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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Fourth Circuit Said West Virginia District Court Lacked Jurisdiction to Consider Coal Companies’ Clean Air Act Jobs Study Lawsuit. Ward freely admits he closed an emergency valve on a tar sands pipeline to prevent harm to the climate, as part of a coordinated action in four states.… DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS.

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December 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Ergon-West Virginia, Inc. 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. 19-2128 (4th Cir.

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March 2018 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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West Virginia Court Dismissed Defamation Suit Against John Oliver Brought by Coal Executive and His Companies. A West Virginia state court notified counsel that it would dismiss the lawsuit brought by coal executive Robert E. Jacobson v. Clack , No. 2017 CA 006685 B (D.C. notice of dismissal and statement Feb.

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January 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The plaintiffs alleged that the pipeline project would almost double the pipeline’s capacity and that the project would facilitate increased extraction and use of Canadian tar sands oil, resulting in “significant damage, estimated in the hundreds of billions of dollars, due to its contribution climate change.” Bureau of Land Management , No.

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A Critical Look at the Politicization of ESG

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9] Moreover, the legislature in Texas and West Virginia has taken steps to curb ESG, enacting laws that they will no longer work with banks that do not support their states’ industries. [10] It is easy to tar ESG as a left-wing, radical, or fringe policy threatening responsible corporate management.

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November 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The defendants—two of whom acknowledged they had attempted to shut down tar sands crude oil pipelines by turning shut-off valves on the pipelines—were charged with criminal damage to property of critical public facilities, utilities, and pipelines; trespass on such facilities; and/or aiding and abetting criminal damage to property and/or trespass.

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