November 8, 2024

Federal Policy

Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement
GOP Energy Bill Passes House, Heads for Hostile Senate
The GOP-led House passed a fossil-fuel friendly energy infrastructure bill that Democrats said will be “dead on arrival” in the Senate.
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FERC Gets Advice, Criticism on Environmental Justice
FERC received passionate testimony from panelists at its roundtable on incorporating environmental justice and equity into its infrastructure permitting.
Ford
Fewer EVs May Get IRA Tax Credit Under New Domestic Content Rules
The U.S. Treasury Department just made its March deadline for issuing guidelines on the domestic content provisions for EV tax credits.
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Podesta: US Automakers Will Scramble to Meet EV Tax Credit Provisions
The Biden administration will deliver long-awaited guidelines for the domestic content provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act’s electric vehicle tax credits.
Bechtel
Sierra Club Sues Largest Ill. Coal Plant over Permitting
One of the largest power plants in Illinois has been running without proper permits since it went into service, the Sierra Club contends in a lawsuit.
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DOE Reports Highlight 3 Technologies to Decarbonize US Economy
DOE released three reports assessing how the U.S. can decarbonize by 2050 through massive deployment of hydrogen, advanced nuclear and energy storage.
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Webinar Wades into Push to Revise US Permitting Rules
The U.S. must change permitting processes to deploy federal infrastructure money and ensure CO2 reductions needed to avoid the worst climate change impacts.
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Republicans Opening Offer on Permitting is Missing Electric Tx
House Republicans are moving the first energy permitting bill through Congress, but it lacks any provisions around electric transmission.
IPCC
Guterres: G20 Nations Should Commit to Net Zero by 2040
A report released by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns of potential climate catastrophe by the 2030s if GHGs aren't slashed immediately.
EPA
EPA Good Neighbor Plan Expected to Accelerate Coal Plant Retirements
EPA announced details of its Good Neighbor Plan to slash emissions of smog-forming nitrogen oxides; the rules will affect power plants in 23 states.

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