Status: Petition for review granted in part. [ 03/11/2022 ]
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.
Status: Petition for writ of certiorari denied. [ 04/18/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to certificate of public convenience and necessity for construction and operation of an interstate gas pipeline project in Illinois and Missouri.
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: Defendants’ motion to vacate the court’s April 15, 2020 and May 11, 2020 decisions and order denied. [ 07/15/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to U.S Army Corps of Engineers approval of Keystone XL pipeline project under the reissued Nationwide Permit 12 for pipeline and utility projects.