Description: Challenge to FERC’s authorization of a 32-mile pipeline and appurtenant facilities that would provide gas transportation service to the Tennessee Valley Authority to support a new gas-fired power plant.
Description: Developer's challenge to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s authorization for natural gas compression facilities in Idaho, Washington, and Oregon to enable expansion of pipeline system transportation capacity.
Description: Environmental groups' challenge to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s authorization for natural gas compression facilities in Idaho, Washington, and Oregon to enable expansion of pipeline system transportation capacity.
Status: Memorandum of law filed in support of defendants' motion for abstention. [ 10/02/2023 ]
Description: Pipeline developer lawsuit against protesters who allegedly blocked a roadway or attached themselves to equipment to block work on pipeline project.
Status: Joint stipulation for dismissal without prejudice filed. [ 10/20/2023 ]
Description: Lawsuit challenging a May 2023 ordinance passed by Story County, Iowa, that imposes setback and other requirements for carbon dioxide pipelines.
Description: Lawsuit brought by a developer of an interstate carbon dioxide pipeline and a farmer and part-owner of an ethanol production facility to challenge a county ordinance concerning pipeline permitting and safety.
Status: Petition for judicial review filed. [ 06/21/2023 ]
Description: Challenge to the granting of a coastal use permit for a methane pipeline and compressor station system (the Evangeline Pass Project) to supply a liquefaction and export facility.
Status: Opposition to emergency motion to stay filed by FERC. [ 03/28/2023 ]
Description: Challenge to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission authorizations for the Regional Energy Access Expansion project, a natural gas infrastructure project to expand natural gas transportation service to New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland.
Description: Challenge to the Tennessee Valley Authority's decision to replace a coal-fired power plant that it was retiring with a combined-cycle gas plant.
Status: Plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment granted and defendants' motion for summary judgment denied. [ 12/04/2023 ]
Description: Challenge to an Iowa county's ordinance establishing setback and other requirements for hazardous materials pipelines, including carbon dioxide pipelines.
Status: Petition for review denied. [ 03/29/2024 ]
Description: Challenge to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's grant of a request for an extension of time for construction and placement into service of a natural gas pipeline project in New York.
Status: Parties stipulated to the dismissal of the action without prejudice. [ 07/28/2023 ]
Description: Challenge to a county's moratorium on on permits for hazardous waste pipelines, including pipelines to transport carbon dioxide to sequestration sites.