ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Bureau of Land Management (BLM) failed to adequately consider the climate change impacts of oil and gas leasing in Wyoming in accordance with the court’s March 2019 opinion that identified shortcomings in BLM’s original analysis under the National Environmental Policy Act. Ergon-West Virginia, Inc. Judicial Watch, Inc.

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Attorney at Work

APRIL 30, 2021

Speaking of networking with fellow attorneys, are you a member of any bar sections with a listserv? Also read: “How to Create a Private Facebook Group for Networking and Referrals ”. Populate your law firm/company page. Simek (@SenseiEnt) are President and Vice President of Sensei Enterprises, Inc. ,

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 16, 2020

This treatment of jurisdiction agreements can be a disincentive to international commercial relations since they are very much part of the current modes of dealing across national boundaries” (p.917). No amount of judicial pragmatism would override mandatory national statutes vesting exclusive jurisdiction in Nigerian courts.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 6, 2017

Circuit concluded that the administrative stay constituted reviewable final agency action because it was consummation of EPA’s decision-making process with respect to the standards’ effective date even though EPA’s underlying decision to reconsider portions of the standards would not by itself be subject to review. Clean Air Council v.

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Customs & International Trade Law

OCTOBER 21, 2022

CBP is transitioning all customs brokers to a single national permit and expanding the scope of the national permit authority to allow national permit holders to conduct any type of customs business throughout the customs territory of the United States. . and UK in the years to come. . 14059. . of Houston, Texas. .

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The First Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court order remanding to state court the State of Rhode Island’s lawsuit that seeks relief from oil and gas companies for climate change injuries allegedly caused by the companies’ actions. Rhode Island v. Shell Oil Products Co. , No 19-1818 (1st Cir. Forest Service , No.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JANUARY 13, 2021

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (BOEM) approval of an offshore drilling and production facility off the coast of Alaska in the Beaufort Sea, finding that BOEM failed to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

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Customs & International Trade Law

OCTOBER 14, 2022

USTR is seeking public comments, consistent with the statutory directive, to consider the effectiveness of the actions in achieving the objectives of the investigation , other actions that could be taken, and the effects of the actions on the United States economy, including consumers. United States Department of Commerce (DOC).

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

The court also found that a need for “national uniformity” was not at issue in this case. The plaintiffs—identified as environmentalists, environmental groups, natural resource conservation groups, and cattle ranchers—alleged, among other things, that the immigration actions resulted in increased greenhouse gas emissions. Haskell v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2022

President & Fellows of Harvard College , the cases questioning the use of affirmative action in undergraduate admissions at both public and private universities. ” The National Association of Scholars filed a brief with similar arguments. Share Nearly 100 amicus briefs were filed in Students for Fair Admissions v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

In Baltimore’s Climate Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies, Supreme Court Held that Appellate Review of Remand Order Extends to All Grounds for Removal. The Court declined to review the companies’ other grounds for removal, finding that the “wiser course” was to allow the Fourth Circuit to address them in the first instance.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 2, 2021

The court rejected the government’s contention that the “Pause” and related actions—the cancellation and stoppage of offshore lease sales and the cancellation or postponement of “eligible lands” under the Mineral Leasing Act (MLA)—were not final agency actions reviewable under the APA. On June 14, 2021, the U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

In cases challenging EPA and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s final rule withdrawing the waiver for California’s greenhouse gas and zero emissions vehicle programs and preempting other such state programs, the D.C. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration , Nos. Indigenous Environmental Network v.

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