Description: Fossil fuel company's lawsuit against insurer for breaching its obligations to defend and indemnify the company in underlying climate change cases brought by Honolulu and Maui.
Status: Notice of voluntary dismissal filed. [ 10/18/2022 ]
Description: Insurers' lawsuit seeking declarations that policies did not obligate the insurers to defend or indemnify Gulf Oil LP in a lawsuit alleging failure to prepare a bulk petroleum terminal in New Haven, Connecticut for climate change impacts.
Description: Lawsuit seeking to hold an electricity provider liable for damages allegedly sustained as a result of the failure of electrical infrastructure during Hurricane Ida.
Status: Notice of voluntary dismissal filed by plaintiffs. [ 04/13/2020 ]
Description: Challenge to the development of a sports complex in Honolulu, including for failure to consider the impacts of climate change on the project.
Status: Motions to dismiss granted. [ 09/20/2017 ]
Description: Lawsuit alleging that defendants failed to comply with obligations in connection with plaintiff's attempt to obtain carbon credits for forest preservation project in Bolivia.
Status: Petitions for panel rehearing and rehearing en banc denied. [ 08/03/2020 ]
Description: Action challenging the City of Oakland’s prohibition on the transportation and export of coal and petroleum coke to and through a rail and marine terminal for bulk and oversized cargo.
Status: Plaintiff's motion for reconsideration denied. [ 06/25/2020 ]
Description: Action brought by scientist against journal and another scientist in connection with publication of article critiquing plaintiff-scientist's work.
Description: Action seeking declaratory judgment that Sierra Club’s effort to block conversion of LNG terminal into export facility had no basis under a 2005 agreement.
Status: Opinion issued reaffirming previous holding in favor of insurance company. [ 04/20/2012 ]
Description: Action by insurance company seeking declaratory judgment that it was not obligated to defend or indemnify its policyholder in underlying litigation seeking climate change-related damages.
Description: Action to vacate arbitration award that required electricity producer to pay costs of compliance with California's Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006.