Principal Law:

Supremacy Clause

22 Cases found

Wheelabrator Baltimore, L.P. v. Mayor & City Council of Baltimore

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: 4th Cir.
Status: Appeals dismissed upon consideration of stipulated motion to voluntarily dismiss. [ 11/04/2020 ]
Description: Challenge by operators of waste-to-energy facility and hospital/medical/infectious waste incineration facility to the Baltimore Clean Air Act.

County of Butte v. Department of Water Resources

Filing Date: 2008
Court/Admin Entity: Cal. Ct. App.
Status: Appeal dismissed with directions to trial court to vacate its judgment and dismiss the action for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. [ 09/05/2019 ]
Description: Lawsuit alleging failure to consider the environmental effects of climate change on the operation of the Oroville Dam and related facilities.

Lighthouse Resources Inc. v. Inslee

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: 9th Cir.
Status: Joint reply brief filed by appellants. [ 02/19/2020 ]
Description: Action against Washington State officials for allegedly taking unlawful actions to block coal export terminal.

Portland Pipe Line Corp. v. City of South Portland

Filing Date: 2015
Court/Admin Entity: 1st Cir.
Status: Questions concerning state law preemption certified to Maine Law Court. [ 01/10/2020 ]
Description: Pipeline operator's challenge to coastal city's local law prohibiting the loading of oil on tankers.

Millennium Pipeline Co. v. Seggos

Filing Date: 2017
Court/Admin Entity: N.D.N.Y.
Status: Motion for preliminary injunction granted and motion to dismiss denied. [ 12/13/2017 ]
Description: Action seeking declaratory judgment that federal law preempted state environmental permitting requirements for gas pipeline project and also seeking to enjoin enforcement of state permitting requirements to interfere with project.

City of Oakland v. BP p.l.c.

Filing Date: 2017
Court/Admin Entity: U.S.
Status: Petition for writ of certiorari filed by defendants. [ 01/08/2021 ]
Description: Public nuisance actions brought by City of Oakland and City of San Francisco against fossil fuel companies.

County of San Mateo v. Chevron Corp.

Filing Date: 2017
Court/Admin Entity: U.S.
Status: Petition for writ of certiorari filed. [ 12/30/2020 ]
Description: Action by California counties and cities seeking damages and other relief from fossil fuel companies for sea level rise.

Allco Finance Ltd. v. Klee

Filing Date: 2015
Court/Admin Entity: U.S.
Status: Certiorari denied. [ 01/22/2018 ]
Description: Challenge by solar energy developer to Connecticut renewable energy programs.

Electric Power Supply Association v. Star

Filing Date: 2017
Court/Admin Entity: U.S.
Status: Certiorari denied. [ 04/15/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to Illinois law that created a Zero Emissions Credit program allegedly to support uneconomic nuclear plants.

American Petroleum Institute v. Cooper

Filing Date: 2008
Court/Admin Entity: E.D.N.C.
Status: Order issued granting defendants' motion for summary judgment. [ 12/16/2011 ]
Description: Challenge to state law requiring refineries to sell wholesalers gas unblended with ethanol.

Rocky Mountain Farmers Union v. Corey

Filing Date: 2009
Court/Admin Entity: 9th Cir.
Status: Letter from U.S. Supreme Court dated April 8, 2019 filed. [ 04/12/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard on constitutional grounds.

Minnesota Automobile Dealers Association v. Stine

Filing Date: 2015
Court/Admin Entity: D. Minn.
Status: Memorandum opinion and order issued. [ 09/29/2016 ]
Description: Challenge to Minnesota's requirement that diesel fuel sold in the state contain a certain percentage of biodiesel.

Wyoming v. United States Department of Interior

Filing Date: 2016
Court/Admin Entity: D. Wyo.
Status: Waste Prevention Rule vacated except with respect to specified severable provisions. [ 10/08/2020 ]
Description: Challenge to United States Bureau of Land Management’s final rule concerning methane emissions from oil and gas operations on federal and tribal lands.

Coalition for Competitive Electricity v. Zibelman

Filing Date: 2016
Court/Admin Entity: U.S.
Status: Certiorari denied. [ 04/15/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to component of New York Clean Energy Standard that provided payments to certain nuclear facilities providing "zero-emission" power.

Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Healey

Filing Date: 2016
Court/Admin Entity: 2d Cir.
Status: Letter filed on behalf of Exxon Mobil Corporation to update court about recent developments in Massachusetts and New York litigation. [ 01/24/2020 ]
Description: Action by Exxon Mobil Corporation to bar enforcement of civil investigative demand issued by Massachusetts attorney general and subpoena issued by New York attorney general.