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This Week’s Climate Policy Update - April 2024 #2

Good afternoon! This is Akin’s newsletter on climate change policy and regulatory developments, providing information on major climate policy headlines from the past two weeks and forthcoming climate-related events and...more

Gould + Ratner LLP

Biden Administration Sets Roadmap for Building Decarbonization

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The U.S. Department of Energy recently released the first federal blueprint to decarbonize the building sector, which accounts for over a third of the nation’s planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions. This plan, developed by...more

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This Week’s Climate Policy Update - January 2024 #2

Good morning! This is Akin’s newsletter on climate change policy and regulatory developments, providing information on major climate policy headlines from the past two weeks and forthcoming climate-related events and...more

King & Spalding

Beyond the Fenceline: Environmental Justice Updates – December 2023

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Environmental Justice: 2023 Year in Review and 2024 Look-Ahead - As a concept, Environmental Justice, or EJ, has been around for more than 40 years. Beginning as a slogan at protests in Warren County, NC in 1982, EJ...more

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Field Guide to Clean Hydrogen

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Hydrogen is a key ingredient in any country’s future energy plans. In the United States, the hydrogen sector is on the launch pad, ready for lift-off. However, its trajectory hinges on a critical question: what criteria...more

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This Week’s Climate Policy Update - February 2023 #3

The Environmental Protection Agency issued its initial guidance on the Inflation Reduction Act’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Act. Further, the Treasury Department—in collaboration with the Internal Revenue Service and the...more

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PRG Pulse 2022 Post-Election Analysis

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The Big Picture - Congressional Overview - American voters delivered a decidedly mixed message to Washington on Tuesday, seemingly handing Republicans narrow control of the U.S. House of Representatives and a nominal check...more

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Biden's Executive Order Focusing on Biotechnology Offers Opportunities for AgTech Industry

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President Biden has revealed the next areas of focus in his effort to protect the United States’ technological leadership and economic competitiveness: biotechnology, biomanufacturing, and the bioeconomy....more

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Biden Administration Recommends Environmental Standards and Regulations for Crypto

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In a new report issued September 8, the US Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) outlines the environmental and energy impacts of cryptocurrencies and digital assets and calls for the development of federal and state...more

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Inflation Reduction Act Highlights: Environmental Justice, Climate Change and Expedited Permitting

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On August 16, 2022, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), sweeping legislation that commits $369 billion to combat climate change, fund clean energy and development, and address environmental justice. This...more

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The Inflation Reduction Act is Now Law: What Does it Mean for the Clean Energy Sector?

One and a half years into the Biden Administration and with the 2022 mid-term elections fast approaching, Democrats secured a major legislative victory with final passage of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) – a...more

Clark Hill PLC

Window on Washington – Vol. 6, Issue 30

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Outlook for This Week in the Nation’s Capital - Congress. The House is in recess this week, though the Senate is in session with an expected busy agenda this week. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is currently leading a...more

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This Week’s Climate Policy Update - July 2022 #2

[co-author: Leila Fleming] Good evening! This is Akin Gump’s weekly policy newsletter on all things climate change. Below are the major federal and California climate policy headlines of the past week... ...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Environmental Law

Equity Action Plans: Government Agencies Prioritize Environmental Justice

In an effort to “redress inequities in [Federal] policies and programs that serve as barriers to equal opportunity,” the Biden administration has set forth an agenda to identify areas of improvement and advance equity across...more

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Hydrogen: Near Term Challenges & Long Term Opportunities

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Congress and the Biden Administration recognize hydrogen’s potential to address the clean energy imperative. This past year, The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act appropriated $8B of spending to build out clean hydrogen...more

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March Is Here, so What’s Next in Washington?

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The first day of spring is right around the corner and so are deadlines for congressional appropriations requests. This month, lawmakers are racing against the clock to fund the government and President Biden looks to...more

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Window on Washington – Vol. 6, Issue 8

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Outlook for This Week in the Nation’s Capital - Congress. The House and Senate are back in session this week. While both chambers have a number of items scheduled for action, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the US...more

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White House Announces New Initiatives and Guidance on Clean Energy Transition

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Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) and clean hydrogen will play a significant role in the Administration’s efforts to address hard-to-decarbonize industries to promote clean US manufacturing. On February 15,...more

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Ten Executive Branch Climate and Sustainability Developments to Watch in 2022

With 2022 underway, the Biden-Harris administration is continuing to implement its “whole-of-government” response to climate change. In 2021, the administration focused on building public-private partnerships on clean energy,...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Energy, Environment, and Resource Agencies Release FY2022 Budget

On May 29, 2021, the Biden administration released its full FY2022 budget request. Several key energy and environmental agencies, including the Department of the Interior (DOI), Department of Energy (DOE) and the...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

CEAA and GREEN Act Present Competing Frameworks for Energy Tax Credits

As compared to the GREEN Act and other recent proposals, the Clean Energy for America Act would create a more fundamental shift in energy tax credits. Policymakers will need to weigh the benefits of far-reaching changes...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Infrastructure Plan Relies On Federal Loan Programs

On March 31, 2021, President Biden released one of his most significant policy initiatives, the American Jobs Plan. The eight-year, over $2 trillion plan proposes large investments in a broadened scope of infrastructure. In...more

Morgan Lewis

Biden-Harris Administration’s ‘All of Government’ Approach to Addressing Climate Change and Environmental Justice

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The Biden-Harris administration has set its sights on an ambitious environmental policy agenda, focusing on climate change and environmental justice as key initiatives, and intends to implement its agenda through an “all of...more

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Biden Wants the United States to “Buy Clean” and Become a “Climate Star.” Here’s What That Could Look Like.

In March, House Democrats re-introduced the Climate Leadership and Environmental Action for Our Nation’s (CLEAN) Future Act, a comprehensive climate package that aims to transition virtually every major sector of the U.S....more

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Meet Biden’s Natural Resource Team

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Consistent with his campaign promises to establish a diverse cabinet and leadership team, representative of both the national community and his own philosophy on environmental, energy and climate change issues, President...more

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