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Climate Law Matters: Energy & Climate Newsletter - September 2024

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In this Issue: Permitting Reform, the Supreme Court, EV’s, and Climate Week 2024 - After nearly a decade as New York State’s environmental chief, I recently joined Foley Hoag to help the firm’s clients emerge as global...more

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The Supply/Demand Problem: Reading the Signals from the Recent PJM Capacity Auction

The United States is facing a supply and demand problem in the electric sector, raising serious concerns not only about energy affordability but the reliability of the grid. On Tuesday, July 30, 2024, PJM Interconnection,...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Currents Energy Industry Insights: V 8, Issue 6, June 2024

Conflicting Energy Demands and Policies Create Significant Future Challenges - Two noteworthy articles highlight how conflicting energy requirements are posing significant challenges for regional and national energy...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Energy Law: Month in Review - May 2024

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Welcome to Dorsey’s Energy Law: Month in Review. We provide this update to our clients to identify significant developments in the previous month. ...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

This Week’s Climate Policy Update - May 2024 #4

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

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EPA Issues New Power Plant Rules

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Introduction - The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently finalized four separate rules (Power Plant Rules) that set new standards for power plant emissions in the United States. Collectively, these...more

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Update on RGGI in Pennsylvania

In 2022, Pennsylvania became the 12th member of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (“RGGI”). Pennsylvania joined RGGI pursuant to a 2019 executive order and a subsequent rulemaking promulgated by the state’s Department of...more

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Energy Law: Week in Review - March 2024

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Welcome to Dorsey’s Energy Law: Week in Review. We provide this update to our clients to identify significant developments from the previous week....more

Foley Hoag LLP - Environmental Law

The D.C. Circuit Vacates Most of EPA’s SSM SIP Call; Generators Breath a Sigh of Relief

Earlier this month, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals vacated most of EPA’s startup, shutdown, and malfunction SIP Call. The Court’s rationale boils down to EPA’s failure to make a predicate finding that the SIP call...more

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Breaking Down the Section 45V Clean Hydrogen PTC Proposed Regulations

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The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the IRS on Dec. 22, 2023, released proposed regulations regarding the production tax credit (PTC) for hydrogen under Section 45V of the Internal Revenue Code, as enacted by the...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Environmental Law

Another Study Regarding the Health Impacts of PM Emissions From Power Plants: What Impact Will It Have On Regulation and...

An article in Science published last week indicates that the mortality risk from exposure to PM2.5 from coal-fired electric generating units is roughly twice as high as the risk posed by PM2.5 from other sources.  According...more

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Understanding the EPA’s Final Renewable Fuel Standard Set Rule for 2023, 2024 and 2025

The EPA issued a final Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) rule that announces the biofuel volume targets for 2023 – 2025 and provides a first look into the EPA’s plans for implementing the program moving forward. The RFS...more

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EPA’s Ambitious Proposed GHG Emissions Standards May Face Challenges

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or Agency) issued a proposed rule (Proposed Rule) on May 11, 2023, that would adopt new greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions standards for certain coal and natural gas-fired power...more

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Client Alert: In a Choose Your Own Adventure-Approach, EPA Proposes Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for New and Existing Power...

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Today, the US Environmental Protection Agency released its long-awaited proposal for New Source Performance Standards for Greenhouse Gas Emissions from New, Modified, and Reconstructed Fossil Fuel-Fired Electric Generating...more

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The EPA Proposes New Wastewater Discharge Standards on Coal-Fired Power Plants

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The Environmental Protection Agency announced on March 29, 2023 new proposed wastewater discharge standards to reduce discharges of toxic metals and other pollutants from coal-fired power plants. Steam electric power plants...more

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Biden Administration Electric Car Directive Increases Pressure on US Airports

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Numerous reports indicate that the United States Department of Environmental Protection (EPA) is preparing to issue new federal emissions standards for light-duty vehicles that would force the number of electric vehicles sold...more

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Inflation Reduction Act Offers a Variety of Green Building Tax Incentives

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The IRS is currently in the process of implementing the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA), which addresses energy, tax and health policy. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), "The Inflation...more

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

In a collaborative effort to slash transportation-related emissions, the Department of Transportation (DOT), Department of Energy (DOE), Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Environmental Protection Agency...more

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Multistate AG Coalition Files Brief in D.C. Circuit to Support Vacating EPA Vehicle Emissions Standards

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A group of 16 AGs filed a brief in the D.C. Court of Appeals arguing that the EPA did not have the authority to promulgate substantially more stringent greenhouse gas emissions standards for vehicle carbon dioxide emissions....more

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This Week’s Climate Policy Update - November 2022 #4

[co-author: Leila Fleming] The Biden administration announced that it will provide a $1.1 billion grant to Pacific Gas & Electric Co. to prevent the closure of Diablo Canyon. Additionally, the Environmental Protection...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Currents - Energy Industry Insights, Volume 6, Issue 11

West Virginia’s Water and Land Rights EPA Case in U.S. Supreme Court - "West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, who led a 26-state coalition in filing a brief in the case, said the High Court heard arguments in a...more

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Montgomery County Expands Scope of Energy Benchmarking Performance Reporting Requirement, Imposes New Information Disclosure...

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Under recent amendments to Montgomery County’s Energy Benchmarking and Performance Standards Law, residential and non-residential buildings in the County - including buildings in Rockville and Gaithersburg - that are 25,000...more

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Senator Manchin Proposes to Streamline Energy Infrastructure Permitting and Give FERC Jurisdiction Over Hydrogen

Following weeks of anticipation, US Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) released the text of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2022, his permitting reform legislation, on September 21, 2022. As part of an agreement to win...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

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

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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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