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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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Think-Tank Report on Environmental Litigation Worth A Look

By Sean Wajert on September 14, 2010
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Toxic Tort

A new think-tank report discusses the evolution in environmental and toxic tort litigation. The Manhattan Institute Center for Legal Policy publishes …
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Climate Change Litigation Update

By Sean Wajert on September 9, 2010
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Class Action, Toxic Tort

Latest round in the “global warming” litigation — Coming as no surprise, a group of property owners asked the U.S. Supreme Court last week …
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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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EPA Issues Additional Greenhouse Gas Rules

By Sean Wajert on July 13, 2010
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Toxic Tort

Late last month, the Environmental Protection Agency signed off on a final rule requiring that additional categories of sources begin to track and rep…
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Update on “Climate Change” Litigation — Vanishing Quorum

By Sean Wajert on May 21, 2010
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Class Action, Toxic Tort

Readers may recall my post about the Fifth Circuit granting the petition for rehearing en banc in Comer v. Murphy Oil. The case involves a lawsuit by …
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Fifth Circuit Grants Rehearing En Banc In Climate Change Case

By Sean Wajert on March 4, 2010
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Toxic Tort

We have posted on the climate change litigation, including inexplicable decisions such as the putative class action alleging that — follow the chain …
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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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“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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