201 Cases found

AquAlliance v. U.S. Bureau of Reclamation

Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: E.D. Cal.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 05/11/2020 ]
Description: Challenge to environmental review and approval of a 2019-2024 water transfer program for the sale of water by sellers upstream of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to buyers south of the Delta.

Friends of Big Bear Valley v. County of San Bernardino

Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: Cal. Super. Ct.
Status: Verified petition for peremptory writ of mandate and complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief filed. [ 08/27/2020 ]
Description: Challenge to the environmental review for a 50-lot residential development adjacent to Big Bear Lake in California.

Gallaher v. City of Santa Rosa

Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: Cal. Super. Ct.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 12/17/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to City of Santa Rosa law restricting natural gas appliances in new homes.

Center for Biological Diversity v. County of Kern

Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: Cal. Super. Ct.
Status: Petition for writ of mandate filed. [ 01/10/2020 ]
Description: Challenges to approvals of a project in California that would include 12,000 dwelling units, up to 5.1 million square feet of commercial land uses, and a development footprint of 4,643 acres.

Clean Wisconsin, Inc. v. Public Service Commission

Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: Wis. Cir. Ct.
Status: Petition for review filed. [ 02/28/2020 ]
Description: Challenge to the Wisconsin Public Service Commission’s decision approving a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity (CPCN) for a proposed 625-megawatt natural gas-powered generating facility.

Sierra Club v. California Department of Water Resources

Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: Cal. Super. Ct.
Status: Verified petition for writ of mandate and complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief filed. [ 04/29/2020 ]
Description: Challenge to the approval of the Long-Term Operation of the State Water Project.

Save Our Sherwoods v. U.S. Department of the Interior

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D. Haw.
Status: Notice of voluntary dismissal filed by plaintiffs. [ 04/13/2020 ]
Description: Challenge to the development of a sports complex in Honolulu, including for failure to consider the impacts of climate change on the project.

John R. Lawson Rock & Oil, Inc. v. California Air Resources Board

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: Cal. Super. Ct.
Status: Opening brief filed by petitioner. [ 04/10/2020 ]
Description: Challenge to proposed amendments to California's greenhouse gas emissions standards for medium- and heavy-duty engines and vehicles and to the Tractor-Trailer Greenhouse Gas Regulation.

Committee to Complete the Refuge v. City of Newark

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: Cal. Super. Ct.
Status: Petition for peremptory writ of mandate and complaint for injunctive relief filed. [ 12/16/2019 ]
Description: Lawsuit challenging environmental review for shoreline residential development.

Friends of Flint Mine Solar v. Town Board of Coxsackie

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: N.Y. Sup. Ct.
Status: Court granted defendant's motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint. [ 09/13/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to town zoning ordinance that restricted locations for utility-scale solar collection systems.

Davisson Enterprises, Inc. v. City of San Diego

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: Cal. Super. Ct.
Status: Petition for writ of mandate and complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief filed. [ 08/30/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to a mixed-use development on 93.4 acres for failure to comply with the California Environmental Quality Act and land use and planning requirements.

In re Proposed Expansion of Daley Farms of Lewiston LLP et al.

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: Minn. Ct. App.
Status: Reversed and remanded. [ 10/14/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to decisions by Minnesota Pollution Control Agency denial of requests for a contested-case hearing on a NPDES feedlot permit and for an environmental impact statement for expansion of dairy.

Gameros v. City of San Diego

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: Cal. Super. Ct.
Status: Enforcement of ordinance stayed pending the preparation of an environmental impact report under the California Environmental Quality Act. [ 12/12/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to City of San Diego's ordinance banning distribution of polystyrene foam food containers.