Description: Challenge to the issuance of a Clean Water Act permit authorizing the filling of wetlands for construction of a mixed-use residential and commercial development in South Carolina.
Description: Lawsuit alleging that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had failed to make a mandatory finding of whether the Suckley’s cuckoo bumblebee should be listed as endangered or threatened under the Endangered Species Act.
Description: Challenge to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers San Juan Bay Dredging Project, which would allow larger tankers of liquefied natural gas and petroleum to transit the Bay.
Description: Lawsuit to compel the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to publish a 12-month finding in response to a petition to list the dunes sagebrush lizard under the Endangered Species Act.
Description: Lawsuit seeking to compel EPA to reinitiate Endangered Species Act consultation on the effects of water quality standards/total maximum daily loads for the Indian River Lagoon on the Florida manatee and other species.
Description: Lawsuit to compel the issuance of final rules regarding the listing of two distinct population segments of the lesser prairie chicken under the Endangered Species Act.
Description: Challenge to Bureau of Ocean Energy Management approvals for the Vineyard Wind offshore wind project off the coasts of Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
Description: Challenge to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s determination that the Barrens darter—alleged to be one of the rarest fishes in North America—did not warrant listing as endangered or threatened.
Status: Case stayed and parties ordered to comply with the terms with the stipulated agreement. [ 08/26/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to the alleged failure of federal agencies to comply with the Endangered Species Act and Administrative Procedure Act in connection with the authorization and management of offshore oil and gas activities in federal waters off California.
Status: Motion to intervene filed by Franklin Mountain Energy, LLC. [ 08/31/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to approval of at least 3,535 applications for permit to drill (APDs) for oil and gas in the Permian Basin in New Mexico and in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming.
Description: Challenge to the decision of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to deny their 2010 petition to list the Kirtland’s snake under the Endangered Species Act.
Description: Lawsuit alleging that EPA and other federal agencies violated the Endangered Species Act by failing to ensure that EPA approval of Washington's limits on aquatic cyanide would not jeopardize survival and recovery of endangered species.
Status: Stipulated settlement agreement and proposed order filed. [ 11/03/2022 ]
Description: Lawsuit to compel the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to designate critical habitat for the endangered Florida bonneted bat, which faces threats from rising seas.
Description: Challenge to biological opinions assessing the likely effects of proposed Bureau of Land Management forest management projects on the Northern Spotted Owl and its critical habitat.
Status: Proposed amicus brief filed by American Stewards of Liberty et al. in support of federal defendants' cross-motion for summary judgment. [ 05/31/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to the reclassification of the American burying beetle from “endangered” to “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act.