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Law Columbia
OCTOBER 7, 2019
Circuit Court of Appeals granted motions seeking to dismiss as moot the proceedings challenging the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan, which established emission guidelines for greenhouse gases from existing power plants. Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection , No. West Virginia v. 15-1363 et al.
Law Columbia
MARCH 6, 2018
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court decision that vacated the listing of the Arctic ringed seal as threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The plaintiffs’ complaint asserting National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Clean Water Act, and Rivers and Harbors Act violations included allegations that the U.S.
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Law Columbia
MAY 7, 2021
The states argued that the Supreme Court’s stay of the Clean Power Plan while it was under review by the D.C. Circuit in 2016 signaled that the legal framework for the Clean Power Plan “hinges on important issues of federal that EPA then—and the court below now—got so wrong this Court was likely to grant review.”
Law Columbia
AUGUST 4, 2021
The Washington Supreme Court ruled that a climate activist should be permitted to present a necessity defense to charges of criminal trespass and unlawful obstruction of a train in connection with a 2016 protest on railroad tracks used by trains carrying coal and oil products. The cases were filed in 2016 , 2020 , and 2021.
Law Columbia
NOVEMBER 7, 2017
Peabody, a coal company, filed for bankruptcy in April 2016 and emerged from bankruptcy under a plan that became effective on April 3, 2017. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other governmental entities to allow continued enforcement of environmental laws related to ongoing mining operations. Foster , No.
Law Columbia
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) orders granting three petitions for extensions of small refinery exemptions from renewable fuel standards. Four environmental organizations filed a lawsuit in the federal district court for the District of Columbia challenging the U.S. Chao , No. 1:19-cv-02826 (D.D.C.).
Vermont Law
DECEMBER 19, 2016
As CEO of Exxon Mobil, the world’s largest publicly-traded oil business, Tillerson’s 2016 compensation was $24.3 NBC News reported in September 2016 that “President Barack Obama capped his environmental legacy and foreign policy pivot to Asia by formally ratifying the Paris climate deal on Saturday in a ceremony in Hangzhou, China.”. [21].
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