93 Cases found

Oregon Natural Desert Association v. Hanley

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D. Or.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 09/27/2019 ]
Description: Lawsuit challenging BLM’s March 2019 decision to reverse portions of the 2015 conservation plan for the greater sage-grouse in Oregon by closing approximately 22,000 acres to livestock grazing.

New York v. U.S. Department of Energy

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: 2d Cir.
Status: Petition for review filed. [ 11/04/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to the U.S. Department of Energy's withdrawal of a final rule adopted in January 2017 expanding the types of lightbulbs subject to backstop energy conservation standards set to take effect in 2020.

Natural Resources Defense Council v. U.S. Department of Energy

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: 2d Cir.
Status: Petition for review filed. [ 11/04/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to the U.S. Department of Energy's withdrawal of a final rule adopted in January 2017 expanding the types of lightbulbs subject to backstop energy conservation standards set to take effect in 2020.

California v. Chao

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Court granted motions by National Coalition for Advanced Transportation and Calpine Corporation et al. to intervene in support of plaintiffs. [ 12/19/2019 ]
Description: Lawsuit challenging the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's final rule preempting state regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from vehicles.

In re Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: IBLA
Status: BLM's decision set aside and remanded. [ 09/16/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to vegetation management plan on BLM-administered lands in southern Utah.

Farm Sanctuary v. U.S. Department of Agriculture

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: W.D.N.Y.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 12/18/2019 ]
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.

Earth Island Institute v. Nash

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Cal.
Status: Response-reply filed in opposition to motion to dismiss/change venue and in support of plaintiffs' motion for TRO and preliminary injunction. [ 10/01/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to federal and state authorizations for a logging project and biomass power plant on public forestland burned during the Rim Fire in 2013.

Environmental Defense Fund v. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Cir.
Status: Motion for voluntary dismissal without prejudice granted. [ 11/22/2019 ]
Description: Protective petition for review filed to challenge National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's rule withdrawing California’s waiver for its greenhouse gas and zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) program and preempting state programs.

Union of Concerned Scientists v. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Cir.
Status: Motion to hold case in abeyance filed by State and Municipal Petitioners. [ 12/26/2019 ]
Description: Protective petition for review challenging the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's rule withdrawing California’s waiver for its greenhouse gas and zero-emission vehicle program and preempting other state programs.

New York v. Ross

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: S.D.N.Y.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 10/10/2019 ]
Description: Challenge by New York State to 2020-2021 specifications for the summer flounder fishery, including a total annual commercial summer flounder quota and a state-by-state allocation of that quota based on a 1993 allocation rule.

New York v. Ross

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: E.D.N.Y.
Status: Case closed with right to reopen. [ 07/30/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to 2019 allocation for summer flounder fishery.

WildEarth Guardians v. Chao

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: D. Mont.
Status: Motion to dismiss denied. [ 05/23/2019 ]
Description: Lawsuit alleging that the Department of Transportation and Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration unlawfully failed to cause annual examinations of oil and gas pipelines on public lands.

California v. Zinke

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Cal.
Status: State plaintiffs filed opposition to cross-motions for summary judgment and reply in support of motion for summary judgment. [ 10/02/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to BLM's repeal of key provisions of the 2016 Waste Prevention Rule for oil and gas development on public and tribal lands.

Rosebud Sioux Tribe v. U.S. Department of State

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: D. Mont.
Status: Supplemental status report filed by TransCanada Keystone Pipeline, LP and TC Energy Corporation. [ 10/03/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to presidential permit for Keystone XL pipeline.

California v. U.S. Bureau of Land Management

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Cal.
Status: Plaintiffs' motions to complete and/or supplement the administrative record granted in part and denied in part. [ 04/02/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to BLM's repeal of 2015 regulations governing hydraulic fracturing on federal and tribal lands.