Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

State of Montana, a Montana trial court ruled that the state Constitution’s guarantee of a healthy and clean environment prevails over Montana’s longstanding fossil-fuel-based state energy system. The Montana government defendants, in contrast, were unable to rebut the plaintiffs’ factual testimony in any meaningful way.

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Climate Change Government Fossil Fuels Energy Policy Act 184

The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Status of Wind Energy in the Gulf of Mexico. Interior’s authority to regulate offshore wind comes from the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which amended the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to expressly authorize Interior to issue leases for renewable energy projects in federal waters. 556.400; 30 C.F.R.

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Renewable Energy Law Regulations 2020 98

Legal Planet

MARCH 28, 2023

The ways in which the IIJA and IRA address the need for new transmission capacity will be the subject of the second panel in our symposium, Transmission Case Study: Remaking our Power Grid for Renewable Energy. Property and permits can be hard to come by, for many of the same reasons that renewable-generation projects face.

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Renewable Energy Electricity Clean Energy Energy Policy Act 130

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Last Thursday, December 15, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NOPR) seeking comments on proposed changes to its regulations governing the siting of interstate electric transmission lines. transportation and buildings) which will further increase the need for renewable generation.

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2005 Electricity Fossil Fuels Regulations 52