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Technical and Economical Considerations for Hydrogen Storage

By William Garner on Posted in Clean energy, Energy, Featured, Hydrogen
Hydrogen recently has been touted by various political leaders around the world as a clean panacea to the problem of energy storage or heat or electricity. Hydrocarbons traditionally have served that role and have been stored in above-ground tanks and below-ground caverns or geologic formations. Future use of hydrocarbons, however, in some jurisdictions is not … Continue Reading

U.S. and Dutch Governments Announce Hydrogen Collaboration

By William Garner, Jan Herfkens and Marijn Bodelier on Posted in carbon emissions, Compliance, E2 Europe, Energy, Environment, EU, Featured, Germany, Greenhouse Gas, Hydrogen, Infrastructure, International, Legislation, Litigation, Policy, Regulatory, Sustainability, Technology
On Oct. 6, 2020, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) and the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy (Ministerie van Economische Zaken en Klimaat) issued a statement of intent. The governments aim to jointly stimulate future hydrogen research & development and demonstration activities. Hydrogen has caught … Continue Reading

Pleasing All the People Some of the Time: New York Simultaneously Proposes Regulations Implementing Its New Siting Law and Community Benefit Program for Renewable Projects

By Zackary D. Knaub, Steven C. Russo and Lynelle Bosworth on Posted in Compliance, Energy, Environment, Executive Order, Featured, Legislation, Litigation, New York, Politics, Renewables, State & Local, Sustainability
Earlier this year New York state, conceding that its previously enacted siting law had not been effective in siting large-scale renewable energy projects, enacted the Accelerated Renewable Energy Growth and Community Benefit Act (codified primarily in N.Y. Executive Law § 94-c; hereinafter, the Act). The Act, effectively a new siting law for renewable projects, created, … Continue Reading

EU Commission Limits the Netherlands’ Plans to Subsidize Green Hydrogen Production

By Marijn Bodelier on Posted in Announcements, Compliance, E2 Europe, Energy, Environment, EU, Featured, Greenhouse Gas, Hydrogen, International, Netherlands
On Sept. 14, 2020 the Dutch minister of Economic Affairs and Climate informed the Dutch Parliament that the EU Commission does not consent to the granting of subsidies for the environmentally friendly production of hydrogen through sustainable energy (so-called ‘green hydrogen’) under the Dutch SDE++ scheme in the form requested by the Dutch government. State-aid … Continue Reading

New Jersey’s Environmental Justice Legislation: The Focus on Major Source Permit Applications Might Impact Property Values

By Maribel Nicholson-Choice on Posted in Compliance, Contamination, DEP, Energy, Environment, Environmental Justice, Featured, Federal Regulation, Hazardous Waste, Legislation, Litigation, NEPA, New Jersey, Oil & Gas, Policy, Politics, Pollution, public health, State & Local, Waste
Last month, I wrote about the “Environmental Justice for All Act,” a bill that proposes a finding that vulnerable populations are disproportionately burdened by environmental hazards. New Jersey is following the federal environmental justice debate, passing historical environmental justice legislation in both the House and Senate, where it is currently awaiting Governor Phil Murphy’s approval. … Continue Reading

McGirt v. Oklahoma: Understanding What the Supreme Court’s Native American Treaty Rights Decision Is and Is Not

By Troy A. Eid on Posted in Court Cases, Environment, Featured, GT Alert, Legislation, Litigation, Policy, Politics
Confusion permeates the public arena as to what the U.S. Supreme Court recently did – and didn’t do – by ruling in favor of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, a federally recognized Native American tribe, and against the state in McGirt v. Oklahoma. Not since a grinning incumbent President Harry S. Truman hoisted The Chicago Daily … Continue Reading

‘Environmental Justice for All Act’ Introduced in U.S. Senate

By Maribel Nicholson-Choice on Posted in carbon emissions, Clean Air Act, Clean energy, Clean Water Act, Environmental Justice, Featured, Legislation, NEPA, public health
On July 30, Sens. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Kamala Harris (D-CA), and Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) unveiled the “The Environmental Justice for All Act.” The bill proposes a finding that communities of color, low-income communities, tribal communities, and other vulnerable populations, such as children, elderly, and persons with disabilities, are disproportionately burdened by environmental hazards. The premise … Continue Reading
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