Description: Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seek documents about plans for fossil fuel development on the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Description: Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking to compel disclosure of records regarding aircraft emissions standards and U.S. participation in the 2016 International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) carbon dioxide rulemaking process.
Status: Order issued granting plaintiff's motion for partial summary judgment and addressing the production schedule. [ 12/26/2018 ]
Description: Freedom of Information lawsuit seeking external communications and meeting records for EPA staff that Sierra Club alleged had "troubling ties to polluting industries."
Status: Motion to compel denied parties ordered to meet and confer in person. [ 05/02/2019 ]
Description: Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking correspondence and other documents related to the U.S. Department of Energy's alleged efforts to bail out the coal and nuclear industries.
Status: Parties stipulated to dismissal of action with prejudice pursuant to settlement agreement. [ 08/20/2021 ]
Description: Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking to compel the Department of the Treasure to respond to request for correspondence regarding climate change financial disclosures.
Description: Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking documents related to the Interior Department's implementation of President Trump's executive order on energy independence.
Description: Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking disclosure of documents related to efforts to roll back Bureau of Land Management's Waste Prevention Rule.
Status: Court entered stipulation and order to vacate settlement conference and stay proceedings. [ 08/21/2018 ]
Description: Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking to compel disclosure of communications between EPA employees hired at the beginning of the Trump administration and the EPA Administrator or external parties.
Description: Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking EPA communications with Heartland Institute regarding potential red team/blue team climate science exercise and other matters.
Description: Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking to compel EPA to disclose records regarding policies put in place and other measures taken after EPA cancelled scientists' and consultant's participation in Rhode Island climate change conference.
Status: Plaintiffs' claims dismissed with prejudice and jurisdiction retained to resolve plaintiffs' request for attorneys' fees and costs. [ 07/26/2021 ]
Description: Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking EPA disclosure of directives to EPA employees since beginning of Trump administration concerning public communications about EPA work and review of EPA work by political appointees.
Description: Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed against the Department of State seeking correspondence of two employees' regarding the Paris Agreement.
Description: Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by former Department of Interior employee who alleged that the agency reassigned him in retaliation for raising concerns regarding climate change risk to Native Alaska communities.
Description: Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against Department of the Interior to compel production of records related to Secretarial Order on onshore mineral leasing program