Status: Motion to intervene filed by California Air Resources Board and People of the State of California ex rel. Attorney General Xavier Becerra. [ 11/04/2020 ]
Description: Challenge to California Environmental Quality Act review for shipping terminal project at Port of Los Angeles.
Status: Verified petition for writ of mandate and complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief filed. [ 09/28/2020 ]
Description: Challenge to California Air Resources Board’s adoption of amended emission control measures for ocean-going vessels at berth in California ports.
Status: Judgment entered in favor of petitioners. [ 04/06/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to environmental review for a development in the City of Santee that allegedly would be located on a 2,638-acre site and include 2,900 to 3,000 residential units, commercial structures, a road network, and other infrastructure.
Status: Verified petition for writ of mandate and complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief filed. [ 10/27/2020 ]
Description: Lawsuit alleging failure to comply with California Environmental Quality Act before approving revenue bonds to fund tunnel under the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
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.
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.
Status: Request for dismissal filed by petitioner. [ 06/26/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to Mobility Plan 2035 (the "constitution" for the Los Angeles street system) including for failure to include accurate calculations of increases in greenhouse gas emissions.
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.
Status: Petition for writ of mandate filed. [ 07/30/2020 ]
Description: Challenge to California's Advanced Clean Truck Regulation, which requires an increasing percentage of medium- and heavy-duty zero-emissions vehicles.
Status: Notice of appeal filed by Center for Biological Diversity, Sierra Club, and San Bernadino Valley Audubon Society. [ 05/11/2020 ]
Description: Challenge to environmental impact report for master-planned community in Riverside County, including for failure to consider how climate change would exacerbate the project's impacts.
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.
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: 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.