42 Cases found
Northwest Environmental Defense Center v. Federal Emergency Management Agency
Filing Date: 2023
Court/Admin Entity: D. Or.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 09/14/2023 ]
Description: Lawsuit alleging that the continuing operation of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) in Oregon violated the Endangered Species Act.
South Carolina Coastal Conservation League v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: D.S.C.
Status: Motion to dismiss granted in part and denied in part. [ 03/07/2023 ]
Description: Challenge to the issuance of a Clean Water Act permit authorizing the filling of wetlands for construction of a mixed-use residential and commercial development in South Carolina.
In re Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: Md. Cir. Ct.
Status: Maryland Department of the Environment agreed to reopen permit for public comment. [ 06/13/2023 ]
Description: Challenge to the Maryland Department of the Environment’s final Industrial Stormwater General Permit.
Shafer v. Sanchez
Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: S.D. Tex.
Status: Motion for preliminary and permanent injunctions denied. [ 01/17/2023 ]
Description: Texas state prison inmate's lawsuit alleging that exposure to excessive heat and humidty and rodent and roach infestations constituted unsafe and unhealthy conditions of confinement in violation of the Eighth Amendment.
Housatonic River Initiative v. EPA
Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: 1st Cir.
Status: Petition for review denied. [ 07/25/2023 ]
Description: Petition for review of corrective action permit imposing remediation requirements for polychlorinated biphenyls in the Housatonic River in Massachusetts and Connecticut that raised concerns regarding future climate change effects at disposal sites.
GreenRoots, Inc. v. Energy Facilities Siting Board
Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: Mass.
Status: Decision of the board affirmed. [ 11/04/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to the approval of a petition to move a proposed electric substation's boundaries from a previously approved location.
Friends of Grays Harbor v. State
Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: Wash. Ct. App.
Status: Approval of the Grays Harbor County Shoreline Master Program update affirmed. [ 12/12/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to the Shorelines Hearing Board's approval of the Grays Harbor County Shoreline Master Program (SMP) update.
New York v. Raimondo
Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: 2d Cir.
Status: Judgment of district court for the defendants affirmed. [ 10/13/2023 ]
Description: Challenge to allocation of annual quota for summer flounder.
Protect Our Parks, Inc. v. Buttigieg
Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: 7th Cir.
Status: Denial of motion for preliminary injunction affirmed. [ 07/01/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to federal approvals for the construction of the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park in Chicago.
Conservation Law Foundation v. Shell Oil Co.
Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: D. Conn.
Status: Defendants' motion for partial summary judgment denied. [ 10/19/2023 ]
Description: Citizen suit alleging failures to prepare a bulk storage and fuel terminal in New Haven, Connecticut for the effects of climate change.
Conservation Law Foundation v. Gulf Oil LP
Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: D. Conn.
Status: Amended complaint filed. [ 06/26/2023 ]
Description: Citizen suit alleging failures to prepare a bulk storage and fuel terminal in New Haven, Connecticut for the effects of climate change.
Clark v. Haaland
Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: D.N.M.
Status: Motions to dismiss granted. [ 09/28/2022 ]
Description: Lawsuit seeking seeking declarations regarding the application of federal law to certain reclamation and irrigation projects.
Animal Legal Defense Fund v. Foster Poultry Farms
Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: Cal. Super. Ct.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 09/02/2020 ]
Description: Lawsuit alleging that a chicken slaughterhouse’s use of millions of gallons of groundwater was unreasonable in violation of Article X, Section 2, of the California Constitution.
Harrison County v. Mississippi River Commission
Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: 5th Cir.
Status: Summary judgment for Corps of Engineers on NEPA claim affirmed. [ 03/27/2023 ]
Description: Lawsuit asserting that U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Mississippi River Commission failed to consider and mitigate impacts of opening of spillway on Mississippi River on coastal communities and resources.
Casa Mira Homeowners Association v. California Coastal Commission
Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: Cal. Super. Ct.
Status: Petition and complaint filed. [ 12/13/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to the California Coastal Commission's approval of only a portion of a seawall intended to protect the California Coastal Trail, a sewer line, 10 townhomes, and three apartments.
Watson v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: S.D. Miss.
Status: Motion to dismiss granted. [ 09/14/2021 ]
Description: Lawsuit alleging that opening of spillway on Mississippi occurred without sufficient consideration of environmental impacts to the Mississippi Sound and Mississippi Public Trust.
Citizens Committee to Complete the Refuge v. City of Newark
Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: Cal. Ct. App.
Status: Trial court's denial of writ petition affirmed. [ 12/29/2021 ]
Description: Lawsuit challenging environmental review for shoreline residential development.
York County v. Rambo
Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Cal.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 02/22/2019 ]
Description: Federal securities class action brought by bond investors in PG&E in connection with California wildfires in 2017 and 2018.
Public Watchdogs v. Southern California Edison Co.
Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: U.S.
Status: Certiorari denied. [ 12/06/2021 ]
Description: Challenge to decommissioning plan for nuclear generating station in California based in part on climate change risks.