Description: Coal mining company's lawsuit to compel federal defendants to complete their environmental review for an emergency coal lease application.
Status: Memorandum filed in support of motion for a stay or for a preliminary injunction. [ 03/28/2024 ]
Description: Lawsuit challenging the Biden administration’s decision to stop new approvals of liquefied natural gas exports to non-Free-Trade-Agreement countries.
Status: Land transfer enjoined to allow production and review of administrative record. [ 03/25/2024 ]
Description: Challenge to federal agency actions that would facilitate development of a high-voltage transmission line from Dubuque County, Iowa, to Middleton, Wisconsin, passing through the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge.
Description: Lawsuit to compel the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement to complete the environmental review for a mining plan for a Montana coal mine by NEPA's statutory deadline.
Description: Challenge to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (FWS’s) decision not to list the Black Creek crayfish as endangered or threatened under the Endangered Species Act.
Description: Challenge to the U.S. Forest Service’s authorizations of logging and vegetation management projects in the footprints of two recent fires in the Giant Sequoia National Monument and the Sequoia National Forest.
Description: Challenge to the U.S. Forest Service’s alleged failure to account for the aggregate carbon effects of actions taken each year to fulfill annual “timber targets."
Description: Challenge to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s approval of the 2024-2029 National Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program.
Description: Challenge to EPA’s final rule approving the State of Louisiana’s application to revise its underground injection control program to include Class VI injection well primary enforcement responsibility (primacy).
Status: Government’s motion to transfer to the federal district court for the District of Alaska granted. [ 02/23/2024 ]
Description: Challenge to the Biden administration's cancellation of the plaintiff's oil and gas leases for the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Status: Notice of agreement filed by the parties. [ 03/01/2024 ]
Description: Lawsuit brought by cryptocurrency industry plaintiffs to challenge the Energy Information Administration's emergency request for energy information from cryptocurrency mining companies.
Description: Challenge to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorization of a sediment diversion project in southern Louisiana that was intended to support coastal resiliency to climate change.