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Double jeopardy? Citizen suit may proceed despite government enforcement action

  • Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 2 2009

A Clean Water Act citizen suit may proceed against a coal operator notwithstanding government enforcement action addressing the same alleged violations, according to a federal district judge in West Virginia

Kingsnorth: a climate change defence

  • Nabarro LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 29 2009

On 10 September 2008, a jury found six climate change protesters not guilty of causing criminal damage during their protest on E.ON's power station tower in Kingsnorth, Kent

Court sends Kearl decision back for clarification of rationale

  • Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • March 7 2008

The Federal Court has determined that the Joint Review Panel must provide better reasons why compliance with “intensity-based” greenhouse gas emissions targets adequately mitigates the Kearl Project’s emissions

Decisions may pave way for challenge of ERCB licences

  • Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • March 6 2008

For the second time in recent months, the Alberta Court of Appeal has granted leave to appeal an ERCB decision to landowners who faced relatively light scrutiny of the merits of their case

Environmental groups file suit

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 4 2008

Appalachian Voices and Canary Coalition filed a lawsuit against top ranking Bush Administration officials in U.S. District Court to attempt to stop the federal government from subsidizing nine new coal-fired power plants

Renewable energy coverage: insuring geothermal risks

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 25 2009

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) reports that geothermal energy production is a $1.5 billion a year industry

The dam breaks - Second Circuit holds that political question doctrine does not preclude a public nuisance claim for alleged contributions to global warming

  • Locke Lord LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 29 2009

Over the last few years plaintiffs have made several attempts to bring public nuisance claims against the energy and automotive industries, claiming that such defendants should be held accountable for their alleged contribution to global warming due to their emissions of greenhouse gases

Judge Sotomayor on energy, environment -- lots of room for interpretation

  • Dentons
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 1 2009

Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor, despite serving seventeen years as a district and appellate court judge, appears to have been involved with only a few significant energy and environmental matters

2nd Circuit allows public nuisance suit against greenhouse gas emitters

  • Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 29 2009

States and private plaintiffs may sue utility operators under the federal common law of nuisance to abate carbon dioxide ("CO2") emissions that contribute to global warming, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals held this month

Second Circuit lets greenhouse gas federal nuisance claims proceed

  • Day Pitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 30 2009

Reviving claims dismissed in 2005, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week that two 2004 lawsuits can proceed against five of the nation's largest utilities, alleging that greenhouse gas emissions create a public nuisance under federal common law

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