ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 12, 2023

In total, at least 25 cases have been filed in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawai’i, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Vermont. The Supreme Court sided with the fossil fuel company defendants, ruling that appellate courts could review all grounds of the remand order.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

A Hawaii court held that the Hawai‘i Environmental Policy Act requires environmental review for commercial taking of aquarium fish and that Department of Land and Natural Resources issuance and renewal of licenses for commercial aquarium collection without environmental review was invalid and illegal. In Delaware v. Chevron Corp.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JANUARY 13, 2021

Developments in other climate change cases brought by state and local governments against fossil fuel companies include: Delaware filed a brief in support of its motion to remand its lawsuit to state court. Delaware v. BP America Inc. , 1:20-cv-01429 (D. Bureau of Land Management , No. 4:20-cv-00115 (D. filed Dec.

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