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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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Ripe for Disaster Declarations: Heat, Wildfire Smoke…and Death Data

Union of Concerned Scientists

The petitioners hope that disaster declarations can unlock federal funds for short-term relief such as cooling centers, water supplies, emergency air conditioning and air filtration systems, and financial assistance for evacuations. A new study by researchers at UCLA found that the fine particulate matter (known as PM2.5)

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Trump’s Pick for Energy Secretary, Chris Wright, is Wrong on Purpose. Here are the Facts. 

Union of Concerned Scientists

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee is expected to hold a hearing on Wrights nomination tomorrow. In videos and Congressional testimony , Wright portrays himself as a truth teller, while falsely claiming that climate scientists and renewable energy advocates are deceptive.

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October 2019 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

In addition, the court rejected the contention that the Clean Air Act or foreign affairs doctrine completely preempted the plaintiffs’ claims and also indicated that federal common law would not provide a basis for complete preemption. Court Dismissed Counterclaims in Climate Scientist’s Defamation Lawsuit.

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March 2018 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Arizona Court Ordered Production of Climate Scientists’ Emails Under Arizona’s Public Records Law. Energy & Environment Legal Institute v. ExxonMobil Corp. applied federal common law. California Department of Food & Agriculture , No. 34-2015-80002005 (Cal. judgment Feb. 22, 2018; consolidated ruling Jan.

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MAGA vs NOAA, Executive Orders, and Growing IRA Support

Legal Planet

The news that started leaking last Friday is that the Trump administration wants to break up the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and essentially end NOAAs climate work by abolishing its primary research office and forcing the agency to instead help boost U.S. Deep breath.

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Roe v. Wade Draft Bodes Ill for Air, Wetlands and EPA

Union of Concerned Scientists

Outside of bird protection acts of the early 20 th century, protections for water, air and the atmosphere are a late 20 th -century development, created in the wake of Rachel Carson’s 1962 treatise on pesticides, Silent Spring. There is now a 99.9 After the Massachusetts v.