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Are tar sands doomed on a life cycle GHG emissions analysis?

  • Alston & Bird LLP
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  • Canada, USA
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  • February 27 2008

Section 526 of the recently enacted Energy Independence & Security Act of 2007 prohibits the Federal Government (including the US military, of course) from procuring alternative fuels whose life cycle GHG emissions are greater than those from conventional sources

Canadian implications of the Waxman-Markey Bill

  • McMillan LLP
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  • Canada, USA
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  • May 28 2009

An emissions trading bill currently making its way through a committee of the U.S. House of Representatives includes a number of provisions with potential ramifications for cross-border trade

Canadian and US officials continue Clean Energy Dialogue

  • Torys LLP
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  • Canada, USA
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  • October 5 2009

On September 16, 2009, Environment Minister Jim Prentice and his American counterpart, Energy Secretary Steven Chu, presented their first Report to Leaders on the Canada-U.S. Clean Energy Dialogue

North American leaders agree to cooperate on climate change

  • Torys LLP
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  • Canada, Mexico, USA
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  • September 11 2009

On August 10, 2009, at a North American summit in Guadalajara, Mexico, the leaders of the United States, Mexico and Canada issued a joint declaration that committed their three countries to work together on climate change and clean energy issues

The Martin Act: using New York’s “blue sky” law to require enhanced disclosure by CO2 emitters

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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  • Canada, USA
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  • January 9 2009

The issue of climate change has garnered much attention in recent years, and there has been an increasing chorus of demands by environmental activists, and a growing contingent of supporters, that policymakers regulate carbon dioxide emissions

U.S. to curtail carbon leakage

  • McMillan LLP
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  • Canada, USA
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  • March 11 2010

In the fall of last year, the U.S. Senate released its version of an energy and climate change bill called the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act

North America bets on carbon capture and storage

  • Stikeman Elliott LLP
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  • Canada, USA
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  • December 9 2009

As we move towards the United Nations conference on climate change in Copenhagen, Denmark from December 7 to 18, 2009, Canada is still without a definitive climate-change strategy

U.S. clean energy and climate change redux

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • Canada, USA
  • -
  • April 3 2009

On March 31, 2009, U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Rep. Henry A.Waxman and Energy and Environment Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Edward J.Market released a discussion draft of The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (the “Draft”

Developments ongoing in North American climate change regulation and harmonization

  • Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
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  • Canada, USA
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  • December 4 2009

Across Canada and the United States there have been a number of important developments intended to promote clean energy resources, increase energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gases

Recent developments with the Western Climate Initiative

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • Canada, USA
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  • June 7 2010

The Western Climate Initiative (“WCI”), is a group of U.S. states and Canadian provinces, including Ontario, BC and Québec committed to developing cap and trade policies to further the goal of reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions (“GHG”