Sentences with phrase «court by environmental groups»

In April, President Trump signed an executive order that reversed the Obama administration's ban on oil and gas development in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas, though it is being contested in court by environmental groups.

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The environmental group trying to stop work on the state government's Roe 8 project has been refused an interim injunction on construction by the Federal Court, but has vowed to keep fighting.

Jan. 17, 2014: First of 10 applications filed in Federal Court and the Federal Appeal Court by environmental and First Nations groups seeking judicial review of panel recommendation to approve project.

While counter-messages from the oil industry and environmental groups set the tone internationally, opposition to the pipeline by a handful of rural landowners in Nebraska is what ended up tying the pipeline project in the courts.

One of these planners was Raouf Dabbas, appointed by Jordan's Royal Court to head the environmental delegation from Jordan to the Young Leaders Network, a group of future leaders from Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Israel.

Discontented with the federal response to global warming, environmental groups joined forces with three cities, one U.S. territory and a dozen states, led by Massachusetts, to challenge the EPA in court.

The court ruled in a civil case against the government brought by an environmental group called Urgenda.

CTA and other environmental groups have written the EPA Administrator demanding that the agency implement the Supreme Court ruling in Massachusetts, et al v. EPA (CTA Global Warming Case) by issuing proposed regulations and an endangerment finding.

April 26, 2016 — A coalition of wolf - conservation groups, environmental organizations and a retired federal wolf biologist announced a court settlement requiring the Fish and Wildlife Service to prepare its long - delayed recovery plan for Mexican gray wolves by November 2017.

Back in late 2009, in a lawsuit filed by a coalition of Los Angeles — area bird advocacy groups against City of Los Angeles Animal Services (LAAS), a Los Angeles Superior Court judge found in favor of the bird groups that LAAS programs in support of trap / neuter / return (TNR) as a community cat management strategy was in violation of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) because the agency had not conducted an environmental impact study regarding the effects on the environment of sterilizing free - roaming coEnvironmental Quality Act (CEQA) because the agency had not conducted an environmental impact study regarding the effects on the environment of sterilizing free - roaming coenvironmental impact study regarding the effects on the environment of sterilizing free - roaming community cats.

The Obama Administration, is under a court imposed settlement to issue these standards, which they have violated; they have issued and then withdrawn draft rules for new power plants after strong pushback from the power sector; and EPA is about to get sued by environmental groups for violating the settlement.

Environmental groups cheered a Federal Court ruling today that forces the Bush administration to decide by mid-May whether polar bears deserve protection under the Endangered Species Act because of Arctic impacts from the warming climate.

However, court records released as part of the discovery process in a lawsuit brought about by environmental groups showed that Millennium hoped to greatly expand their operation from five million to a second phase increase to 20 million tons or even 60 million tons annually.

If it does not, liberal states and environmental groups are likely to sue the agency based on its carbon endangerment finding — an agency review ordered by the Supreme Court in 2007.

Today, environmental and community groups asked a federal court to stay a decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to weaken and delay Clean Air Act protection against toxic pollution from cenvironmental and community groups asked a federal court to stay a decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to weaken and delay Clean Air Act protection against toxic pollution from cEnvironmental Protection Agency to weaken and delay Clean Air Act protection against toxic pollution from cement plants.

As a member of the large plaintiff group in Massachusetts v. EPA, we celebrated the Supreme Court's April 2007 decision declaring CO2 a pollutant under the Clean Air Act and ordering the Environmental Protection Agency to take the next step toward regulation by making what's called the «endangerment finding» — an agency determination that a pollutant «endangers public health and welfare,» leading directly to controls on that pollutant.

Statement from the environmental and community groups who were granted amicus curiae status by the court — Sierra Club, Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, Coal River Mountain Watch, and the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy, represented by attorneys at Earthjustice and Appalachian Mountaenvironmental and community groups who were granted amicus curiae status by the court — Sierra Club, Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, Coal River Mountain Watch, and the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy, represented by attorneys at Earthjustice and Appalachian MountaEnvironmental Coalition, Coal River Mountain Watch, and the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy, represented by attorneys at Earthjustice and Appalachian Mountain Advocates:

The Bureau of Land Management has leased to the coal industry 400 million tons of coal on federal land in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming, and the administration has defended the decision against a court challenge by environmental groups.

The groups, represented by Western Environmental Law Center and Earthjustice, filed a lawsuit in federal district court challenging the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's decision to approve 287 oil and gas leases totaling almost 150,000 acres in south central, north central, and southeastern Montana.

On June 26, 2012, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals rejected 26 separate requests by various states and industry groups to overturn the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) greenhouse gas regulations.

After a Massachusetts court sided with a group of teenagers by ruling the state had failed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, [55] Marc Morano — executive director of CFACT's ClimateDepot project — claimed today's youth are being indoctrinated by the environmental movement: [56]

After a Massachusetts court sided with a group of teenagers by ruling the state had failed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, [57] Marc Morano claimed that today's youth are being indoctrinated by the environmental movement: [58]

Judge Anthony W. Ishii of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California ruled in favor of the state of California and environmental groups Environmental Defense, Natural Resources Defense Council and Sierra Club in a case brought by the automobile industry seeking to strike down the state's greenhenvironmental groups Environmental Defense, Natural Resources Defense Council and Sierra Club in a case brought by the automobile industry seeking to strike down the state's greenhEnvironmental Defense, Natural Resources Defense Council and Sierra Club in a case brought by the automobile industry seeking to strike down the state's greenhouse gas law.

Without it, he claimed that environmental campaign groups could use the signing of the Paris agreement as leverage in court challenges to other anti-climate measures proposed by the administration.

The environmental groups still are waiting for the federal court's decision on another part of the lawsuit that seeks to force the Energy Department to require large private fleets, such as those run by FedEx or UPS, to buy alternative fuel vehicles.

David Doniger, senior climate lawyer with the Natural Resources Defense Council, one of several environmental groups that sided with Vermont, said the waiver request was given a big boost by an April 2 U.S. Supreme Court decision saying carbon dioxide was a pollutant worthy of regulation.

Earthjustice represented three environmental justice groups and challenged the impact statement, which a lower court judge found illegal, whose opinion was upheld by a state court of appeal.

A Stouffville woman who was the subject of a libel lawsuit based on comments she made in two Facebook groups about a potential environmental issue has been awarded $ 7,500 in damages by an Ontario Superior Court judge.

Advising BP in its successful defence of English High Court litigation proceedings brought by a group of Colombian landowners claiming for environmental damage to their properties allegedly caused by the construction of an oil pipeline.

Representation of client against claim in Connecticut state Superior Court by consumer group appealing the ruling by the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection allowing dentists to use mercury fillings.

The arbitration panels, which operate as alternatives to domestic court systems, have been criticized by labor and environmental groups as giving corporations — and only corporations — a way to circumvent domestic laws and regulations.

Notable mandates: Acts for Manitoba Housing and Renewal Corp. on its Bridgwater Forest development, scheduled to house 40,000 residents by completion in 2022; counsel for the court - appointed monitor in a number of CCAA proceedings; external counsel to Manitoba Hydro in negotiations with numerous First Nations, including a $ 5.6 - billion partnership and development agreement for the 695 - megawatt Keeyask project; external counsel to HudBay Minerals Inc. as it sought environmental regulatory approvals for its $ 700 - million Lalor zinc - copper - gold project near Snow Lake, Man.; represented Boyd Group Income Fund in $ 20 - million purchase of three Florida businesses.