New Jerseyâs Plan to Become the National Capital of Offshore Wind
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One of the offshoots of a post-COVID-19 world is the increased attention to other existential threats facing humanity that can cause serious interruptions to business as usual in America. One of those threats is climate change. New Jerseyâs Governor Phil Murphy and his administration have made combating climate change a key priority in the state since taking office in January 2018. Governor Murphy has arguably just unveiled his most ambitious plan to date, introducing plans in June 2020 that would make New Jersey the hub of the Eastern Seaboardâs offshore wind industry by creating a centrally located wind turbine manufacturing and assembly center critical for the wind industryâs growth. This article will explore how Governor Murphy plans to do this, and the potential state and federal policy and legal implications. Is this just another ex
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Seaweeds can have significant benefits for combating climate change, and the extent of seaweed industry regulation in the United States will be a key issue in the coming years. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), society needs many different climate mitigation technologies to achieve “net zero emissions” in time to prevent climate disaster.
See, e.g.,
IPCC,
Global Warming of 1.5°C 17 (Valérie Masson-Delmotte et al. eds., 2019). Seaweed harvest promises to be a significant climate mitigation tool because seaweeds absorb vast amounts of carbon while supplying foods and renewable fuels.
Still, overexploitation of seaweeds can create problems for ocean ecosystems that must be managed. Seaweed harvest in U.S. federal waters is currently regulated, but the appropriate extent of such regulation is debatable. Commenters have argued that for ocean ecosystems to
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On April 20, 2021, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE or the “Department”) issued an order
1 revoking its Prohibition Order Securing Critical Defense Facilities, issued December 17, 2020,
2 which we summarized here. DOE’s actions come exactly 90 days after President Biden’s Executive Order 13990 on Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis, issued January 20, 2021.
3 EO 13990 suspended former President Trump’s Executive Order 13920 on Securing the United States Bulk-Power System,
4 issued May 1, 2020, for 90 days, and directed the Secretary of Energy and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to “consider whether to recommend that a replacement order be issued.”
U.S. Hanford Nuclear Site to Glassify Plutonium Waste
RICHLAND, Washington, January 12, 2021 (ENS) – The U.S. Department of Energy is poised to complete a cleanup commitment that has been decades in the making – immobilizing in glass the least radioactive portion of the tank waste at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in south central Washington State.
For more than 40 years, nuclear reactors at Hanford produced plutonium for America’s defense program. Beginning in 1943, the site was used to produce plutonium for the bomb that brought an end to World War II. Production was ramped up again in 1947 to meet the challenges of the Cold War and continued until 1987 when the last reactor stopped operation.
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On December 17, 2020, the U.S. Department of Energy (“DOE”) issued an order (“Prohibition Order”)[1] that prohibits certain utilities from procuring specific bulk power equipment from China. The Prohibition Order is part of the U.S. government’s actions under the May 1, 2020, Executive Order on Securing the U.S. Bulk-Power System (“Bulk Power System EO”).[2] The Prohibition Order is a substantive follow-up to the broadly-worded Bulk Power System EO, but the Prohibition Order has narrow application to the electric power sector. Specifically, the Prohibition Order only applies to certain utilities that own or operate Defense Critical Electric Infrastructure (“DCEI”) and actively provide service to designated Critical Defense Facilities (“CDF”) at a voltage of 69 kV or above. Additionally, the equipment that is subject to the Prohibition Order is a limited subset of the broadly-defined “bulk-power syst