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No oil wells in Rhode Island: Chevron calls climate change lawsuit frivolous
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (Legal Newsline) - Rhode Island’s sloppily drafted complaint in a climate lawsuit against several major oil companies falsely claims they drilled for oil and refined it in the state, Chevron said in a filing seeking to throw out the suit as frivolous.
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Energy Transfer: Evidence of liability in $300 million trial is 'high and wide'; Case against Greenpeace goes to jurors
MANDAN, ND (Legal Newsline) - Jurors in Morton County began deliberations Monday on whether Greenpeace is liable for $300 million in trespass, nuisance and defamation damages for disruptions to construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL).
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Greenpeace helped fund and coordinate protests that turned violent, Energy Transfer argues as it wraps case
MORTON COUNTY, ND (Legal Newsline) - Energy Transfer rested its case against Greenpeace defendants on Monday as it seeks to recover $300 million in damages over violent protests that caused the Dakota Access Pipeline to miss a crucial deadline for online production.
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ND Supreme Court denies Greenpeace petition to move pipeline suit to Fargo
MORTON COUNTY, ND (Legal Newsline) - The North Dakota Supreme Court on Wednesday denied a petition of Greenpeace to move a trial it faces from oil producer Energy Transfer out of Morton County to Fargo.
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'Political interference' caused easement to be revoked during Dakota Pipeline construction, witness says
BISMARCK, ND (Legal Newsline) - A ranking official from oil and gas producer Energy Transfer said the reversal of U.S. Army Corp of Engineer's crucial easement during Dakota Pipeline construction was "political interference."
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Greenpeace involvement amplified local Dakota Pipeline protests, witness says
BISMARCK, ND (Legal Newsline) - Protests of the Dakota Pipeline that were mostly disorganized and organic accelerated in August 2016 with the intervention of Native American activist groups and Greenpeace, according to testimony in a high stakes trial entering its second week.
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Energy Transfer officials testify on delays due to protests in second day of trial against Greenpeace
BISMARCK, ND (Legal Newsline) - Protests of the Dakota Pipeline and not other factors caused the project to be delayed for months causing it to miss a crucial deadline, according to Energy Transfer officials testifying Thursday in its case against environmental advocacy entities Greenpeace.
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Pipeline disruption suit against Greenpeace starts in N.D.; Energy Transfer seeks $300 million
BISMARCK, ND (Legal Newsline) - Greenpeace never thought it would have to account for protests of the Dakota Access Pipeline that cost oil and gas supplier Energy Transfer $80 million in lost profits and $26 million in lost shareholder value - the opening salvo in a high-stakes trial under way in Morton County, N.D.
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Fifth judge agrees with Big Oil, dismisses another climate change case
TRENTON, N.J. (Legal Newsline) - A New Jersey state court judge refuses to be the one who sets international energy standards and has thrown out a climate change lawsuit brought by the state.
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Fourth climate change case against Big Oil tossed out of state court
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Legal Newsline) - Another state court judge has thrown out a climate change lawsuit brought against the fossil fuel industry by government officials who have hired private lawyers hoping for jackpots.
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Why wouldn't SCOTUS take up Hawaii climate change case, as others fail around it?
The oil industry won a high-profile victory in New York this week, right on the heels of a bitter defeat as the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal of a Hawaii Supreme Court ruling allowing a similar climate change case to proceed.
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NYC loses - again, in a different court - its climate change case against Big Oil
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - Government officials allied with private lawyers hoping for climate change jackpots wanted their cases heard in various state courts, but yesterday a third state judge tossed their claims at an early stage.
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SCOTUS declines to hear Big Oil's appeal of Hawaii climate change ruling
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - The U.S. Supreme Court will let stand a ruling in Hawaii that paves the way for government officials represented by contingency fee lawyers to sue the oil industry over the effects of global warming.
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Big Oil makes last push for SCOTUS intervention in climate change case
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - Oil companies have made their final plea for help from the U.S. Supreme Court as they battle a Hawaii ruling that kept alive a lawsuit that seeks to hold them liable for the effects of climate change.
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Dem Pa. AG candidate: Litigation not part of addressing climate change
HARRISBURG, Pa. (Legal Newsline) - The Democrat hoping to replace Michelle Henry as Pennsylvania Attorney General doesn't seem to be willing to push climate change lawsuits against the oil industry, like some local officials have.
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Oil companies say Md. judge keeps climate suit alive for wrong reason
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Legal Newsline) - Oil companies say a Maryland judge is keeping a climate lawsuit by Annapolis and Anne Arundel County alive for the wrong reason while ignoring a fellow judge’s dismissal of a nearly identical case by the City of Baltimore.
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Climate change may be 'accident,' but CO2 is 'pollutant,' Hawaii court rules
HONOLULU (Legal Newsline) - Recklessly emitting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere qualifies as an “accident” but CO2 is also a “pollutant” excluded from insurance coverage, the Hawaii Supreme Court ruled, answering questions central to a closely watched climate lawsuit.
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Bucks County cut corners to file climate change lawsuit, oil industry says
DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (Legal Newsline) - Picturesque Bucks County, Pa., decided to do something about climate change itself earlier this year when it hired private lawyers on a contingency-fee basis to sue 14 of the world’s largest oil companies.
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Ebony Twilley Martin out as executive director of Greenpeace USA, while new interim leadership helms group amid Energy Transfer lawsuit
A pair of temporary leaders are currently helming Greenpeace USA, after its now-former executive director Ebony Twilley Martin recently departed the organization under circumstances that have yet to be made fully clear.
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Baltimore judge throws out climate change case, says it's beyond the power of a state court
BALTIMORE (Legal Newsline) - For the first time, a state court judge has thrown out one of the climate change lawsuits brought against the energy industry by an alliance of government officials and private lawyers.