On this page, ''environmental lawsuit'' means "a lawsuit where the well-being of an environmental asset or the well-being of a set of environmental assets is in dispute". Also on this page, ''lawsuit with environmental relevance'' means "a lawsuit where a non-environmental entity or a set of non-environmental entities is in dispute, but whose outcome has relevance for an environmental asset or for a set of environmental assets".
Because the distinction between the two types of lawsuit is not clearly defined, it is beneficial to keep the two lists together on one page, but separated according to that distinction.
Environmental lawsuits
Lawsuits with environmental relevance
See also
Environment courts
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Environment Court of New Zealand
The Environment Court of New Zealand ( mi, Te Kōti Taiao o Aotearoa) is a specialist court for plans, resource consents and environmental issues. It mainly deals with issues arising under the Resource Management Act, meaning that it covers a w ...
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Kunming § Environmental court (in
People's Republic of China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
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Land and Environment Court of New South Wales
The Land and Environment Court of New South Wales is a court within the Australian court hierarchy established pursuant to the to hear environmental, development, building and planning disputes. The Court’s jurisdiction, confined to the state ...
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Livability Court
Other related topics
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2006 Côte d'Ivoire toxic waste dump § Lawsuit by victims
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Agent Orange § U.S. veterans class action lawsuit against manufacturers (class action environmental lawsuit)
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Armley asbestos disaster § Chase Manhattan Bank v T&N
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Armley asbestos disaster § Margereson v J.W. Roberts Ltd. and Hancock v J.W. Roberts Ltd.
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Bhopal disaster § Legal action against Union Carbide
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Black Bike Week § Noise limit faces lawsuit (class action environmental lawsuit)
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Bougainville Copper § US lawsuit (class action environmental lawsuit)
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Camelford water pollution incident § Legal actions against South West Water Authority (in Cornwall in England)
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Collision between MV Testbank and MV Sea Daniel
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Conservation Law Foundation
Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) is an environmental advocacy organization based in New England. Since 1966, CLF's mission has been to advocate for New England's environment and its communities. CLF's advocacy work takes place across five integr ...
(CLF) (in New England in the US)
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Corby toxic waste case
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Deepwater Horizon litigation
The civil and criminal proceedings stemming from the explosion of ''Deepwater Horizon'' and the resulting massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico began shortly after the April 20, 2010 incident and have continued since then. They have includ ...
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Dow Chemical Company § Nuclear weapons (class action environmental lawsuit)
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DuPont and C-8
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Environmental crime
Environmental crime is an illegal act which directly harms the environment. These illegal activities involve the environment, wildlife, biodiversity and natural resources. International bodies such as, G8, Interpol, European Union, United Nation ...
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Environmental criminology
Environmental criminology focuses on criminal patterns within particular built environments and analyzes the impacts of these external variables on people's cognitive behavior. It forms a part of criminology's Positivist School in that it applie ...
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Environmental impact assessment
Environmental Impact assessment (EIA) is the assessment of the environmental consequences of a plan, policy, program, or actual projects prior to the decision to move forward with the proposed action. In this context, the term "environmental imp ...
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Environmental justice
Environmental justice is a social movement to address the unfair exposure of poor and marginalized communities to harms from hazardous waste, resource extraction, and other land uses.Schlosberg, David. (2007) ''Defining Environmental Justic ...
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Environmental law
Environmental law is a collective term encompassing aspects of the law that provide protection to the environment. A related but distinct set of regulatory regimes, now strongly influenced by environmental legal principles, focus on the manage ...
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Environmental racism
Environmental racism or ecological apartheid is a form of institutional racism leading to landfills, incinerators, and hazardous waste disposal being disproportionally placed in communities of colour. Internationally, it is also associated with ...
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Global warming controversy § Litigation (class action environmental lawsuit)
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Grazing rights in Nevada § Federal grazing legal cases
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Greenpeace ''Arctic Sunrise'' ship case
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(INECE)
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Kearl Oil Sands Project § Criticism (in Alberta in Canada)
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Keele Valley Landfill § Resident class action lawsuit (class action environmental lawsuit)
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Keystone Pipeline § Lawsuits
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Lac-Mégantic derailment § Litigation
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Lead contamination in Washington, D.C. drinking water § Class-action lawsuit (class action environmental lawsuit)
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Lindane § Morton Grove lawsuit
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List of environmental agreements
This is a list of international environmental agreements.
Most of the following agreements are legally binding for countries that have formally ratified them. Some, such as the Kyoto Protocol, differentiate between types of countries and each na ...
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List of environmental law reviews and journals
This is a list of scholarly, peer-reviewed academic journals focused on the biophysical environment and/or humans' relations with it. Inclusion of journals focused on the built environment is appropriate. Included in this list are journals from a ...
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List of environmental laws by country
This article lists the most important national environmental laws by continent and country.
Africa Egypt
* Egyptian Law 102 of 1983, for Nature Protectorates
* Environmental Protection Law 4/1994 amended by Law 9/2009(Egypt)
* Law 48/1 ...
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Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry
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The Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry, also known as the Berger Inquiry after its head Justice Thomas Berger, was commissioned by the Government of Canada on March 21, 1974, to investigate the social, environmental, ...
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Marine mammals and sonar § Court cases
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McCullom Lake, Illinois § Class action lawsuit (class action environmental lawsuit)
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Monsanto legal cases
Monsanto was involved in several high-profile lawsuits, as both plaintiff and defendant. It had been defendant in a number of lawsuits over health and environmental issues related to its products. Monsanto also made frequent use of the courts to de ...
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Niigata Minamata disease § Patients' lawsuit (in Japan)
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Organic Act of 1897 § Izaak Walton League lawsuit (in the United States)
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Pulp mill conflict between Argentina and Uruguay
The pulp mill dispute was a dispute between Argentina and Uruguay concerning the construction of pulp mills on the Uruguay River. The presidents at the time were Néstor Kirchner (Argentina) and Tabaré Vázquez (Uruguay). As a diplomatic, economi ...
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San Diego Gas & Electric
San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) provides natural gas and electricity to San Diego County and southern Orange County in southwestern California, United States. It is owned by Sempra, a Fortune 500 energy services holding company based in San Dieg ...
(SDG&E)
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School District 36 Surrey § Environment (in British Columbia in Canada)
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Shannon, Quebec § Cancer cluster (in Canada)
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Startups, shutdowns, and malfunctions
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Syncrude § Greenpeace lawsuit
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TerraCycle § Legal issues
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Toxic tort
A toxic tort claim is a specific type of personal injury lawsuit in which the plaintiff claims that exposure to a chemical or dangerous substance caused the plaintiff's injury or disease.
Place of exposure
People may be exposed to toxic chemic ...
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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers civil works controversies (New Orleans) § Legal issues in New Orleans
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Water contamination in Crestwood, Illinois § Second class action lawsuit (class action environmental lawsuit)
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Water contamination in Crestwood, Illinois § Third class action lawsuit (class action environmental lawsuit)
External links
High Court Limits Liability in Superfund Cases - NYTimes.com
* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20080704221415/http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0829-cbd.html Largest-ever Endangered Species Act lawsuit filedbr>Mississippi's first class-action lawsuit filed over oil spill - Oil Spill - SunHerald.com
(30 April 2010)
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