Principal Law:

Clean Air Act (CAA)

203 Cases found

In re Artsen Chemical America, LLC

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: EAB
Status: Consent agreement ratified. [ 01/20/2023 ]
Description: Administrative penalty assessment proceeding regarding failure to submit annual reports on importation of greenhouse gases.

In re BMP International, Inc.

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: EAB
Status: Consent agreement ratified. [ 02/17/2023 ]
Description: Administrative penalty assessment proceeding regarding failure to submit annual reports on importation of greenhouse gases.

In re Harp USA, Inc.

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: EAB
Status: Consent agreement ratified and respondent directed to comply with its terms. [ 01/11/2023 ]
Description: Administrative penalty assessment proceeding regarding failure to submit annual reports on importation of greenhouse gases.

Center for Biological Diversity v. EPA

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Cir.
Status: Court ordered that case remain in abeyance pending further order of court, with parties to file motions to govern further proceedings by August 14, 2023. [ 04/21/2023 ]
Description: Challenge to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) final rule establishing annual renewable fuel standards for 2020, 2021, and 2022.

Concerned Household Electricity Consumers Council v. EPA

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Cir.
Status: Brief filed by public interest organizations as respondent-intervenors. [ 01/17/2023 ]
Description: Challenge to EPA's denial of petitions for reconsideration of EPA’s 2009 Endangerment and Cause or Contribute Findings for Greenhouse Gases under Section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act.

United States v. Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc.

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: D. Mass.
Status: United States filed consented-to motion to enter consent decree with incorporated memorandum of law. [ 06/22/2022 ]
Description: Enforcement action against owner-operator of scrap metal recycling facilities for allegedly failing to comply with requirements for recovery of refrigerants from appliances.

Ohio v. EPA

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Cir.
Status: Brief filed by administrative law professors as amici curiae in support of respondents. [ 01/20/2023 ]
Description: Challenge to EPA's reinstatement of the waiver allowing California to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles.

Growth Energy v. Regan

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Consent decree entered. [ 07/26/2022 ]
Description: Lawsuit to compel EPA to promulgate renewable fuel obligations for 2023.

Growth Energy v. Regan

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Consent decree so-ordered. [ 04/22/2022 ]
Description: Lawsuit alleging that EPA failed to meet deadlines for determining renewable fuel obligations for the 2021 and 2022 calendar years.

RMS of Georgia, LLC v. EPA

Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: 11th Cir.
Status: Petition transferred to the D.C. Circuit. [ 04/13/2023 ]
Description: Challenge to EPA's 2022 allowance allocations for hydrofluorocarbons under the American Innovation and Manufacturing Act of 2020.

RMS of Georgia, LLC v. EPA

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Cir.
Status: Case held in abeyance. [ 03/14/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to EPA's 2022 allowance allocations for hydrofluorocarbons under the American Innovation and Manufacturing Act of 2020.

Texas v. EPA

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Cir.
Status: Brief filed by Constitutional Accountability Center as amicus curiae in support of respondents. [ 03/03/2023 ]
Description: Challenges to EPA’s December 2021 promulgation of “Revised 2023 and Later Model Year Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards.”

Heating, Air-Conditioning, & Refrigeration Distributors International v. EPA

Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Cir.
Status: Reply brief filed by petitioners Heating, Air-Conditioning, & Refrigeration Distributors International et al. [ 07/08/2022 ]
Description: Challenges to EPA's final rule on “Phasedown of Hydrofluorocarbons: Establishing the Allowance Allocation and Trading Program under the American Innovation and Manufacturing Act.”

Conservation Law Foundation v. DATTCO, Inc.

Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: D. Conn.
Status: Consent decree entered by the court. [ 10/14/2021 ]
Description: Citizen suit against transportation company that operated a fleet of more than 1,000 vehicles for unlawfully idling vehicles for extended periods of time.

California Trucking Association v. South Coast Air Quality Management District

Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: C.D. Cal.
Status: Complaint in intervention filed by Airlines for America. [ 01/14/2022 ]
Description: Lawsuit seeking to block implementation of a South Coast Air Quality Management District rule imposing compliance obligations on warehouses based on the number, type, and emission characteristics of trucks that visit the warehouse facilities.

Liberty Packing Co. v. EPA

Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: E.D. Cal.
Status: Reply filed by EPA in support of its motion to dismiss. [ 08/26/2021 ]
Description: Lawsuit to compel EPA to respond to a petition requesting reconsideration of the 2009 endangerment finding for greenhouse gases.

Louisiana v. Biden

Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: 5th Cir.
Status: Preliminary injunction vacated and action dismissed. [ 04/05/2023 ]
Description: Lawsuit challenging interim estimates for the social cost of greenhouse gases released by the Interagency Working Group on Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases.