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Justice Department Counters Russian Military Intelligence Unit Attack On US Targets
15+ hour, 19+ min ago (820+ words) Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times(emphasis ours), The Justice Department and FBI on Tuesday revealedthey have conducted a court-approved technical operation to neutralize part of a network of small office and home office routers in the United…...
Climate Change Reparations Melted By New Court Ruling In Deep Blue State | CDN
2+ week, 1+ day ago (476+ words) The Maryland Supreme Court dismissed local lawsuits against fossil fuel companies that demanded payouts over climate change on Tuesday. Baltimore, Annapolis, and Anne Arundel County filed 3 separate lawsuits against 26 multinational fossil fuel companies for damages caused by global greenhouse gas…...
Climate Change Reparations Melted By New Court Ruling In Deep Blue State
2+ week, 1+ day ago (431+ words) The Maryland Supreme Court dismissed local lawsuits against fossil fuel companies that demanded payouts over climate change on Tuesday. Baltimore, Annapolis, and Anne Arundel County argued that defendant's actions violated Maryland's laws of public/private nuisance, strict liability for failure…...
Maryland Supreme Court Tosses Climate Lawsuits
2+ week, 1+ day ago (409+ words) More than 30 municipal climate lawsuits seek to set U. S. energy policy through litigation, critics say. Maryland Supreme Court Tosses Climate Lawsuits Maryland's supreme court rejected several local climate lawsuits on March 24, upholding the view of lower state courts that the suits…...
MD Supreme Court Tosses All Climate Torts Trying to Regulate Global Conduct
2+ week, 1+ day ago (262+ words) The Supreme Court of Maryland dismissed three lawsuits filed by Democrat jurisdictions seeking to hold oil and gas companies accountable for climate change worldwide. The lawsuits were a coordinated legal effort to force energy producers to pay billions of dollars…...
Maryland Supreme Court tosses Blue cities' climate lawsuits against energy companies
2+ week, 2+ day ago (288+ words) (The Center Square) " The Maryland Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed three lawsuits filed by Democrat-run jurisdictions claiming oil and gas companies'concealed information about their products" contributions to climate change, leading to significant costs. In the 3-2 decision,'Justice Brynja Booth wrote…...
EPA fast-tracks New Hampshire's request to opt out of emissions law
2+ week, 2+ day ago (464+ words) (The Center Square) " Federal environmental officials are fast-tracking New Hampshire's request to opt out of a regional tailpipe emissions law, as part of the state's efforts to ditch its vehicle testing program. The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday that it…...
24 States Sue EPA Over Repeal of Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding
2+ week, 6+ day ago (317+ words) Attorneys general from 24 states filed a lawsuit Thursday against the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) reversal last month of its 2009 endangerment finding, which stated that greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles harm the public health and welfare. The endangerment finding, issued…...
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3+ week, 1+ day ago (1069+ words) (2) Citizenship of fraudster revoked: A Haitian-born fraudster has been stripped of his U. S. citizenship after defrauding COVID-19 relief programs of millions of dollars and concealing his criminal conduct during the naturalization process. U. S. District Judge Rodney Smith entered an order revoking the…...
Taxpayer Dollars, Climate Advocacy, and Judges'AGs Raise Alarms Over Federal Grant
3+ week, 6+ day ago (694+ words) Two dozen Republican state attorneys general called on the Trump administration to investigate what they say is the use of tax dollars to influence judges in climate cases. The state attorneys general, in a letter to Trump cabinet officials, point…...