ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Circuit Found Deficiencies in Climate Change and Environmental Justice Analyses for Texas LNG Export Terminals. The court also found that judicial economy and conservation of resources weighed in favor of a stay. Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM’s) approval of the project and the U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

The Court stated that “[i]t seems most unlikely to us that a smattering of lower court opinions could ever represent the sort of ‘judicial consensus so broad and unquestioned that we must presume Congress knew of and endorsed it.’” Ninth Circuit Sent Decision that Pacific Walrus No Longer Qualified as Threatened Back to Agency.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to issue a decision on Exxon’s application to renew the NPDES permit, which had expired in 2014. The plaintiffs cited three reasons that the case was not moot: (1) President Biden’s revocation of the presidential permit could be vacated in the pending Texas v.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 6, 2023

He has gone with Crow to the Bohemian Grove, the exclusive California all-male retreat, and to Crow’s sprawling ranch in East Texas. That’s in contrast to the other branches of government. Paoletta has long been a pugnacious defender of Thomas and recently testified before Congress against strengthening judicial ethics rules.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Texas and Louisiana are challenging a federal policy that prioritizes certain groups of unauthorized immigrants for arrest and deportation, arguing that it violates federal law. But Texas and Louisiana, U.S. The policy at the heart of United States v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 9, 2021

The Second Circuit said holding the oil companies liable for “purely foreign activity” would “sow confusion and needlessly complicate the nation’s foreign policy, while clearly infringing on the prerogatives of the political branches.” Louisiana Appellate Court Reversed Remand of Chemical Plant Air Permits to Agency. BP p.l.c. ,

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The majority said it “reluctantly” concluded that “the plaintiffs’ case must be made to the political branches or to the electorate at large” and “[t]hat the other branches may have abdicated their responsibility to remediate the problem does not confer on Article III courts, no matter how well-intentioned, the ability to step into their shoes.”

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 30, 2023

But after federal courts in Missouri and Texas put the program on hold last year, the Biden administration came to the Supreme Court, asking the justices to weigh in. But Friday’s decision, Roberts insisted, relied on “traditional tools of judicial decisionmaking.”

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Agency , the Supreme Court formally announced its embrace of the MQD, holding that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) did not have authority to issue a greenhouse gas emissions rule that shifted electricity generation away from coal. Env’t Prot. As Justice Kagan points out in her Biden v.

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