Principal Law:

Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA)

32 Cases found

Center for Biological Diversity v. EPA

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Cir.
Status: Petition for review filed. [ 07/20/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) final rule establishing annual renewable fuel standards for 2020, 2021, and 2022.

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.

RFS Power Coalition v. EPA

Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Cir.
Status: Supplement to reply filed regarding EPA's July 26, 2022 notice. [ 07/29/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to EPA’s final rule setting 2020 volume requirements for renewable fuel production in the Renewable Fuel Standard Program.

Natural Resources Defense Council v. U.S. Department of Energy

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: 2d Cir.
Status: Petition for review filed. [ 11/04/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to the U.S. Department of Energy's withdrawal of a final rule adopted in January 2017 expanding the types of lightbulbs subject to backstop energy conservation standards set to take effect in 2020.

New York v. U.S. Department of Energy

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: 2d Cir.
Status: Petitions for review held in abeyance until October 12, 2021. [ 08/11/2021 ]
Description: Challenge to the U.S. Department of Energy's withdrawal of a final rule adopted in January 2017 expanding the types of lightbulbs subject to backstop energy conservation standards set to take effect in 2020.

Advanced Biofuels Association v. EPA

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Cir.
Status: Petition for review dismissed. [ 11/12/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to purported modification of criteria for granting small refinery exemptions in the Renewable Fuel Program.

Renewable Fuels Association v. EPA

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Cir.
Status: EPA filed notice of action on remand. [ 04/07/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to EPA’s August 2019 decision regarding small refinery exemptions to renewable fuel standard requirements for 2018.

California v. Chao

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
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.

Growth Energy v. EPA

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Cir.
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.

Sierra Club v. Perry

Filing Date: 2017
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Motion to dismiss denied. [ 03/12/2019 ]
Description: Action to compel issuance of energy efficiency standards for manufactured housing.

Sierra Club v. Wheeler

Filing Date: 2017
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Notice published of proposed partial consent decree. [ 02/22/2019 ]
Description: Action to compel EPA to submit reports on the Renewable Fuel Standard program's environmental and resource impacts and to complete an "anti-backsliding" study.

Truck Trailer Manufacturers Association, Inc. v. EPA

Filing Date: 2016
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Cir.
Status: Petition for review granted and portions of the rule that apply to trailers vacated. [ 11/12/2021 ]
Description: Challenge to greenhouse gas emissions and fuel efficiency standards for medium- and heavy-duty engines and vehicles.

National Biodiesel Board v. EPA

Filing Date: 2015
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Cir.
Status: Combined petition filed requesting panel rehearing and petition for en banc rehearing. [ 02/03/2017 ]
Description: Challenge to EPA approval of alternative procedures for Argentine biofuel producers compliance with land use requirements of the Renewable Fuel Standard.