President Trump’s reelection sent shockwaves through the renewable energy community. With campaign pledges to dismantle Biden-era climate programs funded by the Inflation Reduction Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law...more
12/10/2024
/ Charging Stations ,
Clean Energy ,
Climate Action Plan ,
Climate Change ,
Electric Vehicles ,
Energy Projects ,
Energy Sector ,
Energy Storage ,
Environmental Justice ,
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ,
Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Renewable Energy ,
Solar Energy ,
State and Local Government ,
Sustainability ,
Transmission Grid ,
Trump Administration
On October 16, 2024, the United States Supreme Court shot down requests from states and industry groups to stay the implementation of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) rule to reduce carbon emissions from coal-fired...more
10/17/2024
/ Carbon Capture and Sequestration ,
Clean Air Act ,
Climate Change ,
Energy Sector ,
Environmental Litigation ,
Environmental Policies ,
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ,
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Utilities Sector
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
9/19/2024
/ Climate Change ,
Electric Vehicles ,
Electricity ,
Energy Policy ,
Energy Projects ,
Energy Reform ,
Energy Sector ,
Environmental Policies ,
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ,
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Renewable Energy ,
Utilities Sector
After a month of hotly debated budget talks, New York passed its 2024 fiscal year budget late Tuesday night, and with it, took a long-awaited step towards decarbonizing New York’s building sector. The budget deal includes...more
A great deal of progress has been made in decarbonizing the power sector through deployment of clean electricity generation technologies such as wind and solar. But other technologies essential to our efforts to combat...more
On December 20, 2021, the Climate Action Council (“Council”) approved the release for public comment of its draft Scoping Plan, which describes how New York can achieve the requirements of the Climate Leadership and Community...more
On June 10, 2021, the Transportation Climate Initiative Program (TCI-P) states released a final model rule creating a regional cap-and-trade-program to reduce carbon emissions from the transportation sector. We wrote about...more
6/16/2021
/ Cap-and-Trade ,
Carbon Emissions ,
Clean Energy ,
Climate Change ,
Environmental Justice ,
Final Rules ,
Green Initiatives ,
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ,
Public Comment ,
State and Local Government ,
State Legislatures ,
Transportation Industry
Hours before a technical conference on potential future pathways for solar development in New York State, the New York State Department of Public Service (“DPS”) unexpectedly updated the Environmental Value (“E-Value”)...more