Status: Memorandum of law filed in support of petitioners-plaintiffs' motion for preliminary injunction. [ 01/24/2023 ]
Description: Lawsuit challenging the New York State Public Service Commission's decision to authorize a Canadian cryptocurrency company’s acquisition of ownership interests in a company that owns and operates a natural gas plant in North Tonawanda.
Status: Oral arguments heard on motion to dismiss. [ 01/26/2023 ]
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.
Status: State's motion to dismiss denied, City's motion to dismiss granted, and Waste Management of New York, L.L.C.'s motion to dismiss granted. [ 12/07/2022 ]
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.
Description: Lawsuit alleging that utility and natural gas supplier misleadingly advertised its natural gas products and services as clean and sustainable.
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.
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.
Description: Lawsuit alleging that development of three skyscrapers on Lower East Side of Manhattan violated the New York Constitution's Environmental Rights Amendment.
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.
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.
Status: First amended class action complaint filed. [ 01/05/2023 ]
Description: Greenwashing class action lawsuit alleging that manufacturer and seller of Evian Natural Spring Water bottled water made false and misleading representations that the product was “carbon neutral.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
Status: Summary judgment for the agencies affirmed. [ 01/30/2023 ]
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.