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Amnesty International (AI) on Tuesday called upon US President Joe Biden to grant a pardon to Steven Donziger, an environmental lawyer known for his role in representing Ecuadorian victims of oil contamination caused by a now-subsidiary of Chevron corporation. In its statement, AI highlighted Donziger’s significant contributions to environmental advocacy, particularly his successful litigation against [...]

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The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled Thursday that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) did not have legal authority when it reinstated net neutrality rules last May, striking a blow to President Joe Biden’s telecommunications policy. Net neutrality is the idea that internet service providers (ISPs) must provide access to all content [...]

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Maine’s attorney general filed a lawsuit Tuesday against multiple large oil companies alleging negligence, nuisance, unfair trade practices, failure to warn and trespass as parens patriae. Included among the parties being sued are Exxon, Shell, Chevron, British Petroleum (BP), Sunoco and the American Petroleum Institute (API). In the complaint submitted by the state, the attorney [...]

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Tech entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy said Wednesday that their new government efficiency panel will identify “thousands” of regulations made by “unelected bureaucrats” for president-elect Donald Trump to eliminate. Trump appointed Musk and Ramaswamy to lead the newly-announced “Department of Government Efficiency” (ironically designated by the acronym DOGE, evoking Musk’s meme-based cryptocurrency Dogecoin) last [...]

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The US Supreme Court denied a request on Friday to place a hold on a lower court’s decision upholding two EPA rules while the decisions are under appeal. The denial means that the EPA rules must be followed until the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit decides the cases. The first [...]

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In this article, Sonja Rzepski, a JD candidate in environmental justice and clean energy at Vermont Law School  discusses the contrasting climate change policies of Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. Harris is highlighted as an advocate for environmental justice, known for her litigation against environmental violations and support for clean energy [...]

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The US Supreme Court ruled on Friday that courts must exercise independent judgment in assessing an agency’s statutory authority. This overruled the deference long afforded to an agency’s interpretation of its mandate under Chevron U.S.A. v. Natural Resources Defense Council. The case of Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo Secretary of Commerce considered the regulation of [...]

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Even especially attentive Supreme Court watchers might underestimate the importance of a pair of cases the Court subjected to three and a half hours of argument on January 17. In a term full of cases pitting gun rights against domestic violence victims, determining access to medical abortion, and injecting the justices into presidential election politics, [...]

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