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October 2019 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Fourth Circuit Declined to Stay Remand Order in Baltimore’s Climate Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies; Companies Sought Stay from Supreme Court. Circuit Ruled that EPA Must Consider Endangered Species in Setting Renewable Fuel Standards. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 126.

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May 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Columbia Climate Law

EPA of a 2015 rule barring replacement of ozone-depleting substances with hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are powerful greenhouse gases. Circuit vacated the 2015 rule to the extent that it prohibited continued use of HFCs by companies that previously switched to HFCs from an ozone-depleting substance. In Mexichem , the D.C.

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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Circuit also rejected EPA’s argument that the court did not have authority to review stays issued under Section 307(d)(7)(D) of the Clean Air Act. Fourth Circuit Said West Virginia District Court Lacked Jurisdiction to Consider Coal Companies’ Clean Air Act Jobs Study Lawsuit. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS.

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March 2018 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The federal district court for the Northern District of California denied Oakland’s and San Francisco’s motions to remand their climate change public nuisance lawsuits against five major fossil fuel producers to state court. 34-2015-80002005 (Cal. ExxonMobil Corp. applied federal common law. AquAlliance v. 1:15 -cv-00754 (E.D.

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Policy News: July 1, 2022

ESA

Biden administration repeals definition of habitat under the Endangered Species Act. In the past, ESA and other science societies have supported the 2015 definition of WOTUS that is based in sound science including endorsing an amicus brief in a former court case. NSF receives $9.63 billion, a $793 million increase.

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Policy News: May 28, 2021

ESA

Global Change Research Program since 2015. USFWS: The agency has listed the less prairie chicken as an endangered species in eastern New Mexico and the southwest Texas Panhandle and a threatened species in the northeast Texas Panhandle, southeast Colorado, south-central Kansas and western Oklahoma.

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Policy News: November 22, 2021

ESA

Fish and Wildlife Service receives $180 million for developing and carrying out Endangered Species Act recovery plans and a combined $19.4 For the first time, the pact calls for a “phase down” the use of coal and fossil fuel subsidies. The agency designated 563 river miles as critical habitat for the species.

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