GreenBiz

JULY 2, 2020

Thu, 07/02/2020 - 01:15. For Shalanda Baker, a professor of law and public policy at Northeastern University, thinking about a clean energy future means thinking about the daily, weekly and sometimes invisible ways that people in deprived communities can control their power supply. Alec Appelbaum.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MAY 2, 2024

Circuit overturned the exemption for legacy ponds, as described in this Latham blog post. EPA finalized alternative closure provisions, which EPA had initially proposed in March 2020, that would allow a CCR unit to conduct a two-stage closure by removal. However, a 2018 ruling of the US Court of Appeals for the D.C.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 28, 2021

The 2020 crisis was expected to compound these effects, owing to battery manufacturers’ particularly complex and cross-border supply chains from cells, to modules, to packs and installers. However, the IEA reported that despite the pandemic, investment in battery storage surged by almost 40% year-over-year in 2020, to USD 5.5

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

million hours, a slight decrease on 2020, a decline attributed to the drier weather during that year. Annual publication of this data is a requirement of the Environment Act – which passed into law in November 2021. ” Even recent press releases from the government acknowledge this provenance, as the blog noted.

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Defend Our Future

MARCH 20, 2024

Food insecurity According to a study from the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health , one in four young adults in 2020 faced food insecurity, with Gen Z adults being twice as likely. Congress is currently re-authorizing the Farm Bill – a once-every-five-year law that sets the path for the U.S.’s

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This blog post summarizes the latest developments in Class VI primacy, focusing on Louisiana’s experience, and the broader legal and commercial implications on liability transfers and environmental attributes. This blog was prepared with the assistance of Gina Kwon. 2, 2024). [2] 2] Memorandum from Michael S.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 1, 2021

This article originally appeared on the author's personal blog, and was written in that capacity. A useful way to think about the effort and timescales required is to consider the " Carbon Law ," which was coined by my friend Johan Rockström. So, what does the Carbon Law say? The Carbon Law outlines a possible path forward.

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The Environmental Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

According to the Central government’s Uranium report 2019-2020 , the figures with respect to Punjab are as follows: No.of Master Plan for Artificial Recharge of Groundwater, 2020 has been prepared by CGWB in consultation with state governments, wherein to harness the 185 Billion Cubic Metre (BCM) of water available, the creation of about 1.42

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

In this blog post, we provide an update on the regulatory case and its outcomes, and the significance of this decision in the context of clean energy interconnection challenges across the country. The Federal Tax Credit reduced from 30% in 2019 to 26% in 2020,” Allen went on to explain. View the original post here. About the Author.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The government's U-turn comes just a day after the Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs published a 1,200-word blog post defending its decision to vote against stricter legal controls on water companies when it came to sewage discharges.

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The Environmental Blog

JUNE 24, 2020

Unfortunately, our battle with these storms is far from over — meteorologists are already warning us to beware of an active hurricane season in 2020. Due to the laws of physics, hot air rises higher into the atmosphere while cold air sinks. Does it ever feel to you like hurricanes have gotten worse over the past few decades?

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

Water firms will be spending around £4 billion between 2020 and 2025 on relevant improvements, he said, whereas agriculture has to contend with only millions. Commenting on its blog, the WASP group said: “This could be game changing if it is not just hot air”. No more marking of own homework?

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 26, 2021

The Constellation Prize was new to me (and most everyone) in 2020 when I got word of the nomination for some work that I had been involved in with the New York State Capitol, also known as the “Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza” in Albany. See the New York Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act CLCPA.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Every business should now follow & government should make it law. OnePlasticFootprint My Blog ???? — Richard Walker (@icelandrichard) September 16, 2020. Today we've disclosed our full plastic footprint - it's horrific. As we say in business: "You can't manage what you can't measure". It's time to be honest.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Josh Mandelbaum, Senior Attorney at the Environmental Law & Policy Center, was elected to Des Moines City Council in 2017. Mandelbaum describes how he has already seen climate change impacts during his term on the council: flash flooding in 2018, a derecho storm in 2020 , and a severe drought in 2021.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 5, 2021

Illinois estimates that 1,000,000 RECs will be delivered annually by the end of the 2020-2021 delivery year, demonstrating ILSR’s third principle of a good program, increasing renewables. The purpose of blocks is to establish a progression of price levels based on the response of the market. 25 percent of ISFA’s $12.16

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Defend Our Future

MAY 18, 2021

With hate crimes against Asian Americans on the rise, the increase in voter suppression laws, and the threat of climate change warming impacting our livelihoods, we must speak out and speak loudly. Kyla Navarro was a Defend Our Future campus ambassador at New Mexico State University from 2020-2021.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

FERC approved SOO Green’s application for negotiated rates on July 23rd, 2020. Due to the even split FERC Commissioners, this revised PJM MOPR became the law. FERC Docket # ER20-1665. For example, the IMM protested at FERC the revised July 30th, 2021 PJM Minimum Offer Pricing Rule (MOPR) proposal.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MAY 16, 2022

