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E-waste conviction

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 28 2012

After an 11 day jury trial in Denver, the executives at Executive Recycling were convicted of illegal disposal of e-waste overseas, mail and wire fraud

D.C. Circuit says EPAs "transport" rule violates Clean Air Act

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 23 2012

August has been a bad month for the EPA in the nation’s federal appellate courts

U.S. Fifth Circuit vacates EPA's disapproval of Texas's flexible permit program

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 15 2012

In a split decision, a panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held on Monday that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) rejection of Texas' Flexible Permit program (Program) in 2010 violated the federal Clean Air Act (CAA

Texas trial court recognizes potential application of "public trust" doctrine to redress climate change

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 17 2012

In statements that, to some, may represent a "shot heard 'round the world" in climate change litigation, a Texas state trial judge recently recognized that the "public trust" doctrine potentially required the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) to take action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions

Court sustains EPA greenhouse gas regulations

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 29 2012

In a victory for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and climate change activists, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has unanimously rejected challenges to a number of EPA actions that form the basis of the nation's first limits on greenhouse gas emissions

Who has the dirtiest clouds? Apple, Amazon, but not Google

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
  • -
  • Global
  • -
  • April 18 2012

Greenpeace reported that cloud computing may be popular, but generally it’s not very clean and gave Apple Ds and Amazon Fs, while Google got the best grades

Unanimous Supreme Court rebukes EPA: property owners have a right to early judicial review of EPA enforcement orders under Clean Water Act

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 27 2012

In a rare 9-0 decision issued on March 21, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court ("Court") rebuked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") in an enforcement action brought under the Clean Water Act ("CWA"

Whooping crane litigation

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 15 2012

Our latest bulletin discussing the watershed Texas Supreme Court opinion in Day regarding ownership rights of groundwater may soon be joined by a federal court ruling dealing with regulation of those waters flowing above the surface in Texas rivers, creeks, and other watercourses

Groundwater rights: constitutionally compensable interests

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 6 2012

On Feb. 24, 2012 the Supreme Court of Texas issued a watershed decision supporting the property rights of landowners to groundwater beneath their land

Defendants win “round one” of climate change fight in United States Supreme Court

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 17 2011

In American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut, the United States Supreme Court held that federal common law public nuisance claims seeking injunctive relief against emitters of greenhouse gases were displaced by the Clean Air Act and EPA’s regulatory implementation of the Act’s provisions

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