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California low-carbon rule survives big legal challenge

2014-06-30 20:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Sacramento Bee: California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard, one of the centerpieces of the state's fight against global warming, survived a significant legal challenge Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a lawsuit brought by oil-industry and out-of-state farm groups. The court let stand a 2013 decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upholding the state's low-carbon fuel standard. But opponents of the law said there will be more litigation against the standard under different legal theories....

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Western Australia's shark cull faces legal challenge from conservationists

2014-01-20 08:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: The Greens and animal welfare groups are formulating a legal challenge to the Western Australian government's shark cull, claiming the move would fall foul of state, federal and international obligations. Lawyers for a loose-knit coalition of groups, including the Greens, the Conservation Council and Western Australians for Shark Conservation, are looking at whether the plan to trap and kill large sharks is legally possible. At a state level, the cull policy could run contrary to the Wildlife...

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Leading Biofuel Groups Ask to Intervene in Latest Legal Challenge to Renewable Fuel Standard

2013-11-04 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today

BIO, Growth Energy, and Renewable Fuels Association filed on November 1, 2013 motion in U.S. Court of Appeals for District of Columbia Circuit to intervene in support of EPA Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS2) 2013 final rule. Monroe Energy, American Petroleum Institute, and American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers are challenging this rule and seek reduction of 2013 volume obligations for all renewable fuels, which would directly impact interests of biofuel trade groups’ member ...This story is related to the following:Trade Associations

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United Kingdom: Fracking faces legal challenge from Lancashire farmer & Greenpeace

2013-10-14 12:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: A Lancashire dairy farmer has joined forces with Greenpeace to launch a challenge to fracking in England. The environmental charity is working with people in Lancashire and the West Sussex village of Balcombe whose homes are near sites where the energy company Cuadrilla is looking at using hydraulic fracturing to extract shale gas and oil. Andrew Pemberton, who supplies milk to 3,000 households in Lytham on the Lancashire coast, said he had joined the campaign because he would lose his livelihood...

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