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Is Florida’s proposed infrastructure law anti-EV or pro-competition?

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However, in 2012, the legislature created an exemption for EV charging. In 2015, California enacted a law that allowed utilities to have a central role in rolling out infrastructure, but included measures designed to protect independent charging operators. ChargePoint supported the law, as did several of the investor-owned utilities).

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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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'Growth Plan': Chancellor eyes streamlined planning process for offshore wind, homes and roads

Business Green

These priority project areas are heavily tipped to include offshore wind farms, nuclear power plants, new roads. The Treasury pointed out that last year it took 65 per cent longer to get consent for major infrastructure projects compared to 2012, and that no new nuclear power stations have been built in the UK since 1995.

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'Slight tension': From coal mines to nuclear, new Business Secretary hints at delicate decisions at heart of UK's net zero ambitions

Business Green

And the last thing I'll say about that is that there'll be legislation in the summer which will seek to put into law the sixth carbon budget targets that were put forward by the CCC.". However, Kwarteng insisted nuclear remained a vital plank of the UK's net zero transition plans. Nuclear power is essential," he told MPs.

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Part 2: Revisiting the Key Findings of an influential Carbon Trading and Environmental Equity Study – Additional Details

Low Carbon Prosperity

The largest and one of the fastest emissions growing sectors in the study, power sector emissions were skewed by low availability of zero-carbon resources, including below average hydropower availability and the unexpected shutdown in 2012 of the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant.

Carbon 52
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Part 2: Revisiting the Key Findings of an influential Carbon Trading and Environmental Equity Study – Additional Details

Low Carbon Prosperity

The largest and one of the fastest emissions growing sectors in the study, power sector emissions were skewed by low availability of zero-carbon resources, including below average hydropower availability and the unexpected shutdown in 2012 of the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant.

Carbon 52
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New Shell Files Could Aid Climate Cases, Attorneys Say 

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Some of these cases have been brought under consumer fraud or protection laws that penalise companies for misrepresenting their products to the public. ” Wilkinson returned to this dilemma in his conclusion, again noting the dangers posed by “emissions and discharges” caused by fossil fuels and nuclear power.