Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

A district court has ruled that federal law does not preempt an indirect source rule that targets emissions associated with warehouses in Southern California. Plaintiffs argued that the federal Clean Air Act (CAA), the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act (FAAAA), and the Airline Deregulation Act (ADA) preempt Rule 2305.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 3, 2020

The Ministry of Defence has been working proactively to relieve the impact on radar and aviation. That process only looks at whether the original decision was lawful, it is not a reevaluation of a project’s application. ’s climate change laws, rather than whether the project itself was sound.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

The case also alleges the Secretary of State failed to give lawful reasons for straying from advice given by the Climate Change Committee that, given uncertainty around technological solutions to aviation emissions, a policy framework to curb demand for aviation is also needed.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2022

Group bringing together aviation experts from industry and government will explore how to make zero emission flight a reality. The government has convened a new group of aviation experts tasked with exploring how to catalyse development of the technology, infrastructure, and regulations required to make zero emission flights a reality.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The pillars include a revised Renewable Energy Directive and the REFuelEU Aviation Regulation. ReFuelEU Aviation also sets out EU-wide harmonised rules for the promotion of sustainable aviation fuels (SAF), with an increasing minimum share of SAF required to be blended with kerosene by aviation fuel suppliers and supplied to EU airports.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

As well as being destructive, continued licensing of this activity is illegal under marine wildlife laws. According to a recent study, fishing boats that trawl the ocean floor release as much carbon dioxide into the water column as the entire aviation industry releases into the atmosphere, and UK waters are especially impacted.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Biden’s Administration Commits a Total of $65 Billion to Investments in Clean Energy The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law under President Biden’s administration has earmarked $65 billion for clean energy investments through the Department of Energy (DOE).

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Since the Scottish Climate Change Act became law in 2009, the Scottish Government has failed to achieve 7 of the 11 legal targets. The Scottish Government has so far been unwilling to consider measures to recover the shortfall, such as restrictions on aviation growth. Progress is now broadly the same as the UK as a whole.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 18, 2022

“The companies are making a lot of money from SUVs so they continue to market those but emphasize sales of EVs at the same time,” says Karen Sokol, a professor at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law. The aviation industry is responsible for around 5 percent of global heating. Airline ads ignore climate crisis.

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 13, 2023

That’s seen as especially valuable for cleaning up aviation , maritime shipping, and heavy industries like steel that are more difficult to run on renewable energy and batteries. While visiting Philadelphia today, he’s expected to name seven locations selected for funding through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Measures aimed at expanding electric vehicle charging infrastructure and supporting emerging green aviation, shipping and road vehicle technologies across the UK are among a raft of proposals launched for consultation by the Department for Transport (DfT) today.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The airport said it planned to cut seven per cent of its 'in the air emissions' through the wider use of sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs) and called on the government to "inject pace" into plans to scale the nascent market for kerosene alternatives. Decisive action needs to be taken this decade to remain on track for net zero and 2.0

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

Businesses leaders urge EU committees to champion Nature Restoration Law An alliance of 12 major business networks is this week urging key European Parliament committees to support and strengthen a proposed Nature Restoration Law, which if passed would set out legally binding goals for restoring ecosystems and biodiversity.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2022

This means that the Net Zero Strategy is not lawful, and crucially, does not allow parliament and members of the public to hold government accountable for any failures.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 22, 2021

However, the proposals are not yet law, and big European business groups are lining up to water them down, despite adopting official positions supporting climate action, according to a new report by InfluenceMap, a corporate watchdog group. “The For aviation, airline companies take the lead.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 2, 2021

Meanwhile, emissions-heavy sectors — aviation, cement, chemicals, mining, steel and others — soon could find themselves similarly staring down the barrel of legal decisions that force them to accelerate their decarbonization goals well beyond the net-zero targets they’ve already set. The implications?

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Business Green

JULY 23, 2021

today announced a technical collaboration to advance the decarbonisation of aviation. "We We see hydrogen as the only realistic approach for aviation to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement," said Paul Eremenko, co-founder and CEO of Universal Hydrogen. "We French parliament approves landmark climate law.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

  In other news the EU parliament passed a law to restore 20% of the EU’s land and sea by 2030, England requires all new buildings to improve biodiversity, and the US Congress finds something they can agree on with nuclear policy, while the SEC may be set to announce watered down rules on reporting. Energy & industry.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Schumer’s office, the two-year extension of the federal Investment Tax Credit for solar projects will retain the current 26 percent credit for projects that begin construction through the end of 2022, rather than expiring at the end of 2020 as they would have under existing law. Action by the U.S. Nuclear power will receive $6.6

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Funded through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, these H2Hubs are more than just research projects; they are practical, large-scale demonstrations of hydrogen’s potential in revolutionizing our energy systems. Power Generation : Hydrogen can be used in turbines to generate electricity, offering a cleaner alternative to fossil fuels.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Those ideas now begin their journey into law, offering the energy sector some welcome certainty at the same time. It will cover power generation, aviation and energy-intensive industries. According to the government, the plans will create 250,000 jobs. The £12 billion ($16.1 That will provide all with a smooth transition.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 15, 2023

 The plan is “a start but barely touches the full scale of a problem which has been largely ignored by the UK government to date,” said Sam Tye of green energy law firm Fladgate. asked Richard Smith of Sandstone Law. There is a very long way to go before the UK building stock is in alignment with achieving Net Zero by 2050.”

