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Center for Biological Diversity v. Ross

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment granted. [ 04/09/2020 ]
Description: Lawsuit alleging that authorization and management of lobster fishery violated federal law due to impacts on North American right whales.

Western Watersheds Project v. Zinke

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: D. Idaho
Status: Plaintiff's motion for partial summary judgment granted and federal defendants' and defendant-intervenors' motions for partial summary judgment denied. [ 02/27/2020 ]
Description: Challenge to sale of oil and gas leases within and affecting sage-grouse habitat and to related Bureau of Land Management guidance.

Smith v. Keurig Green Mountain, Inc.

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: Cal. Super. Ct.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 09/28/2018 ]
Description: Class action lawsuit alleging that defendant misrepresented the recyclability of single-use "coffee pods," which the complaint alleged have numerous negative effects, including contributing to methane emissions.

United States v. Hercules, LLC

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: S.D. Ga.
Status: Motion to enter consent decree granted. [ 11/27/2019 ]
Description: Action seeking to hold chemical manufacturer liable for the costs of remediating a Superfund site located on the Georgia coast.

Gulf Restoration Network v. Zinke

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Cir.
Status: Opening brief filed by appellants. [ 04/27/2021 ]
Description: Action challenging federal government's decisions to hold offshore oil and gas lease sales.

Center for Biological Diversity v. Bernhardt

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: 9th Cir.
Status: Approval of project vacated and action remanded. [ 12/07/2020 ]
Description: Challenge to federal actions authorizing oil and gas development project in the Beaufort Sea offshore of Alaska.

New York v. EPA

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Joint status report filed. [ 07/28/2021 ]
Description: Action to compel EPA to promulgate emission guidelines for methane from existing sources in the oil and gas sector.

Norwalk Harbor Keeper v. U.S. Department of Transportation

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: D. Conn.
Status: Defendants' motions for summary judgment granted. [ 07/08/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to environmental review for railroad bridge replacement project in Norwalk, Connecticut, alleging failure to conduct adequate resiliency analysis.

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

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: Va. Cir. Ct.
Status: Petition dismissed with prejudice. [ 05/24/2019 ]
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.

E&B Natural Resources Management Corp. v. County of Alameda

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Cal.
Status: Third joint case management statement filed. [ 07/20/2020 ]
Description: Lawsuit challenging Alameda County’s decision not to renew conditional use permits for continued operation of an oil extraction and production facility in the City of Livermore.

Sierra Club v. U.S. Department of Interior

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Cal.
Status: First amended complaint filed. [ 03/26/2018 ]
Description: Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking disclosure of external communications of Department of the Interior officials.

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.

Center for Biological Diversity v. Tennessee Valley Authority

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Ala.
Status: TVA motion for judgment on the administrative record granted and case dismissed without prejudice. [ 09/30/2020 ]
Description: Challenge to Tennessee Valley Authority's changes to rate structure, which plaintiffs alleged would discourage investment in renewable energy and energy efficiency.