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ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
CODING IN PROCESS
BlueRibbon Coalition, Inc v. Bureau of Land Management

4:25-cv-00022 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: March 5, 2025

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) On March 5, 2025, a nonprofit dedicated to protecting and promoting access to public land, a motorcycle club that frequently participated in recreation on public land, and an individual member of both of these organizations filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Utah. They named the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Department of the Interior as Defendants. The Plaintiffs challenged the route closu…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Northern Alaska Environmental Center v. Trump

3:25-cv-00038 | U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska

Filed Date: Feb. 19, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenged the President's authority to allegedly unilaterally revoke environmental protections and open offshore areas to oil and gas leasing. On February 19, 2025, the Northern Alaska Environmental Center and nine other environmental organizations filed this case in the United States District Court for the District of Alaska. They named President Donald Trump, the Secretary of the Interior, and the Secretary of Commerce as Defendants. After his inauguration, President Donald Trump i…
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
CODING IN PROCESS
Environmental Defense Fund v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

1:25-cv-00617 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 3, 2025

Case Ongoing

On March 3, 2025, the Environmental Defense Fund filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia against the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). This case was assigned to Dabney L. Friedrich. In Executive Order 14154 titled "Unleashing American Energy," published on January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump directed the EPA to reevaluate the 2009 "Endangerment Finding." The "Endangerment Finding" was the EPA's determination that greenhouse gas…
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
EPA Investigation of Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality and Health

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In response to administrative complaints filed with the agency (Nos. 01R-22-R6, 02R-22-R6, and 04R-22-R6), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) opened an investigation into the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) and the Louisiana Department of Health's (LDH) on April 6, 2022 via its authority under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and EPA's nondiscrimination regulations. The complaints alleged that LDEQ's implementation of its air pollution control permit program …
POLICING
Dundon v. Kirchmeier

1:16-cv-00406 | U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota

Filed Date: Dec. 28, 2016

Closed Date: Dec. 30, 2021

This is a putative class action about excessive police force used to disperse protestors of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). On November 20, 2016, the plaintiffs– Native Americans and other concerned citizens who referred to themselves as "water protectors"--gathered to pray and protest the DAPL at Backwater Bridge in North Dakota. They were met by local police forces who were armed with specialty impact munitions, teargas, and water cannons. Without warning, the police began to use force to …
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
State of Louisiana v. U S Environmental Protection Agency

2:23-cv-00692 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: May 24, 2023

Case Ongoing

This case concerns the ability of the US Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Department of Justice (“DOJ”) to impose disparate-impact-based requirements against a State or State agency in civil rights cases brought under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act (“Title VI”). On May 24, 2023, the State of Louisiana (“the State”) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. The State sued the EPA, EPA Administrator, Director of EPA’s External Civil Rights C…
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
United States v. Marmon Utility LLC

3:21-cr-00223 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Dec. 21, 2021

Closed Date: April 11, 2022

This was a prosecution brought by the United States against Marmon Utility LLC for discharging pollutants from its Kerite Power Cable & Pump Cable factory (Kerite factory) in violation of the Clean Water Act (CWA). The Kerite factory manufactures large power cables and, in the process, generates wastewater containing heavy metals such as lead and zinc. Under its state-issued CWA permit, the defendant was required to reduce the heavy metal content of the wastewater measures before it was dischar…
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
Held v. Montana

CDV-2020-307 | Montana state trial court

Filed Date: March 13, 2020

Case Ongoing

This case concerns allegations that the State of Montana’s fossil fuel-based energy system caused and contributed to climate change in violation of the plaintiffs’ constitutional rights. On March 13, 2020, sixteen young people from Montana filed this lawsuit in Montana’s First Judicial District Court of Lewis and Clark County. They sued the State of Montana, the Montana Governor, the Montana Department of Environmental Quality, the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation, the M…
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
United States v. Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP

4:22-cv-00737 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: March 9, 2022

Case Ongoing

On March 9, 2022, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) filed suit against Chevron Phillips Chemical Company in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas alleging Chevron committed violations of the Clean Air Act at petrochemical manufacturing facilities in the Cities of Cedar Bayou, Port Arthur, and Sweeney, Texas. Specifically, the complaint alleges that Chevron failed to "properly operate, maintain, monitor, and control steam-assisted flares used at" these plants, r…
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
Miller v. City of Dallas

3:98-cv-02955 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Dec. 16, 1998

Closed Date: Sept. 6, 2002

On December 16, 1998, a group of 12 African American residents of the Cadillac Heights neighborhood of Dallas brought suit against the City of Dallas in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas alleging that the City had provided, and continued to provide, municipal services in the neighborhood in a racially- and ethnically-discriminatory manner. Plaintiffs filed an amended complaint on May 27, 1999, in which they specifically alleged the following: the City had refused to ex…