Principal Law:

National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)

250 Cases found

California v. Federal Aviation Administration

Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: 9th Cir.
Status: Petition for review filed. [ 02/20/2020 ]
Description: Challenge to the Federal Aviation Administration's environmental review for an air cargo facility in southern 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: Complaint filed. [ 01/09/2020 ]
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.

Farm Sanctuary v. U.S. Department of Agriculture

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: W.D.N.Y.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 12/18/2019 ]
Description: Lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s final rule establishing an optional new inspection system for hog slaughter establishments, including the failure to consider the rule's environmental impacts.

Hosemann v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: S.D. Miss.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 12/30/2019 ]
Description: Lawsuit alleging that opening of spillway on Mississippi occurred without sufficient consideration of environmental impacts to the Mississippi Sound and Mississippi Public Trust.

Harrison County v. Mississippi River Commission

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: S.D. Miss.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 12/23/2019 ]
Description: Lawsuit asserting that U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Mississippi River Commission failed to consider and mitigate impacts of opening of spillway on Mississippi River on coastal communities and resources.

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.