With President-Elect Biden's inauguration next week, and the Democrats taking a narrow majority in both houses of Congress, we’re likely to see shifts in policy at the agencies that.
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Ella Kissi-Debrah, a 9-year-old UK citizen, is believed to be the first person to have her death certificate list air pollution as a cause of her death. Ella suffered from an extreme case of asthma and the coroner reviewing her death determined that the high level of pollution surrounding her London home contributed to her symptoms and ultimately to her death. With countless environmental lawsuits already pending across the globe, this decision could open the floodgates for more air pollution lawsuits – specifically, personal injury-based pollution lawsuits.
So far, most environmental based lawsuits seek remedies along the lines of cleanup of hazardous waste spills, payment for infrastructure to harden municipalities against increasingly severe weather events caused by climate change, and other similar remedies. However, the London coroner’s decision to list air pollution as a cause of death could lead to a new wave of lawsuits – more
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Published: Wednesday, December 16, 2020
With President-elect Biden now rolling out nominees for EPA and the Energy and Interior departments, conservation groups and Democratic Party factions are feuding with social media posts, news leaks, public manifestos and the preemptive popping of trial balloons.
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