Status: Parties' cross-motions for summary judgment granted in part and denied in part. [ 03/31/2023 ]
Description: Challenge to the U.S. Department of Interior’s approval of a land exchange to facilitate expansion of phosphogypsum stacks located on a Superfund site.
Description: Challenge to the environmental impact statement (EIS) for a revision to the Integrated Activity Plan for the National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska that would open approximately 6.7 million acres of the Reserve to oil and gas development.
Status: Petition for review denied. [ 06/28/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to FERC authorization for the Southgate Project, which would carry gas from the terminus of Mountain Valley's Mainline to a local distribution system in North Carolina, including for failing to consider impacts of climate change.
Description: Challenge to permits issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for a docking facility in New Jersey to transport liquefied natural gas (LNG) to docked vessels.
Status: Status report filed by defendants. [ 07/18/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to federal approvals for a 211-mile road through the southern Brooks Range and Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve to provide access to a mining district.
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.
Status: Stipulation of dismissal filed. [ 08/11/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's approval of a revised Resource Management Plan for the Uncompahgre Field Office that expanded lands available to oil and gas leasing.
Status: FERC's motion to dismiss granted and record remanded to FERC. [ 01/25/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission orders authorizing the Jordan Cove liquefied natural gas export terminal and related infrastructure.
Description: Lawsuit alleging violations of the National Environmental Policy Act for failure to prepare supplemental analyses of national forest plans and projects in light of new information about climate change.
Status: Plaintiff's motion to voluntarily dismiss granted, American Petroleum Institute's and federal defendants' motions to dismiss denied as moot, and federal defendants' motion to remand denied as moot. [ 06/01/2022 ]
Description: Lawsuit challenging approval of oil and gas leases in five western states.
Status: Stipulation of dismissal with prejudice filed. [ 11/20/2020 ]
Description: Lawsuit brought by steel mill owner to challenge the reauthorization and reissuance of Nationwide Permit 12 (NWP-12) as well as the approval of a natural gas pipeline under NWP-12.
Status: Reply filed by San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority in support of cross-motion for summary judgment. [ 01/17/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to the environmental review and approvals for a 2019-2024 water transfer program from sellers upstream of the Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta to downstream buyers that allegedly would exacerbate climate change impacts on groundwater resources.
Status: Memorandum filed by federal defendants in response to plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment and in support of cross-motion for summary judgment. [ 10/05/2021 ]
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.
Status: Plaintiffs' motions for summary judgment granted in part and denied in part, BLM’s approval of the Willow Project under NEPA vacated, FWS's biological opinion vacated, and action remanded to appropriate agencies for further proceedings. [ 08/18/2021 ]
Description: Challenges to approval of a development plan for major oil and gas development in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.