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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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)
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.
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…
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