Description: Challenge to the Washington State Building Code Council’s amendments of the State Energy Code to ban or restrict the use of natural gas appliances in commercial and residential buildings and other State Building Code Council rules.
Description: Challenge to a New York City ordinance that prohibits combustion equipment with carbon dioxide emission levels over a certain threshold in new buildings.
Status: Court issued order regarding format of oral argument. [ 08/29/2023 ]
Description: Challenges to EPA’s December 2021 promulgation of “Revised 2023 and Later Model Year Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards.”
Status: Stipulation of voluntary dismissal filed. [ 01/30/2024 ]
Description: Lawsuit alleging that the U.S. Postal Service failed to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act in connection with the Next Generation Delivery Vehicles program to replace its fleet.
Description: Lawsuit to compel disclosure of information related to the Joint Task Force on Energy Security created by the United States and European Union after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Status: Order issued certifying questions to the Hawai'i Supreme Court. [ 09/05/2023 ]
Description: Fossil fuel company's lawsuit against insurer for breaching its obligations to defend and indemnify the company in underlying climate change cases brought by Honolulu and Maui.
Status: District court's grant of summary judgment to NMFS reversed and district court directed to enter summary judgment for the lobstermen on two counts and to vacate the biological opinion as applied to the lobster and Jonah crab fisheries and to remand the phase one rule to NMFS. [ 06/16/2023 ]
Description: Challenge by lobstering associations, a lobstering union, and Maine to the biological opinion for federal lobster fisheries as too restrictive.
Status: U.S. Department of Commerce’s remand redetermination in the 2018 investigation of the countervailing duty order covering forged steel fluid end blocks from Germany sustained in part and remanded in part. [ 05/09/2023 ]
Description: German company's challenge to the Department of Commerce's determinations that German government regulatory programs provided countervailing subsidies to steel company.
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.
Description: Federal government's lawsuit challenging California's greenhouse gas emissions cap-and-trade agreement with the
provincial government of Quebec, Canada.
Description: State of Rhode Island lawsuit seeking to hold fossil fuel companies liable for causing climate change impacts that adversely affect Rhode Island and jeopardize State-owned or -operated facilities, real property, and other assets.
Status: Defendants' cross-motion for summary judgment granted and case dismissed for lack of jurisdiction. [ 12/20/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to President Trump's executive order on “Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs” as well as interim guidance for the order’s implementation.
Status: Appeal of dismissal withdrawn. [ 11/10/2019 ]
Description: Defamation action brought by coal companies and coal executive for statements made on the television show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.