67 Cases found

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.

Layla H. v. Commonwealth

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: Va. Cir. Ct.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 02/09/2022 ]
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Columbia Riverkeeper v. Oregon Department of Energy

Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: Or. Cir. Ct.
Status: Motion to dismiss granted in part and denied in part. [ 11/04/2021 ]
Description: Lawsuit alleging that the Oregon Department of Energy unlawfully allowed construction of a natural gas plant.

In re Enbridge Energy, LP

Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: Minn. Ct. App.
Status: Petition for review of Court of Appeals decision filed by Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians et al. [ 07/14/2021 ]
Description: Challenge to Minnesota Public Utilities Commission authorization of Line 3 pipeline project.

Richardson v. Clarno

Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: Or. Cir. Ct.
Status: Decision to reject initiative petitions set aside. [ 01/16/2020 ]
Description: Challenge to Oregon Secretary of State's rejection of two clean energy ballot measures.

Clean Wisconsin, Inc. v. Public Service Commission

Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: Wis. Cir. Ct.
Status: Notice of appeal filed by Clean Wisconsin and Sierra Club. [ 06/30/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to the Wisconsin Public Service Commission’s decision approving a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity (CPCN) for a proposed 625-megawatt natural gas-powered generating facility.

Greenpeace, Inc. v. Walmart Inc.

Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Cal.
Status: Parties stipulated to dismissal without prejudice. [ 06/03/2022 ]
Description: Lawsuit alleging that Walmart's marketing of plastic and plastic-packaged products as recyclable violated California's Unfair Competition Law.

Held v. State

Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: Mont. Dist. Ct.
Status: State's request for additional time granted. [ 06/15/2022 ]
Description: Lawsuit seeking declaration of right under the Montana constitution to a stable climate system and to compel Montana to prepare and implement a remedial plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.