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European Commission v. Federal Republic of Germany (C-142/16) (European Court of Justice, Second Chamber) (26 April 2017)

European Commission v. Federal Republic of Germany, Case C 142/16 (April 26, 2017) European Court of Justice German officials authorized construction of the Moorburg coal-fired power plant in the port of Hamburg along the Elbe River. The river serves as…

Matt
January 25, 2019

Mangroves Marine and Coastal

Reglamento de Manglares (Acuerdo Bubernativo Numero 8-2019) (Guatemala, 9 January 2019)

Reglamento de Manglares (Acuerdo Bubernativo Numero 8-2019) (Guatemala, 9 January 2019) Ministerio De Agricultura.

Matt
January 16, 2019

Climate Change Coal mining Energy Mining

High Country Conservation Advocates v. USFS, 52 F.Supp.3d 1174 (D. Colo. June 27, 2014)

High Country Conservation Advocates v. USFS, 52 F.Supp.3d 1174 (D. Colo. June 27, 2014), available at https://www.leagle.com/decision/infdco20140630a94 Environmental organizations challenged administrative decisions authorizing expanded coal mining operations on the grounds that the decisions were based on an inadequate and inaccurate…

Matt
December 27, 2018

Environmental Impact Assessment

Belize Alliance of Conservation Non-Governmental Organizations Appellant v. The Department of the Environment and Belize Electric Company Limited, Privy Council Appeal No. 47 of 2003 (29 January 2004)

Matt
December 11, 2018

Coal mining Energy Mining

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