A U.S. trade court has reinstated a tariff exemption on some imported solar panels, a decision that benefits domestic clean-energy developers. Former President Donald Trump last year eliminated a loophole that exempted double-sided solar panels from import duties, but that “constituted an action outside the president’s delegated authority,” U.S. Court of International Trade Judge Gary […]
Trump Decision to End Solar-Trade Loophole Is Overturned by U.S. Court – EQ Mag Pro
A U.S. trade court has overturned a decision made last year by then-President Donald Trump to end a tariff exemption that benefited domestic solar developers. The former president’s proclamation that closed a loophole for solar panels that generate power on both sides “constituted an action outside the President’s delegated authority,” U.S. Court of International Trade […]
China Appeals WTO Ruling Over Trump Era’s Solar-Panel Tariffs – EQ Mag Pro
China appealed a World Trade Organization dispute ruling that rejected the nation’s claims against the U.S. relating to safeguard measures that the Trump administration imposed on solar panels imported from Chinese manufacturers. Earlier this month, a WTO panel said China failed to establish that Washington’s safeguards against imports of certain crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells are […]
With Trump gone, NATO wages war on climate change threat
Trump called climate change a “hoax” and pulled the United States out of the international Paris Agreement to fight climate change If the U.S. military were a nation state, it would be the world’s 47th largest emitter of planet-warming greenhouse gases, a 2019 study found. Though the British universities of Lancaster and Durham took account […]
Biden puts US back into fight to slow global warming
Biden signed an executive order rejoining the Paris climate accord within hours of taking the oath of office, fulfilling a campaign pledge. Washington: President Joe Biden returned the United States to the worldwide fight to slow global warming in one of his first official acts and immediately launched a series of climate-friendly efforts that would […]
Trump Faces Another Legal Battle Over Stiffer Solar Tariffs
A Washington-based solar-lobbying group is challenging an October proclamation by President Donald Trump that stiffened tariffs on imported solar equipment. Late Tuesday, the Solar Energy Industries Association and developers including NextEra Energy Inc. and Invenergy Renewables LLC asked the U.S. Court of International Trade for an injunction prohibiting the enforcement of the proclamation, which removed […]
Trump Wins Fight to Close Solar-Tariff Loophole He Granted
Administration has pushed for months to end exemption Solar group considering new challenge against proclamation The Trump administration scored a legal victory allowing it to remove an exemption for tariffs on certain imported solar panels after being thwarted for months in court. A U.S. trade judge on Thursday ruled that a proclamation President Donald Trump […]
Bifacial Solar Tariffs Back On After Court Ruling
The Trump administration’s solar tariff saga continues. After months of legal back-and-forth, a ruling in the U.S. Court of International Trade has reinstated tariffs on two-sided solar panels, giving the Trump administration a victory in its waning days. Despite numerous attempts by the Trump administration to reimpose tariffs on bifacial solar panels, which the administration […]
Climate Action: Trump Undid Obama’s Work, Now Biden Plans To Undo Trump’s
Washington: Joe Biden could erase much of President Donald Trump’s four-year legacy of energy and climate deregulation with the stroke of his pen, according to regulatory experts, but replacing it with something new and durable may prove trickier. Trump’s rollbacks are on shaky ground because most were done not through Congressional lawmaking but via presidential […]
Biden campaign tells miners it supports domestic production of EV metals
President Donald Trump has issued executive orders to encourage US mining Joe Biden’s campaign has privately told U.S. miners it would support boosting domestic production of metals used to make electric vehicles, solar panels and other products crucial to his climate plan, according to three sources familiar with the matter, in a boon for the […]