Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 29, 2023
According to the nonpartisan National Association of Attorneys General, a state attorney general’s job is to represent the public interest—not private, special interests—by, among other things, “enforcing federal and state environmental laws.” Here’s a roundup of what these AGs have been doing to make a bad situation worse.
Enviromental Defense
AUGUST 23, 2021
million for other categories of support to fossil fuels. In fact, the Polluter Pays principle is enshrined across provincial and Canadian laws: companies don’t just have a moral obligation to clean up after making huge profits from public resources. Cleaning up is the law. What about the progress that has been made? .
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Legal Planet
APRIL 26, 2023
Supreme Court gave state and local governments a big–if preliminary–legal win against the fossil fuel industry. Critically, the California local jurisdictions filed their cases in state courts, relying on longstanding state common law principles such as public nuisance and trespass as the legal basis for their claims.
Law Columbia
DECEMBER 5, 2023
2011) ; Regehr et al. This kind of closed loop, circular reasoning is inappropriate when addressing the impacts of a massive fossil fuel project. Decision at 101-102.) Less sea ice also means that bears must swim longer distances, which poses a drowning risk to young cubs. See, e.g., IPCC AR6 WGI Ch.3 3 ; Laidre et al.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 1, 2022
Now comes the court’s crippling of the most important federal weapon available to avoid catastrophic climate change and its associated killing of tens of thousands of Americans every year with fossil fuel air pollution. The Supreme Court is ignoring the science on health. Many other studies show that reducing PM 2.5
Legal Planet
NOVEMBER 2, 2023
According to the Times article, since 2011 U.S. And remarkably, in large fracking states like California and Texas, water the petroleum industry uses for fracking is largely exempt from regulation under those states’ water rights laws that limit agricultural, industrial and domestic uses. (In
Environmental Progress
JANUARY 20, 2022
Notably, in the same proposal, the Commission has also included screening criteria for gaseous fossil fuels. The Regulation sets a time limit on the inclusion of nuclear energy but not on fossil fuels and grants the Commission special powers to rule on nuclear taxonomy compliance.
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