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Low Impact

AUGUST 30, 2020

The economy does not have natural laws. In a sustainable future (and there’s no other kind), is there a place for the aviation industry? I’m very strongly anti-aviation. I don’t think it’s sustainable to have aviation. The aviation industry say that there is, and they’re lying. I’m very strongly anti-aviation.

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38 North Solutions

MAY 3, 2024

Expired since 2013, the law provides $10 billion in credits for qualifying advanced energy projects, $4 billion of which must be allocated projects located in energy communities. For round two, the Treasury Department is making $6 billion available, with $2.5 billion set aside for projects in energy communities.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The UK was the first major industrialised nation to set Net Zero into law – now we have policy plans to get us there. The Government does not include an explicit ambition on diet change, or reductions in the growth of aviation, and policies for managing travel demand have not been developed to match the funding that has been committed.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 25, 2024

Check out EDF’s blog for more on 30C. Here’s what the data Post-IRA Clean Energy Projects Driving $20 Billion in Private Investments, 67K New Jobs in Rural America; Billions More in Wages, Taxes, GDP The Latest from Capitol Hill: Congress continues to negotiate topline spending levels for a long-term funding package.

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Clean Energy Trust

OCTOBER 8, 2021

| Changing Climate Change Beliefs This month, we’re highlighting big climate policy news in Illinois, how the battery materials supply chain is evolving, why sustainable aviation fuels may be a Goldilocks solution, and changing beliefs on climate change. Credit: International Air Transport Association SAF?—?A

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2021

To continue to license this destructive activity, when we know the damage it causes and that it is illegal under various environmental laws, beggars belief. into the water column as the global aviation industry sends into the atmosphere annually, and that UK waters are the 4th largest global carbon emitter from 3. carbon back?into

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Within 100 days, the Commission will present a new Climate Law designed to lock in the continent’s commitment to net-zero emissions by 2050. While it covers commercial aviation, heavy industry and the power sector, emissions from passenger transport, agriculture and waste are not.

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Grist

AUGUST 13, 2021

The White House has said the bill advances Biden’s climate agenda and proponents of hydrogen have touted it as a low-emissions alternative to fuel shipping, trucking, aviation, and even home heating. Congress went out of its way to not specify green hydrogen and so this funding just helps prop up the fossil fuel industry.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Meanwhile, the development of the new international aviation offset scheme - dubbed CORSIA - and the tightening of emissions caps in established cap-and-trade schemes such as the EU emissions trading scheme are expected to provide a further boost to the global carbon markets.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The Institute of International Finance (IIF) is sponsoring the Taskforce, with financial consultant McKinsey & Company providing advisory support and Annette Nazareth, a partner at law firm Davis Polk and former commissioner of the US Securities and Exchange Commission, serving as operational lead.

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Business Green

JANUARY 3, 2023

Since the scheme's launch, as many as 65 UK organisations - including campaign group Friends of the Earth, ferry service Direct Ferries, and law firm Bates Wells - have signed up to give their employees at least two travel days, covering a total of over 2,200 employees, Possible said. Quite simply, we need to fly less.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Sarah Ellerby, Chief Executive, Nova Pangaea, said: “The UK has an opportunity to lead the drive to net zero, specifically for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). In order to deliver on this net zero target, we will need to lean on smaller scale companies with disruptive technologies to accelerate innovation.

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Clean Energy Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The bipartisan infrastructure bill was signed into law. The First Movers Coalition is committing to buying volumes of climate friendly solutions in steel, trucking, shipping, and aviation. we’ve probably seen this the most in sustainable aviation fuels so far. Infrastructure Month! Here’s a summary from Canary Media.

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Grist

JANUARY 31, 2024

That 2019 law was the first of its kind in the nation, and the ruling casts doubt on the dozens of cities that had followed Berkeley’s lead. That means that reducing the carbon footprint of flying, whether by choice or by law, currently means accepting some restricted mobility — or a different mode of transport.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The UK government is insistent it must regain all control and decision-making power over laws, regulations, trade and legal matters after Brexit - a stance which appears incompatible with Brussels' insistence there must be some form of 'level playing field' commitment or else the integrity of the single market could be undermined.

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