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LPDD Model Law: State Law to Simplify Permit Requirements for Distributed Solar

Pathway: DER Permitting and Zoning Practices

Jurisdiction: State Legislatures

State Model to require streamlined local permitting, guiding the process from an online application form and checklist, to a time-limited period for local authorities to issue approval or conduct an inspection, and capping application fees.

Massachusetts Permitting Revisions Focus on EJ Communities

Pathway: Restricting Fossil Fuel Pollution in Frontline Communities

Jurisdiction: State Agencies

Require certain facilities seeking air emissions permits in or near communities with EJ populations to conduct a cumulative impact analysis, and solicit meaningful involvement with EJ populations in the permitting process.

Proposed Community and Hydropower Improvement Act (S.1521, 2023)

Pathway: Promoting Pumped Storage Hydro Facilities, Promoting Efficiency in the Hydropower Licensing Process, Protecting Traditional Uses of Nonpowered Dams

Jurisdiction: Congress

Proposed federal legislation addressing a number of recommendations from LPDD's Hydropower chapter, including expediting licensing and consolidating environmental reviews, licensing at nonpowered dams, and closed-loop and pumped storage systems.

LPDD Model Law: Prioritizing Funding of Clean Transportation Alternatives

Pathway: Reorienting Transportation Planning to Minimize GHGs

Jurisdiction: State Legislatures

Requires state governments to devote a larger share of transportation funding to providing meaningful alternatives to driving.

LPDD Model Law: Federal or State Carbon Labeling Act

Pathway: Carbon Labeling, Eco-Labels

Jurisdiction: Congress, State Legislatures

Requires the implementation of a federal/state carbon labeling program.

LPDD Model Executive Order: CCS Energy Purchase Policies for State and Local Government

Pathway: CCS Energy Purchasing Policies

Jurisdiction: States and State Governments, Local Governments

Requiring state agencies to purchase a minimum amount of CCS energy for use in buildings, subject to availability, and raising the minimum total amount of clean electricity to be purchased by the state government by 2050.

LPDD Model Law: Identifying and Mitigating Cumulative Impacts in Environmental Justice Areas

Pathway: Restricting Fossil Fuel Pollution in Frontline Communities

Jurisdiction: State Legislatures

Restricts as-of-right zoning in designated environmental justice areas.

LPDD Model Law: Requiring Cumulative Impact Analysis to Renew Permit of Covered Facility in an Environmental Justice Area

Pathway: Restricting Fossil Fuel Pollution in Frontline Communities

Jurisdiction: State Legislatures

Requiring the state environmental protection agency to identify and publish a list of areas disproportionately burdened by environmental hazards and limited participation in decision-making processes.

LPDD Model Law: Establishing an Environmental Advisory Board

Pathway: Restricting Fossil Fuel Pollution in Frontline Communities

Jurisdiction: State Legislatures

Establishes a powerful platform for advocating equity and justice in historically marginalized communities.

LPDD Model Law: Eliminating As-Of-Right Status of Polluting Facilities in Environmental Justice Areas

Pathway: Restricting Fossil Fuel Pollution in Frontline Communities

Jurisdiction: State Legislatures

Addresses the issue of grandfathered approval for existing polluting facilities, which can evade stringent regulatory standards and technological improvements, and are often located in low-income communities and communities of color.

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