Challenge to certificate of public convenience and necessity for construction and operation of an interstate gas pipeline project in Illinois and Missouri.

Environmental Defense Fund v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

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petition for review

Steck v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission - petition for review

Filing Year For Action

Steck v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

order

Environmental Defense Fund v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission - order

response

Environmental Defense Fund v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission - response

amicus brief

Environmental Defense Fund v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission - amicus brief

petition for rehearing

Environmental Defense Fund v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission - petition for rehearing

opinion

D.C. Circuit Vacated Approval for Natural Gas Pipeline in St. Louis Due to FERC’s Failure to Address Applicant’s Self-Dealing

reply

Environmental Defense Fund v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission - reply

brief

Environmental Defense Fund v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission - brief

Environmental Defense Fund v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission - petition for review

Spire Missouri Inc. v. Environmental Defense Fund - brief

petition for writ of certiorari

Supreme Court Review Sought of Remedy in Review of FERC Authorization for Gas Pipeline

order list

Supreme Court Declined to Review D.C. Circuit Decision Vacating St. Louis Pipeline Authorization

Spire Missouri Inc. v. Environmental Defense Fund - amicus brief

Spire Missouri Inc. v. Environmental Defense Fund

Spire Missouri Inc. v. Environmental Defense Fund - reply

opposition

Spire Missouri Inc. v. Environmental Defense Fund - opposition

application

Spire Missouri Inc. v. Environmental Defense Fund - application

Any compulsory, unrequited payment to the government levied on corporations or individuals. This can be for environmental reasons, such as introducing a Carbon tax to set a price that emitters must pay for the greenhouse gases they emit.

A ban is a legal action that prevents the sale or supply of a product or service, or that recalls a product from the market. Examples are bans on SF6, greenwashing, fossil fuel advertisement or single-use plastics.

Either money or something of monetary value is transferred between two or more organisations, people or countries.

Oil is a combustible liquid fossil fuel composed mainly of hydrocarbons, occurring as crude oil and refined into petroleum products such as petrol, diesel and kerosene.

Fossil fuel is a generic term for non-renewable energy sources such as coal, fossil gas, and oil (including crude oil, and petroleum products), that can be used for electricity and heat generation. Fossil fuels are hydrocarbons formed from pressurised and heated organic material buried over millions of years.

Fossil gas, commonly known as natural gas, is a fossil fuel consisting chiefly of methane with smaller amounts of other hydrocarbons and trace gases, found in underground deposits.

Social and cultural groups that share collective ancestral ties to the lands and natural resources where they live, occupy or from which they have been displaced

People with different national or cultural traditions from the dominant population

Activities that involve planning, designing and building infrastructure, residential, and commercial structures.

This sector involves managing waste treatment, sanitation, pollution control and environmental cleanup.

This sector involves activities to move goods and people, alongside the storage of products.

The activities of industries involved in the production, distribution, and sale of energy, including electricity, gas, and renewables.

Activities of industries that extract natural resources, such as mining, oil, and gas, for commercial use.

Activities of government agencies and institutions that provide public services, enforce laws and manage public resources.

Climate change can have a range of impacts on technological system. Extreme weather events can cause infrastructure failures like power outages or damage to roads and bridges, as well as the impacts from waste following natural disasters. Human activities also cause technological impacts, such as the risks posed by oil spillage and leaks.

Heavy precipitation refers to any form of weather where substances fall from the sky, including rain, snow, sleet, or hail.

Extreme weather refers to events where a weather variable exceeds (or falls below) a threshold. Meaning it is significantly different from the average or usual weather pattern.

Geohazards are adverse geological phenomenon's that are capable of causing widespread damage or loss to property, life and the environment, such as earthquakes, volcano eruptions and tsunamis. Climate change can increase the frequency and severity of some geohazards, such as landslides, and soil erosion.

An aim to achieve a quantifiable outcome within a given time-frame, set by an institution such as a national government.

Policy instruments are techniques or tools used by governing authorities to promote certain policies in order to achieve predetermined goals. Put simply, instruments are how a government tries to achieve its goals, with this taxonomy being focused on national policy instruments.

Risk is the potential for adverse consequences resulting from the dynamic interplay between (climate-related) hazards, exposure, and vulnerability of affected human or ecological systems.

Groups  of people who are adversely affected by climate change or the response to it

A set of principles, processes, and practices that build economic and political power to shift from an extractive economy to a regenerative economy.

Renewable energy means all forms of energy produced from renewable sources in a sustainable manner.

Molecules in the atmosphere that play a key role in the greenhouse effect by trapping heat radiating from Earth’s surface.

Area of the economy in which actors engage in identical or related activities.

In human systems, the process of adjustment to actual or expected climate change and its effects, in order to moderate harm, increase resilience or exploit beneficial opportunities. In natural systems, the process of adjustment to actual climate change and its effects; human intervention may facilitate adjustment to expected climate change and its effects.

The management and allocation of funds, assets and investments to meet various objectives

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