Description: Citizen suit alleging that Shell Oil violated the Clean Water Act by failing to prepare a bulk storage and fuel terminal in Providence, Rhode Island, for climate change impacts.
Description: Enforcement suit alleging violations of Clean Water Act related to combined sewer overflows in Chicago area in violation of NPDES permits.
Status: Order issued denying Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper's motion to reopen case. [ 05/08/2014 ]
Description: Enforcement suit alleging violations of Clean Water Act in which Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper and Key Biscayne resident intervened to request, among other things, that climate change impacts be considered.
Status: Settlement agreement filed providing that after certain activities were completed claims in the action could not be reasserted or reinstated in any forum. [ 11/17/2014 ]
Description: Challenge to TMDLs for Cape Cod and Nantucket embayments.
Status: Summary judgment motion filed by plaintiffs. [ 08/30/2017 ]
Description: Lawsuit alleging that EPA violated the Clean Water Act by failing to issue a total maximum daily load (TMDL) for temperature pollution in the Columbia and Snake Rivers in Oregon and Washington.
Status: Notice of intent to sue filed. [ 06/22/2011 ]
Description: Petition seeking development of water quality criteria for black carbon concentrations on sea ice and glacier and publication of information to guide states in identifying local sources of black carbon and strategies for reducing emissions.
Court/Admin Entity: Cal. Reg'l Water Quality Control Bd.
Status: Petition submitted. [ 02/27/2007 ]
Description: Request to regional water quality control board in California for recommendation that ocean waters be listed as impaired for pH due to absorption of carbon dioxide.
Status: Letter sent denying rulemaking petition. [ 12/14/2016 ]
Description: Rulemaking petition and subsequent litigation requesting that EPA amend water quality criteria and publish guidance to address ocean acidification.