GreenTechMedia

APRIL 3, 2020

The Gemini Solar Project, a 690-megawatt array Arevia Power is developing in Nevada, needs a Bureau of Land Management permit pertaining to its impact on historic sites, according to reporting from Reuters. A contender for the largest solar plant in the U.S. When built, Gemini is expected to rank as the largest solar project in the U.S.,

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 17, 2020

Under a landmark 2011 state law, ComEd has spent $2.6 But the same law allows the utility to file its capital plans under formula rate updates which give the Illinois Commerce Commission little power to alter them, beyond reviewing spending after the fact for impropriety or waste. ComEd is also struggling to justify its $9.53

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 30, 2021

Your roof is too small, you rent and do not own, you do not have disposable cash for a down payment on a solar array—the reasons are many, but community solar helps solve these problems. There is no reason solar power should be restricted to people who have the roof space and upfront cash to build an array at their home.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 10, 2020

The opinion marks what’s likely to be the final chapter in a long-running battle between FERC and energy storage and distributed energy advocates on one hand, and utilities and state regulators on the other, Jennifer Key, a partner of the Steptoe & Johnson law firm in Washington D.C., said in a Friday interview.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The cost of buying power to cover the costs of an on-site solar, battery and generator array would be much higher than the cost of electricity service from an existing power line, he noted. Then you can think about how many customers are on that line, and do some kind of cost-benefit analysis.”

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2021

The new rules are expected to pass into law in the spring of 2021, and likely to begin to be applied to new building plans starting in the spring of 2022. That might encourage homebuilders to go beyond the minimum required sizes and build more valuable-sized arrays.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Retroactive policy changes and laws to prevent self-consumption decimated the sector in 2013. developed the first major unsubsidized solar project in Europe with its 175-megawatt Don Rodrigo array, setting a framework which many projects will now attempt to replicate. Massive interconnection queues.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

DECEMBER 18, 2018

The featured article was part of the FT ’s annual North America Innovative Lawyers report, which ranks and analyzes creative legal work by law firms and in-house executives based on their originality, leadership, and impact. Currently under construction, the community will include approximately 21,500 homes, 11.5

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 4, 2020

A December decision from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is forcing mid-Atlantic grid operator PJM to impose minimum prices on a wide array of state-supported grid resources. Exelon's nuclear plants hang in the balance.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The development of infrastructure supported by various state-specific laws, incentives, and recognition of climate change is at the forefront of the industry. Therefore, technology is needed in the power source to track how the array is creating power and adapt the voltage and current to give the best possible output for the DC voltage.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

DECEMBER 16, 2020

State laws and guidelines governing the taxation of solar equipment are outdated and lack clarity. As the report points out, two proposals introduced during the 2019-2020 legislation session would limit the number of nonresidential solar arrays that are tax-exempt. These efforts include amending M.G.L.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 29, 2020

The project, which may include a substantial amount of battery storage, will be built near the existing grid infrastructure used by the London Array offshore wind farm, once the largest in the world. has a net-zero target enshrined in law. Fast-forward to 2020, however, and the U.K.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2023

Cases could also be grounded in domestic climate change framework laws, arguing that government actors are failing to comply with relevant duties established under these laws. This includes a need to understand legislative developments holistically, rather than focusing on individual measures in isolation".

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T Rex Group

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

lawmakers recognized the difficulty of this balancing act for clean energy and in August 2022, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was signed into law. While this bill affects a wide array of industries, it will have especially large implications for renewable energy.

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T Rex Group

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

lawmakers recognized the difficulty of this balancing act for clean energy and in August 2022, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was signed into law. While this bill affects a wide array of industries, it will have especially large implications for renewable energy.

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The second edition of CES Europe participants will discuss the increasingly sophisticated array of options, spread and share best practice and network with solutions provider and thought leaders. There will be more than 300 people attending this event including more than 70 corporates and 65 speakers.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) for a proposed floating offshore wind research array. His practice focuses on energy and climate law, including regulatory, environmental permitting and compliance, due diligence, and transactional matters. In 2021, the State of Maine submitted a research lease application to the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 1, 2020

For the past nine years, Chicago-based utility ComEd has earned excessive profits from a regulatory structure set in place by a 2011 state law whose passage has been linked to a bribery scandal that’s embroiled key state lawmakers and ComEd’s former CEO.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

But now Europe is poised to enact laws that would not only recognise the harms of chemical-intensive agriculture, but also to ensure that synthetic pesticide and fertiliser use is significantly reduced. Industry has lobbied hard to ensure these targets don’t become law.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The Council’s draft plan recommends a broad array of regulatory measures, legislation, and other state actions across every sector of the state’s economy – any and all of which could have significant implications for New York’s clean energy markets for decades to come. state energy] plan.”.

