251 Cases found

National Wildlife Federation v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: S.D. Ill.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 05/13/2020 ]
Description: Lawsuit asserting that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers failed to conduct an adequate environmental review for activities intended to maintain a nine-foot deep navigation channel in the Middle Mississippi River Reach of the Mississippi River.

AquAlliance v. U.S. Bureau of Reclamation

Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: E.D. Cal.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 05/11/2020 ]
Description: Challenge to environmental review and approval of a 2019-2024 water transfer program for the sale of water by sellers upstream of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to buyers south of the Delta.

Food & Water Watch v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Cir.
Status: Petition for review filed. [ 04/21/2020 ]
Description: Challenge to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission authorization of construction and operation of the 261 Upgrade Project, a set of projects in southern Massachusetts to increase transportation capacity on the existing Tennessee Gas Pipeline system.

California v. Stout

Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: C.D. Cal.
Status: Order issued declining transfer of case. [ 01/29/2020 ]
Description: Lawsuit challenging the supplemental environmental impact statement prepared by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management for a resource management plan allowing hydraulic fracturing on federal lands in California.

Center for Biological Diversity v. U.S. Bureau of Land Management

Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: C.D. Cal.
Status: Transfer order declined. [ 01/29/2020 ]
Description: Lawsuit challenging the supplemental environmental impact statement prepared by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management for a resource management plan allowing hydraulic fracturing on federal lands in California.

WildEarth Guardians v. Bernhardt

Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Motion for leave to intervene as a defendant filed by American Petroleum Institute. [ 04/28/2020 ]
Description: Lawsuit challenging approval of oil and gas leases in five western states.

Evans v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Cir.
Status: Petition for review filed. [ 05/22/2020 ]
Description: Challenge to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission orders authorizing the Jordan Cove liquefied natural gas export terminal and related infrastructure.

Center for Biological Diversity v. U.S. Bureau of Reclamation

Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: E.D. Cal.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 05/20/2020 ]
Description: Lawsuit charging that the conversion of Central Valley Project “renewal contracts” into “permanent repayment contracts” was a major federal action that required compliance with NEPA.

Earth Island Institute v. Nash

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Cal.
Status: Motion for a preliminary injunction denied. [ 04/21/2020 ]
Description: Challenge to federal and state authorizations for a logging project and biomass power plant on public forestland burned during the Rim Fire in 2013.

Harrison County v. Mississippi River Commission

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: S.D. Miss.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 12/23/2019 ]
Description: Lawsuit asserting that U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Mississippi River Commission failed to consider and mitigate impacts of opening of spillway on Mississippi River on coastal communities and resources.