Originally, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 required CARB to develop a scoping plan, to be updated every five years, that describes the approach California will take to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. Endnotes. [1] 1] Draft Scoping Plan Update, p.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Throughout 2020 Latham lawyers reviewed each of the 34 California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) appellate cases, whether published or unpublished. Latham’s webcast discussing this publication and the key CEQA cases and trends of 2020 is available here. Other key cases from 2020 include: Save the Agoura Cornell Knoll v.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 25, 2021

By 2020, over 95% did. We have high-tech software companies, large manufacturers, retailers and insurance companies as well as small businesses like restaurants, law firms, bed & breakfast inns, commercial cleaners, and dry cleaners. In 2013, only 15% of the S&P 500 companies reported ESG (Environment, Social.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Versant Power, formerly Emera Maine, was purchased by Enmax in 2020. In Maine, advocates can take proposed law straight to the voters through a ballot initiative. Berry believes these utilities are failing Maine because their decisions are made overseas. Enmax is a Canadian corporation. Putting Consumer Ownership On the Ballot.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

Starting on January 7, many companies pulled their donations from all politicians, or just the ones who voted to overturn the election of 2020. A few months later, corporate giants also spoke out against state laws meant to restrict voting. Subscribe to get Andrew’s articles through his blog. Follow Andrew on Twitter.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

OCTOBER 9, 2020

It is interesting that you opted for Law school vs Business school for your advanced degree. Law school is safe and stable. . I watched the legal process in the court system and realized learning the law would be an opportunity to avoid prison and that particular lifestyle. Pepperdine for Law School. Why Pepperdine?

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Low Impact

APRIL 18, 2021

But no laws were being broken, so we ended up doing an international petition, and eventually the public prosecutor said that there was no Kenyan law that we were breaking. Then in 2020, we’d been using third-party APIs to connect to the blockchain. I blog at grassecon.org. We can create our own abundance.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 9, 2021

In Minnesota, helpfully, Xcel Energy is required by state law and public regulators to file an annual value of solar calculation. The 2020 value of solar was just over 11 cents per kilowatt-hour, about the same as the utility’s retail electricity price, suggesting distributed solar is essentially net zero cost.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. Many celebrated with their CSOs on meeting ambitious corporate targets for 2020, while setting audacious new goals for 2025, 2030 and 2050. Elsa Wenzel. Company profile.

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Front And Centered

JUNE 20, 2020

In this blog post, we are excited to release a draft of the initial recommendations being considered. The Task Force aims to deliver proposals that reshape the way the state government plans, develops policy, distributes funding, and enforces laws. What do you think? Thank you for staying engaged, and stay tuned for more updates!

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

These lawful constructs are put in place to serve and protect the world at large and public concerns over environmental and social wellbeing are on the rise. In a 2020 Yougov survey , the environment was ranked as the fourth most pressing issue facing the U.K., Competition Law and Sustainability Agreements.

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Fairsnape

MARCH 11, 2021

As is customary at each year end, reviews of the previous year dominate, and of 2020 the most worrying and sobering was the Guardians Floods Storm and Searing heat 2020 in extreme weather. A blog post from Rozall Telbis (Medium [link] ) caught my eye with the title of Sustainability is Dead. Wildlife Trusts: [link] ).

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MARCH 11, 2021

See Latham’s blog post TCI Proposes to Reduce Carbon Emissions From Transportation in the Northeast.) See Latham’s blog post TCI Releases Framework for Draft Policy to Reduce GHG Emissions From Transportation.). The authors would like to thank Brittany Davis and Sabrina Singh for their contributions to this blog post.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This blog post summarizes key actions taken by state and federal officials in 2023 with respect to California’s water supply and provides an outlook for 2024. The regulations are expected to be finalized by the Office of Administrative Law in 2024, following which, systems will be able to submit project applications to the SWRCB for review.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 1, 2021

In stopping climate change, time is as important as tech Jonathan Foley Mon, 03/01/2021 – 01:30 This article originally appeared on the author’s personal blog, and was written in that capacity. Despite the name, this isn’t a physical “law” of the universe but rather a set of recommendations. That’s it.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

This blog explores the beauty of hydrogen and why we should not put it into our cars - of any size. As of December 2020, there were 31,225 hydrogen-powered passenger vehicles on the world's roads. If they manage to realize their plans as communicated in their 2020 battery day, they will not only conquer the electric car market.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

In its October 2020 application to the Ohio Power Siting Board for a certificate of environmental compatibility and public need for Fox Squirrel, Geenex said it expected commercial operation of the project to begin no later than the fourth quarter of 2023. million, was part of a pipeline of up to 4.5

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38 North Solutions

JULY 30, 2022

The House of Representatives and Senate worked on their own climate proposals throughout 2020 and 2021, independent of one another. Should this bill become law, from 2022-2024, these credits are extended and restored to their full value. Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 . Part 1 (First 3 years or 2022-2024). 13101/ SEC.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 31, 2020

In September, we published a list of the top 10 utility regulation trends of 2020, so far. With a tumultuous 2020 largely in the rearview mirror, we now look back on the 10 trends that defined the utility regulatory arena this year. COVID-19 has fundamentally altered the outlook for many economic sectors in 2020 and beyond.

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