Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 20, 2025

As we electrify everything, from our cars to our home heating systems, we need electricity to come from sources that dont emit greenhouse gases. To deliver on this goal, the federal government made important investments in renewable energy projects. The Clean Electricity Regulations are an important part of Canadas climate plan.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 13, 2025

Aviation is a significant and growing source of greenhouse gas emissions. But the federal government in the United States has failed to address it so far. Opponents will undoubtedly argue that such state-based initiatives conflict with federal law.

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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

As of 2021, 30 emissions trading systems were in force globally, covering 16 – 17 % of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. California’s system uses revenues from auctioning allowances to fund its Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) and to limit cost increases to electricity users. Carbon markets are at a crossroads.

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Inside Climate News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

By Georgina Gustin Some of the country’s biggest food companies are making a small dent in their greenhouse gas emissions, but most are failing to make substantial and critical reductions, even as consumers and government regulators are pushing harder for them to do so.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 2, 2023

The prospect of climate interventions, particularly SAI, might offer large reductions in climate-change risks that are not possible through emissions cuts, adaptations, or atmospheric removals alone, but also raise serious new uncertainties, risks, and governance challenges. This may be on the cusp of changing, but it hasn’t yet.).

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 31, 2025

Most climate action today rightly focuses on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The Sabin Center has previously discussed the regulation of OAE here and here. A new Sabin Center report continues the conversation by focusing on the regulation of OAE in Washington State. Each law targets a specific environmental issue.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 10, 2025

Reversing this trend requires urgent action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions but that wont be sufficient by itself. A new Sabin Center report explores the laws governing seaweed cultivation and sinking for CDR in Alaska. Seaweed cultivation and sinking are regulated by a number of different laws at the state and federal levels.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 9, 2024

If governments bypass or undermine science and public comments in policy making, our health could be in jeopardy from increased pollution, cases of foodborne illnesses, politically-driven medicine approvals or disapprovals, and more. When facilities emit less pollution, their regulations require less specific record-keeping and monitoring.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

That’s because the case, which was about the nature and scope of EPA authority in regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants, turned on a rule that does not exist. Because while this decision does still recognize EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, it simultaneously sharply curtails the agency’s ability to do so.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Participants in this free one-hour webinar will learn about conventional orphaned well plugging, remediation, and restoration, with a focus on reducing methane and greenhouse gas emissions. The Penn State Extension will host a December 12 webinar on Carbon Reduction Credits In Oil and Gas Well Plugging from Noon to 1:00 p.m.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 1, 2024

But in trying to shape a regulation that would mollify opponents—largely industries responsible for the heat-trapping gases that cause climate change—the SEC failed to relieve investors of responsibility for determining how companies will fare in the clean energy transition.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Energy use accounts for the bulk of greenhouse gas emissions. The resulting government policies are forcing radical change on the energy system of a kind not seen in a century or more. At the center of traditional utility regulation was a system of price control intended to protect consumers from monopoly prices.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The scoping process has been key to California’s success in cutting greenhouse gas emissions. The process requires the government to assess past progress, project future emissions, and come up with a strategy to meet its climate goals. b) The range of projected air pollution reductions that result from the measure.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 2, 2024

Statement from Keith Brooks, Program Director Toronto | Traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabeg, the Haudenosaunee, and the Huron-Wendat – New data released today by the Government of Canada shows that Canada is finally starting to bend the curve when it comes to climate pollution.

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2023

County of Monterey –a major case involving the authority of California local governments to limit oil and gas development within their borders. County of Monterey case raises important and difficult questions for both the justices and the Executive Branch of California state government.

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Law and Environment

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Yesterday, Massachusetts Climate Chief Melissa Hoffer issued a report detailing how “to implement the Healey-Driscoll Administration’s whole-of-government approach to addressing the climate crisis.” Publish an annual report card on the Commonwealth’s progress to achieve mandated greenhouse gas emission reductions.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 26, 2021

The Supreme Court interpreted the statute to place an absolute priority on preserving endangered species, regardless of the impact on the economy or other government goals. In an opinion by Justice Stevens, the Court held that the threat of sea level rise gave a state government standing to bring the suit. This case is a century older.

