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ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
Protect Our Coast NJ v. US

3:25-cv-06890 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: June 3, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenged the May 2025 decision of the Director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to resume work on wind turbines off the coasts of New York and New Jersey. The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), BOEM’s parent agency had paused construction of the turbines a month earlier, in connection with President Trump’s January 20, 2025 executive order requiring DOI to investigate all offshore wind energy projects and ascertain whether they would cause harm to the environment …
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Opportunity Finance Network v. Citibank

1:25-cv-01208 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: April 21, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case was one of many challenges to the freezing of federal grant funds designated for green infrastructure projects. On April 21, 2025, Opportunity Finance Network (OFN) filed suit in the District Court for the District of Columbia. Represented by private counsel, OFN sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), its Administrator, and Citibank, N.A., a national banking association. OFN challenged the freezing of federal grants that it received through the Clean Communities Investment Ac…
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
Kapa'a v. Trump

1:25-cv-00209 | U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

Filed Date: May 22, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenged Proclamation 10918, signed by President Trump on April 17, 2025, which purported to open the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument to commercial fishing. The monument was established by President Bush in 2009 and was expanded by President Obama in 2014, both acting under the Antiquities Act of 1906. The 2009 Proclamation banned commercial fishing within the boundaries of the monument. On May 22, 2025, two environmental organizations and an unincorporated associa…
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
District of Columbia v. United States

1:25-cv-00065 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Jan. 10, 2025

Case Ongoing

On January 10, 2025, the District of Columbia (“the District”) sued the United States of America in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. The District alleged that the federal government was liable for over 150 years of pollution of the Anacostia River under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (“CERCLA”) and the District of Columbia Brownfield Revitalization Act of 2000 (the “Brownfield Act”). The District sought costs related to th…
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
State of Washington v. Trump

2:25-cv-00869 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: May 9, 2025

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit by 15 states challenges the Trump administration's use of emergency authorities to override environmental protections to permit energy projects. On Mary 9, 2025, 15 states filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington. They named President Donald Trump, the Secretary of the Army, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and its Lieutenant General, and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation and its Vice Chair as Defendants. They challen…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
State of Washington v. United States Department of Transportation

2:25-cv-00848 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: May 7, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case involves a challenge to the Trump administration's effort to freeze federal grants for electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure. On May 7, 2025, seventeen states and the District of Columbia sued the Department of Transportation and various sub-agencies and officials to stop the implementation of Executive Order 14,154, "Terminating the Green New Deal." The states bring claims under the Administrative Procedure Act and the Constitution, alleging that the suspension of formula gra…
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
State of New York v. Trump

1:25-cv-11221 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: May 5, 2025

Case Ongoing

On May 5, 2025, seventeen states and the District of Columbia filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts against President Donald Trump and numerous federal departments and agencies and their agency heads. They challenged the implementation of a Presidential Memorandum halting federal approvals of wind-energy development. They alleged that the memorandum and its implementation violated the Administrative Procedure Act. The case is assigned to Chief …
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
United States of America v. State of Vermont

2:25-cv-00463 | U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont

Filed Date: May 1, 2025

Case Ongoing

On May 1, 2025, the United States filed this lawsuit against Vermont, its Governor, the Secretary of the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources, and the Director of the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources Climate Action Office in the United States District Court for the District of Vermont. The DOJ challenged the Climate Superfund Act, a 2024 Vermont law that sought to hold fossil fuel companies liable for their contribution to climate change and its effects. The DOJ argued that such a law was pre…
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
United States v. State of Michigan

1:25-cv-00496 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

Filed Date: April 30, 2025

Case Ongoing

On April 30, 2025, the United States filed this lawsuit against Michigan, its Governor, and its Attorney General in the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan. The DOJ brought this action after it learned that the state of Michigan had plans to bring a lawsuit against fossil fuel companies to hold them liable for their contribution to climate change and its effects. The DOJ argued that such a lawsuit was pre-empted by the Clean Air Act and the federal government's con…
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
United States of America v. State of New York

1:25-cv-03656 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: May 1, 2025

Case Ongoing

On May 1, 2025, the United States filed this lawsuit against New York, its Governor, its Attorney General, and the Acting Commissioner of the New York Department of Environmental Conservation in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The DOJ challenged the Climate Superfund Act, a 2024 New York law that sought to hold fossil fuel companies liable for their contribution to climate change and its effects. The DOJ argued that such a law was pre-empted by the Clean …