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Federal Judge Sides with Osage Nation, Orders Removal Of 84 Wind Turbines

Guest Blogger — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 22:00:00 +0000

The tribe’s fight against Rome-based Enel began in 2011 and is the longest-running legal battle over wind energy in American history.

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SCOTUS Will Hear Challenge to One of EPA’s Most Stringent Proposed Climate Regs

Guest Blogger — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 14:00:00 +0000

If the Supreme Court takes up the case, its decision could ultimately end up being the second major ruling pertaining to the extent of EPA’s authority in the last several years.

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Oregon’s Climate Program Overruled

Charles Rotter — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The statute requires actual compliance.

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Emails Show Biden Admin Coordinating with Enviro Group That’s Suing Them

Guest Blogger — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 18:00:00 +0000

These emails certainly raise suspicions that there is some inappropriate conduct by the DOJ lawyer,

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Fisherman’s Association Drops “Climate Deception” Lawsuit

Charles Rotter — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 14:00:00 +0000

The legal realm, in this context, seems to be utilized more for activism and narrative-building than for genuine legal redress.

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Amicus Brief Details Climate Litigation Campaign’s Political Origins

Guest Blogger — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 22:00:00 +0000

...the admitted objective is to obtain discovery for help with, and otherwise help move along, a national campaign of lawfare designed to coerce defendants “to the table” in support of unpopular national ‘climate’ (i.e., energy-constraint) policy.

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DC Circuit Accepts Energy Policy Advocates’ Amicus Brief re “Biden’s Back Door Climate Plan”

Guest Blogger — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 10:00:00 +0000

This is particularly timely, as the House Oversight Committee has begun probing the Biden EPA’s renewal of sue-and-settle.

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Coalition Files Notice of Intent to Sue Federal Agencies to Stop Whale-killing Virginia Wind Project

Charles Rotter — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 22:45:00 +0000

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and the National Marine Fisheries Service have violated federal law by finding that the Virginia Offshore Wind project will not result in the destruction of the North Atlantic right whale as a species

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Court Blocks Pennsylvania from Joining RGGI

Guest Blogger — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 21:00:00 +0000

...we reaffirm our determination in this regard, and now hold that the Rulemaking constitutes a tax that has been imposed by (Department of Environmental Protection) and (Environmental Quality Board) in violation of the Pennsylvania Constitution.

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The Concerned Household Electricity Consumers Council Has Petitioned the Supreme Court for Certiorari

Guest Blogger — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 01:00:00 +0000

...the Supreme Court, can be an important part of the unraveling of the energy transformation sought by today’s climate cult.

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Aussie Government Settles Climate Bond Disclosure Lawsuit

Eric Worrall — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 21:00:00 +0000

A green lawsuit which likely does more good than harm, by making it more difficult for financially incontinent politicians to borrow money.

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The Supreme Court of Canada’s Reality Check on Trudeau’s Climate Impact Act

Charles Rotter — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 09:00:00 +0000

...siding with provinces like Alberta that have long argued against what they saw as federal overreach into areas of provincial jurisdiction.

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People of the State of California v. Exxon Mobil Corporation

Guest Blogger — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 01:00:00 +0000

this latest People of the State of California v. ExxonMobil lawsuit is not a watershed legal action in the least, it is little more than a repackaged repetition of prior lawsuits among a larger lineage of efforts dating back to the late 1990s** to defame the fossil fuel industry and skeptic climate scientists.

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‘ExxonKnew’: More Correction

Guest Blogger — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 05:00:00 +0000

It’s a collection of people and just like any other organization with many people, there are many views and understandings on almost every topic imaginable. I worked with Republicans, Democrats, Socialists, and Libertarians.

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Sorry, Guardian and Reuters, Island Nations Have No Climate Case

Guest Blogger — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 13:00:00 +0000

island nations are not being swamped by rising seas

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Exxon Knew: California Sues Oil Giants for Committing Free Speech

Eric Worrall — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 17:00:00 +0000

Strangely the lawsuit does not include a demand oil giants immediately cease supplying their "catastrophic" product to the State of California.

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Climate Lawfare

Guest Blogger — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 21:00:00 +0000

The PUBLIC is the one unjustly enriched by enjoying the enabled driving convenience!

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Montana Climate Decision No Big Deal

Guest Blogger — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 17:45:00 +0000

The kids asked the Court to require Montana to make and implement an emissions reduction plan, all under Court supervision. The Court properly rejected that monster request.

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Climate Change Misinformation Wins in Montana

Guest Blogger — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 01:00:00 +0000

The National Center for Atmospheric Research. These numbers are far below our ability to even measure and certainly not the “substantial factor” as claimed.

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Kids Win Montana Climate Change Lawsuit

Eric Worrall — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 17:00:00 +0000

The judge has upheld a claim the State of Montana has a duty to protect citizens from climate change.

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