The Renewable Fuel Standard is one of many policies facing an uncertain future as power changes hands in the federal government.
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What Does The Future Hold For The Renewable Fuel Standard?
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In a piece authored for The Hill’s Congress Blog, the Institute for Policy Innovation’s Merrill Matthews argues that EPA’s final hydraulic fracturing study should keep the conclusion set out in the report’s 2015 draft, in which the agency said it found no evidence fracking has led to “widespread, systemic impacts on drinking water resources in… Keep reading →
EPA Publishes Final 2017 RFS Requirements
By Lauren Graham, Ph.D. | Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.
On December 12, 2016, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a final rule.
Energy Policy In The Trump Era: Part 2
By Chris Carr, Robert Fleishman | Morrison & Foerster LLP
President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to drastically change the federal government’s role and policies in relation to energy, the environment and climate change.
Fourteen months ago, during a U.S. Senate hearing on the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), EPA was asked to explain how it decides how much ethanol will be blended into the nation’s fuel supply each year under the agency’s RFS authority. You can read about that conversation here, but the gist of the exchange is that… Keep reading →
As EPA Sets 2017 Renewable Fuel Volumes, Future Is Unclear
By Jim Rubin | Dorsey & Whitney LLP
On Nov. 23, 2016, the Environmental Protection Agency released its final 2017 volumes under the Renewable Fuel Standard.
Groundbreaking Study Shows New Coal Plants Are Uneconomic In 97 Percent Of US Counties
By Environmental Defense Fund Energy Exchange Blog
At Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), we understand that market forces can drive either a healthy environment – or harmful pollution. I recently wrote about how generating electricity often creates pollution, which comes with environmental and health costs that are usually not paid for by the polluters. That’s why EDF works to identify and correct market… Keep reading →
Policy Predictions: How Will Trump’s 100-Day Plan Affect U.S. Energy Industry?
By James Guy II, John McKinsey, Roy Palk, John Pirko, Gwen Richard, Jason Sharp | LeClairRyan
The American landscape is littered with failed prognostications about what new Presidential administrations would or would not ‒ and could or could not ‒ accomplish.
Trump Administration Expected To Change Emphasis On Energy Sources And Seek To Reverse Or Limit Many Environmental And Climate Change Regulations And Policies
By Chris Carr, Robert Fleishman | Morrison & Foerster LLP
President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to drastically change the federal government’s role and policies in relation to energy, the environment, and climate change.
Undoing The Clean Power Plan
By Joshua Belcher, Samina Bharmal, Jay Holloway, Liz Williamson | Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
The election of Donald J. Trump as the next President of the United States appears to have dealt certain defeat for the Obama Climate Action Plan.
