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On October 16, 2009, in a lawsuit brought by owners of property along the Mississippi Gulf coast that sustained damage from Hurricane Katrina, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that the plaintiffs have standing to assert public and private nuisance, trespass and negligence claims against the defendants who caused the emission of greenhouse gases which are alleged to have ultimately added to the ferocity of Hurricane Katrina
The federal government filed a lawsuit yesterday in federal district court in New Orleans -- U.S. v. BP Exploration & Production Inc., et al. seeking damages under the Clean Water Act and the Oil Pollution Act for all costs and harms caused by the BP disaster, including damages to the environment
