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Supreme Court Hears Oral Argument in Second Circuit “Global Warming” Case

By Sean Wajert on April 25, 2011
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Class Action, Toxic Tort

We have posted before about the climate change or so-called global warming litigation. Last week, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in one of the …
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Legislation Proposed to Curb EPA Greenhouse Gas Authority

By Sean Wajert on February 9, 2011
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Toxic Tort

As we have noted in previous posts, one of the many important questions lurking in the climate change/global warning cases currently being litigated i…
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Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Greenhouse Gas Case

By Sean Wajert on December 20, 2010
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Toxic Tort

The U.S. Supreme Court announced earlier this month that it will indeed hear the challenge to a court of appeals decision allowing several states to p…
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Update on Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reporting

By Sean Wajert on November 12, 2010
Posted in Chemical, Class Action, Toxic Tort

The White House Office of Management and Budget has reportedly completed its review of the draft final rule to set greenhouse gas emissions reporting …
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U.S. Urges Reversal of 2d Circuit Global Warming Nuisance Decision

By Sean Wajert on August 30, 2010
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Class Action, Toxic Tort

The federal government (Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal on behalf of the Tennessee Valley Authority, a government-owned company), last week urged…
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Defendants in Second Circuit Climate Change Case Seek Cert

By Sean Wajert on August 12, 2010
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Class Action, Toxic Tort

Several electric power companies have asked the Supreme Court to review a Second Circuit ruling that Connecticut and several other states may seek gre…
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More Groups Challenge EPA’s “Endangerment Finding” in Climate Change Debate

By Sean Wajert on February 22, 2010
Posted in Articles, Toxic Tort

A variety of business groups, including the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), last week filed a petition in federal court challenging the U…
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Federal Inter-agency Task Force Releases Preliminary Test Results On Chinese Drywall

By Sean Wajert on November 4, 2009
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Class Action, Consumer Products, Toxic Tort

The federal inter-agency task force investigating alleged problems with Chinese-made drywall released initial results of three studies last week, whic…
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“Global Warming” Litigation Update (Part II)

By Sean Wajert on October 28, 2009
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Class Action, Toxic Tort

Part two of our update on recent climate change litigation. In our last post, we discussed the well reasoned decision in Native Village of Kivalina v.
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Global Warming Litigation Update (Part I)

By Sean Wajert on October 27, 2009
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Class Action, Toxic Tort

Today, the first of a couple of posts on the so-called global warming litigation. We have posted on the climate change litigation before, and here, an…
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