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.
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.
Status: Minnesota Public Utilities Commission decision affirmed. [ 08/23/2021 ]
Description: Challenge to the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission approval of a Minnesota utility's 50% stake in a new gas-fired power plant in Wisconsin.
Description: Challenge to the City of San Diego's approval of the Morena Corridor Specific Plan, including for violating the City's Climate Action Plan.
Description: Challenge to the City of San Diego's approval of specific plan for approximately 210 acres that was intended to provide a framework for transit-oriented development in the affected neighborhood.
Status: Regents' petition for review and application for stay denied. [ 03/03/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to environmental review for the Upper Hearst Development Plan for Goldman School of Public Policy and Minor Amendment to the 2020 Long Range Development Plan for Berkeley, including failure to assess or mitigate impacts on climate change.
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.
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.
Status: First amended petition filed. [ 11/21/2018 ]
Description: Lawsuit alleging that provisions of 2017 scoping plan under the Global Warming Solutions Act are unlawful, unconstitutional, and exacerbate poverty.
Status: Petition for writ of mandate granted. [ 03/08/2021 ]
Description: Lawsuit asserting that the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power should have conducted a California Environmental Quality Act review for its change in use of water on land owned by the Department in Mono County.
Status: Petition for peremptory writ of mandate and complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief filed. [ 01/11/2018 ]
Description: Challenge to environmental review for Animal Confinement Facilities Plan, Dairy Feedlot and Dairy Climate Action Plan, and related actions approved by Tulare County in California to streamline approval process for dairies.