Status: Case held in abeyance pending the completion of agency proceedings. [ 04/03/2023 ]
Description: Challenge to the alleged failure by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to prepare and maintain a Five-Year Leasing Program for leasing federal oil and gas on the Outer Continental Shelf.
Description: Challenge to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ issuance of Nationwide Permit 56 authorizing industrial finfish aquaculture structures in federal waters.
Status: Motion to dismiss granted in part and denied in part. [ 04/17/2023 ]
Description: Lawsuit seeking to bar authorization of new oil and gas drilling activities at the Beta Unit on the Pacific Outer Continental Shelf until the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management reviews and revises development and production plans.
Description: Challenge to Bureau of Ocean Energy Management approvals for the Vineyard Wind offshore wind project off the coasts of Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
Status: Preliminary injunction vacated and action dismissed. [ 04/05/2023 ]
Description: Lawsuit challenging interim estimates for the social cost of greenhouse gases released by the Interagency Working Group on Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases.
Status: District court judgment vacated and case remanded with instructions to dismiss without prejudice. [ 04/13/2021 ]
Description: Challenge to executive order reversing President Obama’s withdrawal of lands in the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans from future oil and gas leasing.