On July 20, 2009, Representative Xavier Becerra (D-CA) introduced legislation to amend the Internal Revenue Code to make...
Tags: incentives, tax incentives, Environment, Tax
Occidental Petroleum Corp. may have made the largest oil and gas discovery in California in 35 years, according to this article...
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The NYT is reporting on steps being taken by the Department of Energy and the Colorado State Oil and Gas Conservation Commission...
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On July 23, 2009, the House Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment will hold a hearing on the proposed Chemical Facility...
Tags: anti-terrorism, Environment
It's no secret that California is facing a real budget crisis. The LAT is reporting that an earlier proposal to allow Plains...
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The United Nations’s Clean Development Mechanism Panel gave in-principle approval to the first set of emission reduction (or...
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On July 10, 2009 the EPA identified hard rock mining as the first new class of facilities for which EPA will develop financial...
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We have noted in previous posts the potential/active criminal enforcement of climate legislation in other countries (see here,...
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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) published two proposed rulemakings yesterday. The first seeks supplemental...
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We recently posted about energy security issues in South America. The LAT has a similar article observing that the European Union...
Tags: Energy Security, Energy