Eco Lawyers

MAY 25, 2016

LONG BEACH, Calif. Today, the City of Long Beach, Gomez Trial Attorneys , and Baron & Budd filed the seventh lawsuit of its kind against Monsanto for PCB contamination of Long Beach’s city storm water and the Port of Long Beach. Polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, are toxic chemicals which cannot be contained and last for decades. PCBs off-gas from their original application, enter into city storm water through urban run-off, and deposit into the Port of Long Beach.

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 26, 2016

U.S. District Court Judge Dee Drell (Western District, LA) recently denied a motion to alter or amend the Court’s judgment against CITGO Petroleum Corp.– allowing an $81 million judgment against the oil company to stand. The judgment is the latest in a suit the EPA filed against CITGO under the Clean Water Act for a 2006 spill at the oil company’s St.

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Vermont Law

MAY 17, 2016

Summary. : Conscious consumption is each individual’s responsibility. Understanding what we consume and how we facilitate the commoditization of life is a necessity if we are to promote the modification of social values to include holistic stewardship of our planetary resources. By Madhavi Venkatesan, PhD. To justify the horrific treatment of other life forms through an assertion that provision of quality of life would be too expensive provides a greater insight into the social values of the pre

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 12, 2016

On May 4, 2016, environmental groups sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), seeking to compel EPA to “fulfill long-delayed nondiscretionary duties” under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) by issuing revised regulations governing oil and gas wastes. The complaint alleges that EPA’s regulations “are outdated, contain generic provisions that do not specifically address the modern oil and gas industry, and fail to adequately protect against potential harm to human heal

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 10, 2016

In a May 4, 2016 opinion, Louisiana’s Third Circuit Court of Appeal made clear that venue was not proper in Concordia Parish—where plaintiff filed suit for damages resulting from the loss of its drilling rig in LaSalle Parish—because: (1) the tortious conduct allegedly occurred and damages from the loss of the drilling rig were sustained in LaSalle Parish only, despite plaintiff’s assertion that it lost profits at its domicile in Concordia Parish, and (2) not all defendants were parties to a co

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 6, 2016

Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” is a hotly debated topic in many states. In New York and Pennsylvania, anti-fracking groups have obtained a statewide ban on fracking and the allowance of local authority to regulate fracking, respectively. Texas, however, has enacted a state law expressly preempting local authority over a number of drilling activities.

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 5, 2016

Generally, oil and gas production facilities have accounted for volume losses under the concept of “Fuel, Flare & Losses.” In a recent case, the Louisiana Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal held that processors must also account for gas volume diverted to gas lift operations. In Red Willow Offshore, LLC v. Palm Energy Offshore, LLC , the Fourth Circuit found that a processing facility operator breached its Production Processing Agreement (“PPA”) with working interest owners by diverting without

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Vermont Law

MAY 3, 2016

Summary. : This post originally appeared in the. Oxford Human Rights Blog. on April 18, 2016. The systemic collapse of the U.S. coal extraction industry has scarcely been of benefit to the subordinated Appalachian citizenry. However, tangible socio-legal progress may be achieved in the Appalachian region vis-à-vis a critical human rights approach to environmental justice issues.

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