment and makes limits on fossil fuels more feasible. The resulting economic growth also helps create a stronger political base for aggressive expansion of clean energy.

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Law and Environment

JUNE 16, 2021

The post TCI Update: Final Model Rule Addresses EJ, but Political Will May Be Lacking first appeared on Law and the Environment. Industry and environmental advocates remain strongly in favor of these states’ participation, including in New York, which many consider a lynch-pin to the success of the endeavor.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 26, 2023

As my colleague Elliot Negin points out , “One of the anti-ESG Republicans’ main targets, BlackRock has nearly $260 billion invested in fossil fuel companies around the world, including $91 billion in Texas, the first state to enact an anti-fossil fuel industry divestment law.”

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In the Nile River basin last week, a political power shift in Sudan could turn up the heat on a long-simmering dispute over a major dam in the region. The text that would be added to the state Bill of Rights reads: “Each person shall have a right to clean air and water, and a healthful environment.”. Dernbach told Circle of Blue.

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JULY 15, 2021

The delays were apparently due to gaps in emissions data along with political maneuvering. The system is designed to reduce carbon intensity, the amount of emissions per unit of energy. Democrats seem serious about trying to include a clean energy standard in a reconciliation bill. Download as PDF.

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Scientific American

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The outcomes of state elections this week may mean more natural gas plants in Texas, greater use of climate law funds in Kentucky and the continuation of the status quo in Maine and Mississippi

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JANUARY 4, 2023

The law was the product of a collaboration between the City of LA and LA community organizations, led by the City’s Climate Emergency Mobilization Office (CEMO) and the RePower LA and LEAP LA coalitions. Just as important is the process that led to the new-buildings ordinance. And getting buildings to use electric appliances isn’t enough.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Although its track record has some complexities, this timeline of German actions shows just its early and sustained attention to clean energy policy: 1990. Climate law makes emission targets legally binding 2019. German parliament adopts a law to end coal use by 2038 at the latest. trillion tons.]

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OCTOBER 4, 2023

the Foraker Act , the Jones-Shafroth Act , the Jones Act , the Federal Relations Act , the PROMESA law) and judicial decisions (e.g., billion, continues to prompt austerity cuts in social and other public services mandated by the fiscal oversight board appointed through the PROMESA law. SCOTUS’ Puerto Rico v.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

And yet, one of the largest threats to California’s clean transportation leadership in recent history has materialized right under our noses — and it’s coming from our own legislature. Our elected leaders understand that California’s transition to a clean energy future is essential both for the health of our residents and our economy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

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. EIA has a tough time coming to these projections as it’s difficult to predict the events that cause changes to energy markets.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- -- Gov. Shapiro -- Spotlight PA: Gov. Of Revenue Reports August State Revenue $27.1 Million Below Estimates; Year-To-Date $27.2 Million Below Estimates -- Independent Fiscal Office Reports August Tax Tax Collections $8.7 Million Above IFO Estimates; Year-To-Date $65.4

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Next Steps Once the directive is adopted by the Council and Parliament and published in the EU Official Journal, Member States will have 24 months to transpose it into national law. Latham & Watkins will continue to monitor developments in this area.

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JANUARY 17, 2022

Initiatives can be used to make the will of the people law on issues that elected officials are unwilling to address,” said Sen. The ballot initiative process would propose a new law or constitutional amendments by petitions signed by five percent of the registered voters casting votes for Governor in not less than 45 counties.

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Legal Planet

JULY 28, 2022

The big news today is the deal with Manchin to provide billions of dollars of funding for clean energy. At other end of the country and the political spectrum, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill providing $640 billion to fund coastal resilience efforts. billion for forest and wildfire resilience; $5.2

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Harmful algal blooms are the biological consequence of a riptide of bloom-generating nutrients allowed by law and timid regulation to run off the land, particularly farm fields. Clean Water Act, a pivotal piece of American environmental law. The 1972 Clean Water Act essentially immunized “nonpoint” discharges from oversight.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Governmental agencies and utilities involved in the energy sector can pair an energy justice framework with meaningful community engagement to assess their actions and decisions and realize the benefits of energy equity for their constituents.

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APRIL 20, 2023

This is despite the clean energy progress the power sector has experienced to date—and despite the groundwork laid for more progress from leading states, as well as the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). And more gas is slated to come. Despite the concerningly broad implications of the West Virginia v.

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JULY 11, 2022

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. A just transition to a clean-energy economy is the priority and solution.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 17, 2022

This requires accelerating the energy transition to clean and renewable sources in a way that is equitable. An equitable energy transition must expand access to clean energy technologies and expand decision-making to include environmental justice and communities that rely on fossil fuels while phasing out coal and gas plants.

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Legal Planet

JULY 10, 2024

Proposition 4 would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $10 billion pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance a variety of projects combating climate change, increasing resiliency, and supporting climate solutions. Some of the notable investments include: $3.8 billion for wildfire and forest programs, and $1.2

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OCTOBER 10, 2022

Implementation of these new laws will be the true test of that statement, but they provide an exciting starting point. Prior to this new law, the state was required by law to ensure that statewide greenhouse gas emissions be reduced to at least 40% below the 1990 level by 2030. Climate Change Mitigation.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Of Energy Awards DEP $16.2 Million To Support Local Electric Grid Modernization Projects; Total Of $474 Million Awarded To States, Tribes -- DEP Eligible For $1.7 Ohio- $2.84 Ohio- $2.84 Scott Perry] -- York Dispatch: Republican Con.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2022

To help voters determine which candidates would deliver the needed course correction, Environmental Defence and its allies in the Ontario Priorities Working Group asked each of the province’s major political parties whether – and how – they would deliver the rapid emissions reductions Ontario will need to head off climate catastrophe. .

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Legal Planet

JULY 18, 2023

Just last week, Governor Newsom signed an amended version of this package into law, with the CEQA bills passing through largely untouched. As such, cases subject to 270-day judicial streamlining are often not resolved within the allotted time period, even though all CEQA cases already receive calendar preference under existing law.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 24, 2023

That’s why 20 appellate judges, 13 federal district judges, and the Department of Justice have all weighed in to reject these arguments from the fossil fuel industry, recognizing that the cases cite state law violations and are not about addressing global climate change, as the industry has tried to argue. But the tide is turning.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

This post was originally published on the Law and Political Economy blog as part of a symposium on inflation. Energy prices have been much in the news over the past several months, occupying a prominent place in mainstream discussions of inflation. How then do we explain what is currently happening with energy prices?

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 8, 2025

Approves Solar Energy Facility In Blair County -- WHYY - Sophia Schmidt: New Federal Clean Energy Rebates In Limbo For Residents Of PA, DE, NJ -- Reminder: Center For Agricultural Conservation Assistance Training Hosts Jan.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

have long demonstrated leadership on climate change, with more than 170 of them having set targets to phase out fossil energy and many others committing to net zero greenhouse gas emissions. A new Sabin Center report, Cities Climate Law: A Legal Framework for Local Action in the U.S. , Cities around the U.S.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

The corporate insurgents were seeking a sharp shift in corporate strategy, embracing clean energy rather than defining itself in terms of fossil fuels. The move was supported by major institutional investors, including BlackRock and Vanguard.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2024

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

Joseph Otis Minott - Lifetime Achievement Award PennFuture honored Joseph Otis Minott, an environmental law leader, with the Lifetime Achievement Award for his decades-long career fighting for the environment and public health in Pennsylvania. Mr. Minott holds two degrees in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D.

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