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National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)

201 Cases found

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.

California v. Zinke

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Cal.
Status: Western Energy Alliance and Independent Petroleum Association of America's unopposed motion to intervene granted. [ 11/08/2018 ]
Description: Challenge to BLM's repeal of key provisions of the 2016 Waste Prevention Rule for oil and gas development on public and tribal lands.

Rocky Mountain Wild v. Zinke

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: D. Colo.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 09/27/2018 ]
Description: Challenge to 121 oil and gas leases in and around the Uinta Basin in northwestern Colorado and northeastern Utah.

Tongass Conservation Society v. Cole

Filing Date: 2009
Court/Admin Entity: D. Alaska
Status: Plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment granted in part. [ 12/07/2009 ]
Description: Action to compel preparation of a site-specific supplemental environmental impact statement for a timber sale in the Tongass National Forest based on, among other things, new information about the role of climate change in yellow cedar decline.

Gulf Restoration Network v. Zinke

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Motion to intervene in support of defendants filed by Chevron U.S.A. Inc. [ 09/25/2018 ]
Description: Action challenging federal government's decisions to hold offshore oil and gas lease sales.