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Komor v. United States

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: D. Ariz.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 02/14/2022 ]
Description: Action by pro se plaintiff (1) alleging federal defendants violated his fundamental constitutional rights by causing or contributing to climate change and (2) seeking to compel defendants to undertake actions to remove carbon from the atmosphere.

Cottonwood Environmental Law Center v. Erickson

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: D. Mont.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 02/04/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to revised Custer Gallatin National Forest Plan, including for failure to take a hard look at the impacts of logging when combined with climate change.

CleanAirNow v. DeJoy

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Cal.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 04/28/2022 ]
Description: Lawsuit alleging that the U.S. Postal Service failed to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act in connection with the Next Generation Delivery Vehicles program to replace its fleet.

West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project v. Port of Oakland

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: Cal. Super. Ct.
Status: Verified petition for writ of mandate and complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief filed. [ 03/24/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to the Port of Oakland’s approval of the Eagle Rock Aggregates Oakland Terminal Project and the environmental review of the project.

Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. DeJoy

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: S.D.N.Y.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 04/28/2022 ]
Description: Lawsuit alleging that the U.S. Postal Service failed to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act in connection with the Next Generation Delivery Vehicles program to replace its fleet.

Center for Biological Diversity v. Haaland

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: C.D. Cal.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 01/26/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to the alleged failure of federal agencies to comply with the Endangered Species Act and Administrative Procedure Act in connection with the authorization and management of offshore oil and gas activities in federal waters off California.

California v. U.S. Postal Service

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Cal.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 04/28/2022 ]
Description: Lawsuit alleging that the U.S. Postal Service failed to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act in connection with the Next Generation Delivery Vehicles program to replace its fleet.

Schilling v. Pelosi

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 01/24/2022 ]
Description: Radio host's lawsuit to compel release of congressional records related to the House Oversight and Reform Committee’s investigation into alleged climate change misinformation campaign involving fossil fuel companies.

Growth Energy v. Regan

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Consent decree so-ordered. [ 04/22/2022 ]
Description: Lawsuit alleging that EPA failed to meet deadlines for determining renewable fuel obligations for the 2021 and 2022 calendar years.

EmpowerNJ v. Department of Environmental Protection

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: N.J. Super. Ct. App. Div.
Status: Notice of appeal filed. [ 01/20/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to denial of rulemaking petition requesting that the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection adopt rules setting a 2030 greenhouse gas emissions reduction target 50% below 2005 levels and taking other actions.

Friends of the Earth v. Council on Environmental Quality

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 04/25/2022 ]
Description: Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking information related to the preparation of a U.S. Department of the Interior report on federal oil and gas leasing, including the programs' impacts on climate change.

Resource Renewal Institute v. National Park Service

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Cal.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 01/10/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to the National Park Service’s adoption of a General Management Plan amendment that expanded lands open to beef and dairy ranching within Point Reyes National Seashore and Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

Zinderman v. City of Los Angeles

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: Cal. Super. Ct.
Status: Petition for writ of mandate and for administrative mandamus filed. [ 02/25/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to the City of Los Angeles's approvals of a project that included eldercare and daycare facilities.

Growth Energy v. Regan

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 04/29/2022 ]
Description: Lawsuit to compel EPA to promulgate renewable fuel obligations for 2023.

Center for Biological Diversity v. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: D. Ariz.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 04/21/2022 ]
Description: Lawsuit alleging that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had failed to make a mandatory finding of whether the Suckley’s cuckoo bumblebee should be listed as endangered or threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

Fresh Air for the Eastside, Inc. v. New York

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: N.Y. Sup. Ct.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 01/28/2022 ]
Description: Lawsuit alleging that the operation of a landfill violated the rights of a local environmental group's members to clean air and a healthy environment under the New York Constitution’s Environmental Rights Amendment.