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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. Supreme Court’s causation standard for the National Environmental Policy Act in Department of Transportation v. The Minnesota Supreme Court adopted the U.S.

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February 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

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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