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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

Acidification : Reducing the pH rating of a substance making it more acidic in nature, for example, increased carbon emissions lead to the oceans absorbing more of it, increasing acidification and damaging ecology such as coral bleaching. It prohibits the discharge of polluting chemicals into US waters unless a special permit is granted.

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October 2019 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

CLF’s allegations included that the landfill’s coastal location “makes it extremely vulnerable to climate change impacts, including sea level rise and damaging storm surge, creating a significant risk of erosion and of pollution from the Landfill washing into the surrounding rivers and coastal wetlands.” California v. Bernhardt , No.

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March 2018 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

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. BP p.l.c. , 18-cv-182 (S.D.N.Y.

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May 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Ninth Circuit Said Biden Action Mooted Case Challenging Trump Revocation of Withdrawal of Oceans Lands from Oil and Gas Leasing. Army Corps of Engineers’ motion to hold in abeyance a case challenging the Trump administration’s rules defining “waters of the United States” under the Clean Water Act. United States v.

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May 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Columbia Climate Law

The court said that having remanded to the Corps for consultation under the Endangered Species Act, it was not necessary to determine whether the Corps “made a fully informed and well-considered decision” under NEPA and the Clean Water Act. s decision not to participate in the Paris Agreement.

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July 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The approval of the permit was therefore contrary to law because climate change had to be considered “to some extent” in order for Ecology to act consistently with implementing regulations under the Clean Water Act and the Water Pollution Control Act. Washington State Dairy Federation v. 52952-1-II (Wash.

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November 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

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. Army Corps of Engineers had violated the Clean Water Act. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , No. filed Oct.

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