Status: Petition for writ of mandate & complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief filed. [ 12/10/2015 ]
Description: Challenge to county zoning ordinance amendments that would purportedly authorize development of thousands new oil and gas wells annually, as well as related construction and operational activities, without further site-specific assessment.
Description: Petition by Colorado governor for declaration that attorney general did not have authority to sue the federal government on behalf of the State.
Status: Order issued denying motion for order of contempt and granting sua sponte leave to file amended pleading. [ 12/19/2016 ]
Description: Challenge to denial of rulemaking petition that asked Department of Ecology to recommend restrictions on greenhouse gas emission to state legislature.
Status: Denial of rulemaking petition reversed. [ 03/23/2017 ]
Description: Rulemaking petition and subsequent litigation seeking to require Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission to deny drilling permits unless they would not adversely impact human health and the environment or contribute to climate change.
Status: Administrative law judge issued findings of fact, conclusions, and recommendations on carbon dioxide values. [ 04/15/2016 ]
Description: Environmental groups asked the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission to update its environmental cost values for carbon dioxide and other emissions associated with electricity generation.
Description: Challenge to New Jersey’s withdrawal from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative on the grounds that it violated the New Jersey Administrative Procedure Act.
Status: Response issued to rulemaking petition. [ 06/24/2013 ]
Description: Rulemaking petition requesting strict limits on fossil fuel carbon dioxide emissions and establishment of annual emissions reduction strategy to comply with statutory obligations.