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Center for Biological Diversity v. Ross

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 01/18/2018 ]
Description: Lawsuit alleging that authorization and management of lobster fishery violated federal law due to impacts on North American right whales.

Natural Resources Defense Council v. Wheeler

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Cir.
Status: Opening brief filed by NRDC. [ 11/07/2018 ]
Description: Challenge to EPA's decision to suspend the 2015 final rule prohibiting or restricting certain uses of HFCs under Clean Air Act's safe alternatives policy.

Lighthouse Resources Inc. v. Inslee

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: W.D. Wash.
Status: Order issued denying without prejudice plaintiffs' motion to modify scheduling order. [ 10/23/2018 ]
Description: Action against Washington State officials for allegedly taking unlawful actions to block coal export terminal.

California v. EPA

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Cir.
Status: Order issued referring motions to dismiss to the merits panel. [ 11/21/2018 ]
Description: Challenges to EPA determination to withdraw its Mid-Term Evaluation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Model Year 2022-2025 Light-Duty Vehicles because the standards appeared to be too stringent.

Sierra Club v. U.S. Department of Interior

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Cal.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 02/06/2018 ]
Description: Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking disclosure of external communications of Department of the Interior officials.

Western Watersheds Project v. Zinke

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: D. Idaho
Status: Motion for preliminary injunction granted. [ 09/21/2018 ]
Description: Challenge to sale of oil and gas leases within and affecting sage-grouse habitat and to related Bureau of Land Management guidance.

Center for Biological Diversity v. Zinke

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: D. Alaska
Status: Complaint filed. [ 03/08/2018 ]
Description: Lawsuit challenging the determination that the listing of the Pacific walrus as endangered or threatened was not warranted.

Friends of the River v. Delta Stewardship Council

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: Cal. Super. Ct.
Status: Verified petition for writ of mandate and complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief filed. [ 05/25/2018 ]
Description: Challenge to amendments to the Delta Plan for long-term management of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

Sierra Club v. County of San Diego

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: Cal. Super. Ct.
Status: Petition for writ of mandate and complaint for declaratory relief filed. [ 08/23/2018 ]
Description: Challenge to San Diego County's approval of residential developments, allegedly without complying with requirements for enforceable measures to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.

People of the State of New York v. Exxon Mobil Corporation

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: N.Y. Sup. Ct.
Status: Preliminary conference order issued. [ 11/15/2018 ]
Description: Action alleging fraudulent scheme by Exxon Mobil Corporation to deceive investors about the company's management of risks posed by climate change regulation.

King County v. BP p.l.c.

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: W.D. Wash.
Status: Order issued granting partially unopposed motion to stay proceedings. [ 10/17/2018 ]
Description: Public nuisance and trespass action brought by King County in Washington State against fossil fuel companies seeking funding of climate change adaptation program.

Gulf Restoration Network v. Zinke

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Motion to intervene in support of defendants filed by Chevron U.S.A. Inc. [ 09/25/2018 ]
Description: Action challenging federal government's decisions to hold offshore oil and gas lease sales.

Aji P. v. State of Washington

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: Wash. Super. Ct.
Status: Opinion and order issued granting defendants' motion for judgment on the pleadings. [ 08/14/2018 ]
Description: Action by young people under 18 years of age claiming that the State of Washington and state agencies and officials violated plaintiffs' rights by creating and maintaining fossil fuel-based transportation and energy systems.