Status: Stipulation of dismissal filed. [ 12/05/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to BLM’s approval of a resource management plan amendment for a planning area that included California’s Bay Area and Central coast that would make 725,500 acres available for oil and gas leasing.
Description: Lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s final rule establishing an optional new inspection system for hog slaughter establishments, including the failure to consider the rule's environmental impacts.
Status: Defendants' and intervenor-defendants' motions for summary judgment granted and plaintiff's motion for summary judgment denied. [ 09/29/2023 ]
Description: Challenge to the National Environmental Policy Act review in connection with a right-of-way for an electrical line and water supply pipeline for a pumped storage electrical generation project.
Status: Petition for rehearing and rehearing en banc filed. [ 07/19/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to FERC approval of project involving construction and replacement of natural gas compression facilities in West Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee.
Status: TVA motion for judgment on the administrative record granted and case dismissed without prejudice. [ 09/30/2020 ]
Description: Challenge to Tennessee Valley Authority's changes to rate structure, which plaintiffs alleged would discourage investment in renewable energy and energy efficiency.
Status: CAFO provisions of final rule vacated. [ 04/04/2023 ]
Description: Lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency (FSA) rule that categorically excluded FSA funding of medium-sized concentrated animal feeding operations from NEPA review.
Status: Defendants' motions for summary judgment granted. [ 07/08/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to environmental review for railroad bridge replacement project in Norwalk, Connecticut, alleging failure to conduct adequate resiliency analysis.
Status: Joint stipulation of voluntary dismissal with prejudice filed. [ 09/17/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to highway through Piedmont North Carolina, including for failure to analyze greenhouse gas emissions and climate change and new federal rule "freezing" CAFE standards.
Status: Request granted to publish memorandum disposition that reversed district court's judgment and remanded case to the district court with instructions to remand to the U.S. Forest Service for further proceedings. [ 05/04/2020 ]
Description: Challenge to forest thinning project.