Description: Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking to compel disclosure of records related to the ethics clearance and recusal process for Special Presidential Envoy for Climate Change John Kerry.
Status: Department of Commerce's renewed motion for summary judgment granted. [ 11/25/2020 ]
Description: Freedom of Information Act lawsuit to compel disclosure of communications between a NOAA climate scientist and the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy during the Obama administration.
Status: Stipulation of dismissal filed by the parties. [ 09/30/2020 ]
Description: Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking EPA records supporting determination that CARB’s zero-emission vehicle regulations would not impact emissions of criteria pollutants or interfere with California's attainment of air quality standards.
Status: CEQ ordered to produce unredacted versions of certain records. [ 12/14/2020 ]
Description: Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking to compel disclosure by the Council on Environmental Quality of records related to its advance notice of proposed rulemaking for amendments to the National Environmental Policy Act.
Description: Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking documents in response to nine requests for federal agencies' records related to implementation of an oil and gas leasing program on the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Status: Summary judgment granted to State Department. [ 06/27/2023 ]
Description: Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking records from the U.S. Department of State concerning its analysis of whether the 2015 Paris Agreement constituted a treaty.
Description: Freedom of Information lawsuit against EPA seeking records supporting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler's assertions about climate change in a March 2019 television interview.
Description: Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking external communications and internal records from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission regarding shareholder proposals on climate change, greenhouse gas emissions, and the Paris Agreement.
Description: Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking records regarding removal of acting administrator of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Status: Plaintiff's motion for summary judgment granted. [ 09/16/2020 ]
Description: Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking to compel the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to produce public records regarding the Florida Keys mole skink and the Service's decision not to list it as endangered or threatened.
Status: Cross-motion for summary judgment and opposition to defendant's motion for summary judgment filed by plaintiff. [ 08/26/2019 ]
Description: Lawsuit to compel response to Freedom of Information Act requests for documents related to EPA administrator ethical issues, EPA public communications about scientific research, and EPA officials' schedules.
Description: Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking to compel the Department of Interior to update its searches for Interior officials' external communications.
Status: Defendants' motion for summary judgment granted. [ 06/03/2020 ]
Description: Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking information underlying proposed federal rollbacks of vehicle emission and fuel economy standards.
Description: Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking records from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on the determination that vehicle standards rule did not require Endangered Species Act consultation.
Description: Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking records concerning denial of petition to list the climate change-threatened Pacific Bluefin tuna as threatened or endangered.
Status: Plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment granted, defendant’s cross-motion for summary judgment denied, and defendant ordered to produce the OMEGA v.1.4.59 core model to plaintiffs by June 7, 2020. [ 05/28/2020 ]
Description: Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking records related to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's model for assessing the cost and effectiveness of greenhouse gas emission standards.
Description: Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking U.S. Department of Transportation officials' calendars and correspondence related to proposed and anticipated actions to roll back greenhouse gas and fuel efficiency standards for vehicles.