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California's Cap and Trade program goes to court again

  • Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 19 2013

The other shoe finally dropped. The much-speculated and much-anticipated "tax vs. fee" AB 32 Cap and Trade lawsuit has finally been filed. A diverse

Price on carbon set in California

  • Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 19 2012

Six years after the passage of AB 32, the world finally knows what a metric ton of carbon emissions costs in California, when the California Air Resources Board (CARB or Board) released the results of the November 14, 2012, auction

CARB sued on Cap and Trade revenues on eve of first auction

  • Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 13 2012

It has been rumored for weeks that a Cap and Trade lawsuit was imminent

Low carbon fuel standard provisions enforceable again

  • Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 24 2012

In what is starting to become routine in California, a court has again decided the fate, at least temporarily, of another AB 32 program

California Air Resources Board finalizes cap and trade regulation

  • Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 28 2011

It was another all-day hearing filled with testimony about the effects of climate change and about the repercussions of the California Air Resources Board’s (“CARB” or “Board”) proposed cap and trade regulation

AB 32’s cap and trade “delay” explained

  • Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 30 2011

A funny thing happened on the way to the start of California’s Cap and Trade program in January 2012: it was sort of delayed

AB 32 scoping plan lawsuit decision is finally official - limits scope to cap and trade

  • Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 26 2011

San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ernest Goldsmith has suspended the completion of rulemaking for California’s cap-and-trade scheme until the California Air Resources Board (CARB or Board) conducts a more thorough California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) alternatives analysis under their approval of the policy road map, known as the Scoping Plan

California court rules against CARB-halts AB 32 implementation

  • Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 22 2011

On Friday March 18, 2011, California Superior Court Judge Ernest Goldsmith finalized his earlier tentative ruling on the validity of the California Air Resources Board (CARB) environmental analysis

U.S. EPA not ready for GHG reporting: postpones greenhouse gas emissions reporting deadline

  • Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 1 2011

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or Agency) announced an extension to the March 31, 2011, deadline for its Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Reporting Program (Program

Court ruling adds hurdle to implementation of California greenhouse gas rules

  • Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 3 2011

A California Superior Court issued a tentative ruling on January 24, 2011 against the California Air Resources Board (CARB or Board) putting in question the Board's ambitious schedule for reducing greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the state