Weekly Cases Update Volume 48, Issue 2

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Volume 47, Issue 36

ELR 2016313-cv-04934-JD(N.D. Cal. , )

A district court held that the California Public Utilities Commission's tariff program for small renewables, known as the Renewable Market Adjusting Tariff (Re-MAT), violates the federal Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA).

Keywords:
Energy (generally)
ELR 20165SCWC-15-0000640(Haw. , )

The Hawaii Supreme Court held that the “right to a clean and healthful environment” as set forth in the Hawaii Constitution gives citizens the right to be heard and protect their environmental interests in cases before the state Public Utilities Commission.

Keywords:
Energy (generally)
ELR 2016214-17350(9th Cir., )

The Ninth Circuit rejected challleges to a 2012 DOI decision to withdraw from new uranium mining claims, up to twenty years, over one million acres of land near Grand Canyon National Park.

Keywords:
Public Lands
ELR 2016417-1461(1st Cir., )

The First Circuit held that a pesticide company is not liable for cleaning up PCB-laden caulk installed in a Massachusetts middle school in the 1960s.

Keywords:
Pesticides

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