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Net zero legal challenge to be heard by High Court in February

Envirotec Magazine

Good Law Project, Friends of the Earth and ClientEarth will bring their legal challenge of the Government’s threadbare net zero strategy to the High Court, in a hearing due on 20-22 February 2024. The UK’s 2050 deadline to reach net zero and the carbon reduction targets that apply along the way are legally binding.

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Legal challenge to exclusion of waste incinerators from post-Brexit emissions trading scheme

Envirotec Magazine

The Government has exceeded its powers under Section 44 Climate Change Act 2008, by which it is able to set up the emissions trading scheme and is required to make rational decisions. There was a failure to carry out a lawful consultation exercise. This is wrong in law. The omission of municipal waste incinerators is irrational.

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DOE announces $192 million in new funding for EV battery R&D and recycling

Charged

The funding supports the Biden-Harris Administration’s aim of having EVs make up half of all car sales in America by 2030 and builds on President Biden’s roughly $3 billion budget for EV and battery innovations under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. As of April 2023, over 3.6

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Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan

GreenBiz

To rebuild the economy, the United States government so far seems to choose to deploy the same playbook it did in 2008: funding legacy companies in industries such as oil and gas. . Back to normal is not an option. History has shown us that government funding of visionary projects can have enormous positive outcomes.

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Government faces fresh legal threat over Heathrow expansion plans

Business Green

Good Law Project and Ecotricity CEO Dale Vince threaten court action unless government reviews airports planning policy before the final approval process for third runway begins. We think that's unlawful. Without government planning permission, the project cannot go ahead.

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Lightsource BP Wins Solar Project That Would Double Large-Scale Capacity in Arkansas

GreenTechMedia

Last month, Lightsource announced the financing of a 260-megawatt Texas project during a week when financial markets saw their worst since October 2008, which kicked off the Great Recession. “Certainly, it is a different market,” said Smith. “We have a very full plate.”

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New UN report could be a game-changer for climate lawsuits

Grist

Take, for example, the 2008 case of Native Village of Kivalina v. We’re citing the hell out of it,” said Pat Parenteau, a law professor at Vermont Law School. ExxonMobil Corp., in which Native Alaskans sued ExxonMobil and 23 other energy giants for damages associated with coastal erosion.