December 14, 2018
The inexorable links between energy and climate change meant climate played a central role in the biggest court decisions of 2018 affecting the energy sector, from Big Oil dodging climate torts brought by cities to the Trump administration's approval of the Keystone XL pipeline running aground due to a faulty review of climate impacts. Here are five significant energy-related court decisions from the past year.
December 13, 2018
Several major environmental decisions were handed down by courts in 2018, from a split among federal appeals courts on whether pollution that travels through groundwater may be regulated under the Clean Water Act, to a finding that President Donald Trump's controversial Mexico-U.S. border wall doesn't have to go through certain environmental reviews. Here, Law360 looks at some of the biggest environmental rulings in 2018.
June 20, 2018
The first half of 2018 saw courts take a broad view of energy companies' potential liability, whether the matter hinged on climate change, groundwater pollution or even a business partner's bankruptcy. Here are five court decisions that raised energy attorneys' eyebrows.
April 13, 2018
The Ninth Circuit on Thursday rebuffed a bid by Hawaii's Maui County to freeze the effect of a recent ruling that made wastewater injections whose pollution reaches navigable U.S. waters via groundwater subject to Clean Water Act permitting requirements, while the county pursues a U.S. Supreme Court appeal.
April 04, 2018
A Hawaii county asked the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday to halt the effect of a recent ruling that made wastewater injections whose pollution reaches navigable U.S. waters via groundwater subject to Clean Water Act permitting requirements, saying it plans to mount a U.S. Supreme Court challenge.
March 30, 2018
The Ninth Circuit on Friday denied a Hawaii county's petition for rehearing of a panel ruling that made wastewater injections whose pollution reaches navigable U.S. waters via groundwater subject to Clean Water Act permitting requirements.
March 09, 2018
A coalition of water regulators and governmental associations on Thursday backed a Hawaii county's request that the full Ninth Circuit revisit a panel ruling that made a type of wastewater injection pollution subject to Clean Water Act permitting requirements, arguing the standard was unnecessary and infeasible.
March 01, 2018
The county of Maui, Hawaii, on Thursday asked the Ninth Circuit to reconsider a panel finding that wastewater injections whose pollution reaches navigable U.S. waters via groundwater are subject to Clean Water Act permitting requirements.
February 01, 2018
The Ninth Circuit on Thursday said that wastewater injections whose pollution reaches navigable U.S. waters via groundwater are subject to Clean Water Act permitting requirements, a decision experts say expands the scope of CWA liability to potentially ensnare activities ranging from coal ash and pipeline spills to agricultural runoff.