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☆ Supreme Court Extends Time Frame for Challenges to Regulations
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Adam Liptak | More About Adam Liptak | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The case on time limits, Corner Post v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, No. 22-1008, arose from a challenge to a 2011 regulation of debit-card swipe fees brought by two trade associations in 2021. The amended suit said Corner Post could not have sued within the six-year period after the issuance of the regulation because it did not yet exist. “Has the Justice Department and the agencies considered whether there is any interaction between these two challenges?” Justice Kagan asked. The lawyer, Benjamin W. Snyder, responded, “I want to be careful here.”Then he added that the consequences could be enormous.

Persons: Elena Kagan, “, ” Justice Kagan, Benjamin W, Snyder, ” Organizations: Governors, Federal Reserve, N.D, Chevron, Natural Resources Defense Council, Justice Department Locations: Watford City, Chevron

The ruling came on the final day of the Supreme Court's term that began in October. At issue in the case was whether Corner Post was too late when it brought its legal challenge. A group of small business associations had filed a brief urging the Supreme Court to maintain a strict statute of limitations that begins at the time a regulation is finalized. The Supreme Court in 2015 left in place a lower court's ruling backing the regulation. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Traynor's decision, setting up the Supreme Court appeal.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Charles Koch's, Joe Biden's, Dodd, Frank Wall, Daniel Traynor, Traynor's, John Kruzel, Will Dunham Organizations: REUTERS, Companies, Mastercard, WASHINGTON, U.S, Supreme, Federal, U.S . Chamber of Commerce, Federal Reserve, of Governors, District, Circuit, Fed, Thomson Locations: North Dakota, Watford City, Corner, St, Louis

The National Weather Service warned of hazardous travel on snowy mountain passes and ice on some highways when snow initially melts and then freezes as road temperatures drop. The snow was then forecast to spread across northern Idaho, Montana, northwestern Wyoming and North Dakota into Friday. Some higher elevations in the northern Rockies could see snow totals of 2 feet (61 centimeters) or more. Central Montana will see the worst of the snow, said Matt Ludwig, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Great Falls. Northwestern Wyoming, including Yellowstone National Park, was also under a winter storm warning, the National Weather Service said.

Persons: HELENA, — Snow, Matt Ludwig, ”, Ludwig, aren’t, Snow, Payton Lester, Joe Spieker, Helena, Ludwig said, that's, ” Ludwig, Nathan Heinert, Heinert, Bismarck Organizations: Rockies, National Weather Service, Helena Public Schools, Eagle Tire, Helena, Watford City Locations: Mont, Washington, Idaho , Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, Canada, Cascade, Montana, Central Montana, Great Falls, Helena, Northwestern Wyoming, Yellowstone, Alberta, Bismarck, Williston, Watford, Minot, North

Here is a preview of the issues involved in the special session and what awaits Republican Gov. WHAT CAUSED THE SPECIAL SESSION? Last month, the North Dakota Supreme Court struck down a major budget bill as unconstitutional. The governor is preparing to detail his priorities for the special session in a State of the State speech Monday. The governor’s executive order included “strategic investments” in tax relief and infrastructure among the purposes for the special session, but no proposals along those lines advanced Friday.

Persons: Doug Burgum, Burgum, Mike Nowatzki, Nowatzki, Theodore Roosevelt, Mike Lefor, David Hogue, Lefor Organizations: N.D, Republican, North Dakota Supreme, of Management, Management, Watford, Burgum Locations: BISMARCK, North Dakota, Bismarck, Israel, Watford City, State, Burgum

[1/3] A natural gas flare on an oil well pad burns as the sun sets outside Watford City, North Dakota January 21, 2016. REUTERS/Andrew Cullen/File PhotoWASHINGTON, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Major energy companies are not doing enough to prevent the worst effects climate change despite public promises to fight the problem, a U.S. House panel said about documents released on Friday that it got in a probe. Shell's Smith said the House panel's probe failed to uncover evidence of a climate disinformation campaign. "Today's new evidence makes clear that these companies know their climate pledges are inadequate, but are prioritizing Big Oil’s record profits over the human costs of climate change." The House panel previously released a memo on Sept. 14 showing that oil majors "greenwashed" their record on climate change "through deceptive advertising and climate pledges - without meaningfully reducing emissions."

☆ Fossil-fuel companies have more people at the UN's climate summit than the 10 countries most affected by climate change do combined
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-19 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | Catherine Boudreau | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Fossil-fuel interests are fighting for natural gas at the United Nations' COP27 climate summit. But natural gas is mostly methane — a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide — and it leaks. One-third of the fossil fuel lobbyists Global Witness identified are registered as part of national delegations, according to Dominic Kavakeb, a spokesperson for Global Witness. Fossil fuel influence threatens to undermine progress on one of the most powerful, immediate climate solutions: ending human methane emissions. While methane's consequences are severe, the good news is that countries and industries can quickly slow climate change by cutting methane emissions.

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