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With the new Energy Act, the UK smart meter rollout is at a technological crunch point

Smart Energy International

Although the UK Government’s latest legislation solidifies their commitment to the smart meter rollout in the country, there are yet a number of issues with consumer perception and the performance of the technology that need to be ironed out, explains Michael Jary of Sense. billion ($7.1 7 million will lose functionality.

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Defective Meters and Whistleblower Complaints Raise Questions About Gas Utility’s Profits

DeSmogBlog

A little over a decade ago, Gary Dye, then a gas measurement engineer at NW Natural, Oregon’s largest gas utility, lost faith in his employer to responsibly deal with what he believed to be systematic inaccuracies among the company’s hundreds of thousands of gas meters. Faulty Meters Raise Questions About Profits.

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ComEd’s Favorable Regulatory Treatment for Grid Investments Comes Under Fire

GreenTechMedia

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. The workings of the 2011 Energy Infrastructure Modernization Act.

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Wildfires are getting worse, and so is the deadly smoke they bring with them

Grist

candidate at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who specializes in climate science, social science, policy and the law, the climate change effects that California has experienced so far are just the tip of what’s to come. Enforcing the use of masks requires monitoring by the state, for example. Food and Drug Administration.

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Waves of Abandonment

DeSmogBlog

When Laura Briggs and her husband finally found their dream home in West Texas, they knew they’d be sharing space with the oil industry. But by using a provision in state law that allows operators to apply for multiple extensions to plugging inactive wells, he claimed he was able to offload the problem wells and stay in the oil business.

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Waves of Abandonment

DeSmogBlog

When Laura Briggs and her husband finally found their dream home in West Texas, they knew they’d be sharing space with the oil industry. But by using a provision in state law that allows operators to apply for multiple extensions to plugging inactive wells, he claimed he was able to offload the problem wells and stay in the oil business.

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California Supreme Court Clarifies Standard of Review for EIRs and Requirements for Air Quality Impact Analyses

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

The issue of whether a discussion in an EIR is sufficient is a mixed question of law and fact subject to de novo review, though underlying factual determinations in an EIR are subject to a more deferential standard. Background for Appeal. Construction would occur in five phases over 10 years.

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