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Climate Protection & Restoration Initiative v. Regan

Filing Date: 2022
Case Categories:
  • Federal Statutory Claims
    • Other Statutes and Regulations
Principal Laws:
Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)
Description: Lawsuit to compel EPA to undertake rulemaking under the Toxic Substances Control Act to phase out greenhouse gas pollution and to compel removal of residual and legacy greenhouse gas emissions.
  • Climate Protection & Restoration Initiative v. Regan
    Docket number(s): 6:22-cv-1772
    Court/Admin Entity: D. Or.
    Case Documents:
    Filing Date Type File Action Taken Summary
    11/12/2022 Complaint Download Complaint filed. Lawsuit Filed Seeking Phase-Out of Greenhouse Gas Pollution Under TSCA. Nonprofit organizations, individual scientists, and a psychiatrist filed a lawsuit in the federal district court for the District of Oregon seeking to compel the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to issue a rulemaking under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) “to phase out the production and importation and, as warranted, the processing, distribution, use or atmospheric disposal of certain chemical substances and mixtures … as required to secure the phase out of greenhouse gas (‘GHG’) pollution and to compel removal of residual and legacy GHG emissions.” The plaintiffs petitioned EPA to undertake this rulemaking in June 2022, and EPA denied the petition in September 2022.

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