This Week's Climate Policy Update - Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
This Week’s Climate Policy Update | Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
This week, the Mountain Valley Pipeline sought intervention from the Supreme Court amid construction freezes, while the Bureau of Land Management proposed heftier fees for drilling on federal land. In California, lawmakers are considering a move to equip all new electric cars with bidirectional technology. In Wyoming, a massive wind farm project broke ground. Meanwhile, international news highlights Japan's controversial coal blending plan, the environmental impact of Venezuela’s oil industry and Canada's framework to phase out inefficient fossil fuel subsidies.
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The 27th Conference of the Parties (COP 27) produced a groundbreaking agreement to create a “loss and damage” fund to help developing nations cope with the impact of climate change.
But the conference, held from Nov. 6 to Nov. 20, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt, fell short of a hoped-for agreement to speed reductions of greenhouse gas emissions.