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45 Cases found

Holmquist v. United States

Filing Date: 2017
Court/Admin Entity: E.D. Wash.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 01/31/2017 ]
Description: Challenge to Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act of 1995 preemption of local prohibitions on rail transportation of fossil fuels.

New York v. U.S. Department of Energy

Filing Date: 2017
Court/Admin Entity: 2d Cir.
Status: Petition for review filed. [ 03/31/2017 ]
Description: Challenge to the U.S. Department of Energy's decisions to delay the effective date for ceiling fan energy efficiency standards.

California v. Perry

Filing Date: 2017
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Cal.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 06/13/2017 ]
Description: Challenge to U.S. Department of Energy's failure to publish final energy efficiency standards.

Wyoming v. United States Department of Interior

Filing Date: 2016
Court/Admin Entity: D. Wyo.
Status: Order issued denying motions for preliminary injunction. [ 01/16/2017 ]
Description: Challenge to United States Bureau of Land Management’s final rule concerning methane emissions from oil and gas operations on federal and tribal lands.

Goldstein v. Climate Action Network

Filing Date: 2016
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Tex.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 09/13/2016 ]
Description: Lawsuit asserting Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act claims against environmental organizations alleging that false claims regarding anthropogenic carbon emissions' connection to climate change amounted to a criminal scheme.

Western Watersheds Project v. Schneider

Filing Date: 2016
Court/Admin Entity: D. Idaho
Status: Complaint filed. [ 02/25/2016 ]
Description: Challenge to Forest Service and BLM approvals of revised land use plans for lands located in range of greater sage-grouse.

Conservation Law Foundation v. ExxonMobil Corp.

Filing Date: 2016
Court/Admin Entity: D. Mass.
Status: Memorandum of law filed opposing motion to dismiss. [ 12/20/2016 ]
Description: Citizen suit alleging violations of RCRA and Clean Water Act for failure to take action to prepare marine terminal for climate change.

United States v. Ruffatto

Filing Date: 2016
Court/Admin Entity: W.D. Pa.
Status: Guilty plea entered. [ 10/21/2016 ]
Description: Criminal action against company owner who used federal funds awarded for carbon sequestration study for personal use.

Western Energy Alliance v. Jewell

Filing Date: 2016
Court/Admin Entity: 10th Cir.
Status: Reply brief filed by appellants-applicants for intervention. [ 04/19/2017 ]
Description: Action to compel Bureau of Land Management to hold quarterly oil and gas lease sales for public lands.

Kane County, Utah v. Jewell

Filing Date: 2016
Court/Admin Entity: D. Utah
Status: Complaint filed. [ 11/30/2016 ]
Description: Challenge by rural Utah counties to moratorium on federal coal leasing.

DJL Farm LLC v. EPA

Filing Date: 2015
Court/Admin Entity: 7th Cir.
Status: Seventh Circuit dismissed permit challenges. [ 02/23/2016 ]
Description: Challenges to Safe Drinking Water Act permits for injection wells for carbon dioxide storage for FutureGen project.