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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. The August 14th Held v.
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. 585.107(a).
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The Energy Law Blog
DECEMBER 6, 2021
The Infrastructure Investments and Jobs Act (the “Act”), which was passed into law on November 15, 2021, included key amendments to the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (“OCSLA”) that pave the way for carbon sequestration in offshore federal waters.
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. As a result, transmission development is a crucial consideration for large-scale renewables planning.
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.” will need to rapidly decarbonize its electricity generating system, replacing fossil fuel power plants with renewable energy systems. To get there, the U.S.
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