Biden Administration Energy and Climate Change Policies and Regulations: 2022 Tracker | Practical Law

Biden Administration Energy and Climate Change Policies and Regulations: 2022 Tracker | Practical Law

A Practice Note tracking key Biden administration actions and initiatives taken in 2022 on climate, energy, and environmental issues. This tracker sets out executive orders, agency actions, and related Congressional and judicial actions and decisions. It also includes certain actions taken in 2021 to the extent they are still pending or have ongoing implications. This tracker is updated at the end of each month through December 19, 2022.

Biden Administration Energy and Climate Change Policies and Regulations: 2022 Tracker

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Law stated as of 19 Dec 2022USA (National/Federal)
A Practice Note tracking key Biden administration actions and initiatives taken in 2022 on climate, energy, and environmental issues. This tracker sets out executive orders, agency actions, and related Congressional and judicial actions and decisions. It also includes certain actions taken in 2021 to the extent they are still pending or have ongoing implications. This tracker is updated at the end of each month through December 19, 2022.
This tracker sets out, among other things, the administration's response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine (for example, sanctions, releases from the SPR, price caps, and increased LNG exports), the Inflation Reduction Act and the IRS's implementing regulations, initiatives to help the US achieve net zero and decarbonize the electricity sector, including offshore wind auctions, federal support for carbon capture, hydrogen, and energy storage technologies, the Supreme Court's decision on the Clean Air Act, the major questions doctrine and its impact on the administrative state, the UFLPA, antidumping investigations, and their effect on solar projects, initiatives to strengthen the renewable and alternative energy supply chain, regulations to strengthen the electric grid, and the EPA's methane regulations.