71 Cases found

Navahine F. v. Hawai‘i Department of Transportation

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: Haw. Cir. Ct.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 06/01/2022 ]
Description: Youth plaintiffs' lawsuit alleging that the establishment, operation, and maintenance of Hawai‘i’s state transportation system violates the Hawai‘i Constitution’s public trust doctrine and right to a clean and healthful environment.

Fresh Air for the Eastside, Inc. v. New York

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: N.Y. Sup. Ct.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 01/28/2022 ]
Description: Lawsuit alleging that the operation of a landfill violated the rights of a local environmental group's members to clean air and a healthy environment under the New York Constitution’s Environmental Rights Amendment.

Client Earth v. Washington Gas Light Co.

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Super. Ct.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 07/28/2022 ]
Description: Lawsuit alleging that utility and natural gas supplier misleadingly advertised its natural gas products and services as clean and sustainable.

Climate Action Campaign v. City of San Diego

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: Cal. Super. Ct.
Status: Verified petition for writ of mandate filed. [ 09/12/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to the City of San Diego's 2022 Climate Action Plan for allegedly failing to include mechanisms to ensure that its objectives would be achieved.

Appalachian Voices v. State Corporation Commission

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: Va.
Status: State Corporation Commission's judgment affirmed. [ 10/27/2022 ]
Description: Environmental group's challenge to the Virginia State Corporation Commission's approval of a utility's rate-adjustment clause allowing it to recover the costs of purchasing carbon dioxide allowances for the RGGI cap-and-trade program.

Marte v. City of New York

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: N.Y. Sup. Ct.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 10/21/2022 ]
Description: Lawsuit alleging that development of three skyscrapers on Lower East Side of Manhattan violated the New York Constitution's Environmental Rights Amendment.

Layla H. v. Commonwealth

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: Va. Cir. Ct.
Status: Case dismissed. [ 09/16/2022 ]
Description: Lawsuit alleging that the permitting of fossil fuel infrastructure by Virginia and Virginia agencies and officials violated youth plaintiffs' rights under the Virginia Constitution.

EmpowerNJ v. Department of Environmental Protection

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: N.J. Super. Ct. App. Div.
Status: Notice of appeal filed. [ 01/20/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to denial of rulemaking petition requesting that the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection adopt rules setting a 2030 greenhouse gas emissions reduction target 50% below 2005 levels and taking other actions.

Natalie R. v. State

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: Utah Dist. Ct.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 03/15/2022 ]
Description: Lawsuit brought by youth plaintiffs against State of Utah and State defendants claiming that the State's fossil fuel development policies violate the plaintiffs' substantive due process rights.

Last Beach Cleanup v. TerraCycle, Inc.

Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Cal.
Status: Settlement agreement announced. [ 11/15/2021 ]
Description: Lawsuit alleging that defendants engage in unlawful, unfair, and deceptive business practices by marketing products and packaging made from single-use plastics and other difficult-to-recycle materials as recyclable.

Muto v. Coca-Cola Co.

Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Cal.
Status: Opposition to motion to dismiss filed. [ 05/13/2022 ]
Description: Lawsuit alleging that Coca-Cola's advertising, marketing, and sale of water in plastic bottles labeled as "100% recyclable" constitutes unlawful, unfair, and deceptive business practices.

WildEarth Guardians v. Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment

Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: Colo. Dist. Ct.
Status: Plaintiff's motion for partial summary judgment granted in part and agency defendants ordered to take action on permit renewal applications without delay. [ 01/10/2022 ]
Description: Lawsuit to compel Colorado agencies to act on two Title V permit renewal applications for a refinery.

City of Quincy v. Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection

Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: Mass. Super. Ct.
Status: Plaintiffs' motion for judgment on the pleadings denied and defendants' cross-motions for judgment on the pleadings allowed. [ 12/30/2021 ]
Description: Challenge to Massachusetts Wetlands Protection Act approvals for the proposed reconstruction of a bridge between Moon Island in Quincy Bay and Long Island in Boston.

Earth Island Institute v. Coca-Cola Co.

Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Motion to remand granted. [ 03/24/2022 ]
Description: Lawsuit alleging that Coca-Cola engaged in false and deceptive marketing by representing itself as a “sustainable and environmentally friendly company" despite being one of the world's largest contributors to plastic pollution.

350 Seattle v. Puget Sound Clean Air Agency

Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: Wash. Super. Ct.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 07/28/2021 ]
Description: Lawsuit alleging that local clean air agencies in Washington were unlawfully shifting decision-making authority for new source approval to technical staff and undermining the State's ability to achieve greenhouse gas reduction targets.

Earth Island Institute v. BlueTriton Brands

Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Super. Ct.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 08/27/2021 ]
Description: Lawsuit alleging that beverage company mispresented itself as a sustainable and environmentally friendly company.

Beyond Pesticides v. Exxon Mobil Corp.

Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Cir.
Status: Petition for permission to appeal denied. [ 04/23/2021 ]
Description: Lawsuit asserting that Exxon Mobil Corporation's representations regarding its investment in clean energy violated D.C. Consumer Protection Procedures Act.

WildEarth Guardians v. Polis

Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: Colo. Dist. Ct.
Status: Response filed by plaintiffs in opposition to PSCO's motion for intervention. [ 11/30/2020 ]
Description: Lawsuit to compel Colorado state defendants to publish a proposed rule setting forth measures to meet statutory greenhouse gas reduction goals.