89 Cases found

California v. EPA

Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Cir.
Status: EPA's motion for voluntary vacatur granted. [ 04/05/2021 ]
Description: Challenge to EPA rule setting a threshold for determining whether greenhouse gas emissions from new source performance standard source categories contribute significantly to dangerous air pollution.

New York v. EPA

Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Cir.
Status: Abeyance motion granted. [ 02/23/2021 ]
Description: Challenge to EPA's rule on “Increasing Consistency and Transparency in Considering Benefits and Costs in the Clean Air Act Rulemaking Process.”

California v. EPA

Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Cir.
Status: Brief filed by amicus curiae Airlines for America in support of respondent U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. [ 06/01/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to aircraft greenhouse gas standards adopted by EPA.

Environmental Integrity Project v. Wheeler

Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 01/04/2021 ]
Description: Clean Air Act citizen suit seeking to compel EPA to respond to petitions requesting that EPA object to Title V permits issued by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for eight facilities.

New York v. EPA

Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Cir.
Status: Motion to govern further proceedings filed by Texas and five other states. [ 10/29/2021 ]
Description: Challenge to EPA's determination to retain the existing national ambient air quality standards for ozone.

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.

Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. Wheeler

Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Cir.
Status: Unopposed motion for 30-day abeyance granted and revised briefing schedule set. [ 05/09/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to revisions to the Refrigerant Management Program’s 2016 extension to substitute refrigerants (originally consolidated with industry challenge to 2016 rule (Nos. 17-1016 and 17-1017)).

Conservation Law Foundation v. DATTCO, Inc.

Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: D. Conn.
Status: Consent decree entered by the court. [ 10/14/2021 ]
Description: Citizen suit against transportation company that operated a fleet of more than 1,000 vehicles for unlawfully idling vehicles for extended periods of time.

California v. Regan

Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Cir.
Status: Motion filed by all petitioners for voluntary dismissal. [ 07/29/2021 ]
Description: Challenge to EPA amendments to the 2012 and 2016 new source performance standards for the oil and gas sector.

Environmental Defense Fund v. Wheeler

Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Cir.
Status: EPA filed status report recommending cases continue to be held in abeyance pending completion of review of challenged rulemaking. [ 06/16/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to technical amendments based on reconsideration of the 2016 new source performance standards for the oil and gas sector.

West Virginia v. EPA

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: U.S.
Status: D.C. Circuit judgment reversed and cases remanded. [ 06/30/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to final rule repealing the Clean Power Plan and replacing it with the Affordable Clean Energy rule.

California v. Chao

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Notice of voluntary dismissal filed by South Coast Air Quality Management District et al. [ 06/23/2022 ]
Description: Lawsuit challenging the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's final rule preempting state regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from vehicles.

Environmental Defense Fund v. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Cir.
Status: Motion for voluntary dismissal without prejudice granted. [ 11/22/2019 ]
Description: Protective petition for review filed to challenge National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's rule withdrawing California’s waiver for its greenhouse gas and zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) program and preempting state programs.

Environmental Defense Fund v. EPA

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Cir.
Status: Motion for voluntary vacatur and remand granted. [ 04/05/2021 ]
Description: Challenges to EPA’s final rule extending certain implementation deadlines for the 2016 emission guidelines for municipal solid waste landfills.

Center for Biological Diversity v. EPA

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: 9th Cir.
Status: Petition for review filed. [ 02/08/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to prevention of significant deterioration air permit for natural gas-fired power plant in Palmdale, California.