The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 15, 2020

Below we take a closer look at each category of lawsuits and provide an update on where they stand today. The twelve-day bench trial was the first time a fossil fuel company addressed in court its understanding of climate change and the risks it poses to its business. 9-10 (emphasis in original). et al , No. 18-16663 (9th Cir.

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Mazzant III of the United States District Court in the Eastern District of Texas denied a motion to dismiss the government’s first ever criminal indictment for alleged wage-fixing. The court determined that Rodgers had failed to show that a valid non-prosecution agreement existed.]] On November 29, 2021, Judge Amos L.

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CEQA Developments

OCTOBER 21, 2021

In a 53-page published opinion filed October 8, 2021, the Fourth District Court of Appeal mostly affirmed, but reversed in part, a judgment in a CEQA action challenging two sets of projects of the City of San Diego to underground overhead utility wires in several neighborhoods. The Court Of Appeal’s Opinion.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

Click Here for a summary of 2022 shale gas and conventional violations. Winter Storm Elliot Causes Natural Gas Infrastructure Failure Natural gas infrastructure failures during Winter Storm Elliot resulted in the proposed imposition of an unprecedented $1.8 Major modifications of the permits to match the installed structure are being considered.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

And so what this study did was looking at 2002 to 2015 Medicare claims, the authors took advantage of a stark difference in fracking activity between Pennsylvania, where the practice started becoming widespread in 2008, and in New York, where fracking was and still is banned. It also offers a review of trends in research findings.

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Smith Enviorment

JULY 12, 2022

Supreme Court issued a decision striking down an Obama era rule regulating carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from existing power plants. Three key takeaways from the court’s decision: The Court did not rule that EPA lacks authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants or other sources.

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 26, 2023

Supreme Court decision in Sackett v. 21-454 (May 25, 2023) is a landmark ruling in environmental law interpreting the scope of water bodies covered by the Clean Water Act (CWA) – an issue that has been debated by courts, presidential administrations, and federal agencies for decades. United States , 547 U.S.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

Federal Court Denied Oakland and San Francisco Motions to Return Climate Change Nuisance Cases to State Court; Found Federal Common Law of Nuisance Could Apply, Despite AEP v. The court dispensed with the cities’ three primary arguments for remanding the cases. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 107.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

It’s no wonder that one EPA staffer’s reaction to the Supreme Court ruling was a single word: “Heartbroken.” ” In 2023, the Supreme Court ended fifty years of broad federal protection to wetlands in Sackett v. United States. Here’s a timeline of the major events. In SWANCC v. In Rapanos v.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

EPA unveiled a proposed rule that would take the Navigable Waters Protection Rule off the books and reinstate long-standing regulations defining which streams and wetlands are subject to federal protection, a category known as “Waters of the U.S.,” Court of Appeals that found wetlands on their property to be jurisdictional.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

Appeals court rules that US Fish and Wildlife Service improperly denied protections for Pacific walruses. It changed long-time agency policy to allow major sources of pollution to reclassify as area sources, a category with fewer regulatory requirements, once their emissions fell below a certain threshold. Executive Branch.

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ESA

JANUARY 31, 2022

Supreme Court to hear Clean Water Act case. the Supreme Court granted certiorari when it will decide the appropriate definition of “waters of the United States” (WOTUS) in the Clean Water Act (CWA). In the case, the Court will hear, Sackett v. The Supreme Court may not issue its ruling until 2023.

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Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

These have resulted in Supreme Court rulings in 1915 and the Comics Code Authority. There isn’t a boy or a young lad tried at our Courts of Justice whose position there is not more or less due the effect of unwholesome literature upon his mind,” opined the recorder for the City of London in 1885.’ 554 incidents of vandalism.’

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