Corp Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Oil giant Total is being sued by cities and NGOs for not fighting climate change hard enough Francois de Beaupuy | Fortune | January 28, 2020 Oil giant Total SA is being sued by 14 local governments and a handful of non-governmental organizations in France for not doing enough to reduce its carbon emissions and fight global warming.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Oil giant Total is being sued by cities and NGOs for not fighting climate change hard enough Francois de Beaupuy | Fortune | January 28, 2020 Oil giant Total SA is being sued by 14 local governments and a handful of non-governmental organizations in France for not doing enough to reduce its carbon emissions and fight global warming.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 17, 2022

In a Friday post, I sketched some thoughts about how the Supreme Court’s vaccine mandate rulings might impact EPA’s power to control carbon emissions. The Court ruled in both cases on the principle that an agency can take action of “vast economic and political significance” only it Congress has plainly authorized it to do so.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Among the arguments rejected by the court was the contention that the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency erred by failing to consider the effects of climate change in its analysis of whether the project would violate state water quality standards. The court further found that the harms would be redressable by declaratory relief.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 14, 2023

Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed new power plant carbon pollution standards that, if strengthened, would go a long way to help meet the Biden administration’s goal of slashing carbon emissions in half from 2005 levels by the end of this decade. What would they accomplish? Not even close.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The court said the plaintiff had not alleged an injury connected to any particular action or law and that her allegations instead suggested disagreements with the defendants’ policy positions, which made her claims nonjusticiable political questions. Republican National Committee , No. 3:17 -cv-00123 (W.D. million rate increase.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

It will likely be at least two weeks before the Senate takes up the legislation and the Senate will likely make major changes to the bill before passing the legislation for political and parliamentary reasons. NOAA and EPA – Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control Program: Proposal To Find That Ohio Has Satisfied Conditions on Earlier Approval.

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