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Oliva Gibbs LLP

Carbon Copy: Pennsylvania’s CO2 Storage Plan Breaks New Ground

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On July 17, 2024, Pennsylvania joined a growing number of states establishing a legal framework for the underground storage of carbon dioxide. Carbon capture and underground sequestration (“CCUS”) is promoted as a technology...more

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California Seeks Disgorgement of Oil Profits For Alleged Greenwashing And Climate Deception

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In a significant legal maneuver with potentially far-reaching implications, California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed an amended complaint on June 10, 2024, to California’s high-profile lawsuit targeting five of the world’s...more

Goldberg Segalla

Minimizing Methane: New Studies Find Methane Emissions Significantly Higher than Previously Thought

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A new report by the International Energy Agency, released on March 13, found that for the third year in a row, methane released by the fossil fuel industry rose to an almost record high in 2023.  Methane emissions are a...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

King & Spalding

COP28: Key Takeaways for the Energy Industry

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COP28, the 28th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, came to an end in Dubai on December 13, 2023. The nearly 200 states reached what has been labelled a “historic” agreement...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

California Sues Big Oil for Denying, Downplaying Impact of Fossil Fuels on Climate Change

On September 16, 2023, California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit against five of the world’s largest oil and gas companies for allegedly denying or downplaying the harm caused by fossil fuels on climate change....more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

U.S. Lawmakers Urge DOJ to Investigate Oil and Gas Companies

On July 25, 2023, Representative Ted Lieu and 19 other Democratic lawmakers from the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, requesting that the Department of Justice...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Currents - Energy Industry Insights: V 7, Issue 7, July 2023

Domestic Nuclear Power Advancement: Barriers to Entry and the Need for a National Strategy - As previously reported on this site, nuclear generation development has taken hold as a potential promise for a long-term,...more

Troutman Pepper

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

Houston Harbaugh, P.C.

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

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Increased Investor Pressure for More Ambitious Climate Pledges Ahead of AGMs

In early April, the climate activist shareholder group, Follow This, filed shareholder resolutions seeking stronger energy transition strategies from several oil “super-majors.” The resolutions have been filed in advance of...more

Allen Matkins

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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Science Based Targets Initiative Rethinking Approach to Fossil Fuels, Removing from List of “Companies Taking Action” While...

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On March 8, 2022, the Science Based Targets initiative (“SBTi”) announced that it would “no longer accept commitments or validate targets from fossil fuel companies” until it completes development of sector-specific criteria...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Europe Announces “Fit for 55”, Its Scheme for Carbon Neutrality by 2050

In connection with implementing the European Green Deal and its efforts to become the first climate-neutral continent, the European Commission announced on Wednesday, July 14 an ambitious package of proposals aimed at further...more

Gray Reed

Climate Change 101 for Landmen and Lawyers: Uninhabitable Earth or False Alarm? (Part 4)

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This is a continuation of a five part series reviewing False Alarm, How Climate Panic Costs us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet, by Bjorn Lomborg....more

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Carbon Capture - The Missing Piece In The Net Zero Puzzle?

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In December 2020, the Norwegian government approved funding the $1.6 billion Northern Lights project led by Norway’s Equinor, Anglo-Dutch Shell and France’s Total. Northern Lights is the transportation and storage element of...more

Mayer Brown

Recent Legislative Proposals Could Drastically Change US Energy Taxation

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Over the past number of weeks, a variety of legislative proposals, from both sides of the aisle, have been released that, if enacted, could drastically impact the US energy industry and, in many cases, the taxation of energy...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Currents - Energy Industry Insights: Volume 5, Issue 1 - January 2021

Welcome to our first issue of 2021! We have been publishing a weekly edition of Currents since 2017 and hope that you find it informative and helpful. Our goal for 2021 is the same -- provide access to interesting and...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Currents - Energy Industry Insights: Issue 28, July 2020

Chevron’s Patience Pays Off with Bargain Deal for Noble Energy - "Like Anadarko, Noble is also a major player in the oil-rich DJ Basin of Colorado, as well as the oil-rich southwestern piece of the Eagle Ford Shale region." ...more

Gray Reed

What’s New in the War Over the Environment?

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Is the world hurtling irreversibly toward incinerating, extinction-causing, fossil-fuel induced destruction while we’re doing nothing about it? Maybe not, if you consider overlooked and ignored sources of information....more

Jones Day

Ninth Circuit Dismisses Major Climate Change Lawsuit Against the Federal Government - Court rejects request for extraordinary...

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The private sector is increasingly the target of climate change litigation. These lawsuits seek to hold private companies liable for climate change under state public and private nuisance law. Although the most recent wave of...more

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Climate Change for Insurers: When Politics Fail, Flood the Courts

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This article follows on from a series of previous articles seeking to address climate change litigation in the context of insurance and reinsurance. Three different, but important, decisions in December 2019 have once again...more

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Is Pittsburgh International Airport’s New Energy Microgrid Sustainability In Action Or The Opposite?

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Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) announced this week that it is establishing a microgrid to supply power at the airport, connected to the main electrical power grid in case of emergency but otherwise separate from it. ...more

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Moving Toward Cleaner Energy While Maintaining Our Legal Safeguards

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Only one part of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s policy statement known as the Green New Deal actually deals with the environment. Most of the statement seeks to promote more jobs-oriented policies such as...more

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Currents - Energy Industry Insights - June 2019

Supreme Court Sides with Property Owners; Companies have No Right to Get Natural Gas Without Permission - "The Supreme Court said, 'A mineral owner or lessee has an implicit right to use the overlying surface to access...more

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