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  1. July 12, 2022

    The Biggest Environmental Rulings Of 2022: Midyear Report

    The U.S. Supreme Court made its mark on environmental law this year by limiting the federal government's power to regulate power plant emissions, reviving a Trump-era Clean Water Act rule while an appeal plays out and leaving intact a ruling that allows the Biden administration to use cost estimates for greenhouse gas harms in new regulations. Here, Law360 recaps the top environmental rulings so far in 2022.

  2. June 22, 2022

    DOI Asks 9th Circ. To Revisit Coal Mine Emissions Ruling

    The U.S. Department of the Interior has told the Ninth Circuit it went too far when rejecting the agency's process for green-lighting a Montana mine expansion project and wants a rehearing on a "narrow but important" element of the case.

  3. April 05, 2022

    9th Circ. Says Foreign Emissions From Montana Coal Count

    A split Ninth Circuit panel ruled the U.S. Department of the Interior wrongfully greenlighted a mine expansion project in Montana by arbitrarily deeming its environmental impact "insignificant" without pointing to any scientific evidence to support concluding greenhouse gas emissions from the expansion would be "minor."