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Energy Innovation

JUNE 16, 2022

Under the state’s landmark AB 32 climate law, CARB is required to evaluate the state’s progress toward its goals and make recommendations every five years. The Committed Policy Scenario includes executive orders or specific proposals not yet fully backed by established in law or regulation.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 9, 2021

When the first solar arrays were installed at homes, it made electric meters — as unprepared as the utility that owned them — run backward. In Minnesota, helpfully, Xcel Energy is required by state law and public regulators to file an annual value of solar calculation.

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2022

The renewables industry has today hit back at accusations from Tory leadership frontrunner Liz Truss that field-based solar arrays are "one of the most depressing sights", warning that her comments risk undermining investment in technologies that can drive down bills and enhance the UK's energy security.

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CleanTech Alliance

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

12, the Utilities and Transportation Commission adopted social cost of carbon estimates that utilities will use to comply with the package of clean energy legislation signed into law by Gov. The social cost of carbon calculates the broad array of economic and social damage caused […]. Jay Inslee in 2019.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

“Hill+Knowlton was simultaneously and from a very early stage, also actively representing an array of oil and gas companies on issues of concern to them.

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Business Green

AUGUST 27, 2020

The diverse array of actors and influencers in food value chains all have a responsibility to ensure that work empowers people, that wages and incomes are adequate for a decent standard of living, and that agricultural practices do not further imperil the planet.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The paper suggests that all of this might have happened in violation of federal law. These findings demand regulatory action under federal environmental laws including the Endangered Species Act and Clean Water Act, because these activities are concentrated in an area with high numbers of imperiled species,” the study states.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Funded through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, these H2Hubs are more than just research projects; they are practical, large-scale demonstrations of hydrogen’s potential in revolutionizing our energy systems.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Calder returned home with recommendations for which suppliers were willing to uphold standards and which weren’t, and where and how the company needed to reformulate ingredients from some suppliers or, with others, put in place a set of initiatives to be compliant with both international law and Beautycounter’s own standards.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 14, 2021

federal statutes and regulations, many state laws increasingly rely on the chemical hazard criteria and analyses from REACH (the principal European chemical regulation) and other EU laws and regulations. Further, the new EU chemical strategy identifies a wide array of initiatives for realizing its goal of a toxic-free environment.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Continuing to subsidize polluting fossil fuels defies logic,” said Shannon Laun, a staff attorney for the Conservation Law Foundation, in a statement. “If Activists met the news with incredulity. If Connecticut continues subsidizing gas heating, the state will not meet its climate goals and our communities will suffer.”.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

At the core of this effort is not just scientific expertise, but people power - a global team of volunteers who sort through the complex array of information and put it into an analytic framework. We use open-source documents and data to categorise net zero targets in a comparable way. We need both quantity and quality to keep 1.5

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

She said she hopes the new process, prompted by a law passed last year to help the commercialization of microgrids, will clarify some of the opportunities. We have to be careful we don't position microgrids as a panacea," said Jake Levine, a clean energy policy expert at law firm Covington & Burling in Los Angeles. "We

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Planet Pulse

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

I’ve always had a pretty diverse set of interests but my plan was to major in political science and psychology in undergrad with the goal of attending law school. I have no doubt that I made the right decision because this path has exposed me to a wide array of projects and subject matters. .

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 17, 2021

Indigenous peoples in Canada and a coalition of environmental groups launched a “Global Week of Action” for June 14-21 , aimed at pressuring an array of insurance companies to cut ties with a long-distance tar sands pipeline under construction in Canada. On June 16, the Canadian Senate passed the bill.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 30, 2021

oil refineries released the potent carcinogen benzene in 2020 at levels high enough to require action under federal law, the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) reported this week. More than a dozen U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

“Even if these projects were having the carbon benefits that they claim to, which is questionable, they’re still having negative impacts on the local community,” said Kimberly Terrell, a research scientist at Tulane University’s Environmental Law Clinic.

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