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The Supreme Court declined to weigh in on a climate change case the state of Minnesota is pursuing against ExxonMobil, the American Petroleum Institute trade group and other fossil fuel groups.
In dismissing the city of Baltimore’s climate lawsuit, Judge Videtta Brown explained that a successful state law climate claim "would operate as a de facto regulation on greenhouse gas emissions ...
Republican attorneys general in 19 states have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block several Democratic-led states from pursuing climate change lawsuits against the oil and gas industry in their ...
The Environmental Law and Policy Center (ELPC) is a Midwest-based non-profit environmental advocacy group, with offices in Chicago, Columbus (Ohio), Des Moines (Iowa), Duluth (Minnesota), Jamestown (North Dakota), Madison (Wisconsin), Sioux Falls (South Dakota), and Washington, D.C. ELPC's mission is to advance environmental progress and economic development together throughout the Midwest ...
Legal actions to affect climate change by federal and state-level governments have been attempted since the 1990s; one of the first known cases was led by Antonio Oposa, a Philippine lawyer that represented a class-action suit of 43 students against the Philippine government to protect a forest surrounding their village.
Climate: destruction of a community by climate change: United States federal courts: 2009 Kleppe v. New Mexico: Wildlife: horses and burros: Supreme Court of the United States: 1976 Koontz v. St. Johns River Water Management District: Wetlands: development and mitigation: Supreme Court of the United States: 2013 Kruger and al. v. The Queen
A Justice Department attorney warned three judges from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that allowing the case to go to trial would be unprecedented and open the doors to more lawsuits.
On Dec. 10, the solicitor general filed two briefs in climate change cases, supporting a continuation of a chaotic flurry of state climate change litigation across the country.