Principal Law:

National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)

237 Cases found

Center for Biological Diversity v. EPA

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Cal.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 11/21/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to Safe Drinking Water Act exemption that would allegedly allow injection of oil and gas wastewater and other fluids in oil field in San Luis Obispo County in California.

Sound Rivers, Inc. v. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: E.D.N.C.
Status: Joint stipulation of voluntary dismissal with prejudice filed. [ 09/17/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to highway through Piedmont North Carolina, including for failure to analyze greenhouse gas emissions and climate change and new federal rule "freezing" CAFE standards.

Oregon Natural Desert Association v. Hanley

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D. Or.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 09/27/2019 ]
Description: Lawsuit challenging BLM’s March 2019 decision to reverse portions of the 2015 conservation plan for the greater sage-grouse in Oregon by closing approximately 22,000 acres to livestock grazing.

Save the Colorado v. U.S. Department of the Interior

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D. Ariz.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 10/01/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to the U.S. Department of the Interior’s December 2016 plan for managing the Glen Canyon Dam for failing to consider climate change impacts.

Center for Biological Diversity v. Bernhardt

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D. Colo.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 10/08/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to BLM’s approval of a resource management plan in western Colorado that applied to 1,061,400 acres of BLM-administered surface land and 1,231,200 acres of BLM-managed federal mineral estate and made 935,600 acres available for oil and gas.

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

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Cal.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 10/30/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to BLM’s approval of a resource management plan amendment for a planning area that included California’s Bay Area and Central coast that would make 725,500 acres available for oil and gas leasing.

Environmental Defense Fund v. Chao

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Memorandum of points and authorities filed by Public Interest Organization plaintiffs in opposition to motion to dismiss or transfer. [ 12/03/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to NHTSA regulation preempting state regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from vehicles. Most documents filed in the case are available on the page for California v. Chao.

Living Rivers v. Hoffman

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D. Utah
Status: Complaint filed. [ 09/12/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to 130 oil and gas lease sales on public land in Utah for failure to consider indirect and cumulative greenhouse gas emissions and climate change impacts.

Earth Island Institute v. Nash

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Cal.
Status: Response-reply filed in opposition to motion to dismiss/change venue and in support of plaintiffs' motion for TRO and preliminary injunction. [ 10/01/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to federal and state authorizations for a logging project and biomass power plant on public forestland burned during the Rim Fire in 2013.

California v. Bernhardt

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Cal.
Status: First amended complaint filed. [ 10/22/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to amendments to Endangered Species Act regulations.

In re Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: IBLA
Status: BLM's decision set aside and remanded. [ 09/16/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to vegetation management plan on BLM-administered lands in southern Utah.

California v. Chao

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Motion to dismiss or transfer filed by defendants. [ 12/03/2019 ]
Description: Lawsuit challenging the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's final rule preempting state regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from vehicles (see also EDF v. Chao (No. 1:19-cv-02907) and SCAQMD v. Chao (1:19-cv-03436).

United States Sugar Corp. v. Semonite

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: S.D. Fla.
Status: Motion to dismiss filed. [ 10/21/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers releases from Lake Okeechobee in Florida.

Diné Citizens Against Ruining the Environment v. Bernhardt

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D.N.M.
Status: Response filed by intervenor Enduring Resources IV, LLC to plaintiffs' motion for preliminary injunction. [ 09/20/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to approvals of application for permits to drill in the Mancos Shale/Gallup formations.

WildEarth Guardians v. Bernhardt

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D. Colo.
Status: Record of decision remanded, federal defendants' approvals vacated, and intervenor defendants enjoined from any and all action pursuant to the vacated approvals. [ 11/08/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to federal approval of mining plan for expansion of coal mine in western Colorado.