Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 28, 2024

At this year’s annual general meetings, major investor-owned fossil fuel corporations are facing fewer climate-related shareholder proposals than at any time since the adoption of the Paris climate agreement in 2015. But that doesn’t mean they’re under less pressure over their role in driving the climate crisis.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 126. Fourth Circuit Declined to Stay Remand Order in Baltimore’s Climate Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies; Companies Sought Stay from Supreme Court. Court Dismissed Counterclaims in Climate Scientist’s Defamation Lawsuit. FEATURED CASE.

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2019 Endangered Species Act Climate Change Greenhouse 40

Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

The federal district court for the Northern District of California denied Oakland’s and San Francisco’s motions to remand their climate change public nuisance lawsuits against five major fossil fuel producers to state court. Federal Court Dismissed Challenge to Executive Order on Reducing Regulation. Public Citizen, Inc.

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2018 Clean Air Act Climate Change 2017 40

Law Columbia

JUNE 6, 2023

The project will also contribute to “ carbon lock-in ” – the process by which expanding oil and gas infrastructure causes continued dependence on fossil fuels. This approach has been used to assess the responsibility of specific entities, such as national governments and carbon emitting companies, to climate change-related harms.

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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. Hurst v.

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2020 Endangered Species Act Climate Change Greenhouse 40

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 31, 2022

The US House Oversight and Reform Committee kicked off its investigation of the fossil fuel industry’s decades-long climate change disinformation campaign last fall by inviting top executives from BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell to testify about their role and subpoenaing their companies for internal documents.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2022

To get an assessment of the progress thus far, as well as an idea if what has to happen next, I turned to two of my colleagues in the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) Climate & Energy Program: Principal Climate Scientist Rachel Licker and Transmission Policy Manager Sam Gomberg. Our work is having a major impact.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

For example, should costs imposed by US regulation of greenhouse gases be justified by including in the benefits the reduction of climate change impacts outside of the United States? First, the SCC will be used to benchmark the benefits of agency regulations. 2017); [link].]] Energy Regul. FERC , 867 F.3d

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Science Blogs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

This post covers from approximately mid-June, 2017 up to August 31, 2017. A few general resources: Sidelining Science Since Day One: How the Trump administration has harmed public health and safety in its first six months by The Union of Concerned Scientists I Heart Climate Scientists. . July 2017. .

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ESA

JUNE 1, 2021

Even when Republicans controlled both the House and Senate in 2017 and 2018, Congress largely rejected these steep cuts. EPA Administrator Michael Regan announced that the agency will rewrite a Trump administration regulation that limited state’s ability to block pipeline and fossil fuel export facilities under the Clean Water Act.

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