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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

Law Columbia

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had failed to fulfill its non-discretionary obligation under Section 321(a) of the Clean Air Act to conduct evaluations of loss or shifts in employment that might result from implementation of the Clean Air Act. Murray Energy Corp. McCarthy , No. 5:14 -cv-39 (N.D.

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Allegations of extensive sexual abuse at Kenyan offsetting project used by Shell and Netflix

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Lessons Not Learned: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth (2004). References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). million gallons of oil a day and produces up to 3.33

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Vietnamese blogger who filmed chemical spill protests released from prison

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Several workers have also been injured and others killed in explosions at the Point Comfort plant in 2005 and at a PVC plant in Illiopolis , Illinois in 2004. PVC plants operated by Formosa in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and in Point Comfort, Texas, have also been subject to numerous protests over pollution and elevated cancer rates.

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Good & Bad Environmental News From the U.S. Supreme Court

Legal Planet

Environmental Protection Agency, agreeing to decide whether fossil fuel manufacturers have legal standing to challenge an EPA decision under the federal Clean Air Act. On Monday, the Court denied review in a separate but related case, Ohio v. Both sets of plaintiffs sought Supreme Court review of the adverse D.C.

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February 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The court found that the plaintiffs pled plausible claims under the Commerce Clause and Property Clause that President Trump exceeded his legal authority when he issued the permit, as well as claims that the 2019 permit violated a 2004 executive order that established a permitting process for cross-border pipelines. Trump , No.

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Policy News: January 31, 2022

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Conservation: The House Natural Resources Committee approved the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act (H.R. billion annually to state and tribal fish and wildlife agencies for conservation and the implementation of state wildlife action plans. EPA – Clean Air Act Advisory Committee Meeting (Feb.

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May 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The first petition was filed by West Virginia and 18 other states that had intervened to defend the repeal and replacement rule, known as the Affordable Clean Energy rule. League of Conservation Voters v. Supreme Court’s causation standard for the National Environmental Policy Act in Department of Transportation v. Biden , No.

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