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December 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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In its November 17 opinion, the Fourth Circuit found that on remand from the 2018 decision EPA had addressed most of the deficiencies but that supplemental materials from another case called into question EPA assertions about the criteria the Department of Energy and EPA used to support denial. Ergon-West Virginia, Inc.

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September 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The Ninth Circuit said the new issuance of NWP 12 rendered the appeals moot and ordered the district court to dismiss the underlying claim. The Ninth Circuit declined, however, to take a position on whether the underlying cases were moot in their entirety and also declined to vacate any district court decisions. West Virginia v.