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Puerto Rico drops climate change lawsuit less than a year in
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Legal Newsline) - Puerto Rico has abandoned its climate change lawsuit, adding to the growing list of setbacks for the alliance of private lawyers and government officials suing the energy industry.
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Climate change cases complicated: Trump goes to court to prevent states from suing
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - President Donald Trump now seeks to punish states planning to sue the energy industry over climate change, though judges handling suits against Big Oil have mostly refused to let them proceed.
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Watchdog groups call for congressional probe into D.C. Attorney General Schwalb’s contracting practices
The Foundation for American Innovation, joined by the American Tort Reform Association and the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, has called on Congress to investigate what they describe as ethically questionable practices by District of Columbia Attorney General Brian Schwalb.
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Chevron: We have no gas stations in Rhode Island, so why are you suing us?
At a court hearing over Rhode Island’s climate lawsuit against oil companies, Chevron asked why it is being sued for allegedly misleading gasoline consumers over the impact of fossil fuels, since it sold its last gas stations there in 1985.
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Judge raps 'astonishing example of plagiarism' in climate suit
SAN JUAN, P.R. (Legal Newsline) - A federal judge in Puerto Rico sanctioned the lawyer representing the City of San Juan in a climate lawsuit for “an astonishing example of plagiarism” by copying entire passages from legal filings by other municipalities on the island in their own climate cases.
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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.