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The Evolving Legal Landscape for Geologic Carbon Sequestration in the United States

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At least seven states have passed amendments in 2024 related to property rights: Louisiana , Illinois , Alaska , Pennsylvania , Alabama , Colorado and Wyoming. Illinois , Colorado , Pennsylvania and Alabama have all tied pore ownership to surface estate rights. Now some are turning their attention to pore space.

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Justices add one religious-rights case to docket but turn down another

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Supreme Court in 2017, but the justices sent the case back for another look after their ruling in Masterpiece Cakeshop , the Colorado case. Premier Rehab Keller , a lawsuit filed in federal court in 2018 by Jane Cummings, who has been deaf since birth and is legally blind. The case will be argued sometime next fall.

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October 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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After District Court Declined to Enjoin Coal Company’s Road-Building Activities in Colorado, Tenth Circuit Entered Temporary Injunction. The federal district court for the District of Colorado declined to vacate mining lease modifications that authorized a coal company to undertake road construction in the Sunset Roadless Area in Colorado.

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November 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Tenth Circuit Ordered Coal Company to Stop Preparation for Mining in Colorado Roadless Area. The Ninth Circuit was not persuaded by the plaintiff states’ argument that “precedent requires a broad, fact-intensive inquiry into whether altering an injunction is equitable, even if the legal duty underlying the injunction has disappeared.”

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February 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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A magistrate judge in the federal district court for the District of Colorado recommended that the court grant an underground coal mine operator’s motion to dismiss a Clean Air Act citizen suit that alleged the mine required a Prevention of Significant Deterioration construction permit and a Title V operating permit. 1:20-cv-03817 (D.D.C.