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Lighthouse Resources Inc. v. Inslee - answer

Action against Washington State officials for allegedly taking unlawful actions to block coal export terminal.

Lighthouse Resources Inc. v. Inslee

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status report

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Washington Federal Court Rejected Coal Export Terminal Proponents’ Bid to Ease Quick Appeal

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Lighthouse Resources Inc. v. Inslee - motion

Washington Federal Court Stayed Challenge to Denial of Water Quality Certification for Coal Export Facility Until State Court Actions Concluded

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Washington Federal Court Dismissed Some Preemption Claims in Challenge to Denial of Water Quality Certification for Coal Export Facility

Washington Federal Court Dismissed State Official from Lawsuit Challenging Denials of Approvals for Coal Export Terminal

Washington Federal Court Blocked Companies Challenging State’s Alleged Efforts to Thwart Coal Export Terminal from Requesting Internal Documents from Environmental Group

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Companies Sued Washington State Officials for Blocking Development of Coal Export Terminal

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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

This sector involves the wholesale and retail selling of goods.

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.

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.

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

Aligning the skills of the workforce with the requirements of the just transition.

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

Activities of businesses and institutions that provide financial services and products to individuals and organisations.

Codes and standards are regulatory instruments that specify minimum standards to protect health and safety. This ranges from performance standards, which prescribe outcomes while allowing flexibility to achieve compliance, to the more prescriptive approach of technology-specific standards.

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

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

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.

Lighthouse Resources Inc. v. Inslee - answer

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Renewable energy

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