ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
JULY 6, 2017
Circuit also rejected EPA’s argument that the court did not have authority to review stays issued under Section 307(d)(7)(D) of the Clean Air Act. The Second Circuit said the Connecticut statutes authorizing the solicitations did not compel utilities to enter into contracts with specific bidders.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
DECEMBER 11, 2020
The Washington Court of Appeals affirmed a guilty verdict against a climate activist who cut a chain to enter a pipeline facility and attempted to cut a bolt that secured a shutoff valve on the pipeline, which carried tar sands oil from Canada.
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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
MARCH 6, 2018
The Climate Disobedience Action Fund reported that the North Dakota court sentenced an activist who disabled the TransCanada Keystone 1 tar sands pipeline in North Dakota to three years in prison, with two years deferred. The action involved closing valves on pipelines in Washington, Montana, Minnesota, and North Dakota.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
NOVEMBER 7, 2017
The court also granted motions to strike the state law claims pursuant to California’s anti-SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation) statute. The court concluded that the forest products company had not pleaded actual malice with the level of specificity required to sustain the state law claims. Resolute Forest Products, Inc.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
JANUARY 13, 2021
1442, or the civil-rights removal statute, 28 U.S.C. The district court rejected eight grounds for removal, but the Fourth Circuit concluded its appellate jurisdiction was limited to determining whether the companies properly removed the case under the federal-officer removal statute. Indigenous Environmental Network v. filed Dec.
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