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DOJ Investigation of Houston, Texas

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Filed Date: June 22, 2022

Case Ongoing

(This summary from the Department of Justice's press release is temporary, while we research the case.) The Department of Justice announced on July 22, 2022 that it has opened an environmental justice investigation into the City of Houston’s operations, policies and practices related to illegal dumping. The investigation, which will be led by the Civil Rights Division, will examine whether the City responds to requests for municipal services, including in response to illegal dumping, in a manne…
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Juliana v. United States

6:15-cv-01517 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: Aug. 12, 2015

Case Ongoing

On August 12, 2015, a group of young individuals (aged 8-19) in Oregon, represented by their guardians, filed a complaint against the United States and various government officials in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asserted harm from carbon dioxide pollution and climate destabilization due to government action and/or inaction. The plaintiffs alleged that instead of implementing a course of effective action to phase out carbon …
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
Californians for Renewable Energy v. United States Environmental Protection Agency

4:15-cv-03292 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: July 15, 2015

Case Ongoing

On July 15, 2015, five non-profit organizations concerned with environmental justice filed this lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Represented by Earthjustice, the plaintiffs sued under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). The plaintiffs claimed that the EPA violated the APA by failing to enforce Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000d et seq. (“Title VI”). (The plaintiff…
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City of Evanston v. Texaco

1:13-cv-02106 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: March 19, 2013

On March 19, 2013, the City of Evanston filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The City sued Chevron U.S.A. Inc., E-Town Community Ventures, LLC, Texaco, Inc., the Chevron Corporation, and the Chevron Environmental Management Company under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and local ordinances. The City also alleged that the defendants had committed trespass and created a private nuisance. The plaintiffs, represented by private couns…
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Southwest Williamson County Community Ass’n v. Slater

3:97-cv-00734 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: July 14, 1997

Closed Date: 2001

On July 14, 1997, Southwest Williamson County Community Association, Inc., a community organization, filed a complaint against federal and state officials to block the construction of 840–South which would traverse through the Middle Tennessee counties of Dickson, Williamson, and Rutherford. The complaint alleged that the federal and state officials had not complied with Federal and State environmental laws. Specifically Plaintiffs allege that Federal and State Defendants have: violated the Fed…
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Western Watersheds Project v. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Serv.

4:06-cv-00277 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: July 14, 2006

Closed Date: 2010

On July 14, 2006, Western Watersheds Project, an Idaho environmental non-profit organization, filed this lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho. The plaintiff sought reversal of a January 2005 agency determination that a bird species known as the Greater Sage Grouse did not warrant inclusion as an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The plaintiff also brought the claim under the Administrative Procedure and Decl…
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Standing Rock Sioux Tribe v. United States Army Corps of Engineers

1:16-cv-01534 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: July 27, 2016

Case Ongoing

On July 27, 2016, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The Tribe, represented by Earthjustice, sued the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to block the Corps’ actions related to the Dakota Access Pipeline (a 1,168-mile crude oil pipeline running from North Dakota to Illinois). The Tribe sought injunctive and declaratory relief and attorneys’ fees and costs under the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA), the National Histori…
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North Carolina Environmental Justice Network v. Taylor

4:12-cv-00154 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

Filed Date: July 27, 2012

Closed Date: Aug. 29, 2018

On July 27, 2012, the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network (NCEJN), the Neuse Riverkeeper Foundation, and the Waterkeeper Alliance filed this complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. The plaintiffs alleged that the Taylor Finishing Company, a swine concentrated animal feeding operation, illegally polluted under the Clean Water Act (CWA) and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and that this pollution endangered human health and the en…
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Duval Ranching Co. v. Glickman

3:95-cv-00038 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada

Filed Date: Jan. 20, 1995

Closed Date: 2000

On January 20, 1995, plaintiffs, ranchers near Humboldt National Forest in Elko County, Nevada, filed this complaint in the District of Nevada against the United States, United States Forest Service, and individual federal officers. The complaint is unavailable, but according to the order granting summary judgment, the plaintiffs alleged violations of the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the Clean Water Act (CWA), Bivens, and state law. Specifica…
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Yankton Sioux Tribe v. EPA

4:96-cv-04268 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: Sept. 17, 1996

Closed Date: 1998

On September 17, 1996, The Yankton Sioux Tribe petitioned the District Court of South Dakota for judicial review of a final decision of Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) to grant the Southern Missouri Waste Management District’s (“District”) request to waive the composite liner requirement for a municipal solid waste landfill facility under construction on non-Indian land within the reservation. The Tribe’s complaint alleged that the EPA’s actions were arbitrary and capricious and that th…