Status: Memorandum of points and authorities filed in support of defendants' motion to dismiss plaintiffs' amended complaint. [ 03/27/2024 ]
Description: Lawsuit challenging two laws enacted by California that require companies to estimate and publicly disclose greenhouse gas emissions and climate change risks.
Status: Memorandum filed in support of motion for a stay or for a preliminary injunction. [ 03/28/2024 ]
Description: Lawsuit challenging the Biden administration’s decision to stop new approvals of liquefied natural gas exports to non-Free-Trade-Agreement countries.
Description: Lawsuit brought by a developer of an interstate carbon dioxide pipeline and a farmer and part-owner of an ethanol production facility to challenge a county ordinance concerning pipeline permitting and safety.
Description: California youth plaintiffs' lawsuit asserting that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has violated the U.S. Constitution by allowing harmful levels of climate pollution to accumulate in the air.
Status: Plaintiffs filed notice of voluntary dismissal without prejudice. [ 08/03/2023 ]
Description: Challenge to the Washington State Building Code Council’s amendments of the State Energy Code to ban or restrict the use of natural gas appliances in commercial and residential buildings.
Status: Defendants filed memorandum in support of cross-motion for summary judgment or, in the alternative motion for a stay or dismissal under the primary jurisdiction doctrine and opposition to plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment. [ 03/05/2024 ]
Description: Challenge to the California Air Resources Board's “In-Use Locomotive Regulation."
Status: Memorandum of law filed by Natural Resources Defense Council in support of motion for leave to file an amicus curiae brief. [ 03/08/2024 ]
Description: Challenge to a New York City ordinance that prohibits combustion equipment with carbon dioxide emission levels over a certain threshold in new buildings.
Status: Joint stipulation for dismissal without prejudice filed. [ 10/20/2023 ]
Description: Lawsuit challenging a May 2023 ordinance passed by Story County, Iowa, that imposes setback and other requirements for carbon dioxide pipelines.
Status: Parties stipulated to the dismissal of the action without prejudice. [ 07/28/2023 ]
Description: Challenge to a county's moratorium on on permits for hazardous waste pipelines, including pipelines to transport carbon dioxide to sequestration sites.
Description: Challenge to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ issuance of Nationwide Permit 56 authorizing industrial finfish aquaculture structures in federal waters.
Status: Complaint and petition for writ of mandate filed. [ 11/14/2022 ]
Description: Lawsuit challenging California's regulation requiring all new cars and light trucks sold in California to be zero-emission vehicles by 2035.