76 Cases found

Peterson v. Glad Products Co.

Filing Date: 2023
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Cal.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 02/02/2023 ]
Description: Class action lawsuit alleging deceptive marketing of "recyclable" trash bags.

Clean Air Coalition of Western New York, Inc. v. New York State Public Service Commission

Filing Date: 2023
Court/Admin Entity: N.Y. Sup. Ct.
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.

Navahine F. v. Hawai‘i Department of Transportation

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: Haw. Cir. Ct.
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.

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

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: N.Y. Sup. Ct.
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.

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.

Woolard v. Reynolds Consumer Products, Inc.

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: S.D. Cal.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 10/28/2022 ]
Description: Class action lawsuit claiming that defendants made misleading representations that trash bags were recyclable.

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.

Dorris v. Danone Waters of America

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: S.D.N.Y.
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.”

Natalie R. v. State

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: Utah Dist. Ct.
Status: Motion to dismiss granted. [ 11/10/2022 ]
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.

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.

Friends of Grays Harbor v. State

Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: Wash. Ct. App.
Status: Approval of the Grays Harbor County Shoreline Master Program update affirmed. [ 12/12/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to the Shorelines Hearing Board's approval of the Grays Harbor County Shoreline Master Program (SMP) update.

350 Seattle v. Puget Sound Clean Air Agency

Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: Wash. Ct. App.
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.