SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 8, 2024

17 with two cases that could upend the functional power of the federal administrative state. The administrative fees bankrupt businesses pay can be quite large in the cases of big companies. During heavy rainfall, these changes worked to maintain the highway as an available evacuation route. Garland and Garland v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 22, 2022

The bill also has healthcare and prescription drug provisions, makes tax code changes unrelated to climate and energy, and guarantees federal land on- and offshore for oil and gas drilling.) In some instances, the IRA specifies a timeframe in which the relevant agency must issue parameters for tapping into funding amounts.

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Gravel2Gavel

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Selected federal regulatory actions taken or proposed by several federal agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency: EPA Actions. The agency also notes that the 2020 rule constituted an “unwarranted and overbroad attempt to incentivize production.”. by Anthony B.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The Biden administration Wednesday announced new policies aimed at achieving the administration’s “ambitious” goals to combat climate change by building a national network of electric vehicle (EV) chargers. The Department asserts that these standards will create “good-paying, highly skilled jobs.”

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Federal Court in Rhode Island Allowed Failure-to-Adapt Claims to Proceed. The federal district court for the District of Rhode Island for the most part denied a motion to dismiss a citizen suit asserting that Shell Oil Products US and other defendants (Shell) failed to prepare a terminal in Providence for the impacts of climate change.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 30, 2022

Buttigieg’s plan, which drew fire from Republicans, said the country has an obligation to address the harms of racially designed highways, saying that highways are “racially discriminatory.”. Ron DeSantis, said the effort was one more example of what he called “woke-ification” of federal policy. reported The Washington Post.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JANUARY 13, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) orders granting three petitions for extensions of small refinery exemptions from renewable fuel standards. After Temporarily Blocking Activity on Helium Extraction Project in Southeastern Utah, Federal Court Denied Emergency Injunctive Relief. On January 8, 2021, the U.S. 20-472 (U.S. Marten , No.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The First Circuit—like the Fourth, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits in other climate change cases—concluded that the scope of its appellate review was limited to whether the defendants properly removed the case under the federal-officer removal statute. High Country Conservation Advocates v. Forest Service , No. 20-1358 (10th Cir. Judge Judith W.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Rhode Island Federal Court Denied Motion to Stay Remand Order in Rhode Island’s Climate Change Case. Colorado Federal Court Remanded Local Governments’ Climate Case to State Court. Mayor & City Council of Baltimore v. BP p.l.c. , 19-1644 (4th Cir. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS. Rhode Island v. Chevron Corp. , 1:18-cv-00395 (D.R.I.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 13, 2017

The audience consisted primarily of impact assessment practitioners – engineers, hydrologists, and other scientists who assess the impacts of actions proposed by government agencies and private project proponents. Of course, public pressure will likely be needed to make this happen. (We

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Circuit held that the federalism canon—requiring that Congress use “exceedingly clear language” to alter the balance of power between the federal government and the states—did not support an interpretation limiting the best system of emission reduction to measures applied at and to the source. Third, the D.C. Wheeler , No. 17-cv-80 (D.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 9, 2021

Hawai‘i Federal Court Sent Honolulu’s and Maui’s Climate Cases Back to State Court; Fossil Fuel Companies Appealed. The federal district court for the District of Hawai‘i remanded cases brought by the City and County of Honolulu and the County of Maui seeking to hold fossil fuel companies liable for climate change-related damages.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 7, 2021

Circuit in 2016 signaled that the legal framework for the Clean Power Plan “hinges on important issues of federal that EPA then—and the court below now—got so wrong this Court was likely to grant review.” Parties Voluntarily Dismissed Appeals of Federal Court Decision Requiring More Climate Change Analysis for Wyoming Oil and Gas Leases.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 9, 2021

The Second Circuit then held that the Clean Air Act, in turn, displaced federal common law claims related to domestic emissions. 410 (2011), as establishing “beyond cavil” that the Clean Air Act displaced federal common law nuisance suits to abate domestic transboundary greenhouse gas emissions, and found that Native Village of Kivalina v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

A federal bankruptcy court in Missouri enjoined San Mateo and Marin Counties and the City of Imperial Beach (the plaintiffs) from pursuing their climate change lawsuits against Peabody Energy Corporation (Peabody). Montana Federal Court Allowed Some Coal Mining Activity to Take Place While Federal Agency Completed Required NEPA Review.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Divided Ninth Circuit Said Juliana Plaintiffs Lacked Standing to Press Constitutional Climate Claims Against Federal Government. The Ninth Circuit therefore reversed the orders of the federal district court for the District of Oregon denying the government’s motions to dismiss and for summary judgment and judgment on the pleadings.

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