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The nation's highest judiciary will decide whether a new pipeline can cross the AT as planned. Author: Adam Roy Publish date: Oct 4, 2019 The Supreme Court will decide whether a controversial new pipeline will be allowed to cross the Appalachian Trail, the body announced on Friday. The project has been on hold since December 2018, when a U.S. appeals court threw out a key Forest Service permit allowing Dominion Energy to construct the planned 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline beneath portions of the Appalachian Trail. In a ruling that quoted The Lorax, Judge Stephanie Thacker concluded that the Forest Service had "abdicated its responsibility" by ignoring key safety and environmental issues in its review. She also said that, as a unit of the National Park Service, construction projects crossing the Appalachian Trail corridor are subject to Congressional approval. The Sierra Club and the Southern Environmental Law Center both sued to block the pipeline last year. In a … [Read more...] about The Appalachian Trail is Going to the Supreme Court

Attorneys for 12 young Alaskans who sued over state climate change policy are expected to argue their case before Alaska Supreme Court justices on Wednesday.The lawsuit says state policy that promotes fossil fuels violates the constitutional right of young Alaskans to a safe climate.The lawsuit says human-caused climate change will be catastrophic unless atmospheric carbon dioxide declines.Among the damages it lists are increasing temperatures, changing rain and snow patterns, rising seas, storm-surge flooding, thawing permafrost, coast erosion and increased wildfires. A judge ruled against the youths a year ago.Anchorage Superior Court Judge Gregory Miller cited previous cases that concluded the courts lack scientific, economic and technological resources that agencies can use to determine climate policy and it was best left in their hands. … [Read more...] about %tophl(Alaska Supreme Court to hear youths’

Barcelona has criticized the Spanish Supreme Court’s conviction of 12 Catalan politicians and activists for their role in a 2017 secession attempt, saying “prison is not the solution.”In a statement, the soccer club says the resolution of the independence debate in Catalonia must come “exclusively from political dialogue.”It called on “political leaders to lead a process of dialogue and negotiation,” and pave the way for the prisoners’ release.Barcelona is one of Catalonia’s most cherished institutions, with Catalan independence flags a regular feature at home games. For years, separatists unfurled a massive banner reading “Catalonia is not Spain” at the Camp Nou.___More AP soccer: https://apnews.com/apf-Soccer and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports … [Read more...] about Barcelona criticizes Spanish Supreme Court’s decision

Israel’s Supreme Court has upheld an appeal against releasing a former educator accused of sexually abusing her students in Australia to house arrest while she fights extradition proceedings.Australia wants Malka Leifer extradited to face 74 charges of abusing students while she was principal at a Jewish religious school in Melbourne. Prosecutors say she is feigning mental illness to dodge extradition.On Thursday, Israel’s Supreme Court overturned a Jerusalem court’s decision last week to grant Leifer release to house arrest “in order to give adequate response to concerns that the accused will flee or obstruct justice.”Kol V’Oz, an Israeli advocacy group that fights child sexual abuse, called the court’s ruling “absolutely the right decision.” … [Read more...] about Israel high court denies house arrest for Australian suspect

A Dutch court has convicted an Afghan asylum-seeker and sentenced him to nearly 27 years imprisonment for stabbing two American tourists in a terror attack at Amsterdam’s main railway station.The 20-year-old man, identified by Dutch authorities as Jawed S, was shot by police shortly after he stabbed two 38-year-old American men at Amsterdam Central station on Aug. 31 last year.Both victims survived but one was left partially paralyzed by the attack.Amsterdam District Court convicted Jawed S. Monday of attempted murder with a terrorist motive and sentenced him to the maximum possible 26 years and eight months. The court ruled that he traveled to the Netherlands from Germany to avenge what he perceived as insults to Islam and did not know his victims were Americans. … [Read more...] about Dutch court convicts asylum-seeker in station terror attack