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Carbon Quarterly – Volume 9

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Carbon Quarterly is a newsletter covering developments in carbon policy, law, and innovation. No matter your views on climate change policy, there is no avoiding an increasing focus on carbon regulation, resiliency planning,...more

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California Environmental Law & Policy Update 5.31.24

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to consider whether federal and state agencies must clearly define limits on wastewater pollution when issuing discharge permits. The high court took up the City of San Francisco’s...more

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Methane Series Part III: Implementation Is Here. EPA Published the Proposed Rule Implementing the First-Ever Direct Tax on Methane...

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We wrote an overview of the methane tax after the Inflation Reduction Act was signed into law in August 2022 and Congress directed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to impose the first-ever direct tax on methane...more

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The EPA’s Methane Waste Emission Charge: A Tax by Any Other Name

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has published a proposed rule to assess and collect billions of dollars in methane “waste emission charges” from the oil and gas sector....more

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California Environmental Law & Policy Update 1.19.24

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In a new study, researchers from NYU, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and Defend Our Health have estimated the costs of plastic exposure on the U.S. healthcare system. In 2018, several common endocrine disruptors, a...more

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U.S. EPA Grants Louisiana Primacy for Class VI Geologic Sequestration Wells: What's Next?

Recently, the United States Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") signed a final rule granting the State of Louisiana's request for primary responsibility for the permitting, compliance, and enforcement of Class VI (deep...more

Gray Reed

What Happened at COP28?

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About the same as what happened at COP27. The 70,000+ fabulists, opportunists, and assorted acolytes comprising the congregation of the Church of Our Holy Mother of the Suffering Planet celebrated another high mass in,...more

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California Environmental Law & Policy Update 12.08.23

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The power to enforce a rule intended to slash air pollution associated with warehouses could one day rest in the hands of citizens who are willing to go to federal court. Several Inland members of Congress recently signed a...more

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Tenth Circuit Ruling on Temporary Emissions in Colorado Will Have Widespread Impacts on Air Permitting in Western States

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In a decision with implications for air permitting across the West, a divided three-judge panel of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated and remanded EPA’s approval of Colorado’s state implementation plan (SIP) based...more

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This Week’s Climate Policy Update - July 2023 #4

Good afternoon! 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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California Environmental Law & Policy Update - 7.07.23

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The California Air Resources Board (CARB) and the Truck and Engine Manufacturers Association said on Thursday that they had reached an agreement, referred to as the "Clean Truck Partnership," that gives new flexibility for...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Currents - Energy Industry Insights, V 7, Issue 6, June 2023

Balancing Reliability, Affordability, and Renewability in the Energy Transition - Throughout the United States and globally there is an undisputed trend towards renewable energy as much of the world seeks to decarbonize in...more

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EPA’s New Carbon Standards for Power Plants Require Quick Decisions

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EPA’s long-promised rules for reducing CO2 emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants have now been published. In the proposal, EPA lays out “performance standards” for new natural gas-fired power plants and “emission...more

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EPA Gives the Green Light to Ethanol for Summer Travel

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The EPA on Friday granted a waiver of its traditional summer ban on the sale of gasoline with 15-percent ethanol — or “E15” — to continue mitigating the disruption of fuel commerce around the globe caused by the conflict in...more

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Regulating Underground Injection Wells for Carbon Sequestration in Pennsylvania

If carbon in the atmosphere is a problem, and that atmospheric carbon resulted from burning fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas, then a simple solution is to remove the carbon from the atmosphere and to put it back into the...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Energy Industry Insights: V 7, Issue 1, 2023

“A controversial natural gas pipeline in West Virginia appears dead for now after it failed to make next year’s spending bill from Congress.” Why this is important: With apologies to Mark Twain, the reports of the...more

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Pennsylvania Takes Emergency Action to Regulate Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Emissions

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On 30 November 2022, the Pennsylvania Environmental Quality Board (EQB) voted 16-2 to approve an emergency rule regulating volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions from existing conventional oil and gas sources. The...more

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EPA’s Bulked Up Quads: EPA Expands Far-Reaching Proposal for Regulating Methane in the Oil and Gas Sector

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Last November, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a regulatory preamble describing its plans for proposed standards to reduce methane emissions and other air pollutants from affected sources within the...more

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DC Circuit asked to say “ethaNO” to biofuel increases

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Anything that reduces fuel emissions has to be good for the environment, right? WRONG! The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals is facing precisely this seeming anomaly, being asked by the Center for Biological Diversity...more

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California Environmental Law & Policy Update - May 2022 #2

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Southland air regulators threaten to sue EPA for failure to control federally-regulated emissions sources Bullet - Los Angeles Times - May 10 - The South Coast Air Quality Management District (District), which oversees a...more

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Legal Storm Clouds Gather As New Climate Change Policies Are Released

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Concurrent with commitments made during the twenty-sixth meeting of the United Nations’ COP26 summit in Glasgow, Scotland, the Biden Administration released two significant policies aimed at analyzing and curtailing the...more

Jones Day

The Climate Report | Fourth Quarter 2021

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Climate Change Regulatory Issues & Updates - New NEPA Proposed Rule from CEQ Leaves Uncertain How U.S. Federal Agencies Must Assess Climate Change Impacts - On October 7, 2021, the Council on Environmental Quality...more

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Navigating The Class VI Injection Permit Process For Carbon Sequestration

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Developing a carbon sequestration project requires multiple technical disciplines, excellent project management skills, and the ability to adapt the technical work processes to the unique aspects of the specific project....more

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Aviation Gas/Clean Air Act: Friends of the Earth Petitions U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for Endangerment Finding

Earthjustice submitted an August 24th Petition to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) asking that it make an endangerment finding under Section 231 of the Clean Air Act in regards to aviation gasoline...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Environmental Law

It’s Important to Acknowledge Good News — The End of Leaded Gasoline

As climate change rightly has dominated recent discussions of environmental policy, it’s been easy to forget how much progress has been made in the past fifty years. I was reminded of the extent of that progress by the story...more

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