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Zero Zone, Inc. v. United States Department of Energy, 832 F.3d 654 (7th Cir. 2016). Zero Zone, Inc. (Zero Zone), a small business specializing in commercial refrigeration equipment (CRE), and others, petitioned for review of rules published by the…
Earthlife Africa Johannesburg v. Minister of Environmental Affairs and others, Case no. 65662/16 (2017) Earthlife Africa Johannesburg sought judicial review of a decision by the Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) granting an environmental authorization for a coal-fired power plant and…
A mining company (Mina Invierno) proposed a project to incorporate blasting methods at an existing permitted open pit coal mine in southern Chile. Citizens and civil society organizations properly presented petitions for the provision of citizen participation procedures during the…
Persons who claimed to have contracted pneumoconiosis due to having worked in dusty coal mines in the Chikuho region or their successors brought this case to seek damages from the government under Article 1, para. 1 of the Law Concerning…
REsp 647.493/SC [MPF v. Brazil and mining companies] (22 May 2007): The federal prosecutor’s office (MPF) brought an ação civil pública against the federal government, mining companies, and the officers or partners of the mining companies for environmental degradation resulting…
Bulga Milbrodale Progress Association Inc v Minister for Planning and Infrastructure and Warkworth Mining Limited [2013] NSWLEC 48: Residents of the village of Bulga presented an external merits review application to the Land and Environment Court of New South Wales…
Ironstone Community Action Group Inc v. NSW Minister for Planning and Duralie Coal Pty Ltd (2011) NSWLEC 195 (10 November 2011) This was an appeal brought by a third party objector (ICAG) against the Minister of Planning’s decision to approve…
The European Court of Justice found that a coal-fired power plant built in 1971 is violating European standards. The European Commission brought the action claiming that the United Kingdom had improperly applied a derogation of Directive 2001/80/EC of the…
Submission by the U.S. office of the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (ELAW) to the Philippine Commission on Human Rights regarding the on-going investigation into the potential human rights violations suffered by Filipinos who have been impacted by the changing climate…
