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Judge accepts science but tosses cases against oil companies
A federal court judge yesterday threw out lawsuits from two California cities seeking to make oil companies pay for worsening sea-level rise and other climate change impacts.
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Anne C. Mulkern, E&E News reporter
A federal court judge yesterday threw out lawsuits from two California cities seeking to make oil companies pay for worsening sea-level rise and other climate change impacts.
The Trump administration is ending funding for a network of research centers focused on environmental threats to kids, imperiling several long-running studies of pollutants' effects on child development.
By Corbin Hiar and Ariel Wittenberg in Greenwire
Government lawyers last week harpooned the "high-minded rhetoric" of environmentalists' claims for the "right to wilderness" in an unconventional climate case.
By Jennifer Hijazi in Climatewire
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The Trump administration is ending funding for a network of research centers focused on environmental threats to kids, imperiling several long-running studies of pollutants' effects on child development.
By Corbin Hiar and Ariel Wittenberg in Greenwire
Government lawyers last week harpooned the "high-minded rhetoric" of environmentalists' claims for the "right to wilderness" in an unconventional climate case.
By Jennifer Hijazi in Climatewire