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Legal Planet

JULY 17, 2023

No one really thought that Mendelsohn could win when he petitioned EPA to regulate greenhouse gases from new cars and trucks. In the end, however, they came on board, along with several state governments. The five students decided to take on a project about railroad rate regulation and recycling.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 14, 2023

The Government of Canada must deliver on their promise to cap and decrease emissions from the oil and gas industry through strong regulations to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for doing their fair share. This is thanks to fuel economy regulations and more electric vehicles on the roads. We need credible data.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The federal government is now supporting that role with federal funding for states. A key provision (IRA § 60114) appropriates $250 million to support emission reduction planning by state governments. I predict that we’ll see a wave of legislation and agency regulation at the state level, sparked by federal legislation.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 3, 2023

The Halton Hills Generating Station in Halton Hills, Ontario (Photo by Ian Willms) The “Clean Energy Advantage” In the budget, the government boasts about Ontario’s “clean energy advantage” even though it is actively whittling away at it. The current government acts like it’s somehow responsible for this feat.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

its district, appellate , and supreme courts decided in favor of Urgenda, an upstart environmental organization, ordering the government to more aggressively reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In the face of disappointing legislation and regulation, activists have increasingly turned to courts in the last fifteen years.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 26, 2023

This year, many on the far-right are attempting to rebrand Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investing as “woke capitalism.” In fact, the Board of Directors’ response states that “reducing Chevron’s absolute Scope 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is not in stockholders’ interests, nor should it be Chevron’s responsibility.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2023

ExxonMobil’s reduction pledges do not take Scope 3 emissions into account, and the company’s leadership takes issue with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol’s approach to measuring emissions, as described below. Studies show Scope 3 emissions account for roughly 85% of oil and gas emissions. 2023 will be a crucial juncture in a long, bumpy trip.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 25, 2024

Department of the Treasury is hosting a public hearing on the December 2023 proposed regulations governing implementation of the Section 45V Credit for Production of Clean Hydrogen. The proposed regulations clearly adhere to that framework, fully comporting with a plain reading of the text.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 27, 2023

Direct pay – which is already in effect as of January 1, 2023 – allows tax-exempt entities, including local governments, to claim the value of certain clean energy and other tax credits as a cash payment, rather than as an offset to tax liability that they do not have. Written comments are due on August 14, 2023.

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Clean Energy Law

MARCH 15, 2024

Regulated Entities Under the Guidelines, the top 180 companies listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange and the top 50 companies on its Science and Technology Innovation Board of the Shanghai Stock Exchange must publish SDRs annually, within four months of the end of their fiscal year.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 21, 2023

But while greenhouse gas emissions may be reduced, a delivery fulfilled by a diesel-burning truck may lead to increases in emissions of smog-forming nitrogen oxides and lung-damaging particulate matter. While the latter part of this conclusion is obvious, the former part isn’t as much. on routes between 250 and 450 miles.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

ExxonMobil cited IPAA’s lack of support for policies related to climate change or reducing carbon emissions, as well as its opposition to strong methane regulations, as reasons for ending its membership (IPAA was also classified as “misaligned” two years ago in the company’s inaugural lobbying report, but the company maintained its membership).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

During my more than two decades of federal service, I learned many things about the function of government. They are encouraged to do this by the federal government via the Justice40 mandate, but largely are allowed to decide how they will do their community outreach. Let’s slow down here on this point.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is considering amendments to its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) regulation, but indicated they have no plans to address the problems caused by counter-productive subsidies for manure biomethane. California’s LCFS is causing problems for other states and the federal government.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 22, 2021

On December 22, seven environmental groups, representing tens of thousands of Philadelphia residents, announced they issued a letter to Philadelphia City Council, Mayor Jim Kenney, and Controller Rebecca Rhynhart expressing concern over the efforts of Philadelphia Gas Works (PGW) to undercut the city’s ability to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 29, 2021

On July 29, the Ohio River Valley Institute released a new poll of Pennsylvania voters which found by wide margins they support tougher regulation of the natural gas drilling industry, community regulation of drilling and the development of clean energy sources.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 23, 2024

Two years after Prime Minister Trudeau first promised to limit and reduce Canada’s oil and gas emissions, the federal government finally released a regulatory framework at COP 28, in December 2023. The next step is the release of the draft regulations, by April 2024. The emissions cap regulation has already been delayed repeatedly.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

We called them out to the Competition Bureau , the agency responsible for regulating false advertising, and the Bureau is now investigating Pathways Alliance for misleading claims. Here’s the catch: there are three big flaws with the story they’re peddling: Fossil fuels are still the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

In December, the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service proposed regulations governing implementation of the 45V Clean Hydrogen Production Tax Credit , passed as part of 2022’s Inflation Reduction Act. Eligibility for 45V is premised on a facility’s lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions rate. Baseline counterfactuals.

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Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

They will be working alongside our faculty director (formerly faculty co-director) Ted Parson—an accomplished scholar of environmental governance—as well as me and my colleague Cara Horowitz, shaping the strategic direction of the Emmett Institute. Wang is a leading expert on environmental governance and the law and politics of China.

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