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California cap-and-trade program marches forward

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 10 2013

California's cap-and-trade compliance obligations became binding on January 1, 2013, culminating six years of regulatory proceedings. Although the

LEED v4 nearing completion

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 20 2012

The fifth and final public comment session for the new Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standard that will replace the current LEED 2009 (aka LEED v3) standard ended earlier this month

Revised Green Guides take on renewable energy and carbon offset claims

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 5 2012

The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) revisions to the Guides for the Use of Environmental Marketing Claims (the Green Guides) responds to new environmental marketing claims and evolving consumer perceptions and addresses, for the first time, marketing claims about renewable energy and carbon offsets, among other topics

Regulations on emissions auctions in Phase Three to come into force

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • European Union, United Kingdom
  • -
  • November 13 2012

On October 23, 2012, the Community Emissions Trading Scheme (Allocation of Allowances for Payment) Regulations 2012 (SI 20122661) were made

Coming soon: California's first cap-and-trade auction

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 25 2012

On November 14, California’s Air Resources Board (CARB) will conduct the first greenhouse gas (GHG) allowance auction as part of the state’s cap-and-trade program

Divided appeals court vacates air transport rule targeted at coal-fired power plants

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 30 2012

In EME Homer City Generation, L.P. v. EPA, two judges of a divided three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit vacated the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 2011 Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (Transport Rule), which implemented the so-called "good-neighbor" provision of 110 of the four-decade-old Clean Air Act (CAA

United States' first offshore wind farm obtains critical federal approval

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 21 2012

For the fourth time the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on August 15, 2012 issued a Determination of No Hazard to the proposed Cape Wind project, which, if constructed after a decade of planning, will be the United States’ first offshore wind farm

Department of Interior Secretary endorses federal regulation of hydraulic fracturing

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 25 2012

Speaking about upcoming Bureau of Land ManagementDepartment of Interior rules for hydraulic fracturing on federal land, DOI Secretary Salazar recently opined that state regulation of fracing was insufficient and suggested that more stringent federal regulations may be required

Federal authorities obtain first-ever criminal conviction regarding fraudulent generation of renewable fuel credits

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 5 2012

On June 25, 2012, a federal jury in Maryland found the owner of a fraudulent clean energy production company guilty of wire fraud, money laundering and violations of the Clean Air Act (CAA

Appeals court forcefully validates EPA's emerging program for controlling emissions of greenhouse gases

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 3 2012

A unanimous panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in Coalition for Responsible Regulation, Inc. v. EPA decisively affirmed against industry and state challenges EPA’s developing programs for regulating emissions of greenhouse gases

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