Increases Maine’s Renewable Portfolio Standard to achieve 80% renewable energy by 2030, up from 40 percent previously, and a goal of 100% by 2050.
The National Conference of State Legislatures maintains a database of all renewable portfolio standards and voluntary targets, including citations to relevant legislation.
Discusses how renewable electricity policies can be redesigned to promote investment in the highest-value generators (displacing the most polluting current generators), which can greatly reduce the cost of achieving a given emissions reduction.
Developed a modeling study to inform nuclear R&D, future modeling research, and technology developers’ priorities as well as policy discussions at local, regional, and national levels.
In 2009, Utah enacted House Bill 430 to provide incentives to develop renewable energy projects that include nuclear generation facilities.
Provides for recovery of costs prudently incurred in the siting, design, licensing, and construction of new nuclear power plants.
California has provided $60 million per year in grant funding to fleets of three or fewer vehicles that replace or retrofit older heavy-duty diesel equipment
CSX railroad and Maryland have sought federal funding to increase the height of a tunnel that has been an impediment to double-stacking. It is believed that the new tunnel would alleviate rail congestion that ripple across the East coast.
While California cannot regulate interstate locomotives, it has promulgated an emission standard regulation of wholly intrastate locomotives at Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 13, 2299.
Colorado has instituted diesel fleet certification and inspection requirements for vehicles at least two years old. The regulations went into effect in 1998.