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79 Cases found

Wyoming v. United States Department of Interior

Filing Date: 2016
Court/Admin Entity: 10th Cir.
Status: Order issued referring motion to dismiss to merits panel. [ 10/26/2018 ]
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.

Resource Renewal Institute v. National Park Service

Filing Date: 2016
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Cal.
Status: Stipulated settlement agreement and order entered. [ 07/14/2017 ]
Description: Action to require the preparation of a new or revised General Management Plan for the Point Reyes National Seashore that fully addressed the impacts of livestock ranching and other issues, including climate change.

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.

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.

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: Motion to dismiss granted in part and denied in part. [ 03/14/2019 ]
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: Judgment entered sentencing defendant. [ 06/28/2018 ]
Description: Criminal action against company owner who used federal funds awarded for carbon sequestration study for personal use.

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.

Carbon Sequestration Council v. EPA

Filing Date: 2014
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Cir.
Status: Opinion issued dismissing case. [ 06/02/2015 ]
Description: Challenge to EPA’s conditional exclusion from RCRA’s hazardous waste definition for carbon dioxide streams injected into Underground Injection Control Class VI wells.

In re Azizi

Filing Date: 2014
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Cal.
Status: Order issued granting motion for certificate of extraditability. [ 03/20/2015 ]
Description: Action seeking to extradite man accused of tax evasion in Germany, including in connection with fraud related to trade of greenhouse gas emissions allowances.

In re Archer Daniels Midland Co.

Filing Date: 2014
Court/Admin Entity: EAB
Status: Notice of voluntary dismissal filed. [ 11/26/2014 ]
Description: Challenge to underground injection control permit for carbon sequestration.