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Texas v. EPA

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Cir.
Status: Brief filed by Constitutional Accountability Center as amicus curiae in support of respondents. [ 03/03/2023 ]
Description: Challenges to EPA’s December 2021 promulgation of “Revised 2023 and Later Model Year Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards.”

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.

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. [ 06/16/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to technical amendments based on reconsideration of the 2016 new source performance standards for the oil and gas sector.

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.

West Virginia v. EPA

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: U.S.
Status: D.C. Circuit judgment reversed and cases remanded. [ 06/30/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to final rule repealing the Clean Power Plan and replacing it with the Affordable Clean Energy rule.

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.

Center for Biological Diversity v. Haaland

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Cal.
Status: Amended order issued granting motion to remand without vacatur. [ 11/16/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to amendments to the Endangered Species Act regulations.

California v. Chao

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Notice of voluntary dismissal without prejudice filed by state plaintiffs. [ 08/29/2022 ]
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.

Sierra Club v. U.S. Department of Energy

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Cal.
Status: Motion to compel denied parties ordered to meet and confer in person. [ 05/02/2019 ]
Description: Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking correspondence and other documents related to the U.S. Department of Energy's alleged efforts to bail out the coal and nuclear industries.