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

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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. billion smart grid investment plan that included a 4.2-million

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Could the EU's Fit for 55 programme unleash a new wave of climate litigation?

Business Green

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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Is the UK squandering its green economy leadership?

Business Green

The frustration for Danker and many others is that the government has repeatedly stressed its commitment to green growth and has spent the last few years mulling a wide array of policies that would serve to mobilise much needed green investment. The PM set out less than a year ago what is needed to transform our economy," Danker said.

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Inflation Reduction Act: 10 ways it will turbocharge US climate action (and one way it won't)

Business Green

The landmark legislation's climate provisions could unlock billions of dollars of low carbon investment and millions of green jobs - but it also paves the way for new fossil fuel infrastructure. The US is set to get its first ever carbon equivalent tax - on methane. As Mark Carney noted this morning, this is part of a global trend.