“Several local municipalities and advocacy groups are part of a lawsuit filed against the Office of Renewable Energy Siting (ORES) accusing the state agency of violating state law when it failed to comply with the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA) and not take a “hard look” at the environmental consequences of its regulations, … [Read more…]
“The regulations governing New York’s new green energy review process were written by a company whose clients include solar and wind power developers, according to a lawsuit filed last week. The suit, filed by towns and citizen groups around the state – including the Western New York towns of Cambria, Somerset, Yates and Farmersville … [Read more…]
“About This website provides two databases of climate change litigation, one for U.S. climate change litigation and one for non-U.S. cases. The U.S. Climate Change Litigation database is a joint project of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School and Arnold & Porter. It tracks developments in litigation and administrative … [Read more…]
“An energy company’s insurance covered lost revenue from a town-ordered shutdown of more than 11,000 solar panels in response to a fire that damaged only 88 panels, a U.S. District Court judge has determined. The plaintiff, NextSun Energy Littleton, operated solar panel arrays providing electricity to the town of Littleton, Massachusetts. When a fire … [Read more…]
Matter of Cornell Univ. v Board of Assessment Review Justia 13 November 2020 https://law.justia.com/cases/new-york/appellate-division-fourth-department/2020/mot-114-20-ca-19-00339.html “A solar array system at Cornell University counts as property that’s subject to real property tax, a New York state appeals court said Thursday in reversing a lower court decision….” read the entire article Nani, James. Law 360 … [Read more…]
“The South Gippsland Shire Council and local residents have won a legal fight against the Bald Hills Wind Farm (BHWF) near Tarwin Lower, about 150 kilometres south-east of Melbourne. The operator of the windfarm sued the council in March last year after it commissioned an independent report, which found noise from the farm’s turbines … [Read more…]
“Joseph and Theresa Schueckler couldn’t understand how their land could be taken from them for a project that wasn’t even approved. It was bad enough, the couple thought, to lose a portion of their Allegany County hillside forest and pasture to make way for a natural gas pipeline they philosophically opposed. But they still … [Read more…]
“In a unanimous 7-0 Opinion handed down on September 21, the Illinois Supreme Court affirmed the Third District Court of Appeals determination that Rock Island Clean Line (RICL) is not a public utility. On August 10, 2016, the Illinois Third District Court of Appeals, also unanimously, had reversed the Order of the Illinois Commerce … [Read more…]