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State ROFR laws are holding back transmission buildout in MISO and must go away

Renewable Energy World

State Right of First Refusal (ROFR) laws in the North and seams issues in the South are reasons for limited opportunities. If MISO and MISO states are serious about building the next wave of transmission, lowering the voltage threshold for bidding out competitive projects and removing ROFR laws must be implemented.

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Subsidies to biomass plant in Teesside must be stopped says environmental coalition

Envirotec Magazine

In 2021, Biofuelwatch, a member of the CCNF coalition, instructed law firm Leigh Day to write to the Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) arguing that the subsidy contract for the power plant is unlawful and should be terminated.

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Liz Truss Hires Anti-Green Aides With Ties to Libertarian Think Tanks

DeSmogBlog

Ruth Porter, who will be Truss’s senior special advisor and ran her election campaign, was communications director from 2010 to 2013 at the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), an influential anti-regulation think tank with a record of opposing climate policies. BP-Funded Think Tank.

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Clean Energy Group announces retirement of Lewis Milford as President; Seth Mullendore named successor

Renewable Energy World

Lew Milford founded CEG in 1998, after working over several years on clean energy and utility restructuring dockets in New England while with the Conservation Law Foundation. After graduation from Georgetown Law, he first worked for the federal government to enforce civil rights laws among government contractors.

Law 76
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Solar and wind’s competitiveness over coal is accelerating, analysis shows

Renewable Energy World

coal plants are either scheduled to close by 2025 or now cost more to operate than new nearby solar or wind power would, new research shows. Since late 2013 , utilities had sought bailouts for uneconomic coal plants, Waggoner noted. by Kathiann M. Kowalski, Energy News Network. Roughly four-fifths of U.S.

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Solar and wind’s competitiveness over coal is accelerating, analysis shows

Renewable Energy World

coal plants are either scheduled to close by 2025 or now cost more to operate than new nearby solar or wind power would, new research shows. Since late 2013 , utilities had sought bailouts for uneconomic coal plants, Waggoner noted. by Kathiann M. Kowalski, Energy News Network. Roughly four-fifths of U.S.

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Will NIMBYs sink new clean energy projects? The evidence says no – if developers listen to local concerns

Renewable Energy World

hearing on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline in Grand Island, Nebraska, on April 18, 2013. Laws such as the National Environmental Policy Act and state equivalents provide for public involvement in decisions about many major projects. Opponents may sue to block new projects that they argue will violate the relevant laws.