Law Columbia

APRIL 26, 2021

In order to achieve the greenhouse gas reductions needed to sustain a livable climate, we must scale up renewable energy capacity at a rapid pace. The resource bank is part of the work of the Renewable Energy Legal Defense Initiative (RELDI). Read more about RELDI here and visit the resource bank here.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 21, 2025

Community solar would allow thousands of Pennsylvanians, like me in the Lehigh Valley, and across the Commonwealth who do not have the property to handle solar panels to receive the benefits of clean energy, said Rep. Peter Schweyer. Kate Harper (R) and Fmr Cong.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Earlier this year, the MPSC approved a settlement agreement on Consumers Energy’s integrated resource plan that commits the company to retire all its remaining coal-fired power plants by 2025, construct no new fossil gas infrastructure, and build large amounts of new solar power between now and 2040.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 3, 2022

The majority 6–3 decision sharply curtails the EPA’s authority to set standards based on a broad range of flexible options to cut carbon emissions from the power sector—options such as replacing polluting fossil fuels with cheap and widely available wind and solar power coupled with battery storage.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 19, 2023

It also makes offshore wind an important seasonal complement to the region’s abundant and growing solar power capacity. Power everywhere. And it will make it even more important when winter electricity demand increases because more households are using electric heat pumps. The US offshore wind map.

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Acoel

MAY 18, 2021

The state boasts cleaner water and air than many other states, significant and beautiful natural features, and progressive environmental laws. Yet Mainers are questioning whether to accept a new 145-mile electric transmission line that will bring hydropower from Quebec into the New England power grid, removing 3.0 and worldwide).

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Law Columbia

APRIL 11, 2025

Over the last five years, several states, including New York (2020), California (2022), Illinois (2023), and Michigan (2023) have adopted comprehensive permitting reforms that curtail the power of local governments to block development of large-scale renewable energy projects.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Specifically, it is important to understand that solar is not being sited in equal quantities on these three types of land, as farmland hosts far more solar projects (33%) than either grassland (6%) or forests (4%). For comparison, nearly 3% of solar power is currently sited in urban areas. [1].

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 4, 2022

By Sharon Pillar, Executive Director PA Solar Center The recently passed [federal] Inflation Reduction Act offers a number of incentives that make transitioning to solar power very attractive to homeowners, businesses, and other organizations. Click Here to sign up for regular updates.

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Law Columbia

MAY 31, 2023

Renewable energy projects have encountered significant opposition in at least 45 states. The report also describes, where applicable, state laws that preempt or curtail local restrictions. This report updates and considerably expands two previous Sabin Center reports, published in September 2021 and March 2022.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 26, 2024

The pipeline owner – Plains Midstream Canada ULC – later faced three charges under provincial law. I had to figure out how to bridge the silos that existed in our society – between the renewable energy sector, climate organizations, government policy-makers, project financers, utilities, labour, engineers – the list goes on.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 30, 2025

Renewables can close Africas energy access gap Closing the energy access gap is within reach. With the cost of renewable energy falling over the past decade, we are closer than ever. Governments will also play a significant role in scaling up off-grid renewable energy for remote areas.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 9, 2022

On June 30, 2022, the State of California joined the State of New York in adopting legislation that allows state authorities to bypass local laws in permitting large-scale renewable energy projects. Credit: New York Office of Renewable Energy Siting. Law § 94-c(2)(h). b)(1) (emphasis added); and. 94-c(4)(g).

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 23, 2023

All told, it will be $4 billion spent on a make-work project for power plant developers and the fossil fuel industry. The government knows that these plants will have to close in 2035 when federal climate laws come into effect. We must tell Ontario to take its foot off the gas and go with renewable energy instead.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 1, 2024

The CPRG planning process helped Chicago develop a GHG emissions reduction strategy aimed at increasing renewable energy supply through the installation of solar arrays at twenty percent of industrial manufacturing facilities in the MSA by 2030.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

By Kathy Cook, League of Women Voters of PA On May 25, 2021, a joint committee hearing on utility scale solar development was hosted by Pennsylvania’s Agriculture and Rural Affairs and Local Government Committees. Some counties in the PA Wilds have active proposals for solar fields going on old strip mine lands.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 7, 2024

Over the last 10 years, dozens of townships in Michigan have effectively halted renewable energy development by adopting severe zoning restrictions, such as moratoriums. But significant questions remain as to how the law will be implemented.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 27, 2021

The milking shed for her 80 dairy cows that can yield 1,100 litres of milk per day, along with the barn that houses 21,000 chickens at a time, will soon sit alongside a photovoltaic solar plant with 85 panels. of the country’s energy generation. The solar power plant is one more. MW to 791.32

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2023

Shapiro Provides Fresh Support To Key Changes Recommended In 2020 Grand Jury Report To Tighten Regulation Of The Natural Gas Drilling Industry To Better Protect Public Health, Environment Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Facility Malfunction Dec. 27 Released 1.1 27 Released 1.1

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 6, 2025

[Cold Weather, LNG Demand Push Prices Higher] [ PDF of Article ] -- WTAJ: 200,000+ PA Residents Could See 18% Increase In National Fuel Gas Natural Gas Bills In 2025 -- WFMJ: National Fuel Gas Customers Could See 17% Increase In Gas Costs Starting Aug. 1 -- Altoona Mirror: Peoples Gas Natural Gas Rates To Increase Jan.

