89 Cases found

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.

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.

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.

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.

Growth Energy v. EPA

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Cir.
Status: Petition for panel rehearing denied. [ 10/04/2021 ]
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.

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 without prejudice filed by state plaintiffs. [ 08/29/2022 ]
Description: Lawsuit challenging the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's final rule preempting state regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from vehicles.