The New Carbon Cycle

Energy Storage Transaction May Indicate Beggining of Future Boom in Mass Energy Storage

2009-11-24T06:42:48-06:00

While wind energy is a widely supported and a rapidly growing renewable energy source, it is well known that most land-based wind blows at night. The problem is peak energy usage is during the day,...

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EPA Holds Hearings on Proposed Greenhouse Gas Regulation under Clean Air Act

2009-11-17T07:54:58-06:00

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is holding hearings this week on it proposed "Tailoring Rule ", that would regulate certain sources that emit more than 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide...

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Deatherage Named as the “Dallas Best Lawyers Environmental Lawyer of the Year” for 2010

2009-11-16T14:45:34-06:00

I was recognized by the Best Lawyers in America and thought I would share this with the followers of this blog, and let you know that I am honored as there are so many excellent environmental lawyers...

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EPA Reportedly Has Sent the Final Endangerment Finding on Greenhouse Gases to the White House for Final Review

2009-11-12T08:32:46-06:00

EPA earlier this year proposed its endangerment finding under the federal Clean Air Act in response to the U.S. Supreme Court's finding in Massachusetts v. EPA that permitted EPA to regulate...

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SEC Issues Policy That May Make It More Difficult to Exclude Certain Environmental Shareholder Petitions from Proxy Statements

2009-11-05T15:10:02-06:00

The SEC guidance was issued on October 27, 2009. The main portion of the Staff Legal Bulletin No. 14E (CF) is provided below: Over the past decade, we have received numerous no-action requests from...

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Thompson & Knight Climate Change and Renewable Energy Newsletter

2009-11-05T14:56:21-06:00

Thompson & Knight LLP, an international law firm, has issued the most recent issue of its Climate Change and Renewable Energy Newsletter. The Newsletter discusses recent developments in Congress,...

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Senate Environment and Public Works Committe Releases Climate Bill

2009-11-05T14:51:52-06:00

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee released its version of a climate change bill despite the fact that Republican senators on the committee were boycotting the mark up hearings. The...

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UN Launches Satellite Monitoring of Forests to Promote International REDD Projects under a Post-Kyoto Treaty

2009-10-21T06:36:27-05:00

Point Carbon reports that Director General Jacques Diouf of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has announced a satellite monitoring system that would permit developing countries to...

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Allocation AWOL in Senate Bill

2009-10-01T07:16:40-05:00

The long-awaited climate bill was released by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. The bill raised the goal for greenhouse gas emission reductions from the Waxman-Markey 17 percent to...

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Developing EPA Program to Regulate Greenhouse Gas Emissions

2009-09-30T07:00:00-05:00

Two proposed rules related to greenhouse gas (GHG) regulation under the existing federal Clean Air Act (CAA) have reportedly cleared the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The two...

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