ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Montana Supreme Court Affirmed that Public Service Commission Improperly Rewrote Terms of Solar Project PPA, Including by Eliminating Carbon Adder. The district court held, among other things, that elimination of the carbon adder was arbitrary and capricious and directed the PSC to assign a price for carbon. 4:19-cv-00362 (E.D.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 7, 2021

The coal company’s petition presented the question of whether Section 111(d) “grants the EPA authority not only to impose standards based on technology and methods that can be applied at and achieved by that existing source, but also allows the agency to develop industry-wide systems like cap-and-trade regimes.” DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The federal district court for the District of Columbia upheld the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) redaction of certain communications between a NOAA climate scientist and the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) from January 20, 2009, through January 20, 2017.

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