ARTICLE · 12 JANUARY 2017

States And Private Sector Continue To Make Clean Energy Progress

Holland & Knight

State laws requiring clean energy and renewable portfolio standards are likely to continue advancing the nation's clean energy agenda regardless of new trends in Washington.

United StatesEnergy and Natural Resources

Stephen J. Humes

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Stephen J. Humes is a partner in Holland & Knight's New York office

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State laws requiring clean energy and renewable portfolio standards are likely to continue advancing the nation's clean energy agenda regardless of new trends in Washington.
Major private sector companies are continuing to advance investments in renewables, energy efficiency and distributed energy resources due to corporate social responsibility commitments and desires to reduce global carbon footprints.
EIA reports coal could mount a modest come-back if the Trump Administration revokes the controversial Clean Power Plan.

Earlier this week we discussed that it will be hard for President-Elect Donald Trump's Administration to bring back jobs in the coal industry due to fundamental laws of energy economics that make coal-fired power generation more expensive than natural gas in the generation of electricity.

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States And Private Sector Continue To Make Clean Energy Progress

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