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National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)

208 Cases found

Healthy Gulf v. Bernhardt

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 03/13/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to federal defendants' decision to hold oil and gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico.

350 Montana v. Bernhardt

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D. Mont.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 01/16/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to new environmental review conducted for re-approval of mining plan modification allowing expansion of an underground coal mine in Montana.

Vaughn v. Federal Aviation Administration

Filing Date: 2016
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Cir.
Status: Petitions for review denied. [ 11/30/2018 ]
Description: Challenge to environmental review for plan to redesign air-traffic control procedures and flight paths at southern California airports.

Save the Colorado v. Semonite

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: D. Colo.
Status: Petition for review of agency action filed. [ 12/19/2018 ]
Description: Challenge to dam project in Boulder County in Colorado.

Dakota Rural Action v. U.S. Department of Agriculture

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 12/05/2018 ]
Description: Lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency (FSA) rule that categorically excluded FSA funding of medium-sized concentrated animal feeding operations from NEPA review.

Resource Renewal Institute v. National Park Service

Filing Date: 2016
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Cal.
Status: Stipulated settlement agreement and order entered. [ 07/14/2017 ]
Description: Action to require the preparation of a new or revised General Management Plan for the Point Reyes National Seashore that fully addressed the impacts of livestock ranching and other issues, including climate change.

Birckhead v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Cir.
Status: Brief filed by FERC. [ 01/25/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to FERC approval of project involving construction and replacement of natural gas compression facilities in West Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee.

Center for Biological Diversity v. Zinke

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: 9th Cir.
Status: Petition for review filed. [ 12/17/2018 ]
Description: Challenge to federal actions authorizing oil and gas development project in the Beaufort Sea offshore of Alaska.

Alliance for the Wild Rockies v. Pena

Filing Date: 2016
Court/Admin Entity: E.D. Wash.
Status: Order issued granting defendants' and intervening defendants' cross motions for summary judgment and denying plaintiff's motion for summary judgment. [ 10/02/2018 ]
Description: Challenge to the U.S. Forest Service's approval of a restoration, logging, and timber sale venture in the Colville National Forest.

Appalachian Voices v. Bodman

Filing Date: 2008
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Stipulation of dismissal filed. [ 08/31/2010 ]
Description: Lawsuit alleging failure to comply with NEPA and the Endangered Species Act when allocating tax credits for experimental coal-based energy projects and asking for revocation of credits pending NEPA review, including review of carbon emissions.

Montana Environmental Information Center v. Johanns

Filing Date: 2007
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Parties filed joint stipulation of dismissal without prejudice. [ 03/20/2008 ]
Description: Action to bar the Rural Utilities Service from issuing loans for the construction of new coal-fired power plant pending compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act and National Historic Preservation Act.