environmental-regulation

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A337 Jeffrey Andrews v. United States Second Circuit 2025-09-24 Presumed Complete clean-water-act environmental-regulation permit-violation sackett-precedent waters-of-united-states wetlands Whether the Second Circuit's test for determining 'waters of the United States' under the Clean Water Act conflicts with the Supreme Court's interpret…
24-7039 Danilo Augusto Feliciano v. Nancy Landry, Louisiana Secretary of State, et al. District of Columbia 2025-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure environmental-regulation federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation Whether the United States federal courts have jurisdiction over habeas corpus proceedings under 40 CFR
24-961 Environmental Protection Agency, et al. v. Kentucky, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-03-06 Denied Relisted (2) circuit-jurisdiction clean-air-act environmental-regulation epa-action judicial-review nationwide-scope Whether EPA's disapproval action is subject to review only in the D.C. Circuit under 42 U.S.C. 7607(b)(1), which channels to that court petitions to r…
24-601 The Doe Run Resources Corporation, et al. v. Kate Reid, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-12-03 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) environmental-regulation foreign-tort-claims international-comity judicial-jurisdiction sovereignty trade-promotion-agreement Did the Eighth Circuit err in denying dismissal based on international comity and in interpreting the U.S.-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement as requiring…
24A463 East Kentucky Power Cooperative, Inc. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-11-08 Presumed Complete administrative-overreach clean-air-act environmental-regulation epa-regulation greenhouse-gas statutory-interpretation Whether the Clean Air Act allows the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants in a manner that exceeds its statutory authority and i…
24A215 Continental Resources, Inc., et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-08-28 Presumed Complete administrative-law clean-air-act environmental-regulation epa-regulation methane-emissions oil-and-gas-industry Whether the EPA exceeded its statutory authority under the Clean Air Act in promulgating methane emissions regulations for the oil and gas industry
24A180 North Dakota, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-08-19 Presumed Complete administrative-overreach agency-power clean-air-act environmental-regulation epa-regulation statutory-interpretation Whether the EPA exceeded its statutory authority under the Clean Air Act in promulgating regulations that substantially expand its regulatory power be…
24A179 Westmoreland Mining Holdings LLC, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-08-19 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-authority clean-air-act environmental-regulation epa-regulation greenhouse-gas Whether the Clean Air Act permits the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants without explicit congressional authorizati…
24A105 Midwest Ozone Group v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-07-30 Presumed Complete administrative-overreach clean-air-act environmental-regulation epa-regulation greenhouse-gas power-generation Whether the EPA exceeded its statutory authority under the Clean Air Act in promulgating regulations that substantially impact power generation and gr…
24-13 Ohio, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-07-09 Denied Amici (3)Response WaivedRelisted (8) commerce-clause constitutional-structure environmental-regulation equal-sovereignty federal-government federalism sovereign-power state-equality state-power May Congress pass a law under the Commerce Clause that empowers one State to exercise sovereign power that the law denies to all other States?
23-1068 PacifiCorp, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-04-01 Judgment Issued Relisted (4) administrative-law circuit-court-jurisdiction clean-air-act environmental-regulation epa-disapproval federal-jurisdiction judicial-review standing state-implementation-plan Whether the EPA's disapproval of a State Implementation Plan may only be challenged in the D.C. Circuit
23-948 Texas Aromatics, L.P., et al. v. Intercontinental Terminals Company, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2024-02-29 Denied Response Waived absurd-consequences administrative-claim environmental-regulation federal-jurisdiction hazardous-substance maritime-law mixed-spill oil-pollution-act statutory-interpretation Whether the Oil Pollution Act, 33 U.S.C. § 2701 et seq., applies to a spill that is 91% oil and 9% a 'hazardous substance'
23-753 City and County of San Francisco, California v. Environmental Protection Agency Ninth Circuit 2024-01-12 Judgment Issued Amici (13)Relisted (2) clean-water-act discharge-limitations enforcement environmental-protection-agency environmental-regulation national-pollutant-discharge-elimination-system npdes-permits permit-shield water-quality-standards Whether the Clean Water Act allows EPA (or an authorized state) to impose generic prohibitions in NPDES permits that subject permitholders to enforcem…
23-687 MRP Properties Company, LLC, et al. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-12-27 Denied Amici (1) cercla cercla-liability corporate-disclosure environmental-regulation environmental-regulations facility-operator operator-liability pollution-producing-activities statutory-interpretation waste-disposal waste-disposal-activities When analyzing whether an entity is a facility 'operator' under CERCLA, should courts consider pollution-producing activities that the entity managed,…
23A384 United States Steel Corporation v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2023-10-31 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-authority clean-air-act environmental-regulation epa-rulemaking interstate-pollution Whether the EPA exceeded its statutory authority under the Clean Air Act in promulgating a new rule regulating interstate ozone pollution that imposes…
23A350 Kinder Morgan, Inc., et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2023-10-18 Presumed Complete Amici (1) administrative-law agency-action clean-air-act environmental-regulation epa-regulation statutory-interpretation Whether the EPA's regulatory action impermissibly exceeds its statutory authority under the Clean Air Act or violates principles of administrative law
23-328 Williams Alaska Petroleum, Inc., et al. v. Alaska, et al. Alaska 2023-09-28 Denied constitutional-taking due-process environmental-regulation fair-notice hazardous-substance strict-liability takings water-system Whether the Alaska Supreme Court's imposition of strict liability violated petitioners' right to due process
23A121 Williams Alaska Petroleum, Inc., et al. v. Alaska, et al. Alaska 2023-08-11 Presumed Complete due-process-clause environmental-regulation fair-notice hazardous-substances retroactive-liability sulfolane Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits a state from imposing retroactive environmental liability for the discharge of a …
22-5758 Augustus H. Evans, Jr. v. Delaware Delaware 2022-10-04 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-provisions due-process energy-policy environmental-regulation judicial-review legal-jurisdiction procedural-rules statutory-interpretation takings Does the Louisiana statute banning the sale of petrol-based motor vehicles violate the dormant Commerce Clause?
