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Pennsylvania Perspective for Monday, July 21, 2025

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PA Budget Stalemate Deepens, Raising Alarm for Schools, Transit- Three weeks past the deadline, Pennsylvania lawmakers remain deadlocked over the state budget, delaying critical funding decisions and raising alarms for...more

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Energy and the Environment: Fossil Fuel Extraction Is Encouraged, Clean Energy and Protections Are Under Review

A number of the new administration’s executive actions are intended to implement a significant shift in energy and environmental policy, including the following, all issued on January 20, 2025. “Unleashing American Energy”...more

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P2N0 - Edition 23 - News and Views on the Drive Towards Net-Zero GHG Emissions

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Welcome to Edition 23 of P2N0 covering the drive to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to net-zero (NZE). Wishing you a belated Happy Calendar New Year. P2N0 identifies significant news items globally, reporting on them in...more

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Currents - Energy Industry Insights, V 9, Issue 1, January 2025

Welcome to our first Issue of Currents 2025, our energy e-newsletter. While our energy practice is constantly changing and evolving, we too have expanded our focus for 2025 with some new editors involved with this...more

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Climate Law Matters: Energy & Climate Newsletter - December 2024

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In this Issue: Mission is Market - As with many, we in the Foley Hoag energy and climate practice have felt the results of the 2024 election reverberate through our industry. We’ve gathered and digested the most current...more

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2024 Clean Energy Bill Promotes Electric Vehicle Deployment Across Massachusetts

On November 21, 2024, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healy signed into law a sweeping climate bill (St. 2024 c. 239, An Act Promoting a Clean Energy Grid, Advancing Equity and Protecting Ratepayers) packed with measures aimed...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Energy & Climate Counsel

Presidential Shakeup (Once Again) Presents Opportunity for State Climate Action

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

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The Future of U.S. Environmental Regulation: What to Expect in 2025

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While still a newly minted lawyer early in 1977, I had the good fortune to land a job with the then brand-new Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management. This coincided with the 1976 election of Jimmy Carter as...more

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Governor Signs Economic Development and Clean Energy Bills: Key Insights

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On November 20, 2024, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healy signed a $3.9 billon economic development bill, known as the Mass Leads Act (H 5100), and also signed the Climate and Clean Energy Siting Law (S 2967). These laws are...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Energy & Climate Counsel

Hydrogen Tax Credit Guidance to Be Finalized by Year’s End; Department of Energy Opens Emissions Value Request Process for Clean...

After months of waiting to see how federal regulators might advance clean hydrogen tax policy in the runup to and following the November election, we are finally getting some news: Several outlets are reporting that the...more

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Relief from NIMBYism for Renewable Energy: New York’s RAPID Act

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One of the biggest challenges to states meeting ambitious Clean Energy Standards is local opposition to large scale projects, something we’ve written about previously. The federal government and many state legislatures have...more

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Energy Infrastructure Funding Opportunities under the Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act

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The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), signed into law in November 2021, and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), signed into law in August 2022, are both recent landmark climate-related legislation aimed at...more

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California Climate Change Legislation, Policy and Regulation – 2023 in Review

As we enter 2024, we once again review the most significant legislation, policy changes and regulatory actions with respect to climate change taken by California in the past year. In contrast to 2022, which brought a revamp...more

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Energy Transition: Past, Present, & Future

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Energy transition—a phrase that is often used as though everyone understands its meaning. In fact, few know what it means, or they have varying opinions as to what it means. As it has been stated elsewhere, “Energy transition...more

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The U.S. Government Gets Serious on Climate Change

During a pandemic paper purge, I found a corporate newsletter showing me and my boss, George David, then CEO of United Technologies Corporation, at the Earth Technologies Forum admiring a display captioned “Why is UTC a...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Energy & Climate Counsel

Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Part 2: Investing in Transmission

This is the second post in our series on the recently enacted Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, covering how the Act invests in strengthening our electric grid, which could better prepare us for the shift from fossil...more

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Court Rulings, Delays & Cancellations Underscore Challenges For Gas Pipeline Construction

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Find out what challenges the natural gas industry faces to construct new pipelines and how these challenges have impacted gas supplies, particularly in the Northeast....more

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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

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Biden-Harris Administration Pushes for Offshore Wind and Jobs

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Consistent with the Biden-Harris administration’s “whole of government” approach to climate change as announced in its Day 1 and Day 7 executive orders, on March 29 the administration announced a variety of concrete...more

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DOE Loan Programs Update: New Leadership and Potential Legislative Expansions

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The authorities that exist within the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Loan Programs Office (LPO) can be used by the Biden Administration to spearhead the commercial deployment of the innovative energy technologies and...more

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Renewable Energy Update - February 2015 #2

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Renewable Energy Focus: Dianne Feinstein pushes California desert protection: The Desert Sun - Feb 10: The political landscape has changed, with Republicans now controlling both the House and Senate, but Democratic...more

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Renewable Energy Update -- September 2014 #2

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Renewable Energy Focus - Blue and red states going green on energy policy: USA Today - Sep 11: Politically "red" and "blue" states are increasingly turning green as they push energy efficiency and renewable power to...more

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