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Mining and Environmental Justice Community Network of South Africa and others v Minister of Environmental Affairs and others, High Court of the Republic of South Africa, Gauteng Division, Pretoria, Case No. 50779/2017 (8 November 2018)

Mining and Environmental Justice Community Network of South Africa and others v Minister of Environmental Affairs and others, High Court of the Republic of South Africa, Gauteng Division, Pretoria, Case No. 50779/2017 (8 November 2018): Various environmental groups sought review…

Matt
December 11, 2018

Coal and gas power plants Energy

Writ Petition No. 30237 of 2018 and Writ Miscellaneous Petition No. 35289 of 2018, Madras High Court, 19.11.2018

The Madras High Court determined that the operator of a coal-fired power plant isn’t beneficially utilizing fly ash, as required by the fly ash utilization notification of 03/11/2009, among other regulatory violations, which are causing environmental degradation and health hazards…

Matt
December 10, 2018

Climate Change Constitutions

Greenpeace Nordic Ass’n and Nature and Youth v. Ministry of Petroleum and Energy, Case no. 16-166674TVI-OTIR/06 (Oslo District Court) (4 January 2018)

Greenpeace Nordic Ass’n and Nature and Youth v. Ministry of Petroleum and Energy, Case no. 16-166674TVI-OTIR/06 (Oslo District Court) (4 January 2018) Greenpeace Nordic Association and Natur og Ungdom (Nature & Youth) filed a case challenging licenses for offshore oil production…

Matt
December 4, 2018

Fisheries Indigenous Peoples Rivers Water Resources

United States v. Washington, 853 F.3d 946 (9th Cir. 2017)

Invoking the continuing jurisdiction of the federal district court that determined the portion of annually harvestable fish guaranteed to several indigenous peoples (“Tribes”) by essentially identical treaty clauses guaranteeing off-reservation fishing rights, several Tribes and the U.S. government sought to…

Matt
October 2, 2018

Coal mining Mining

Castle Mountain Coalition v. Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, Case No. 3:15-cv-00043-SLG (D. Alaska 2016)

In Castle Mountain Coalition v. Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, several non-profit organizations and the governing body of a federally-recognized Native Village challenged a federal agency’s determination that a state may interpret the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation…

Matt
September 10, 2018

Rivers Water Resources

India — Chandrasekharan Pillai v. State of Kerala, O.P. 14764 of 1997 (1998.07.22) (High Court of Kerala) (Judgment) (Directions to limit the impacts of sand mining)

Matt
August 22, 2018

Industrial waste Waste

India — Sh. Kalyan Bansingh & Ors. Vs. HIL Ltd. & Ors, Application 453 of 2013 (2018.08.14) (National Green Tribunal) (Order) (Directing remediation of the Roro asbestos waste dump and establishing a procedure to comensate victims of asbestos exposure)

This application seeks direction for restitution of the mining lease for asbestos and for creation of a trust fund for rehabilitation.

Matt
August 22, 2018

Protected Areas

Sierra Club v. U.S. Dept. of the Interior, No. 18-1082 (4th Cir. 2018)

Sierra Club v. U.S. Dept. of the Interior, ___ F.3d ___ (4th Cir., August 6, 2018)(No. 18-1082, consolidated with No. 18-1083) U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit The National Park Service (NPS) issued a permit allowing construction of…

Matt
August 21, 2018

Environmental Impact Assessment

Environmental Management Act, 2000

The Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is committed to developing a national strategy for sustainable development.

Matt
July 3, 2018

Coal mining Mining

April 13, 2018, Belovo district court decision annulling coal mine authorization

On April 13, 2018, a court in the Belovo district of Russia’s Kuzbass region nullified the authorization of a new open-pit coal mine that allowed for the expropriation of private agricultural lands in order to conduct the coal mining activities. …

Matt
May 14, 2018