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Ninth Circuit Hears Oral Argument in Climate Change Case

By Sean Wajert on December 12, 2011
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Class Action, Toxic Tort

The Ninth Circuit recently heard oral argument in a potentially significant case raising climate change issues. See Kivalina v. Exxon Mobil Corp., No.
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Supreme Court Decides Global Warming Case

By Sean Wajert on June 24, 2011
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Toxic Tort

In the third of our trilogy this week, let’s take a look at the Supreme Court’s decision in American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut, No. 10-174 (U.
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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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Showdown Over Regulation of Greenhouse Gas Looming in Congress

By Sean Wajert on March 22, 2011
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Toxic Tort

We have posted before about a number of issues related to greenhouse gas regulation and climate change litigation. Now comes word that a potential sho…
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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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Multiple States Urge Reversal of Second Circuit Greenhouse Gas Decision

By Sean Wajert on September 22, 2010
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Class Action, Toxic Tort

A dozen states have joined the Administration, and a variety of amici, in urging the Supreme Court to review a decision by the Second Circuit which wo…
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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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