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The Energy Law

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In response, the industry is seeing a varying degree of investments in renewable energy and commitments to climate-related goals. As companies make this transition into renewable energy, one sector picking up speed is wind energy. The wind energy sector is gaining global traction, as exemplified by U.K.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Last week the Sabin Center and the American Bar Association held an event on addressing landowner concerns in renewable energy siting. Wind and solar farms often spark siting battles between local residents who welcome renewable energy projects and their neighbors who are concerned about visual or other impacts.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Photo: Penn State University solar farm in Franklin County. ) (Reprinted from Penn State News.) Visit the fall 2022 EarthTalks webpage to learn more.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Over the next four years, the City Energy Strategy will integrate energy plans into planning and development review to evaluate energy systems decisions early in the planning process and improve long-term coordination between utilities, permit holders and developers.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2022

Last year, North Beaver Township passed an ordinance banning solar arrays on farms, so long as those solar arrays produce electricity that is transferred to the grid. This ordinance is in violation of the Pennsylvania Right to Farm Law , the Municipalities Planning Code and the Constitution of Pennsylvania , according to Herm Cvetan.

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E2 Law Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Watch the “Renewables Year-End Review: M&A, Tax Equity and Finance Markets” webinar presented by GT’s Global Co-Heads of Energy Project Finance Jeffrey Chester and John Eliason , co-hosted with CohnReznick Capital.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 10, 2023

11 Hearing On Bill To Expand Renewable Energy Mandates In Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards [PaEN] -- The Allegheny Front - Reid Frazier: What’s The Current State of Clean Energy Transition? -- Hydrogen Tax Credit Changes, Riparian Buffers, Light Pollution On House Environmental Committee Agenda For Dec.

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The Energy Law

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In response, the industry is seeing a varying degree of investments in renewable energy and commitments to climate-related goals. As companies make this transition into renewable energy, one sector picking up speed is wind energy. The wind energy sector is gaining global traction, as exemplified by U.K.

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Columbia Climate Law

AUGUST 6, 2015

Hillary Clinton’s climate change plan , released last week, centers on two goals: installing 500 million solar panels by 2021, and, relatedly, adding enough electric generation capacity from renewable sources to supply all residential electricity needs. The second component of Clinton’s plan is a “Clean Energy Challenge.”

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

How do higher natural gas prices impact The Energy Co-op’s renewable energy programs? Regardless of whether electricity is generated by wind turbines, solar panels, natural gas, nuclear, coal, or other sources, it is all delivered over the same grid. this year will be generated by renewable resources.

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 6, 2023

Accepting the ongoing hegemonic great power rivalry between the governments of the United States and China, this act is particularly significant for renewable energy because Camel Group, headquartered in Xiangyang City, is among the largest vehicle battery manufacturers in the world and the largest heavy commercial vehicle battery manufacturer.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 1, 2024

Opponents emphasized visual impacts (or, as they put it, “the inconsistency of the industrial solar facility with the rural character of the area”), as well as concerns about the loss of farmland. Notwithstanding this opposition, Oak Run also found significant local support. Smaller projects are permitted at the county level.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 25, 2016

As detailed in the RGGI investment plan , these funds are typically used to support energy efficiency and renewable energy programs in New York State. Most of the carbon allowances are auctioned and the proceeds of those auctions are typically used to promote energy conservation and renewable energy programs.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2023

On November 16, 2023, the Department of Energy (DOE) published a proposed rule to expedite the environmental review process for certain renewable energy infrastructure projects through the use of categorical exclusions.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2022

Enshrine our GHG reduction targets, and interim targets, into law, using a carbon budgeting process to ensure 2030 and 2050 targets are met. Restoring the powers of the Environment Commissioner of Ontario. A new, equitable, cap-and-trade system to replace the federal carbon backstop. Transition the electricity supply.

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E2 Law Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2021

20, 2021, the New York State Climate Action Council (Council) voted unanimously to approve the most recent draft of the scoping plan, a roadmap to achieve compliance with the state’s landmark climate law, the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA).

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 2, 2023

Opportunities to learn more about environmental and energy issues affecting Pennsylvania for students and adults-- -- Senate Overwhelmingly Confirms Richard Negrin As Secretary Of DEP [PaEN] -- Environmental Quality Board Meets July 11 To Consider Changes To Water Quality Standards; DEP Reports Law Limiting Its Authority To Change Conventional Oil (..)

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