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Groups Urge EPA To Maintain Or Tighten Vehicle GHG Rules In Mid-Term Review
Energy-efficiency advocates and other observers are urging EPA to consider strengthening its light-duty vehicle greenhouse gas requirements as part of a forthcoming mid-term review due to the fact that automakers are easily meeting requirements and there is a need for additional emissions cuts to meet climate goals.
California Courts Likely To Face New CEQA Suits Over 'Existing' Conditions
The California Supreme Court’s recent decision on how agencies must review development projects’ impacts under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) is likely to spur a host of new lawsuits as the ruling has sparked sharply divided interpretations on whether and how agencies must analyze the impact of existing hazardous conditions, such as adverse effects from climate change, on a project and its future users.
Former Officials Urge States To Align ESPS Compliance With Energy Goals
A prominent consulting group including several former state officials is urging states to align their forthcoming plans to comply with EPA's power sector greenhouse gas rule with their individual energy goals, warning that focusing only on the rule's requirements could spur future problems with state energy strategies.
Manufacturers Tout GHG Cuts As White House Eyes Regulatory Roadmap
A coalition of multinational manufacturing companies has unveiled commitments to curb greenhouse gases, a move that could aid White House efforts to develop a roadmap for the next round of greenhouse gas rules focused on the manufacturing sector, though sources familiar with the manufacturers' initiative say the two processes are not aligned.
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State, Industry Opponents Call EPA's ESPS Stay Defense 'Self-Contradictory' Sparring Stay Declarations Highlight Debate Over ESPS' Market Impacts
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Omnibus Spending Deal Likely to Bolster Costly Kemper CCS Project
The fiscal year 2016 spending deal that President Obama enacted Dec. 15 reallocates at least $160 million in unused clean coal technology funding from the suspended FutureGen carbon capture and storage (CCS) project and other initiatives to more viable projects, such as the costly and long-delayed Kemper CCS plant, likely bolstering a project that EPA has cited as justification for its new source power plant greenhouse gas rule on partial CCS.
New Study Finds CCS More Costly, Less Efficient Than Earlier Research
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California-Quebec GHG Market May Provide Model For Paris’ Trading Path
California’s joint cap-and-trade program with Quebec may provide a model for how other countries craft specific rules to govern such trading under the just-approved Paris climate change agreement, which provides countries with a path to help meet their greenhouse gas reduction commitments through international carbon credit trading, sources say.
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The Docket Room
“Flexibility” is the key word this state energy agency recommends for EPA’s proposed Clean Energy Incentive Program, the Clean Power Plan adjunct designed to spur wind and solar projects and energy efficiency by providing matching emission rate credits.
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