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Opposition to CAFOs Mounts Across the Nation

Circle of Blue

Opposition to large livestock operations is more intense than at any time in recent memory, say environmental advocates. It’s been building and building,” said Rob Michaels, an attorney for the Environmental Law and Policy Center (ELPC), a Chicago-based legal group, who is working to limit CAFO manure discharges in Ohio and Michigan.

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These Attorneys General Are Defending the Fossil Fuel Industry, Not Their States

Union of Concerned Scientists

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.”

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Children Will Suffer the Consequences of Recent Supreme Court Rulings

Union of Concerned Scientists

The Supreme Court sharply limited the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to slash carbon pollution from power plants. The leadoff articles in the series included a commentary from Lisa Heinzerling , a Georgetown University environmental law professor, who crafted the victorious brief in the 2007 Massachusetts v.

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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

Law Columbia

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. 24, 2016); Alaska Oil & Gas Association v. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts. Here are the additions to the U.S. Alaska Oil & Gas Association v.

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Families condemn Koch brothers over ploy to avoid asbestos compensation

Corp Watch

Environmental Protection Agency fined Koch $30 million in 2000, the largest civil penalty on a company at the time, for over 300 oil spills from company pipelines in Alabama, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas including a 12­ mile-long oil slick off the coast of Texas. The fine was $30 million.

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Is Agrochemical Contamination Killing Nebraska’s Children?

Circle of Blue

On November 16, 2011, at 6:12 p.m., Farms collectively are the largest source of nitrate pollution in rivers and groundwater, and the penalty for contaminated water — meaning stricter and more costly standards in order to protect public health — is paid by the people who drink it. It was a career shift. If the U.S.

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2019 Legislation: Environmental and Energy Laws

Smith Enviorment

A short list of environmental and energy law changes compared to recent years: Fisheries. For stormwater and other nutrient sources, the law continues to require nutrient offsets in the same hydrologic area. House Bill 329 (Renewable Energy Amendments) makes several relatively minor changes to energy laws.

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