Description: Challenge to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorization of a sediment diversion project in southern Louisiana that was intended to support coastal resiliency to climate change.
Description: Challenge to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (FWS’s) decision not to list the Black Creek crayfish as endangered or threatened under the Endangered Species Act.
Description: Lawsuit to compel decisions regarding listing species or designating critical habitat for 13 species of plants and animals, including climate change-threatened species.
Description: Challenge to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's review of a forest management project that allegedly authorized logging of 3,608 acres of old-growth forest.
Description: Lawsuit alleging that the continuing operation of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) in Oregon violated the Endangered Species Act.
Description: Lawsuit challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's determination that protection of the southern hognose snake under the Endangered Species Act was not warranted.
Description: Challenge to the U.S. Forest Service’s authorization of a logging project on public lands in the Colville National Forest’s Kettle Range, which is one of the last-remaining areas still occupied by the Canada lynx in the lower 48 states.
Status: Response filed by plaintiffs to Ocean Wind LLC's motion to intervene. [ 11/06/2023 ]
Description: Challenge to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s approval of the Ocean Wind 1 Project, a 161,000-acre offshore wind farm on the Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf.
Status: Opening brief filed by plaintiff. [ 09/29/2023 ]
Description: Challenge to the National Marine Fisheries Service’s designation of critical habitat for the Arctic subspecies of the ringed seal and the Beringia distinct population segment of the Pacific bearded seal.
Description: Challenge to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision to deny Endangered Species Act protection to the bridled darter, a freshwater fish with habitat in northern Georgia and southern Tennessee.
Status: Plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment granted in part and denied in part, defendants' motion for partial summary judgment denied, and National Park Service actions vacated. [ 12/18/2023 ]
Description: Challenge to the National Park Service’s release of land-use restrictions to facilitate the development of a proposed waterpark, hotel, and retail development in Miami-Dade County.
Description: Challenge to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s alleged failures to issue final rules on petitions to list a number of species and take other actions under the Endangered Species Act.