Law and the Environment
Commentary and insights on the complex and evolving legal, policy, and scientific issues relating to law and the environment.
Author: Scott Deatherage is head of the Climate Change and Renewable Energy Practice at Thompson & Knight in Dallas. He also authors The New Carbon Cycle.
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Recent Posts from Law and the Environment
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ERCOT Releases a Study on Price Effects from Cap and Trade
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas has issued a study of the potential impact on electricity prices in Texas if a cap-and-trade system were imposed through federal legislation. The study assumes that a price for…
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EPA Issues Finding That Lays Foundation for Regulating Greenhouse Gas Emissions under the Federal Clean Air Act
In a long expected finding, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a regulatory decision that lays the foundation for EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the federal Clean Air Act (CAA). The decision…
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Texas Warming Up to Carbon Capture and Storage
Although Texas is probably at the polar opposite from California in recognizing and passing state legislation to address climate change, the State is very much behind promoting carbon capture and storage (or sequestration) (CCS). Texas…
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TCEQ Remediation Division Announces Assignments in All Sections
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) Remediation Division has issued its assignments of all those staff members to one of the new sections recently established by Section headBrent Wade. The team leaders and each…
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EPA Sends Endangerment Finding Regarding Greenhouse Gas Emissions to White House
The US Environmental Protection Agency has forwarded an "endangerment finding" under the Clean Air Act that would lay the foundation for EPA greenhouse gas emission regulations under the Act. Under the Massachusetts v. EPA case…
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Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Announces New Managers in Remediation Division
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) has named the new managers of the five sections of the remediation division of the agency. A few years ago, the TCEQ "reorganized" such that people in the…
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THE BAILOUT BILL AND STIMULUS BILL: OPPORTUNITIES FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY, ENERGY EFFICIENCY, CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE, AND ALTERNATIVE TRANSPORTATION FUELS
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, otherwise known as the “Stimulus Bill”, which President Obama signed into law on February 17, 2009, made significant changes in prior tax incentives for renewable energy, energy…
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EPA Reported to Have Sent Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rule to White House
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reportedly sent a draft rule to the White House for review that would require emitters of greenhouse gases to report their emissions to the EPA. In December of…