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Fifth Circuit Rejects EPA’s Overreaching on CAA and MBTA

The Energy Law Blog

14-40128, 2015 U.S. 4, 2015). The district court found Citgo guilty of two counts of knowingly operating two tanks as oil-water separators without CAA emission controls, and three counts of “taking” migratory birds in violation of the MBTA. The MBTA protects 1,026 species of birds. United States v. 16 U.S.C. §

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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. The court rejected Exxon’s argument that it could withhold documents based on an accountant-client privilege under Texas law. and non-U.S. Avista Corp.

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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. A number of different parties had lined up on either side of the issue of whether EPA’s stay was lawful. and non-U.S. United States , No.

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The Long Life and Sudden Demise of Federal Wetlands Protection

Legal Planet

A footnote explains that this category includes “”all other waters of the United States that could be regulated under the federal government’s Constitutional powers to regulate and protect interstate commerce.” Supreme Court strikes down a rule covers any wetland or pond used by migratory birds. In Rapanos v.

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Policy News: November 22, 2021

ESA

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.,” or WOTUS. “In United States. 2225 ) this past summer.

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Policy News: June 14, 2021

ESA

By October, Interior says it will complete its revocation of a controversial late Trump-era rule weakening protections for migratory birds. The agenda notes DOE is preparing a major rulemaking to reduce the use of fossil fuels in federal buildings — an implementation of a 2007 law. Steve Daines (R-MT).

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