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Colorado Supreme Court Allows Climate Tort Litigation to Proceed

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On May 12, 2025, in a 5-2 decision, the Colorado Supreme Court held that the tort claims brought by local governments in Colorado against major fossil fuel companies concerning damages stemming from climate change could...more

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German Landmark Climate Change Litigation Case Continues

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A Peruvian farmer's climate action lawsuit against a German energy company was continued recently before the Higher Regional Court in Hamm, Germany....more

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Dutch Appeal Court Overturns Emissions Reduction Targets on Shell

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On April 5th, 2019, environmental activist group Milieudefensie (Friends of the Earth) Netherlands and co-plaintiffs served Shell a court summons alleging Shell’s contributions to climate change violated its duty of care...more

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Landmark Climate Change Case Overturned: The Hague Court of Appeals Overturns Ruling Ordering Shell to Reduce CO2 Emissions

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On November 12, 2024, The Hague Court of Appeals overturned the landmark climate change litigation case that imposed a 45% CO2 reduction obligation on Shell....more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Three Unfolding Cases Could Shape Future Energy Litigation, and Perhaps Business Practices

A stream of judicial decisions in the pipeline will have important implications for the energy industry. The three cases discussed below are among those that energy litigators and industry professionals are watching in 2024....more

Foley Hoag LLP - Environmental Law

The D.C. Circuit Again Requires FERC to Consider the Environmental Impacts of Downstream Use of Gas: How Big a Deal Is It?

Last week, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals again rejected a FERC NEPA review for failure to assess the climate impacts resulting from the downstream use of natural gas supplied by a gas pipeline upgrade project...more

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Minn. Big Oil Climate Suit Follows Big Tobacco Blueprint

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When Minnesota's Attorney General Keith Ellison announced in June 2020 that his office had filed a climate change lawsuit, the litigation strategy he described was relatively novel for a climate change case. Rather than...more

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Climate Lawsuits Face Setbacks as they Raise Major Public Policy Issues

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The drive to litigate public policy over climate change took some hits the last two weeks in the United States Supreme Court. First, last Monday in the case of Mayor and City Council of Baltimore v. BP P. L. C. et al.,...more

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Changes to Expect in Environmental Litigation Under Biden

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One thing is certain about 2021 – environmental and natural resources-related litigation against the federal government will continue apace and it will impact a range of private projects that require federal authorization of...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Environmental Law

Baltimore’s Climate Case Will Be Heard in State Court

Last week, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the District Court decision remanding Baltimore’s climate change litigation to state court. I wouldn’t read too much into the decision, which is founded on the niceties of...more

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California Environmental Law & Policy Update - January 2020 #2

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Focus - U.S. appeals court orders dismissal of young people's lawsuit over climate change - U.S. News & World Report – January 17 - A federal appeals court on Friday threw out a lawsuit by children and young adults...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Currents - Energy Industry Insights - July 2019 #3

Judge Rules Against Oil Companies to Keep Climate Liability Case in Rhode Island - "The ruling will allow Rhode Island prosecutors to continue to bring charges against 21 oil and gas producers including Chevron, Shell and...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Currents - Energy Industry Insights - April 2019 #3

Trump Signs Orders to Speed Up Oil and Gas Pipeline Construction - "President Trump signed two executive orders that he says will speed up construction of pipelines and other projects to enhance the production and...more

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Colorado Supreme Court Issues Win for Oil and Gas Industry

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The Colorado Supreme Court on January 14 issued an opinion thought to be favorable to Colorado's oil and gas industry....more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Currents - Energy Industry Insights - December 2018 #3

Energy Companies to Appeal Loss of Forest Service Permit for Atlantic Coast Pipeline - "The builders of the $7 billion Atlantic Coast Pipeline say they will appeal a federal court ruling that invalidated a permit allowing...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Currents - Energy Industry Insights - September 2018 #2

As Storm Looms, 4th Circuit Reverses Ruling Against Dominion on Coal Ash Pollution at Chesapeake Site - "Water pollution from a coal ash landfill and settling ponds at a closed power plant in Chesapeake is not a violation of...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Currents - Energy Industry Insights - August 2018

EPA Chief Looks to Distinguish Himself from Pruitt in Agency-Wide Memo - "The new head of the EPA sent a staff-wide memo laying out steps the agency is taking to increase transparency, a move that's seen as an effort to...more

Bennett Jones LLP

Oil Producers Win Another Round in U.S. Climate Change Litigation

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On July 19, 2018, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York followed an emerging trend in federal jurisprudence by dismissing a claim against several oil and gas producers in City of New York v....more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Currents - Energy Industry Insights - September 2017#2

- U.S. High Court Asked to Review WV Justice's Role in Gas Royalties Case - "The U.S. Supreme Court is being asked to review West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Beth Walker's participation in a high-stakes natural gas...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Currents - Energy Industry Insights - August 2017#2

This is our second installment of Currents - our weekly energy news e-blast where we deliver the week's top energy news stories and our synopsis of why those stories are important from a legal perspective. - Appeals Court...more

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Clean Power Rule Challenges Will Proceed Sooner or Later, But Its Goal May Already Be Close at Hand

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Legal challenges filed almost immediately after President Obama announced the Clean Power Rule may be premature. That is what attorneys for EPA told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit recently in...more

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