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78 Cases found

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. Bernhardt

Filing Date: 2016
Court/Admin Entity: D. Idaho
Status: Memorandum filed by Utah in support of motion to intervene. [ 04/24/2019 ]
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: Oral argument held on motion to quash and motion for stay; motion to quash dismissed as moot and motion for stay taken under advisement. [ 05/14/2019 ]
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.

EnerVest, Ltd. v. Jewell

Filing Date: 2016
Court/Admin Entity: D. Utah
Status: Order issued directing BLM either to issue the remaining permits or to provide non-arbitrary reasons supported by substantial evidence as to why it needs more time to process the permits. [ 12/30/2016 ]
Description: Lawsuit to compel the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to grant applications for permits to drill.

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.

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.

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.