Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The plaintiffs alleged that Peabody (and a number of other fossil fuel companies) caused greenhouse gas emissions that resulted in sea level rise and damage to their property. Peabody, a coal company, filed for bankruptcy in April 2016 and emerged from bankruptcy under a plan that became effective on April 3, 2017. 16-42529 (Bankr.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

By Karen Ellas, Climate Reality Project, Susquehanna Valley PA Chapter This guest essay first appeared in the Lock Haven Express September 13, 2021 -- The technology known as Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is currently being discussed in Congress as part of President Biden’s infrastructure bill.

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Fossil Fuels Carbon Dioxide Natural Gas Carbon Emissions 60

Law Columbia

APRIL 25, 2024

These statutes take different forms, but generally allow BLM to lease Federal lands for oil and gas development, and require BLM to act as trustee for the benefit of Native American mineral rights. As part of this leasing program, BLM collects royalties based on the volume and value of oil and gas produced on federal land.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Read more here ] DEP looked at environmental compliance from conventional oil and gas operations— not from hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” — between 2017 and 2021. A 2016 study of Pennsylvania’s abandoned oil and gas wells published in the journal Environmental Sciences, gave an estimate of up to 750,000 abandoned wells.

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Columbia Climate Law

DECEMBER 2, 2019

On Friday, November 22, the Sabin Center submitted comments opposing an Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) proposal to rescind regulations limiting methane emissions from new oil and natural gas facilities (the “Methane New Source Performance Standards” or “Methane NSPS”). That view is, however, refuted by EPA’s own documents.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

The SCC is a metric that seeks to capture all of the costs that emitting a ton of carbon dioxide (or equivalent amounts of other greenhouse gases such as methane) imposes on society by contributing to climate change over the hundreds of years it remains in the atmosphere. What Are the Key Variables Affecting the SCC Amount?

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

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). It necessarily involves the relationships between the United States and all other nations. Public Citizen, Inc. Trump , No.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 16, 2022

The polluting cracker plant About thirty miles from Springdale, along the Ohio River in the town of Monaca in Beaver County, an ethane cracker plant being built by Royal Dutch Shell is the latest and largest development to take advantage of the natural gas found in the Marcellus Shale. It is slated to open sometime in 2022.

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Carbon Dioxide 2022 Fossil Fuels Earth Day 52

Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

On April 22, 2021, the developers of the Jordan Cove Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Project moved to suspend merits briefing and hold cases challenging the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) authorization of the project in abeyance. Lawsuit Challenged 2021 Reissuance of Nationwide Permit for Oil and Gas Projects.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

Citing Shortcomings in NEPA Analysis of Cumulative Climate and Groundwater Impacts, Montana Federal Court Vacated Oil and Gas Leases. The federal district court for the District of Montana vacated 287 oil and gas leases issued by the U.S. Organizations Challenged FERC Approval of Natural Gas Projects in Massachusetts.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2016

At a recent victory tour rally in West Allis, Wisconsin President-elect Trump succinctly stated his energy policy: “On energy we will cancel the restrictions on the destruction of American energy, including shale, natural gas and clean beautiful coal.”. [1]. into the atmosphere each year, with no end in sight.

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