21-519 Growth Energy v. American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, et al. District of Columbia 2021-10-07 Denied Response Waived administrative-law clean-air-act environmental-regulation epa-interpretation ethanol-blending ethanol-waiver fuel-blends reid-vapor-pressure statutory-construction statutory-interpretation volatility-limit Whether the United States Environmental Protection Agency may interpret the ethanol-waiver provision in 42 U.S.C. § 7545(h)(4) to apply to fuel blends…
21-337 George Berka v. Kathy Hochul, Governor of New York Second Circuit 2021-09-02 Denied Response Waived climate-change climate-emergency due-process energy-policy environmental-impact environmental-regulation grid-reliability infrastructure-renewal nuclear-power public-safety regulatory-oversight Should the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant be returned to service?
20-1778 Westmoreland Mining Holdings LLC v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2021-06-23 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (4) administrative-law agency-authority carbon-emissions clean-air-act clean-power-plan energy-policy environmental-regulation epa hazardous-air-pollutants section-111(d) section-112 statutory-interpretation Whether EPA may employ 42 U.S.C. § 7411(d) to impose standards of performance on existing stationary sources that are regulated under the 'hazardous a…
20-1531 The North American Coal Corporation v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2021-05-04 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (4) administrative-law agency-authority carbon-dioxide-emissions carbon-emissions clean-air-act clean-power-plan environmental-regulation epa epa-regulation generation-shifting power-plants Whether 42 U.S.C. § 7411(d) grants the EPA authority to impose industry-wide systems like cap-and-trade regimes
20-1530 West Virginia, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2021-05-04 Judgment Issued Amici (8)Relisted (4) administrative-law clean-air-act congressional-authority congressional-power energy-policy environmental-protection-agency environmental-regulation epa-authority federalism separation-of-powers Did Congress constitutionally authorize the EPA to issue significant rules without limits under the Clean Air Act?
20-72 Janet L. Himsel, et al. v. 4/9 Livestock, LLC, et al. Indiana 2020-07-24 Denied Amici (1) due-process eminent-domain environmental-regulation nuisance nuisance-law property-rights takings-clause trespass Does a state statute violate the Takings Clause when it provides immunity from nuisance and trespass liability for an industrial-scale hog facility th…
19-839 Eastern Oregon Mining Association, et al. v. Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, et al. Oregon 2020-01-03 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split clean-water-act environmental-regulation material-movement navigable-waters pollutant-discharge pollution-prohibition statutory-interpretation suction-dredge-mining Does the Clean Water Act regulate activities that simply move pre-existing material, such as rock, sand, and gravel, within a 'navigable water'?
19-5832 Daniel G. Durain v. Florida Florida 2019-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law criminal-procedure due-process endangered-species-act environmental-regulation evidence federal-agency-discretion habitat-conservation judicial-interpretation jury-instructions mens-rea premeditation reasonable-doubt Can motive be used to establish premeditation?
19-113 William F. Holdner v. Katy Coba, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-23 Denied Response Waived agricultural-operation agriculture-operation-permit civil-rights due-process environmental-law environmental-regulation federal-environmental-regulations habeas-corpus patent patent-rights property-rights stormwater-permit water-pollution water-rights Whether a person engaged in an agricultural operation can be charged and convicted for failure to possess a stormwater permit
18-979 Joshua Caleb Bohmker, et al. v. Oregon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Amici (1) environmental-regulation federal-land federal-land-policy federal-land-policy-and-management-act federal-land-use-control federal-mining federal-mining-claims federal-preemption land-management land-use-control mineral-development mining-claims national-forest-management-act preemption state-environmental-regulation supremacy-clause Whether a state statute prohibiting any and all motorized mining in state-designated zones on federal land is categorically preempted under the Suprem…
18-629 Jack Cody v. California Air Resources Board, et al. California 2018-11-14 Denied Response Waived clean-air-act concurrent-jurisdiction constitutional-challenge constitutional-review environmental-regulation federal-constitutional-defense federal-preemption judicial-review state-court-jurisdiction state-environmental-regulation statutory-interpretation Does the Clean Air Act withdraw concurrent state court jurisdiction to adjudicate the constitutionality of state regulations?