Status: Stipulation of dismissal filed. [ 08/31/2010 ]
Description: Lawsuit alleging failure to comply with NEPA and the Endangered Species Act when allocating tax credits for experimental coal-based energy projects and asking for revocation of credits pending NEPA review, including review of carbon emissions.
Description: Challenge to listing of polar bear as threatened species under the Endangered Species Act and to Section 4(d) rule establishing measures to protect polar bears.
Description: Challenge to proposed U.S. Forest Service plan to remove timber, including on grounds that environmental assessment did not look at proposed effects of climate change.
Status: Memorandum decision and order issued denying motion for partial dismissal or stay. [ 11/07/2014 ]
Description: Challenge to environmental impact statements for resource management plans in six states, including for failure to take into account climate change.
Status: Parties filed joint stipulation of dismissal without prejudice. [ 03/20/2008 ]
Description: Action to bar the Rural Utilities Service from issuing loans for the construction of new coal-fired power plant pending compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act and National Historic Preservation Act.
Status: Affirmation of district court's decision that North Slope failed to show that MMS acted arbitrarily or capriciously. [ 08/27/2009 ]
Description: Challenge to federal government’s decision not to supplement EIS in connection with its plan to sell oil and gas leases in the Beaufort Sea.