105 Cases found

Holmquist v. United States

Filing Date: 2017
Court/Admin Entity: E.D. Wash.
Status: Motion to dismiss granted. [ 07/14/2017 ]
Description: Challenge to Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act of 1995 preemption of local prohibitions on rail transportation of fossil fuels.

League of Conservation Voters v. Trump

Filing Date: 2017
Court/Admin Entity: 9th Cir.
Status: Reply brief filed by State of Alaska. [ 03/31/2020 ]
Description: Challenge to executive order reversing President Obama’s withdrawal of lands in the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans from future oil and gas leasing.

Colorado River Ecosystem v. State of Colorado

Filing Date: 2017
Court/Admin Entity: D. Colo.
Status: Plaintiff's motion to dismiss case with prejudice granted. [ 12/04/2017 ]
Description: Action seeking judicial declaration that Colorado River ecosystem is a "person" possessing rights.

Constitution Pipeline Co. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Filing Date: 2017
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Cir.
Status: FERC's motion for voluntary remand granted. [ 02/28/2019 ]
Description: Petition seeking declaratory order that the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation had waived jurisdiction over water quality certificate for interstate natural gas pipeline project.

Town of Weymouth v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Filing Date: 2017
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Cir.
Status: Petitions for review denied. [ 12/27/2018 ]
Description: Challenge to FERC's approval of the Atlantic Bridge Project, which includes natural gas pipeline and compression facilities in New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.

Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. Perry

Filing Date: 2017
Court/Admin Entity: 2d Cir.
Status: Mandate issued after parties did not seek to reinstate the petition for review by date specified in stipulation. [ 10/20/2017 ]
Description: Challenge to the U.S. Department of Energy's decisions to delay the effective date for ceiling fan energy efficiency standards.

Millennium Pipeline Co. v. Seggos

Filing Date: 2017
Court/Admin Entity: N.D.N.Y.
Status: Motion for preliminary injunction granted and motion to dismiss denied. [ 12/13/2017 ]
Description: Action seeking declaratory judgment that federal law preempted state environmental permitting requirements for gas pipeline project and also seeking to enjoin enforcement of state permitting requirements to interfere with project.

Natural Resources Defense Council v. Perry

Filing Date: 2017
Court/Admin Entity: 9th Cir.
Status: District court order directing publication affirmed and stay on order lifted. [ 10/10/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to the U.S. Department of Energy's failure to publish final energy efficiency standards.

California v. U.S. Bureau of Land Management

Filing Date: 2017
Court/Admin Entity: 9th Cir.
Status: Motion for voluntary dismissal granted. [ 06/26/2018 ]
Description: Challenge to a U.S. Bureau of Land Management rule postponing compliance dates for Waste Prevention Rule for one year.

Clean Air Carolina v. U.S. Department of Transportation

Filing Date: 2017
Court/Admin Entity: S.D.N.Y.
Status: Reply memorandum of law filed in further support of defendants' motion to dismiss the complaint as moot. [ 11/03/2017 ]
Description: Challenge to Federal Highway Administration's indefinite suspension of greenhouse gas performance measure for highway system.

Sierra Club v. Perry

Filing Date: 2017
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Motion to dismiss denied. [ 03/12/2019 ]
Description: Action to compel issuance of energy efficiency standards for manufactured housing.

Wyoming v. United States Department of Interior

Filing Date: 2016
Court/Admin Entity: 10th Cir.
Status: Order and judgment issued dismissing appeal as moot and vacating district court order. [ 04/09/2019 ]
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.

Constitution Pipeline Co. v. Seggos

Filing Date: 2016
Court/Admin Entity: U.S.
Status: Certiorari petition denied. [ 04/30/2018 ]
Description: Challenge to denial of water quality certification for natural gas pipeline from Pennsylvania to New York.

Goldstein v. Climate Action Network

Filing Date: 2016
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Tex.
Status: Motions to dismiss granted. [ 06/12/2017 ]
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.