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US Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 6 January 2018

January 6, 2018 12:00:03 PM

Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: The legal world is a busy place. US Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke on Thursday announced plans to make much of the US coast available for potential...

January 5, 2018 01:38:25 PM

US Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke on Thursday announced plans to make much of the US coast available for potential offshore drilling. Zinke unveiled a 380-page Draft Proposed Program (DPP) that includes 47 potential leases...

May 24, 2017 08:39:54 PM

JURIST Guest Columnist Jay Austin of the Environmental Law Institute discusses President Trump's recent executive order concerning offshore drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf ... Even before this week's dramatic events, the topic of "presidential power" had already been trending....

May 10, 2017 05:24:10 PM

The US Senate on Tuesday rejected a measure that would rollback methane gas regulations. HJ Res 36 was a joint measure which sought to provide Congressional disapproval of the final rule of the Bureau of...

April 30, 2017 03:30:07 PM

US President Donald Trump on Saturday signed an executive order directing the Commerce Department and the US Trade Representative to review all US trade agreements and membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO)...

April 29, 2017 12:31:37 PM

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday to lift restrictions placed on offshore oil drilling. According to a statement , about 94 percent of the US Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) was either off-limits to or...

March 23, 2017 01:52:29 PM

A New York judge on Wednesday ordered ExxonMobil to cooperate with a New York investigation into whether the company misled others about the effects of climate change. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman had issued previous...

January 13, 2017 10:08:34 AM

The Washington Supreme Court ruled against plans for a big oil terminal on the West Coast on Thursday. The court ruled that the proposal must be reviewed under the Oceans Resources Management Act...

January 12, 2017 01:36:20 PM

The Suffolk Superior Court in Massachusetts ordered on Wednesday Exxon Mobil to turn over 40 years' worth of documents on climate change. This ruling stems from a Civil Investigative Demand (CID) issued by...

January 5, 2017 03:02:28 PM

JURIST Guest Columnist Victor B. Flatt of Universtiy of North Carolina School of Law discusses the recent withdrawal of arctic lands from drilling by President Obama...On Dec. 20, 2016, President Obama withdrew all of the northern Atlantic Ocean and most...

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