Description: Challenge to the U.S. Maritime Administration’s record of decision for the licensing of the Sea Port Oil Terminal and the final environmental impact statement for the project.
Status: Response filed by plaintiffs to Ocean Wind LLC's motion to intervene. [ 11/06/2023 ]
Description: Challenge to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s approval of the Ocean Wind 1 Project, a 161,000-acre offshore wind farm on the Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf.
Status: Defendants' motion to transfer venue granted. [ 03/12/2024 ]
Description: Lawsuit alleging that FEMA and other defendants prepared flawed environmental assessments of the impacts of using federal disaster aid to repair, reconstruct, and relocate Puerto Rico’s fossil fuel-based electricity infrastructure after hurricanes.
Status: Plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment granted in part and denied in part, defendants' motion for partial summary judgment denied, and National Park Service actions vacated. [ 12/18/2023 ]
Description: Challenge to the National Park Service’s release of land-use restrictions to facilitate the development of a proposed waterpark, hotel, and retail development in Miami-Dade County.
Description: Challenge to the National Marine Fisheries Service's adoption of annual catch limits for groundfish fisheries of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands.
Description: Challenge to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permit for a confined aquatic disposal (CAD) facility in Newport Harbor in California for disposal of dredged sediment deemed unsuitable for open ocean disposal.
Status: Reply brief filed by petitioners. [ 03/22/2024 ]
Description: Challenge to issuance of a certificate of public convenience and necessity for construction and operation of two interstate natural gas pipelines in Louisiana.
Status: Reply brief filed by Center for Biological Diversity et al. [ 01/22/2024 ]
Description: Challenge to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s 2023 approval of the Willow Master Development Plan in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska.
Description: Lawsuit challenging the Federal Emergency Management Agency's adoption of a new methodology for calculating flood insurance rates in the National Flood Insurance Program.
Status: Judgment entered in favor of the plaintiffs and against the defendants in the amount of $70,000. [ 06/27/2023 ]
Description: Challenge to environmental review of Houston South Vegetation Management and Restoration Project in the Hoosier National Forest; review was conducted on remand from earlier decision of the court.
Description: Challenge to the U.S. Forest Service’s authorization of a logging project on public lands in the Colville National Forest’s Kettle Range, which is one of the last-remaining areas still occupied by the Canada lynx in the lower 48 states.