Energy Policy Act Greenhouse Law 
Legal Planet
JUNE 27, 2024
In choosing the top environmental laws, I wanted to focus on those with the largest impacts on the environment, not just those that are most important to environmental lawyers or best known. I included all laws passed in the U.S., not just federal regulatory laws, and some of my selections may not be what you expected.
Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 20, 2024
The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean School Bus (CSB) Program was established by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to help communities reduce pollution from older, higher polluting school buses. Despite past investments, thousands of older polluting school buses remain on the road. Why not 100 percent?
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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. Critically, the Juliana case relied on federal law. The court’s 103-page decision in Held v. United States.
Legal Planet
MARCH 28, 2023
Modeling from Evolved Energy Research (where our panelist Jeremy Hargreaves is a principal) and Princeton University shows that reaching the IRA’s full potential for greenhouse-gas reductions will require transmission capacity to grow at a rate of about 2.3% per year—double last decade’s growth rate. appeared first on Legal Planet.
Law Columbia
DECEMBER 21, 2022
State law often provides that, in assessing the public interest, the regulator can consider “only the interests of in-state residents and businesses.” greenhouse gas emissions by 50 to 52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. That must change if the U.S.
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