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A Court-Side Seat: Guam’s CERCLA Claim Allowed, a “Roundup” Verdict Upheld, and Judicial Process Privilege Lost

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This is a brief account of some of the important environmental and administrative law cases recently decided. The issue the court confronted was a procedural matter: Can the defendant energy companies use the federal removal statutes (see 28 USC Section 1442) to remove a state law climate change lawsuit to federal court?

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Can fishermen be required to pay for federal monitors? And by the way – should Chevron be overruled?

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The National Marine Fisheries Service construed the governing statute to allow it to require industry to pay the salaries of those monitors. Circuit held that the statute was reasonably read to allow the agency to require industry to pay the cost of federal monitors. A divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. 17 and Mar.

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Federal Court Limits State Authority to Deny Interstate Transmission Projects

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PJM Interconnection had identified grid congestion across the Pennsylvania-Maryland border and concluded that such congestion had led to approximately $800 million in costs from 2012 to 2016. For instance, in its 2013 report on Policies for a Modern and Reliable U.S.

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July 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The Court held that the provision used “extension” in its “temporal sense,” but that the statute did not impose a “continuity requirement” and instead allowed small refineries to apply for hardship extensions “at any time.” In re Enbridge Energy, LP , Nos.

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