Despite Preliminary Injunction CARB approves California’s climate disclosure regulations

The California Air Resources Board, tasked with enforcing the state’s climate disclosure laws, will require companies to report scope 1 and scope 2 emissions by August this year. Full Story HERE.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business groups led litigation in the Ninth Circuit resulting in a preliminary injunction on SB 261. While ...Read More

North Dakota judge finalizes $345m judgment against Greenpeace in pipeline case

A North Dakota judge on Friday finalized a $345m judgment against Greenpeace in a lawsuit pursued by pipeline company Energy Transfer (ET.N) over the environmental group’s role in protests against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.

The final judgment by judge James Gion was in line with a decision he issued in October, in which he slashed by almost half a ...Read More

Justices Will Decide Future Of State Climate Lawsuits

The case could determine whether climate suits are heard in state or federal court.

The Supreme Court announced Monday that it will hear a significant climate lawsuit in which oil companies are seeking to avoid being tried in state court. 

The fate of several dozen climate lawsuits brought against oil companies by state and local governments could ...Read More

Newsom’s Attempt to Streamline Development: Inside California’s New CEQA Exemptions and Fast-Tracked Review (CEQA Reform AB 130 and SB131)

On June 30, California Governor
Gavin Newsom signed the two most recent California Environmental Quality Act
(“CEQA”) amendments, Assembly Bill 130 (“AB 130”) and Senate Bill 131 (“SB
131”). The bills collectively create new categories of CEQA exemptions, remove
sunset dates applicable to the Permit Streamlining Act, and create a new
process for environmental review for projects that do not ...Read More