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Can California’s cap and trade address environmental justice?

GreenBiz

In fact, when California passed its landmark 2006 climate law — which directed the state to cut greenhouse gas emissions down to 1990 levels by 2020 — supporters claimed that it would save thousands of lives through improved air quality alone. California has done exactly that. New York may offer an interesting model.

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California clean fuel standard sparks renewable gas boom in Midwest

Renewable Energy World

But last year, Holsum Dairies changed course, upgraded the two digesters and began producing renewable natural gas for California’s burgeoning renewable fuels market. The California Air Resources Board adopted the Low Carbon Fuel Standard in 2009. Fuels are valued based on a formula developed by Argonne National Laboratory.

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Why States Need to Ban New Gas Hookups in Buildings (in 5 Charts)

GreenTechMedia

In order to bend that curve and cut direct building emissions, states and cities will have to pursue policies that end the expansion of new gas infrastructure and accelerate the transition to electric heating and cooking. The Majority of Direct Building Emissions Are Coming From Burning Natural Gas.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

The electronic engineer and MBA spent 19 years as a supply chain vice president at Unilever before joining Natura in 2009. Consumers Energy CEO since 2016, she was praised for preventing a bigger emergency two subzero Januarys ago, after a fire at a natural gas compressor threatened energy transmission.

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Phantom Gas and Missing Documents Reveal Gaps in Utility Oversight

DeSmogBlog

There, he met with OPUC staff in person and exchanged emails with Lori Koho, then OPUC’s senior official overseeing natural gas utilities. He hoped that his list of complaints would show “how the unethical culture [at NW Natural] goes all the way to the top,” as one of his emails to Koho explains.

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Analysis: How did the 2019 legislative session fare on climate justice?

Front And Centered

It allowed the state to “remedy discrimination against, or under-representations of, disadvantaged groups as documented in a valid disparity study or proven court of law.” Advocates push through slushy slow to testify in support of the HEAL Act during the bill’s first hearing on Feb. Photo by Samantha Bushman.

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Treasury Department Announces Second Round of Section 48C Tax Credit for Clean Energy Manufacturing Facilities

38 North Solutions

Overview When Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA), it reinstated (and expanded) the Section 48C tax credit from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. For round two, the Treasury Department is making $6 billion available, with $2.5 billion set aside for projects in energy communities.

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