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NRDA Settlement Reached for 2014 Galveston Bay Oil Spill

The Energy Law Blog

On December 3, 2021, the Department of Justice published a notice in the Federal Register of a settlement between Federal and State Trustees and Kirby Inland Marine, LP (“Kirby”) to resolve natural resource damages from a 2014 oil release. Additionally, Kirby paid $4.9 In November 2021, the U.S. See United States v.

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Lake Erie’s Failed Algae Strategy Hurts Poor Communities the Most

Circle of Blue

Their collective trauma dates back to August 2, 2014, when she and half a million other Toledoans woke to alarming news: the water coming out of their taps was toxic. Their drinking water contained microcystin, a toxin known to cause diarrhea, vomiting, and liver damage at small concentrations. Carl Ganter, Circle of Blue.

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In A Year of Water Quality Reckoning, National Imperative is Impeded

Circle of Blue

A career specialist in soils and forestry health, most of it with the Natural Resource Conservation Service, a unit of the U.S. Fifty years ago the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement was signed and the Clean Water Act was enacted to clear pollution from the region’s waters. Six months later the U.S.

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March 2018 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The court stated: “Plaintiffs’ claims for public nuisance, though pled as state-law claims, depend on a global complex of geophysical cause and effect involving all nations of the planet (and the oceans and atmosphere). Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. The planned pipeline is to be 162.5 Perry , No. 3:17 -cv-03404 (N.D.

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May 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Columbia Climate Law

As a threshold matter, the court found that Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and one of the state petitioners (New York) each had standing based on potential injuries from climate change which were caused in part by HFC emissions and which would be redressed by restrictions on such emissions. Wheeler , No. 18-1172 (D.C.

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August 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to issue a decision on Exxon’s application to renew the NPDES permit, which had expired in 2014. Whitewater Draw Natural Resource Conservation District v. The district court had granted Exxon’s motion to stay the case under the doctrine of primary jurisdiction to allow the U.S.

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November 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The states and environmental groups contended that summary vacatur was warranted because NHTSA lacked authority to delay the rule’s effective date and failed to comply with the Administrative Procedure Act’s notice and comment requirements. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. 17-2780, 17-2806 (2d Cir. 1:17 -cv-02032 (D.D.C.,

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