Status: Summary judgment motion filed by plaintiffs. [ 08/30/2017 ]
Description: Lawsuit alleging that EPA violated the Clean Water Act by failing to issue a total maximum daily load (TMDL) for temperature pollution in the Columbia and Snake Rivers in Oregon and Washington.
Description: Challenge to President Trump's executive order on “Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs” as well as interim guidance for the order’s implementation.
Description: Action to compel a response by EPA to a Freedom of Information Act request regarding remarks about climate change made by EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt in a televised interview.
Description: Defamation action brought by coal companies and coal executive for statements made on the television show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
Status: Letter sent notifying Sierra Club that no violation of Scientific Integrity Policy was found (letter is not dated). [ 08/01/2017 ]
Description: Complaint to EPA inspector general alleging that EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's statements violated the agency's Scientific Integrity Policy.
Description: Challenge to Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act of 1995 preemption of local prohibitions on rail transportation of fossil fuels.
Status: Motion to dismiss filed by intervenor American Petroleum Institute. [ 07/28/2017 ]
Description: Challenge to executive order reversing President Obama’s withdrawal of lands in the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans from future oil and gas leasing.
Status: Notice of intent to sue submitted to EPA. [ 02/23/2017 ]
Description: Threatened legal action against EPA for failing to triennially report on the environmental and resource conservation impacts of the Renewable Fuel Standard program and to complete "anti-backsliding" study.