ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 9, 2023

The increased atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and other greenhouse gases (GHGs) is driving global climate change on an unprecedented scale. In some well-documented cases , polluting assets are sold to companies with apparently lower management and environmental protection standards than the previous operator.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 10, 2023

The so-called “ Willow Project ” will be developed by ConocoPhillips and involve the drilling of up to 199 new oil wells, spread across three well pads, along with the construction of various related infrastructure, including pipelines, processing facilities, roads, and boat ramps. The company has a legal right to those leases.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

New Jersey Federal Court Remanded Hoboken’s Climate Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies to State Court. On September 8, 2021, a federal district court in New Jersey granted the City of Hoboken’s motion to remand to state court its climate change lawsuit against oil and gas companies. Chevron Corp. —in

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

First, the court said the cities’ novel theories of liability based on the defendants’ sales of their product did not differentiate their claims from earlier transboundary pollution suits in which the Supreme Court ( American Electric Power Co. Marshall County Coal Co. Connecticut ) and Ninth Circuit ( Native Village of Kivalina v.

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