16 Cases found
County of Cape May v. United States
Filing Date: 2023
Court/Admin Entity: D.N.J.
Status: Response filed by plaintiffs to Ocean Wind LLC's motion to intervene. [ 11/06/2023 ]
Description: Challenge to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s approval of the Ocean Wind 1 Project, a 161,000-acre offshore wind farm on the Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf.
Louisiana v. Haaland
Filing Date: 2023
Court/Admin Entity: 5th Cir.
Status: Intervenors' appeal dismissed and preliminary injunction amended only to extent of setting new deadline. [ 11/14/2023 ]
Description: Challenge to the U.S. Department of the Interior’s decision to hold Gulf of Mexico Oil and Gas Lease Sale 261.
American Petroleum Institute v. U.S. Department of the Interior
Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Cir.
Status: Abeyance status report filed by the Department of the Interior. [ 06/02/2023 ]
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.
Don’t Cage Our Oceans v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: W.D. Wash.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 11/14/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ issuance of Nationwide Permit 56 authorizing industrial finfish aquaculture structures in federal waters.
Kinsella v. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Cir.
Status: Appeal dismissed. [ 02/23/2023 ]
Description: Challenge to approval of the South Fork offshore wind energy project.
Center for Biological Diversity v. Haaland
Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: C.D. Cal.
Status: Case dismissed without prejudice pursuant to stipulation. [ 11/15/2023 ]
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.
Allco Renewable Energy Ltd. v. Haaland (South Fork Wind)
Responsible Offshore Development Alliance v. U.S. Department of the Interior
Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: D. Mass.
Status: Defendants' and Vineyard Wind's motions for summary judgment granted and plaintiffs' motions for summary judgment denied. [ 10/12/2023 ]
Description: Challenge to Bureau of Ocean Energy Management approvals for the Vineyard Wind offshore wind project off the coasts of Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
American Petroleum Institute v. U.S. Department of the Interior
Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: W.D. La.
Status: Motion to dismiss granted in part and denied in part. [ 11/03/2022 ]
Description: Lawsuit seeking to compel federal defendants to proceeding with onshore and offshore oil and gas lease sales.
Allco Renewable Energy Ltd. v. Haaland (Vineyard Wind)
Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: D. Mass.
Status: Notice of appeal filed by plaintiff. [ 09/05/2023 ]
Description: Lawsuit challenging federal review and approvals for the Vineyard Wind offshore wind project.
Louisiana v. Biden
Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: 5th Cir.
Status: Nationwide preliminary injunction vacated and remanded. [ 08/17/2022 ]
Description: Lawsuit challenging pause on new oil and gas leasing on public lands and in offshore waters.
Louisiana v. Biden
Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: 5th Cir.
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.
Center for Biological Diversity v. Bernhardt
Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: 9th Cir.
Status: Approval of project vacated and action remanded. [ 12/07/2020 ]
Description: Challenge to federal actions authorizing oil and gas development project in the Beaufort Sea offshore of Alaska.
League of Conservation Voters v. Trump
Filing Date: 2017
Court/Admin Entity: 9th Cir.
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.
Shell Offshore, Inc. v. Greenpeace, Inc.
Filing Date: 2012
Court/Admin Entity: 9th Cir.
Status: Petition for rehearing en banc denied. [ 07/10/2013 ]
Description: Oil company lawsuit seeking to bar environmental activists from occupying its drilling ship bound for Arctic.