Principal Law:

National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)

258 Cases found

AquAlliance v. U.S. Bureau of Reclamation

Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: E.D. Cal.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 05/11/2020 ]
Description: Challenge to environmental review and approval of a 2019-2024 water transfer program for the sale of water by sellers upstream of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to buyers south of the Delta.

National Wildlife Federation v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: S.D. Ill.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 05/13/2020 ]
Description: Lawsuit asserting that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers failed to conduct an adequate environmental review for activities intended to maintain a nine-foot deep navigation channel in the Middle Mississippi River Reach of the Mississippi River.

Center for Biological Diversity v. U.S. Bureau of Reclamation

Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: E.D. Cal.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 05/20/2020 ]
Description: Lawsuit charging that the conversion of Central Valley Project “renewal contracts” into “permanent repayment contracts” was a major federal action that required compliance with NEPA.

Evans v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Cir.
Status: Petition for review filed. [ 05/22/2020 ]
Description: Challenge to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission orders authorizing the Jordan Cove liquefied natural gas export terminal and related infrastructure.

Conservation Congress v. U.S. Forest Service

Filing Date: 2013
Court/Admin Entity: E.D. Cal.
Status: Motion to supplement the administrative record granted in part. [ 05/28/2020 ]
Description: Challenge to the environmental review for a fuel-reduction project in Shasta-Trinity National Forest.

Food & Water Watch v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Cir.
Status: Petition for review filed. [ 04/21/2020 ]
Description: Challenge to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission authorization of construction and operation of the 261 Upgrade Project, a set of projects in southern Massachusetts to increase transportation capacity on the existing Tennessee Gas Pipeline system.

California Natural Resources Agency v. Ross

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: E.D. Cal.
Status: Motions for preliminary injunction granted in part and denied in part. [ 05/11/2020 ]
Description: Challenge to biological opinions for long-term operations of two major water diversion projects in California.

Cook Inletkeeper v. Ross

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D. Alaska
Status: Answer filed by defendants. [ 11/19/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to incidental take regulations authorizing take of 11 species of marine mammals in connection with oil and gas exploration and development activities.

WildEarth Guardians v. Bernhardt

Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Motion for leave to intervene as a defendant filed by American Petroleum Institute. [ 04/28/2020 ]
Description: Lawsuit challenging approval of oil and gas leases in five western states.

Center for Biological Diversity v. U.S. Bureau of Land Management

Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: C.D. Cal.
Status: Transfer order declined. [ 01/29/2020 ]
Description: Lawsuit challenging the supplemental environmental impact statement prepared by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management for a resource management plan allowing hydraulic fracturing on federal lands in California.

California v. Stout

Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: C.D. Cal.
Status: Order issued declining transfer of case. [ 01/29/2020 ]
Description: Lawsuit challenging the supplemental environmental impact statement prepared by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management for a resource management plan allowing hydraulic fracturing on federal lands in California.

Columbia Riverkeeper v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: W.D. Wash.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 11/12/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to U.S. Corps of Engineers issuance of a Section 404 permit for a maritime export terminal associated with a proposed methanol facility in Washington on the Columbia River.