The Center for Resource Solutions has posted a complimentary on-demand webinar outlining guidelines for states to use existing renewable energy certificate (REC) tracking systems as an integral part of state compliance for the EPA’s Clean Power Plan.

The webinar is titled “Tracking Renewable Energy for the U.S. EPA’s Clean Power Plan: Guidelines for States to Use Existing REC Tracking Systems to Comply with 111(d).”

These REC tracking systems, together with state policies designed to increase the production and use of renewable electricity, will be critical to states looking to use renewable energy like wind and solar to reduce the carbon intensity of their power sector, CRS says on its website.

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Nixon Peabody presents a free on-demand webinar covering the latest news from HUD with respect to “green” affordable housing development.

With sustainability issues continuing to emerge at the forefront of multifamily housing development, HUD is redoubling its efforts to ameliorate the 30% bite that energy takes out of its subsidy budget, the firm says on its website. How can sustainability efforts bring cost benefits that will outweigh the expense of implementation? Find out how you can capture opportunities for enhanced cash flow that you may be leaving on the table.

Topics will include:

• The latest news from HUD with respect to “green” affordable housing development
• How adding energy-saving measures to your project can be beneficial, and what these measures mean to you as an owner and to your housing portfolio
• How to execute a sustainable housing project through a case study example

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The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Network on Smart and Sustainable Cities will present a complimentary webinar on local governments’ application of climate change standards formulated by the International Organization for Standardization.

The 90-minute webinar will be Tuesday, Nov. 18, beginning at 2 p.m. Eastern time.

The presentation will cover ISO Technical Committee 207’s Subcommittee 7 on greenhouse gas management and related activities, involving measuring, reducing, managing and verifying greenhouse gas emissions.

Tom Baumann, chair of ISO/TC 207/SC 7, will be the presenter.

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The Atlantic Council has produced a white paper focusing on the water-related issues impacting the United States’ ability to unleash domestic energy resources.

In Produced Water: Asset or Waste, Blythe Lyons  writes that sustainable and publicly acceptable water management practices are essential for both conventional and unconventional oil and gas production. This report, based on a workshop held at the Atlantic Council, promotes the idea that sustainable water strategies require that produced water be considered as an asset rather than as a waste.

“The report reaches the conclusion that produced water is currently seen as a pollutant and detriment to environmental security, but if managed appropriately, it could be recycled and utilized as an asset and new resource in the energy industry,” she writes.

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The Center for Climate and Energy Solutions has posted a complimentary webinar designed to help utility managers address issues across the water-energy nexus.

In the webinar, Dr. Craig Zamuda from the Department of Energy (DOE) presents key findings from DOE’s recently released water/energy nexus report, attempting to distill some of the key issues and risks of which water and electric utilities should be aware.

Dr. Kristen Averyt, Associate Director for Science for the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and Director of the Western Water Assessment at the University of Colorado, presents her research regarding water-energy challenges that exist currently and are on the horizon.

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The Center for Resource Solutions has posted a free webinar that explains how existing renewable energy certificate (REC) tracking systems can be used as an integral part of state compliance for the EPA’s Clean Power Plan.

On its website, the Center says that REC tracking systems, together with state policies designed to increase the production and use of renewable electricity, will be critical to states looking to use renewable energy like wind and solar to reduce the carbon intensity of their power sector. This presentation is intended for air and electricity regulators, as well as renewable energy advocates that are interested in participating in the Clean Air Act Section 111(d) comment period.

The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE) has posted an on-demand webinar on the newly-proposed carbon pollution limits for existing power plants.

Webinars in this series are an opportunity to learn about emerging environmental regulations, clean energy technologies, opportunities and issues that SACE engages in everyday, the Alliance says on its website.

On June 2 the Environmental Protection Agency released proposed standards for the first-ever limits on carbon pollution from existing power plants. These carbon pollution standards, under section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act, will be designed to significantly reduce harmful carbon dioxide emissions from the electricity sector.

This webinar provides an introduction to the proposed 111(d) regulations, explain what this means for utilities and regulators in the Southeast, and how you and your organization can be involved in this rule-making process.

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The State and Local Legal Center has posted a free on-demand webinar on a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the Environmental Protection Agency’s interpretation of the Clean Air Act.

The court held that the Act neither compels nor permits the EPA to adopt an interpretation of the Clean Air Act requiring a stationary source of pollution to obtain a “Prevention of Significant Deterioration” or Title V permit on the sole basis of its potential greenhouse-gas emission. However, as reported in SCOTUSblog, EPA reasonably interpreted the Clean Air Act to require sources that would need permits based on their emission of conventional pollutants to comply with “best available control technology” for greenhouse gases.

In the webinar, Roger Martella of Sidley Austin and former EPA General Counsel, discusses the implications of Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA for state and local government and how this case may affect EPA regulating greenhouse gases in the future.

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Chemical Engineering magazine has posted a free on-demand webinar on the distribution of shale across the globe and the enormous petroleum resources they represent.

The webinar will discuss what has been learned about the economics of drilling key shale plays in North America that might inform shale exploration and development elsewhere in the world. I also will address the areas around that world that represent “shale frontiers.”

Other topics include the important considerations for exploration, well planning and development in shale deposits and how they differ compared to those for conventional petroleum; the environmental implications of global shale development; the differences in data gathering and technical analyses for conventional versus unconventional petroleum deposits; products that are limited by the shift toward cracking lighter feedstocks; and the opportunities available for on-purpose production of those limited products.

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POWER magazine presents a complimentary on-demand webinar on environmental regulatory issues confronting the utility industry as the Environmental Protection Agency continues to ratchet down emission rates and discharge limits through rules involving air, water, and waste regulations.

On its website, POWER says this annual roundtable discussion by the industry’s leading authorities on environmental regulation will offer insight into the likely outcome of the greenhouse gas rulemaking process for existing plants; the likely regulatory timeframes and legal issues related to upcoming water, waste, and air rules; and the range of response strategies being implemented by the utility industry for surviving in the current regulatory environment.

Webinar attendees will learn the latest on water, air and carbon emission regulations from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. This discussion at ELECTRIC POWER 2014 offered an update on the EPA’s expected carbon emission rules for existing power plants, rules related to Section 316(b) of the Clean Water Act, as well as ongoing compliance with a host of air emission rules, POWER says.

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