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Progress Possible at COP 28 Despite Fossil Fuel Industry Deception

Union of Concerned Scientists

The fossil fuel industry has a long history of portraying itself as environmentally responsible while continuing to prioritize profit over the planet. A COP28 agreement for a fair, fast, and funded fossil fuel phaseout can provide these leaders with a powerful new tool to hold governments and corporations accountable.

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Protecting Public Health Is Complicated. But Science Can Help, and the Time Is Now.

Union of Concerned Scientists

These components are also being assessed and used in regulatory decision-making by some government agencies at the local, state, or federal level. Site assessments for the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act , or ‘Superfund’, include consideration of multiple exposure pathways and pollutants.

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Why this First Nation is Right to Sue the Alberta Energy Regulator over Last Year’s Toxic Tailings Leak

Enviromental Defense

Shockingly, this was the first time local Indigenous nations, the federal government and the public were informed about the leak! Instead of responding to these concerns, governments have added to the problem by approving more tar sands mines and tailings. You can take action to hold Big Oil and the government accountable.

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Government Plausibly Pleads Corporate Successorship in CERCLA Lawsuit, New Jersey District Court Holds

MGKF Law

On May 7, 2024, the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey denied Defendant ISP Environmental Service Inc.’s United States v. ISP Envt’l Servs. 2024 WL 2013949 (D.N.J. Read More » Tags: CERCLA , Cost Recovery , Successor Liability , Superfund

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ESA Governing Board taking actions to meet changing conditions influencing professional science societies

ESA

ESA Governing Board Fall Meeting. The ESA Governing Board (GB) met in November to consider a number of issues that are determining how professional societies will operate in the future. Six other Governing Board members, guests and a few other senior staff members participated remotely. GOVERNANCE TRANSITION.

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Court Finds Federal Government Not Immune from Liability for Interest Payment Under CERCLA

MGKF Law

On April 26, 2023, the United States Court of Federal Claims ordered the federal government to reimburse Shell U.S.A. Ultimately, the Court held that the plain reading of CERCLA includes interest as a “charge,” and the government was not immune from paying those costs. Shell U.S.A.,

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DuPont and ConocoPhillips Settle Environmental Clean-Up Claims against U.S. Government for $52M

The Energy Law

The decade-long dispute finally ended in a compromise wherein the government agreed to pay DuPont $51M and ConocoPhillips $1M for past and future clean-up costs. The settlement comes one year after the Supreme Court decision in U.S. DuPont, et al v. 2:97-CV-00487-WJM-MF.