Solar farm runoff pollutes property, couple awarded $135 million
A federal jury has awarded a couple in southwest Georgia $135.5 million after runoff from “Lumpkin Solar” severely polluted waters and soils on their rural property.
A federal jury has awarded a couple in southwest Georgia $135.5 million after runoff from “Lumpkin Solar” severely polluted waters and soils on their rural property.
In one of the most consequential judicial decisions in recent memory, the Supreme Court significantly limited EPA's authority to regulate wetlands under the Clean Water Act (CWA).
Netherlands and Sri Lanka show what happens when people who know nothing about agriculture impose policies on farmers.
A rule issued by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) that would charge commercial herring vessels up to $700 a day to monitor catches has triggered a lawsuit that poses a direct threat to agencies’ discretionary power.
Today’s proposal is on even shakier legal ground that the 2012 MATS rulemaking the Supreme Court struck down.
The Board of Supervisors in Central Virginia’s Albemarle County unanimously approved a massive solar array project in an area otherwise dotted by farms, forests and vineyards.
"The volume of litigation that has generated from the Clean Water Act over the last decades from the federal district courts, the federal courts of appeals, and the Supreme Court of the United States reveals nothing but chaos and uncertainty.”
“We may even need to invoke eminent domain – we are simply not getting the added investments fast enough for grid, solar, wind, and pipeline investments.”
“The decision reaffirms that property rights are among the most important civil rights."
As the debate continues to rage along the East Coast over offshore wind development’s impact on Atlantic whales and other marine life, a similar controversy has erupted on the West Coast, where plans for floating wind turbines are encountering growing opposition.
The $1.8 billion project has been held up by resistance from the STOP B2H Coalition, whose over 1,000 members fear the power line will irreversibly blight the picturesque countryside.
To add insult to injury, the owner of the 49-acre property, where the thousands of solar panels were to be installed, changed his mind and came out in opposition to the project.
Known as Lava Ridge, the wind project is part of the Biden administration’s goal of producing 25 gigawatts of renewable energy on federal land by 2025.
No lithium no electric vehicles.
Listing a plant or animal under the ESA – either as threatened or endangered – triggers strict land-use restrictions that could have devastating economic consequences.