{"id":9438,"date":"2024-11-29T01:49:15","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T01:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/?p=9438"},"modified":"2025-01-10T00:28:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T00:28:19","slug":"sounds-good-how-the-inflation-reduction-act-and-new-epa-regulations-mitigate-the-music-streaming-industrys-carbon-footprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/articles\/sounds-good-how-the-inflation-reduction-act-and-new-epa-regulations-mitigate-the-music-streaming-industrys-carbon-footprint\/","title":{"rendered":"Sounds Good: How the Inflation Reduction Act and New EPA Regulations Mitigate the Music Streaming Industry&#8217;s Carbon Footprint"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/11\/Hammons-Final.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-mobile-width=\"500\"  data-scrollbar=\"none\" data-download=\"off\" data-tracking=\"on\" data-newwindow=\"on\" data-pagetextbox=\"off\" data-scrolltotop=\"off\" data-startzoom=\"100\" data-startfpzoom=\"100\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">Hammons-Final<br\/><\/a>\n<p class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>While digitalized, the music streaming industry is not decarbonized. In fact, research suggests the industry accounts for 200 to 350 million kilograms of greenhouse gases emitted every year in the U.S. These emissions derive from streaming platforms\u2019 reliance on data centers, which consume enormous amounts of energy. This Article contends that the Inflation Reduction Act (\u201cIRA\u201d) and new EPA rules will eliminate the music streaming industry\u2019s emissions by encouraging investment in clean energy and carbon capture technology\u2014transforming the energy consumed by data centers tethered to the streaming industry. The new EPA rules should withstand the major questions doctrine, as applied in <\/em>West Virginia v. EPA<em>, and the IRA addresses the Jevons and Paperless Office Paradoxes as applied to music streaming by anticipating future electricity demand<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>PDF<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/11\/Hammons-Final.pdf\">https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/11\/Hammons-Final.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Author: Thomas C. Hammons<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Volume 26, Issue 2<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While digitalized, the music streaming industry is not decarbonized. In fact, research suggests the industry accounts for 200 to 350 million kilograms of greenhouse gases emitted every year in the U.S. These emissions derive from streaming platforms\u2019 reliance on data centers, which consume enormous amounts of energy. This Article contends that the Inflation Reduction Act <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/articles\/sounds-good-how-the-inflation-reduction-act-and-new-epa-regulations-mitigate-the-music-streaming-industrys-carbon-footprint\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,576,599],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9438"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9456,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9438\/revisions\/9456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}