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Showing posts with label Big Oil. Show all posts
Monday, October 5, 2026

Seeking to fund climate mitigation with 'super tort' relief, U.S. cities, states struggle with federalism

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RJ Peltz-Steele with Google Gemini CC0 1.0 In today's First Monday in the U.S. Supreme Court, the Court heard and livestreamed oral argu...
Monday, December 15, 2025

'How Beautiful We Were' when 'They Poisoned the World': What I've been reading, 2025 edition

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It's been since the pandemic that I wrote an installment of "What I've Been Reading." With some time to spare in transit r...
Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Oil, uranium motivated Trump to slash Bears Ears; litigation, land use questions now sit on Biden's desk

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President Biden is likely to undo the Trump Administration's dramatic reduction of protected land in southern Utah, including the Bears ...
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Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Big Oil deploys slick strategy to stay ahead of liability

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Image by Ucheke CC BY-SA 4.0 On February 12, the UK Supreme Court allowed a claim of environmental catastrophe by 40,000 to 50,000 Nigeria...
Wednesday, November 4, 2020

'Super tort' might represent failure of public policymaking, but is only tip of melting iceberg

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First Circuit remands R.I. suit against Big Oil for public nuisance Super Tort ( px her e.com CC0 ) A "super tort" sounds delicio...
Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Human life, human rights are the losers in unraveling Chevron-Ecuador litigation

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Crude contaminates an open toxic pool in the the Ecuadorean Amazon rainforest near Lago Agrio.  Photo by Caroline Bennett / Rainforest ...