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Access to Information

Jamaica Environment Trust (JET) – Apellant V. The Mines and Geology Division (MGD) – Respondent Appeal No. AT/MGD/2007/2

Jamaica’s Access to Information Act was passed in 2002 and came into effect in 2004. The Act grants all members of the public the right to obtain access to official documents held by public authorities unless the information is exempt…

Matt
May 4, 2018

Coal mining Mining

Sentencia T-154/13 (Orlando José Morales Ramos contra la Sociedad Drummond Ltda.), Corte Constitucional de Colombia (2013)

Sentencia T-154/13 (Orlando José Morales Ramos contra la Sociedad Drummond Ltda.), Sala Sexta de Revisión de la Corte Constitucional de Colombia, 21 de marzo de 2013: The Constitutional Court of Colombia resolved an acción de tutela brought by…

Matt
May 2, 2018

Public Participation

Jamaica Environment Trust v The Natural Resources Conservation Authority and the National Environment and Planning Agency HCV 05874 of 2010

JET filed an application for judicial review of the decision of the NRCA and NEPA to grant an environmental permit and beach licences to the National Works Agency (NWA) for the construction of a highway, two seawalls and a boardwalk…

Matt
May 2, 2018

Cumulative Impacts Economics Enforcement Environmental Impact Assessment Healthy Environment Marine and Coastal Protected Areas Public participation Public Participation Right to ...World Heritage Sites

Mohamed Ali Baadi and Others v. Attorney General, High Court of Kenya at Nairobi (No. 22 of 2012) (April 2018)

Mohamed Ali Baadi v. Attorney General, Petition No. 22 of 2012 (April 30, 2018)High Court of Kenya at Malindi This case arises out of the Lamu Port-South Sudan Ethiopia-Transport Corridor project (LAPSSET), a large-scale transportation and infrastructure scheme with many…

Matt
May 2, 2018

Pollution, Air

Petr Globočník and Stop tunelům, z. s., v. Ministerstvo životního prostředí (15 February 2018), Czech Supreme Administrative Court ruling nullifying the Air Quality Management Plan for the region of Ustí nad Labem

Matt
April 26, 2018

Pollution, Air

Vladimír Burda and Čisté nebe o.p.s., v. Ministerstvo životního prostředí (20 December 2017), Czech Supreme Administrative Court ruling nullifying the Air Quality Management Plan for the region of Ostrava

Matt
April 26, 2018

Biodiversity Climate Change Human Rights Mining Right to ...Water

Sentence C-035/16 of the Constitutional Court of Colombia (Alberto Castilla et al v. Colombia) (8 February 2016)

*SPANISH BELOW* Sentence C-035/16 of the Constitutional Court of Colombia (Alberto Castilla et al v. Colombia): Citizens presented constitutional claims against several provisions of the laws that approved the 2010-2014 National Development Plan (Law 1450 of 2011) and the 2014-2018…

Matt
April 5, 2018

Climate Change Coal mining Mining Oil & Gas Onshore oil & gas

Western Organization of Resource Councils et al v. U.S. Bureau of Land Management et al (D. Mont. March 26, 2018)

In Western Organization of Resource Councils et al v. U.S. Bureau of Land Management et al, several environmental organizations challenged a federal agency’s approval of revised Resource Management Plans (“RMPs”) for coal development in two areas covering millions of acres…

Matt
April 4, 2018

Constitutions

Friends of the Irish Environment CLG v. Fingal County Council [2017] IEHC 695 (Nov. 21, 2017)

Friends of the Irish Environment CLG v. Fingal County Council [2017] IEHC 695 (Nov. 21, 2017) Friends of the Irish Environment (FIE) challenged a decision by the Fingal County Council to issue a five-year extension of its planning permission (originally issued…

Matt
March 1, 2018

Climate Change Human Rights Inter-American human rights system Litigation

Advisory Opinion (OC-23/17) – Inter-American Court of Human Rights

On 7 February 2018, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR or Court) published an Advisory Opinion and explained that “[t]his Opinion constitutes one of the first opportunities this Court has had to address, in an extended manner, the state obligations…

Matt
February 26, 2018