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New York v. Pruitt

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Omnibus response filed by defendants to original complaint and intervenor's complaint. [ 07/31/2018 ]
Description: Action to compel EPA to promulgate emission guidelines for methane from existing sources in the oil and gas sector.

California v. U.S. Bureau of Land Management

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Cal.
Status: Plaintiffs' motions to complete and/or supplement the administrative record granted in part and denied in part. [ 04/02/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to BLM's repeal of 2015 regulations governing hydraulic fracturing on federal and tribal lands.

Argos Properties II, LLC v. City Council for Virginia Beach

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: Va. Cir. Ct.
Status: Challenge to denial of application dismissed. [ 04/24/2019 ]
Description: Developer's lawsuit challenging City of Virginia Beach's denial of application to rezone property for residential development on the grounds that the developer failed to account for sea level rise in its stormwater analysis.

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.

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.

Environmental Defense Fund v. U.S. Department of Transportation

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 12/19/2018 ]
Description: Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking U.S. Department of Transportation officials' calendars and correspondence related to proposed and anticipated actions to roll back greenhouse gas and fuel efficiency standards for vehicles.

Center for Biological Diversity v. Zinke

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 04/12/2018 ]
Description: Action to compel determination on 2013 petition to list the Tinian monarch as endangered or threatened.

Sierra Club v. County of Tulare

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: Cal. Super. Ct.
Status: Petition for peremptory writ of mandate and complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief filed. [ 01/11/2018 ]
Description: Challenge to environmental review for Animal Confinement Facilities Plan, Dairy Feedlot and Dairy Climate Action Plan, and related actions approved by Tulare County in California to streamline approval process for dairies.

California v. EPA

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Cal.
Status: Plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment granted in part and defendants' motion for summary judgment denied. [ 05/06/2019 ]
Description: Action to compel EPA to implement and enforce emission guidelines for existing municipal solid waste landfills.

Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations, Inc. v. Chevron Corp.

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Cal.
Status: Order issued reassigning case to Honorable Vince Chhabria. [ 12/24/2018 ]
Description: Action by a commercial fishing industry trade group to hold fossil fuel companies liable for adverse climate change impacts to the ocean off the coasts of California and Oregonthat resulted in "prolonged closures" of Dungeness crab fisheries.

In re PennEast Pipeline Co.

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: FERC
Status: Rehearing denied. [ 08/10/2018 ]
Description: Request for rehearing of authorization for natural gas pipeline from Pennsylvania to New Jersey and related facilities

The Two Hundred v. California Air Resources Board

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: Cal. Super. Ct.
Status: First amended complaint filed. [ 11/21/2018 ]
Description: Lawsuit alleging that provisions of 2017 scoping plan under the Global Warming Solutions Act are unlawful, unconstitutional, and exacerbate poverty.

Natural Resources Defense Council v. EPA

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: S.D.N.Y.
Status: Memorandum of law filed by plaintiffs in support of motion for summary judgment and motion to expedite. [ 04/08/2019 ]
Description: Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking records related to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's model for assessing the cost and effectiveness of greenhouse gas emission standards.

Sierra Club v. City of Fontana

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: Cal. Super. Ct.
Status: Petition for writ of mandate filed. [ 06/22/2018 ]
Description: Challenge to City of Fontana's approval of the Southwest Fontana Logistics Project, which involves development of two industrial warehouse buildings totaling approximately 1.6 million square feet on 73.3 acres.