Principal Law:

Clean Water Act (CWA)

73 Cases found

El Puente v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 08/16/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers San Juan Bay Dredging Project, which would allow larger tankers of liquefied natural gas and petroleum to transit the Bay.

Healthy Gulf v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: 5th Cir.
Status: Petition for review filed. [ 07/19/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to a Clean Water Act Section 404 permit for the Driftwood liquefied natural gas export terminal in southwest Louisiana.

San Antonio Bay Estuarine Waterkeeper v. Connor

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 05/25/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizations for a federal channel deepening and expansion project in the Matagorda Ship Channel near Port Lavaca, Texas.

Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Inc. v. County of Henrico

Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: E.D. Va.
Status: Proceedings and deadlines stayed until December 31, 2022. [ 09/19/2022 ]
Description: Citizen suit alleging violations of the Clean Water Act at the Henrico County Water Reclamation Facility.

Waterkeepers Chesapeake v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Cir.
Status: Brief filed by intervenor Constellation Energy Generation, LLC. [ 04/22/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to FERC's issuance of a new 50-year license for the Conowingo Hydroelectric Project in Maryland, including for failure to supplement the NEPA analysis to consider new information on climate change.

Resource Renewal Institute v. National Park Service

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Cal.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 01/10/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to the National Park Service’s adoption of a General Management Plan amendment that expanded lands open to beef and dairy ranching within Point Reyes National Seashore and Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

Northwest Environmental Advocates v. EPA

Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: W.D. Wash.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 12/07/2021 ]
Description: Lawsuit asserting that EPA had failed to fulfill mandatory obligations to develop total maximum daily loads (TMDLs) for the Puget Sound.

AquAlliance v. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: E.D. Cal.
Status: Federal defendants filed memorandum of points and authorities in support of cross-motion for summary judgment and opposing plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment. [ 08/26/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to federal authorizations for a multi-use development in the City of Chico.

Conservation Law Foundation v. Gulf Oil LP

Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: D. Conn.
Status: Counts dismissed without prejudice for lack of standing. [ 09/29/2022 ]
Description: Citizen suit alleging failures to prepare a bulk storage and fuel terminal in New Haven, Connecticut for the effects of climate change.

Conservation Law Foundation v. Shell Oil Co.

Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: D. Conn.
Status: Motion to dismiss granted in part and denied in part. [ 09/16/2022 ]
Description: Citizen suit alleging failures to prepare a bulk storage and fuel terminal in New Haven, Connecticut for the effects of climate change.

Protect Our Parks, Inc. v. Buttigieg

Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: 7th Cir.
Status: Denial of motion for preliminary injunction affirmed. [ 07/01/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to federal approvals for the construction of the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park in Chicago.

Center for Biological Diversity v. Scott

Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: D. Mont.
Status: Case transferred to the federal district court for the District of Columbia. [ 08/18/2022 ]
Description: Lawsuit challenging the 2021 issuance of nationwide permit to cover oil and gas pipeline projects.