Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

A district court has ruled that federal law does not preempt an indirect source rule that targets emissions associated with warehouses in Southern California. The summary judgment briefing is analyzed in detail in this Latham blog post.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MARCH 26, 2021

Speaker Brittany Kendrick started out with a powerful reminder about the devastating impact of the February 2021 winter storm in Texas – disrupting everyday life and uncovering systemic failure not only through the widely reported rolling blackouts, but through the collapse of the water supply system. Sign up now! Not yet a member?

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

The EA released the latest batch of Event Duration Monitorling (EDM) data on 31 March, offering a picture of untreated sewage discharges from monitored storm overflows and CSO s during 2021. It showed that raw sewage spilled from these points 372,533 times in 2021, for a total of 2.66 Up to date? Addressing the problem.

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Business Green

JANUARY 25, 2022

The OEP, designed to provide independent scrutiny and enforcement of the UK's environmental laws, became a legal entity when the Environment Act came into force last November. However, it was only yesterday that the parts of the Act which endow the OEP with legal powers and functions came into force.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2024

In a letter addressed to ING CEO Steven van Rijswijk and the first step in litigation, Milieudefensie says it believes the bank is in breach of its “duty of care” obligation under Dutch law. ING’s climate policy is miles away from what is necessary to achieve the 1.5°C That means big polluters like ING and Shell must also take responsibility.”

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Front And Centered

AUGUST 8, 2023

Although Washington State hasn’t experienced the extreme heat devastating other parts of the country this summer, anyone who lived through the heat dome that struck the Pacific Northwest in 2021 clearly remembers how bad it can get. For more about how we do policy and the outcomes of this session, check out this previous blog entry.)

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Energy and Cleantech Council

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Check out this recent blog post on the Maine Offshore Wind Roadmap. In October 2021, DOI Secretary Deb Haaland announced a national offshore wind leasing strategy for 2021-2025 , which includes a goal of holding a commercial lease sale the Gulf of Maine in 2024. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) of the U.S.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The final code (summarized by DOER here ) has been submitted to the Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities, and Energy for review as required under state law. The new codes are much too detailed to summarize in a blog post. Municipalities must opt-in to adopt the Specialized Code by vote of City Council or Town Meeting.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 1, 2021

Mon, 03/01/2021 - 01:30. 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? Jonathan Foley.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 28, 2021

Per the IEA’s World Energy Investment 2021 report, energy storage was already losing momentum at the beginning of the COVID?19 Given the strong momentum of the sector and the big pipeline of upcoming projects, the IEA predicts that this trend is set to continue in 2021. billion in Q1 2021, compared to USD 3.1

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 15, 2021

His retirement will become effective on December 31, 2021. Lew Milford founded CEG in 1998, after working over several years on clean energy and utility restructuring dockets in New England while with the Conservation Law Foundation.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The demand for sustainable agriculture could be on the rise especially because consumer purchases of plant-based food has increased 60% from 2019 to 2021. And in some cases, sustainable agriculture is even being mandated by law. The post The State of Sustainable Agriculture appeared first on The Environmental Blog.

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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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Introducing the Environment Bill into Parliament yesterday after a six-month hiatus, Environment Minister Rebecca Pow stressed that the landmark's legislation should become law "as soon as possible" so as to ensure that the government could continue to improve air, water, and nature after the Brexit transition period ends on January 1st.

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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. Subscriptions will be offered to low-income residents in the Summer of 2021. 25 percent of ISFA’s $12.16

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Planet Pulse

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

By Seamus Lombardo, Luisa Teixeira, Tara O’Shea Every quarter, we publish a blog post that highlights some of the amazing work of the NICFI Satellite Data Program’s community of users. These images show an abandoned mine covered in low vegetation ( Guyana REDD+ MRV Report, 2021 ).

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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. Following the public comment period, the Commission voted 3-2 on January 21, 2021 that the complaints should be counted under the QSP.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In 2021, the State of Maine submitted a research lease application to the U.S. His practice focuses on energy and climate law, including regulatory, environmental permitting and compliance, due diligence, and transactional matters. Josh is a regular contributor to the Law & The Environment and Energy Climate Counsel blogs.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Every business should now follow & government should make it law. OnePlasticFootprint My Blog ???? Other pledges announced yesterday include doubling the number of refillable and reusable packaging solutions available in stores by 2021, as well as boosting recyclable and recycled content in both own-label and branded packaging.

