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Texas v. EPA

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Cir.
Status: Motions for leave to intervene granted. [ 04/20/2022 ]
Description: Challenges to EPA’s December 2021 promulgation of “Revised 2023 and Later Model Year Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards.”

Animal Legal Defense Fund v. Azar

Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Cal.
Status: Motions to dismiss denied. [ 02/23/2021 ]
Description: Challenge to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's approval of a drug intended to reduce the amount of ammonia gas released from the waste produced by cows raised for beef.

California v. Regan

Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Cir.
Status: Motion filed by all petitioners for voluntary dismissal. [ 07/29/2021 ]
Description: Challenge to EPA amendments to the 2012 and 2016 new source performance standards for the oil and gas sector.

Environmental Defense Fund v. Wheeler

Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Cir.
Status: EPA filed status report recommending cases continue to be held in abeyance pending completion of review of challenged rulemaking. [ 02/16/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to technical amendments based on reconsideration of the 2016 new source performance standards for the oil and gas sector.

Government Accountability & Oversight, P.C. v. Regents of the University of California

Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: Cal. Super. Ct.
Status: Petition denied in part and granted in part and respondent directed to provide supplemental declaration and log information. [ 01/20/2022 ]
Description: Lawsuit asserting that the University of California failed to comply with the California Public Records Act in response to requests for law professors' correspondence with the Massachusetts attorney general's office and certain donors.

Gallaher v. Town of Windsor

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: Cal. Super. Ct.
Status: Reach code rescinded by Town Council as condition of settlement. [ 01/06/2021 ]
Description: Challenge to Town's adoption of a "reach code" that bans natural gas or propane plumbing in new low-rise residential construction.

American Lung Association v. EPA

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: U.S.
Status: Oral argument held. [ 02/28/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to final rule repealing the Clean Power Plan and replacing it with the Affordable Clean Energy rule.

California v. Chao

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Joint status report filed. [ 05/26/2022 ]
Description: Lawsuit challenging the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's final rule preempting state regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from vehicles.

Environmental Defense Fund v. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Cir.
Status: Motion for voluntary dismissal without prejudice granted. [ 11/22/2019 ]
Description: Protective petition for review filed to challenge National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's rule withdrawing California’s waiver for its greenhouse gas and zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) program and preempting state programs.

Union of Concerned Scientists v. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Cir.
Status: Joint motion to govern further proceedings filed. [ 04/14/2022 ]
Description: Proceedings challenging the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's rule preempting state limits on tailpipe greenhouse gas emissions and zero-emission vehicle mandates and EPA's withdrawal of California's waiver.

United States v. California

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: 9th Cir.
Status: Appeal voluntarily dismissed. [ 04/22/2021 ]
Description: Federal government's lawsuit challenging California's greenhouse gas emissions cap-and-trade agreement with the provincial government of Quebec, Canada.

Environmental Defense Fund v. EPA

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Cir.
Status: Motion for voluntary vacatur and remand granted. [ 04/05/2021 ]
Description: Challenges to EPA’s final rule extending certain implementation deadlines for the 2016 emission guidelines for municipal solid waste landfills.

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.

Natural Resources Defense Council v. EPA

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: S.D.N.Y.
Status: Plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment granted, defendant’s cross-motion for summary judgment denied, and defendant ordered to produce the OMEGA v.1.4.59 core model to plaintiffs by June 7, 2020. [ 05/28/2020 ]
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.

Southern Environmental Law Center v. EPA

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: W.D. Va.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 03/15/2018 ]
Description: Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking EPA communications with Heartland Institute regarding potential red team/blue team climate science exercise and other matters.