Description: Proceedings challenging the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's rule preempting state limits on tailpipe greenhouse gas emissions and zero-emission vehicle mandates and EPA's withdrawal of California's waiver.
Status: Motion for voluntary dismissal without prejudice granted. [ 11/22/2019 ]
Description: Protective petition for review filed to challenge National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's rule withdrawing California’s waiver for its greenhouse gas and zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) program and preempting state programs.
Status: Notice of voluntary dismissal without prejudice filed by state plaintiffs. [ 08/29/2022 ]
Description: Lawsuit challenging the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's final rule preempting state regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from vehicles.
Status: Appeals dismissed upon consideration of stipulated motion to voluntarily dismiss. [ 11/04/2020 ]
Description: Challenge by operators of waste-to-energy facility and hospital/medical/infectious waste incineration facility to the Baltimore Clean Air Act.
Status: Petition for panel rehearing denied. [ 10/04/2021 ]
Description: Challenge to EPA’s 2019 percentage standards for the Renewable Fuel Standard program and volume requirements for cellulosic biofuel, advanced biofuel, and total renewable fuel for 2019, and the applicable volume of biomass-based diesel for 2020.
Description: Challenge to Colorado’s adoption of California’s low emission vehicle emission standards (LEV III) for light-duty passenger vehicles and trucks and medium-duty passenger vehicles.
Status: Motion to dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction granted. [ 10/06/2009 ]
Description: Action challenging the right of defendant Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) to impose fees on entities that emit greenhouse gases in the district.
Status: Order issued granting Illinois Environmental Protection Agency's motion for voluntary remand. [ 01/28/2010 ]
Description: Challenge to prevention of significant deterioration permit for facility in Illinois, including on grounds that the permit should have included emissions limits for carbon dioxide.
Status: Plans for coal-fired generating facility cancelled. [ 08/24/2009 ]
Description: Challenge to air permit granted for coal-fired generation facility in South Carolina, including on grounds that the permit failed to control carbon dioxide emissions.
Status: Joint stipulation of dismissal filed. [ 07/17/2014 ]
Description: Lawsuits challenging EPA actions concerning what pollutants are "subject to regulation" under the Clean Air Act's prevention of significant deterioration permitting program.
Description: Challenge to prevention of significant deterioration permit issued by Florida Department of Environmental Protection for new coal-fired unit at existing power plant, including for failure to including carbon dioxide emissions limit.