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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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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

DECEMBER 12, 2023

For more information on the consultation see this Latham blog post. signing of all the financing agreements) has been made prior to December 2021. Th announcement follows the final consultation paper that the Green Finance and Industry Taskforce released in February 2023.

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Defend Our Future

MAY 25, 2023

Neal sought the assistance of UNLV Film and the Boyd School of Law. Windsor Park: The Sinking Streets was released in September of 2021. who is a professor specializing in environmental law and who helped Sen. After conducting her own research, Sen. The film is how I came across the issue. Neal tell the story of Windsor Park.

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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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Green Business Bureau

JULY 8, 2022

With this in mind, check out the Green Business Burea’s blog article Sustainable Business Travel: How Companies Can Minimize the Environmental Impact of Corporate Travel. With this tip in mind, EcoWatch listed their seven best ecological cleaning products in their 2021 article 7 Best Eco-Friendly Cleaning Products of 2022.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

For example, the IMM protested at FERC the revised July 30th, 2021 PJM Minimum Offer Pricing Rule (MOPR) proposal. Due to the even split FERC Commissioners, this revised PJM MOPR became the law. On the SOO Green line, the IMM’s objections are in sync with PJM, an outlier.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

When the World Bank reported its accounts for the last financial year in July , it said it was looking to "rapidly increase" its climate financing in line with its World Bank Group Climate Change Action Plan (CCAP) for 2021-25.

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2021

“Investments are critical, but let’s not imagine that investing in and testing the technology is the same as actually using that technology toward climate goals,” said Simon Nicholson , co-director of the Institute for Carbon Removal Law and Policy at American University in Washington, D.C.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MAY 16, 2022

Recognizing the need to achieve GHG emissions reductions more quickly, in July 2021, Governor Gavin Newsom directed CARB to accelerate efforts to achieve the state’s climate stabilization and GHG reduction goals, including to “identify a pathway for achieving carbon neutrality a full decade earlier than the existing target of 2045.”

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In the 2021 legislative session, Berry sponsored a bill ( H.P In Maine, advocates can take proposed law straight to the voters through a ballot initiative. Berry became interested in consumer-owned utilities because, as he describes, they are the point at which energy, equity, and democracy meet.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2020

Michel conceded negotiations had been difficult, but was quick to hail the resulting recovery package - known as the Next Generation EU fund - and 2021-27 long-term budget agreement as a "pivotal moment in Europe's journey" that would "also launch us into the future". "In And most importantly, this is the right deal for Europe, right now.".

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021 Elsa Wenzel Mon, 01/11/2021 – 02:15 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. See the rest here: 20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021.

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2021

“Investments are critical, but let’s not imagine that investing in and testing the technology is the same as actually using that technology toward climate goals,” said Simon Nicholson , co-director of the Institute for Carbon Removal Law and Policy at American University in Washington, D.C.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 9, 2021

Our method, first filed in a resource plan in early 2021 for Minnesota-based Xcel Energy, showed that the utility could cost-effectively add nearly 2,000 megawatts more distributed solar than it plans to, saving customers billions of dollars.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 18, 2021

Fri, 06/18/2021 - 00:05. This essay originally appeared on the WeSpire blog and is republished with permission. President Joe Biden signed the bill into law Thursday.) . Susan Hunt Stevens. Editor's note: Since this article was first published, both chambers of the U.S. What is Juneteenth? years after it was issued.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 25, 2022

From 2021 to 2022, home and rent prices have spiked due to a widening gap between supply and demand, causing over 9 million homebuyers to be priced out of the housing market. You can read our other articles related to sustainable housing on our blog: How to Build and Retrofit a Sustainable Home.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2023

The Albanian government has moved relatively quickly to deliver on its 2021 election manifesto pledge to establish a new national park. Periods of drought and low rainfall have made unexpected blackouts an increasingly frequent occurrence across the country, with travel blogs on Albania littered with warnings about power cuts.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

250 million whose developers wanted to start construction in 2021, despite not having all of the needed permits entering the year. Fox Squirrel would be located in Ohio, which this summer enacted a law that will make it harder to develop solar and wind projects in the state, but the law won’t affect projects as far along as Fox Squirrel is.

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