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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

Law Columbia

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had failed to fulfill its non-discretionary obligation under Section 321(a) of the Clean Air Act to conduct evaluations of loss or shifts in employment that might result from implementation of the Clean Air Act. Murray Energy Corp. McCarthy , No.

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The California Legislature: Where Global Warming is Real and Science Still Matters

Union of Concerned Scientists

Here, we still want to cut global warming emissions by replacing polluting cars with clean vehicles and ramping up renewable energy to phase out fossil fuel powerplants. Electricity for all (of the Western United States) California has always led in creating and achieving necessarily ambitious renewable energy goals.

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February 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The court found that the plaintiffs pled plausible claims under the Commerce Clause and Property Clause that President Trump exceeded his legal authority when he issued the permit, as well as claims that the 2019 permit violated a 2004 executive order that established a permitting process for cross-border pipelines. Trump , No.

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May 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The first petition was filed by West Virginia and 18 other states that had intervened to defend the repeal and replacement rule, known as the Affordable Clean Energy rule. Supreme Court’s causation standard for the National Environmental Policy Act in Department of Transportation v. The Minnesota Supreme Court adopted the U.S.

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