A district court denied nonprofit groups' motion for summary judgment in a challenge to FDA's denial of the group's petition concerning a threshold of regulation (TOR) exemption that allowed the inclusion of sodium perchlorate monohydrate in food-contact materials. The groups argued FDA violated the...
The Fourth Circuit affirmed a district court order that remanded to state court the city of Baltimore's climate change lawsuit against oil companies. The city alleged it sustained climate change-related injuries, including an increase in sea levels, storms, floods, heatwaves, droughts, and extreme p...
Efforts to hold major greenhouse gas emitters accountable for the harms caused by global climate change have been consistently frustrated at the procedural stages of litigation in U.S. federal courts. This Article explores using a combination of class action mechanisms to engage with these threshold barriers and hold carbon-major corporations responsible for climate impacts.