Status: Petition for declaratory judgment filed. [ 02/28/2023 ]
Description: Challenge to the Washington State Building Code Council’s amendments of the State Energy Code to ban or restrict the use of natural gas appliances in commercial and residential buildings and other State Building Code Council rules.
Status: Orders issued granting motion for reconsideration and amending opinion holding rule invalid. [ 08/20/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to an instream flow rule for the Spokane River, which petitioners alleged was experiencing a "low flow trend" due to climate change and other factors.
Description: Lawsuit challenging Washington Department of Ecology's denial of water quality certification for coal export terminal and alleging denial was based on improper grounds.
Status: Trial court ruling that rule exceeded Ecology’s authority affirmed but remedy modified to invalidate rule only to the extent it regulated nonemitters via an emission standard. [ 01/16/2020 ]
Description: Challenge by business and trade groups to greenhouse gas regulations adopted by the Washington Department of Ecology.