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A Sacrifice to the Emperor of Forever: PFAS and Sacrifice Zones

Vermont Law

Candidate, 2024, Vermont Law & Graduate School and Articles Editor, Production Coordinator, and Personal Notes Editor for the Vermont Law Review October 1, 2023 The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry noted that “most people in the United States have one or more specific PFAS in their blood, especially PFOS and PFOA.” (1)

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Guest Post: Climate Litigation in Japan: Citizens’ Attempts for the Coal Phase-Out

Law Columbia

Japan’s dependency on fossil fuel s had been slightly declining until 2010. Civil law cases. a group of citizens submitted a civil law complaint requesting an injunction to stop the construction and subsequent operation of two coal-fired power plants. In September 2017, in Sendai Citizens v. Kobe Steel Ltd.,

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Why Energy Bills Will Be Even Higher This Winter

Union of Concerned Scientists

The US Energy Information Administration is forecasting the wholesale price of gas to reach its highest level since the winter of 2009-2010 in inflation-adjusted terms. Appalachian Power is currently seeking approval from Virginia regulators to increase residential electric rates by nearly 16 percent due to higher fuel costs.

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Cooperative Federalism, As Applied: Building Electrification

Law Columbia

Each of these spheres is regulated at the federal, state, and local levels. And while each brief focuses on the domain of the agency or group submitting it (and the law professors’ brief discusses state and local authority under the U.S Building & Appliance Energy Use. While the parties in CRA v. DOE Brief 8).

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Improving EPA’s Latest Ozone Transport Rule

Acoel

The 2005 Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR) provided smaller but significant air quality improvements following its implementation in 2010. In 2020, sources in both the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) NOX annual program and the A(cid) R(ain) P(rogram) together emitted 0.78 Most areas of the eastern U.S.

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Shell’s reckless divestment from Niger Delta

Corp Watch

Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). This case is unique because it is the first time a Dutch company has been sued in a Dutch court of law and held liable for the l damage it caused abroad. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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Address Impact Of Operations In Niger Delta Before Selling SPDC – CSOs Tell Shell

Corp Watch

Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). This case is unique because it is the first time a Dutch company has been sued in a Dutch court of law and held liable for the l damage it caused abroad. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m Also see SOMO's 2008 report.