"Nature’s Trust: Environmental Law for a New Ecological Age"
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News Media Coalition Appeals Gag Orders in Blankenship Case
After a judge refused to reverse most of the secrecy ruling around the 2010 Upper Big Branch mine disaster caused by Massey Energy's safety violations, including indictment of the company's former CEO, media outlets appealed. Now a coalition of many more media groups, led by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, have filed a friend-of-the-court brief opposing the secrecy ruling as unconstitutional.
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Groups FOIA Federal Rules for Allowing Petroleum Export Ban Exceptions
For decades, U.S. politicians have made energy independence a patriotic platitude — with one result being a ban on exporting crude oil produced in the U.S. Now some oil companies are getting exceptions to the export ban for a product called "condensate," and the Commerce Department won't say why. So a coalition of environmental groups have filed a Freedom of Information Act request to find out.
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"Supreme Court Rules Neb. Must Pay Kan. in Interstate River Battle"
""The Supreme Court today ruled that Nebraska "recklessly gambled" in taking more water from the Republican River than it was allowed. A majority of the justices held that Nebraska knowingly violated an interstate compact governing the river, depriving Kansas of water that should have flowed over the states' border."
Source: Greenwire, 02/25/2015
"E.P.A. Issues Stiffer Rules on Vehicle Fuel Ratings"
"After two years of imposing increasingly stiff penalties on automakers that overstate their fuel economy ratings, federal regulators on Monday said they would tighten guidelines used in determining the mileage advertised to consumers."
Source: NY Times, 02/25/2015
Lobbyist aka 'Dr. Evil' Behind Front Groups Attacking Obama Power Rules
"To Washington insiders he is Dr Evil: the hidden orchestrator of industry campaigns against the Humane Society, Mothers against Drunk Driving, and other seemingly uncontroversial groups. Now Richard Berman, a one-time lobbyist turned industry strategist, has zeroed in on another target: Barack Obama’s new power plant rules."
Source: Guardian, 02/24/2015
"Hearing Examiner Says Shell Oil Project Needs Full Review"
"SEATTLE — A Skagit County hearing examiner handed conservation groups a victory Monday, ruling that an oil-by-rail project at the Shell Puget Sound Refinery near Anacortes should undergo a full environmental review."
Source: AP, 02/24/2015
"US Charges Duke With Illegal Pollution From 5 Coal Ash Dumps"
"Federal prosecutors filed multiple criminal charges against Duke Energy on Friday over years of illegal pollution leaking from coal ash dumps at five North Carolina power plants."
Source: AP, 02/23/2015
"U.S. Proposes First Rules for Arctic Oil, Gas Drilling"
"The Obama administration on Friday proposed standards on exploratory drilling for oil and gas in U.S. Arctic waters that would add costs for energy companies but aim to protect against catastrophic spills."
Source: Reuters, 02/23/2015
"Harvard Prepares To Fight Fossil Fuel Divestment Case in Court"
"Lawyers for Harvard University will appear in court on Friday to fight off attempts to force the world’s richest university to dump coal, oil and gas companies from its $36bn (£23bn) endowment."
Source: Guardian, 02/20/2015
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