Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 30, 2019

Also elephants, giraffes, rhinos (of the non-political variety), Cape buffalo, baboons, uninvited monkeys at lunch, hippos, wildebeests, hyenas, warthogs and an unexpected (to me) penguin colony. Governor Roy Cooper issued an executive order on climate change and clean energy. Leopard: Thornybush Game Preserve (photo G.Whaley).

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2018 Climate Change Clean Energy 2002 52

Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

Army Corps of Engineers’ motion to hold in abeyance a case challenging the Trump administration’s rules defining “waters of the United States” under the Clean Water Act. The plaintiffs asserted that the Corps’ approval of modifications to the project violated the Rivers and Harbors Act and the Clean Water Act.

2021 40

2021 Fossil Fuels Climate Change Endangered Species Act 40

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The court said the plaintiff had not alleged an injury connected to any particular action or law and that her allegations instead suggested disagreements with the defendants’ policy positions, which made her claims nonjusticiable political questions. Army Corps of Engineers had violated the Clean Water Act.

2017 40

2017 Clean Air Act Climate Change Clean Water Act 40

Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The majority said it “reluctantly” concluded that “the plaintiffs’ case must be made to the political branches or to the electorate at large” and “[t]hat the other branches may have abdicated their responsibility to remediate the problem does not confer on Article III courts, no matter how well-intentioned, the ability to step into their shoes.”

2020 40

2020 Fossil Fuels Climate Change Greenhouse 40