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Jet engine nox rule

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
  • -
  • June 17 2012

The Environmental Protection Agency will adopt a final rule June 18 reducing nitrogen oxide emissions from certain gas turbo engines used in commercial passenger and freight aircraft

U.S. renewable energy company plans to submit Chapter 11 claim against Canada

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • Canada, USA
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  • July 24 2011

On July 14, Mesa Power Group, LLC, a renewable energy developer, announced that it has filed a notice of intent to submit a North American Free Trade Agreement Chapter 11 arbitration claim against Canada for alleged breaches of NAFTA obligations

Utility MACT lawsuits

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 22 2012

Thirty petitioners, including 24 states as well as industry and environmental groups, filed lawsuits in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit before the April 16 deadline to challenge the Environmental Protection Agency’s mercury and air toxics standards for power plants

NY brownfields program criticized

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 10 2012

A report issued on June 7 by Environmental Advocates of New York says that tax credits issued under the state’s brownfields program have failed to provide areas most in need of development with relief

FAA plans to set goal of 1 billion gallons of alternative fuel use by aviation in 2018

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 31 2011

On July 28, the FAA announced it will set an “aspirational” target in a yet-to-be-published strategic plan, Destination 2025, for the U.S. aviation industry to use 1 billion gallons of alternative jet fuel per year by 2018

U.S. government financing supports Indian renewable energy projects

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • India, USA
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  • July 24 2011

The U.S. government’s finance institution, The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), plans to invest $520 million in financing and insuring solar energy projects in India by the end of 2011

Renewable energy resource equipment manufacturing facility tax credit enacted

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • USA
  • -
  • July 24 2011

Oregon passed a bill (H.B. 2523) creating a new income tax credit for the certified costs of a renewable energy resource equipment manufacturing facility, defined as any structure, building, installation, excavation, device, machinery, or equipment

WAPA project mishandled

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 13 2011

The Department of Energy’s Inspector General released a report November 7 in which it determined that the Western Area Power Administration had mishandled its $152 million in Recovery Act financing to an electric transmission project

Judicial streamlining legislation signed

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 2 2011

California Governor Jerry Brown (D) signed two bills September 27 to streamline the environmental review process for a proposed 72,000-seat football stadium in downtown Los Angeles and other large statewide projects

EU to meet Kyoto targets

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • European Union
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  • October 16 2011

The European Union is on track to meet or beat its Kyoto Protocol emissions reduction targets despite an increase in greenhouse gas emissions in 2010