32 Cases found

McEvoy v. Diversified Energy Co.

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. W. Va.
Status: First amended class action complaint filed. [ 07/15/2022 ]
Description: Class action lawsuit brought by West Virginia landowners against companies who allegedly failed to promptly plug abandoned gas wells.

Platkin v. Exxon Mobil Corp.

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: N.J. Super. Ct.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 10/18/2022 ]
Description: Lawsuit brought by New Jersey officials against fossil fuel industry defendants seeking damages and other relief in connection with the defendants' alleged substantial role in causing climate change and resulting harms to New Jersey.

Municipalities of Puerto Rico v. Exxon Mobil Corp.

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: D.P.R.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 11/22/2022 ]
Description: Lawsuit brought by municipalities in Puerto Rico seeking to hold fossil fuel companies liable for losses resulting from storms during the 2017 hurricane season and ongoing economic losses since 2017.

City of Annapolis v. BP p.l.c.

Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: 4th Cir.
Status: n/a [ 10/25/2022 ]
Description: Lawsuit brought by the City of Annapolis against fossil fuel companies seeking damages and other relief based on the companies' alleged concealment of information about their products' contribution to climate change.

Anne Arundel County v. BP p.l.c.

Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: 4th Cir.
Status: Response filed by defendants-appellants to plaintiffs-appellees' supplemental authority (Eighth Circuit decision in Minnesota's case and U.S. Solicitor General brief regarding certiorari petition in Boulder et al. case). [ 04/12/2023 ]
Description: Lawsuit seeking to hold fossil fuel companies liable for the consequences of climate change in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.

City & County of Honolulu v. Sunoco LP

Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: U.S.
Status: Petition for writ of certiorari denied. [ 04/24/2023 ]
Description: Lawsuit seeking damages and other relief from fossil fuel companies for alleged conduct that the City and County of Honolulu contends actually and proximately caused climate change impacts.

State v. American Petroleum Institute

Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: 8th Cir.
Status: District court's judgment remanding case affirmed and appellants' petition for permission to appeal (21-8005) denied as moot. [ 03/23/2023 ]
Description: Action brought by Minnesota against members of the fossil fuel industry for allegedly causing climate change harms by misleading the public by downplaying the threat of climate change and the role of their products in causing climate change.

City of Hoboken v. Exxon Mobil Corp.

Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: U.S.
Status: Petition for writ of certiorari filed. [ 02/27/2023 ]
Description: Lawsuit seeking to recover climate change-related damages allegedly resulting from the defendant energy companies' production of fossil fuels and concealment of fossil fuels’ harms.

Delaware v. BP America Inc.

Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: U.S.
Status: Petition for writ of certiorari distributed for May 11, 2023 conference. [ 04/19/2023 ]
Description: Lawsuit seeking to hold the fossil fuel industry liable for the physical, environmental, social, and economic consequences of climate change in Delaware.

City of Charleston v. Brabham Oil Co.

Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: D.S.C.
Status: Response filed by defendants to plaintiff's April 6, 2023 notice of supplemental authority. [ 04/17/2023 ]
Description: Lawsuit seeking to hold fossil fuel companies liable for the impacts of climate change on the City of Charleston.

County of Maui v. Sunoco LP

Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: D. Haw.
Status: n/a [ 10/30/2020 ]
Description: Lawsuit seeking damages and other relief from fossil fuel companies for climate change impacts allegedly caused by companies' conduct.

Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations, Inc. v. Chevron Corp.

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Cal.
Status: Clerk's notice issued continuing case management conference. [ 11/30/2020 ]
Description: Action by a commercial fishing industry trade group to hold fossil fuel companies liable for adverse climate change impacts to the ocean off the coasts of California and Oregonthat resulted in "prolonged closures" of Dungeness crab fisheries.

City of New York v. BP p.l.c.

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: 2d Cir.
Status: Mandate issued. [ 05/24/2021 ]
Description: Action brought by New York City against fossil fuel companies seeking damages for climate change-related injuries.

King County v. BP p.l.c.

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: W.D. Wash.
Status: Notice of voluntary dismissal filed by King County. [ 09/28/2021 ]
Description: Public nuisance and trespass action brought by King County in Washington State against fossil fuel companies seeking funding of climate change adaptation program.

Rhode Island v. Shell Oil Products Co.

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: U.S.
Status: Petition for writ of certiorari denied. [ 04/24/2023 ]
Description: State of Rhode Island lawsuit seeking to hold fossil fuel companies liable for causing climate change impacts that adversely affect Rhode Island and jeopardize State-owned or -operated facilities, real property, and other assets.

County of San Mateo v. Chevron Corp.

Filing Date: 2017
Court/Admin Entity: U.S.
Status: Petition for writ of certiorari denied. [ 04/24/2023 ]
Description: Action by California counties and cities seeking damages and other relief from fossil fuel companies for sea level rise.

City of Oakland v. BP p.l.c.

Filing Date: 2017
Court/Admin Entity: U.S.
Status: Certiorari denied. [ 06/14/2021 ]
Description: Public nuisance actions brought by City of Oakland and City of San Francisco against fossil fuel companies.