• American Electric Power Company v. Connecticut, 564 U.S. 410 (2011), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court, in an 8–0 decision, held...
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    the Colony of Connecticut are an invented set of harsh statutes governing conduct in the Puritan colony, listed in a history of Connecticut that was published...
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    electronics and semiconductors, $180 billion in electric vehicles and batteries, $184 billion in clean power, $84 billion in clean energy tech manufacturing...
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    nuisance was unanimously rejected by the Court in 2011 in American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut, 564 U.S. 410 (2011), reversing a lower court decision...
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    by the Connecticut Colony council on January 24 [O.S. January 14] 1639. The fundamental orders describe the government set up by the Connecticut River...
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  • with the congressional purpose. Espinoza v. Farah Mfg. Co., 414 U. S. 86 (1973); Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC, 395 U. S. 367, 381 (1969). In 1977...
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  • Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services, Inc., 528 U.S. 167 (2000), was a United States Supreme Court case that addressed the law...
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  • that it was "necessary and appropriate" to regulate fossil fuel power plants. Michigan v. EPA was considered a controversial case in environmental litigation...
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    In 1919, J. Henry Roraback started the Connecticut Light & Power Co. which became the state's dominant electric utility. In 1925, Frederick Rentschler...
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    billion to build a national network of electric vehicle chargers; $73 billion to overhaul the nation's power infrastructure, clean energy transmission...
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    and $760 million in facilitating electric power transmission siting reform. It also invests $12 billion in electric vehicle incentives, $14 billion in...
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    act resulted from concerns about protecting mostly prehistoric Native American ruins and artifacts—collectively termed "antiquities"—on federal lands...
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  • Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 462 U.S. 87 (1983), is a United States Supreme Court decision that held valid...
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    Clean Air Act (United States) (category 1963 in American law)
    respond to climate change. American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut, 564 U.S. 410 (2011) Several states and cities sued electric utility companies to force...
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    earliest environmental cases is Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference v. Federal Power Commission, decided in 1965 by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals...
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    the use of plug-in electric vehicles, and 400,000 electric cars had been sold by the end of 2015. According to a report by The American Lung Association...
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    (California, New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut, New Mexico and Vermont) sued the EPA. The EPA's inspector general had...
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    the District of Connecticut (in case citations, D. Conn.) is the federal district court whose jurisdiction is the state of Connecticut. The court has offices...
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    American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut (2011) Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA (2014) Michigan v. EPA (2015) HollyFrontier Cheyenne Refining v...
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  • trucks, buses) and stationary sources (e.g., factories, oil refineries, power plants), as well as indoor sources (e.g., building materials and activities...
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    Electric power transmission is the bulk movement of electrical energy from a generating site, such as a power plant, to an electrical substation. The...
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  • June 2020. Retrieved 9 June 2020. See the Supreme Court decision: Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council, 490 U.S. 332, 349 (1989). Felleman, John...
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  • main subsidiaries: Connecticut Light and Power (CL&P), Public Service Company of New Hampshire (PSNH), Western Massachusetts Electric Company (WMECO), Yankee...
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  • American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut (2011) Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA (2014) Michigan v. EPA (2015) HollyFrontier Cheyenne Refining v...
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    as well as offices in each of the 10 EPA regions: Boston (Region 1: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont) New York...
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  • Lacey Act of 1900 (category 1900 in American law)
    plant in violation of the laws of the United States, a state, a Native American tribe, or any foreign law that protects plants. The Lacey Act was amended...
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    Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 (category 1976 in American law)
    "Announcement of agreement with General Electric to conduct Hudson River dredging", October 6, 2005. Schapiro, Mark, "New Power for 'Old Europe'". The Nation,...
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    Connecticut v. Doehr, 501 U.S. 1 (1991), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that a state statute authorizing prejudgment attachment...
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    Retrieved 2023-06-29. Aldred's Case (1610) 9 Co Rep 57b; (1610) 77 ER 816 R v Stephens (1866) LR 1 QB 702 Rylands v Fletcher [1868] UKHL 1 "WHO | Developing...
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    An electric locomotive is a locomotive powered by electricity from overhead lines, a third rail or on-board energy storage such as a battery or a supercapacitor...
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