Status: Verified petition for writ of mandate and complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief filed. [ 09/28/2020 ]
Description: Challenge to California Air Resources Board’s adoption of amended emission control measures for ocean-going vessels at berth in California ports.
Status: Dismissal of complaint affirmed. [ 11/30/2021 ]
Description: Lawsuit to compel the Washington attorney general to disclose correspondence with climate activists who allegedly "campaigned for attorneys general to pursue opponents of their preferred policies, and to assist a private tort litigation campaign."
Status: Petition for writ of mandate filed. [ 07/30/2020 ]
Description: Challenge to California's Advanced Clean Truck Regulation, which requires an increasing percentage of medium- and heavy-duty zero-emissions vehicles.
Description: Lawsuit to compel disclosure of the New Mexico Attorney General's communications and agreements with other states' attorneys general offices.
Status: Appellate court affirmed district court's determination that emails were properly withheld. [ 05/08/2023 ]
Description: Lawsuit to compel disclosure of records related to the relationship between the Minnesota Attorney General and an outside group that funds "special attorneys general" to advance progressive climate change positions.
Status: Writ for administrative mandated granted in part and denied in part, causes of action for declaratory relief denied, and remaining causes of action transferred for assignment. [ 07/02/2020 ]
Description: Challenge by owner and operator of a Los Angeles County landfill to permit conditions.
Description: Lawsuit seeking to compel disclosure of correspondence and other records of the Michigan Department of Attorney General that allegedly concerned the Department's "involvement with outside pressure groups and plaintiff’s tort attorneys.”
Description: Lawsuit filed by the District of Columbia against oil and gas companies for allegedly violating the Consumer Protection Procedures Act by misleading consumers about “the central role their products play in causing climate change.”
Status: Stay lifted and case remanded to state court. [ 01/24/2024 ]
Description: Action brought by Minnesota against members of the fossil fuel industry for allegedly causing climate change harms by misleading the public by downplaying the threat of climate change and the role of their products in causing climate change.
Status: Petition for permission to appeal denied. [ 04/23/2021 ]
Description: Lawsuit asserting that Exxon Mobil Corporation's representations regarding its investment in clean energy violated D.C. Consumer Protection Procedures Act.
Status: Opening brief filed by petitioner. [ 04/10/2020 ]
Description: Challenge to proposed amendments to California's greenhouse gas emissions standards for medium- and heavy-duty engines and vehicles and to the Tractor-Trailer Greenhouse Gas Regulation.
Status: Judgments of Court of Appeals and Kansas Corporation Commission reversed and matter remanded to the Commission. [ 04/03/2020 ]
Description: Challenge to Kansas Corporation Commission's approval of rate increase that charged residential customers with distributed renewable energy sources more for electricity.