settlement agreement

Diné Citizens Against Ruining the Environment v. Haaland - settlement agreement

Challenge to approvals of application for permits to drill in the Mancos Shale/Gallup formations.

Diné Citizens Against Ruining the Environment v. Bernhardt

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BLM Agreed to Conduct Additional Environmental Analysis for Drilling Authorizations in Mancos Shale/Gallup Sandstone Formation

notice of appeal

Diné Citizens Against Ruining the Environment v. Haaland - notice of appeal

memorandum opinion and order

New Mexico Federal Court Rejected New NEPA Challenge to Drilling Approvals in Mancos Shale

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Diné Citizens Against Ruining the Environment v. Haaland - brief

Diné Citizens Against Ruining the Environment v. Haaland - order

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Diné Citizens Against Ruining the Environment v. Haaland - status report

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Diné Citizens Against Ruining the Environment v. Haaland - response

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Diné Citizens Against Ruining the Environment v. Haaland - reply

Court Said It Would Not Rush to Hear Motion for Injunctive Relief

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Diné Citizens Against Ruining the Environment v. Haaland - motion to intervene

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Diné Citizens Against Ruining the Environment v. Haaland - motion

petition for review

Plaintiffs Challenged BLM Approvals for Oil and Gas Permits in New Mexico

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Diné Citizens Against Ruining the Environment v. Haaland

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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.

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.

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

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.

Coal is a combustible sedimentary rock formed from carbonised plant matter, rich in carbon and hydrocarbons, and occurring in several main types including hard coal and brown coal.

The release of heat-trapping gases, primarily from human activities such as burning fossil fuels, agriculture and industry.

Using laws and the legal system more broadly to protect vulnerable entities

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.

Diné Citizens Against Ruining the Environment v. Haaland - settlement agreement

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