Description: Challenge to a New York City ordinance that prohibits combustion equipment with carbon dioxide emission levels over a certain threshold in new buildings.
Status: Plaintiffs filed notice of voluntary dismissal without prejudice. [ 08/03/2023 ]
Description: Challenge to the Washington State Building Code Council’s amendments of the State Energy Code to ban or restrict the use of natural gas appliances in commercial and residential buildings.
Status: Motion to vacate rule denied. [ 06/01/2022 ]
Description: Challenge brought by industry petitioners to energy conservation standards for commercial packaged boilers that were more stringent than ASHRAE standards.
Status: Petition for review granted and matter remanded to Department of Energy for further proceedings consistent with the opinion. [ 01/08/2024 ]
Description: Challenge to revocation of Trump administration Energy Conservation Program rules that established separate product classes for certain short-cycle dishwashers and clothes washers and dryers.
Status: Case held in abeyance pending further order of the court. [ 04/08/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to a U.S. Department of Energy final interpretive rule regarding what constitutes a “feature” for purposes of establishing energy conservation standards.
Status: Preliminary injunction vacated and action dismissed. [ 04/05/2023 ]
Description: Lawsuit challenging interim estimates for the social cost of greenhouse gases released by the Interagency Working Group on Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases.
Description: Petition seeking review of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s final rule that reversed an inflation adjustment to penalties for violations of fuel economy standards.
Description: Lawsuit to enjoin the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency from establishing greenhouse gas emissions standards for new vehicles and imposing quotas for zero-emission vehicle sales.
Status: Tesla, Inc.'s motion to lift abeyance and for summary vacatur denied. [ 01/13/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to an interim final rule that provided that a 2016 inflation adjustment to the civil penalty for violations of Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards would not go into effect until model year 2022.
Status: Status report filed by petitioners. [ 08/29/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to U.S. Department of Energy rule creating new product classes for short cycle washers and dryers in the energy conservation program.
Description: Lawsuit asking the court to set an enforceable schedule for the U.S. Department of Energy to review and amend energy efficiency standards for 25 consumer and commercial products.
Status: Status report filed by the government. [ 05/05/2022 ]
Description: Lawsuit asking the court to set an enforceable schedule for the U.S. Department of Energy to review and amend energy efficiency standards for 25 consumer and commercial products.
Status: Respondents' motion to further stay appellate proceedings granted. [ 11/09/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to U.S. Department of Energy’s final rules amending the procedures for new or revised energy conservation standards and test procedures for consumer products and commercial/industrial equipment.