Description: Challenge to the U.S. Maritime Administration’s record of decision for the licensing of the Sea Port Oil Terminal and the final environmental impact statement for the project.
Description: Lawsuit alleging that FEMA and other defendants prepared flawed environmental assessments of the impacts of using federal disaster aid to repair, reconstruct, and relocate Puerto Rico’s fossil fuel-based electricity infrastructure after hurricanes.
Description: Challenge to the National Park Service’s release of land-use restrictions to facilitate the development of a proposed waterpark, hotel, and retail development in Miami-Dade County.
Description: Challenge to the National Marine Fisheries Service's adoption of annual catch limits for groundfish fisheries of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands.
Description: Challenge to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permit for a confined aquatic disposal (CAD) facility in Newport Harbor in California for disposal of dredged sediment deemed unsuitable for open ocean disposal.
Status: Motion to voluntarily dismiss appeal filed by Sovereign Iñupiat for a Living Arctic et al. [ 04/28/2023 ]
Description: Challenge to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s 2023 approval of the Willow Master Development Plan in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska.
Status: Motion for preliminary injunction granted. [ 03/29/2023 ]
Description: Challenge to environmental review of Houston South Vegetation Management and Restoration Project in the Hoosier National Forest; review was conducted on remand from earlier decision of the court.
Status: Opposition to emergency motion to stay filed by FERC. [ 03/28/2023 ]
Description: Challenge to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission authorizations for the Regional Energy Access Expansion project, a natural gas infrastructure project to expand natural gas transportation service to New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland.
Description: Challenge to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers approval of the Calumet Harbor Dredged Material Disposal Facility, which would enable continued disposal of dredged materials from Chicago Area Waterway System.
Description: Challenge to the final environmental impact statement and record of decision for an oil and gas sale in federal waters of Cook Inlet, Alaska mandated by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.
Status: Application for preliminary injunction denied. [ 04/06/2023 ]
Description: Challenge the Bureau of Reclamation's approval of a partial assignment and transfer of a Colorado River water entitlement to an Arizona town from a company that diverts water for agricultural purposes.
Status: Motion to dismiss granted in part and denied in part. [ 03/07/2023 ]
Description: Challenge to the issuance of a Clean Water Act permit authorizing the filling of wetlands for construction of a mixed-use residential and commercial development in South Carolina.
Description: Challenge to revised Custer Gallatin National Forest Plan, including for failure to take a hard look at the impacts of logging when combined with climate change.