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Ecological Rights Foundation v. EPA

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Cal.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 01/18/2018 ]
Description: Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking EPA disclosure of directives to EPA employees since beginning of Trump administration concerning public communications about EPA work and review of EPA work by political appointees.

Rocky Mountain Wild v. Zinke

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: D. Colo.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 09/27/2018 ]
Description: Challenge to 121 oil and gas leases in and around the Uinta Basin in northwestern Colorado and northeastern Utah.

Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. Zinke

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: D. Alaska
Status: Plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment denied and federal defendants' and intervenor-defendant's cross-motions for summary judgment granted. [ 12/06/2018 ]
Description: Challenge to oil and gas lease sales in National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska.

de Mejias v. Malloy

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: D. Conn.
Status: Defendants' motion for summary judgment granted and plaintiffs' federal claims dismissed with prejudice. [ 10/25/2018 ]
Description: Challenge to Connecticut's transfer of funds collected from ratepayers and held by utilities for clean energy and energy efficiency purposes to Connecticut's General Fund.

Willmeng v. City of Thornton

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: D. Colo.
Status: Stipulation filed. [ 10/20/2018 ]
Description: First Amendment lawsuit brought by two Colorado residents against Colorado city and its mayor pro tem for blocking their comments about hydraulic fracturing.

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.

Barnes v. Edison International

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: C.D. Cal.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 11/16/2018 ]
Description: Securities class action against utility company in Southern California alleging misrepresentations regarding exposure to wildfire risk.

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.

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.

California v. Zinke

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Cal.
Status: Western Energy Alliance and Independent Petroleum Association of America's unopposed motion to intervene granted. [ 11/08/2018 ]
Description: Challenge to BLM's repeal of key provisions of the 2016 Waste Prevention Rule for oil and gas development on public and tribal lands.

Friends of Animals v. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: D. Colo.
Status: Stipulated settlement agreement filed. [ 12/21/2018 ]
Description: Lawsuit to compel the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to designate critical habitat for the western distinct population segment of the yellow-billed cuckoo.

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility v. EPA

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 02/06/2018 ]
Description: Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking to compel EPA to disclose records regarding policies put in place and other measures taken after EPA cancelled scientists' and consultant's participation in Rhode Island climate change conference.

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.

Center for Biological Diversity v. Zinke

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: D. Alaska
Status: Motion to compel denied in part and granted in part. [ 11/16/2018 ]
Description: Lawsuit challenging the determination that the listing of the Pacific walrus as endangered or threatened was not warranted.

Leach v. Reagan

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: Ariz.
Status: Plaintiffs' appeal denied and trial court judgment affirmed. [ 08/29/2018 ]
Description: Challenge to constitutional amendment initiative that would required 50% of all electricity sales to come from renewable energy.

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.