106 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: Motion filed by federal respondents to hold cases in abeyance pending implementation of executive order and conclusion of potential reconsideration. [ 02/17/2021 ]
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: Brief filed by Energy Policy Advocates as amicus curiae in support of respondent. [ 02/22/2021 ]
Description: Challenge to EPA's determination to retain the existing national ambient air quality standards for ozone.

California v. Wheeler

Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Cir.
Status: Abeyance motion granted. [ 02/12/2021 ]
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: Abeyance motion granted. [ 02/19/2021 ]
Description: Challenge to technical amendments based on reconsideration of the 2016 new source performance standards for the oil and gas sector.

Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. Wheeler

Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Cir.
Status: Joint unopposed motion filed by petitioner NRDC, state and municipal petitioners, and respondents EPA and Administrator Wheeler to amend briefing format. [ 11/25/2020 ]
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)).

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.

Growth Energy v. EPA

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Cir.
Status: Motion to consolidate or coordinate or, in the alternative, hold in abeyance denied. [ 03/18/2020 ]
Description: Challenge to EPA’s 2019 percentage standards for the Renewable Fuel Standard program and volume requirements for cellulosic biofuel, advanced biofuel, and total renewable fuel for 2019, and the applicable volume of biomass-based diesel for 2020.

American Lung Association v. EPA

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: U.S.
Status: Brief of amicus curiae Commonwealth of Kentucky filed in support of petitioners. [ 06/03/2021 ]
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: Unopposed motion to withdraw as intervenors filed by Coalition for Sustainable Automotive Regulation and Automotive Regulatory Council, Inc. [ 02/02/2021 ]
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.