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 Question not identified.
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 Is A-V UviifeA S%Ws of /\mex\GQ 4-Vie -V^e. U.O i'WA Si-afes ^eAeve\ 'QsAti of ho&e\\eA& 'ficoe&Aj&s ule, 40 CeXO CA>? , SheuV^ 4-Vie Un; (W,f ha/e O…
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 Over two thousand Peruvians allege harm from emissions of a metallurgical complex located in Peru, operated by a Peruvian corporation, and regulated b…
24A463 East Kentucky Power Cooperative, Inc. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-11-08 Denied administrative-overreach clean-air-act environmental-regulation epa-regulation greenhouse-gas statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
24A215 Continental Resources, Inc., et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-08-28 Denied administrative-law clean-air-act environmental-regulation epa-regulation methane-emissions oil-and-gas-industry Question not identified.
24A180 North Dakota, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-08-19 Denied administrative-overreach agency-power clean-air-act environmental-regulation epa-regulation statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
24A179 Westmoreland Mining Holdings LLC, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-08-19 Denied administrative-law agency-authority clean-air-act environmental-regulation epa-regulation greenhouse-gas Question not identified.
24A105 Midwest Ozone Group v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-07-30 Denied administrative-overreach clean-air-act environmental-regulation epa-regulation greenhouse-gas power-generation Question not identified.
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 Environmental Protection Agency's disapproval of a State Implementation Plan may only be challenged in the D.C. Circuit under 42 U.S.C. § …
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 Congress designed the Clean Water Act (CWA or the Act) to ensure that anyone holding a discharge permit issued under the Act has notice of how much th…
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 Under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), an "owner" or "operator" of a "facility" at the time hazardo…
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 Question not identified.
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 Question not identified.
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 1. Whether the Alaska Supreme Court's imposition of strict liability violated petitioners' right to due process, when the State had taken the position…
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 1. This case presents the question whether the Due Process Clause forbids the imposition of retroactive liability for conduct in violation of a statut…
22-5758 Augustus H. Evans, Jr. v. Delaware Delaware 2022-10-04 Denied 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 Question not identified.
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 Given our existing climate emergency, 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 1. Whether EPA may employ 42 U.S.C. § 7411(d) to impose standards of performance on existing stationary sources that are regulated under the "hazardou…
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), which authorizes the EPA to impose standards "for any existing source" based on limits "achievable through the applicatio…
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 In 42 U.S.C. § 7411(d), an ancillary provision of the Clean Air Act, did Congress constitutionally authorize the Environmental Protection Agency to is…
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 of the United States Constitution when it provides complete immunity from nuisance and trespass liabil…
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 The Clean Water Act forbids the unpermitted "addition of any pollutant to navigable waters," 33 U.S.C. § 1362(12) (emphasis added). See id. § 1311(a).…
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 In a First degree premeditated murder trial, can motive be used to establish premeditation? If so, is a defendant's conviction unconstitutional where…
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 under Oregon State Statu…
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 In California Coastal Comm'n v. Granite Rock Co., 480 U.S. 572 (1987), this Court considered the question whether states might assert permitting autho…
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 In this case of first impression before this Court, does the CAA withdraw concurrent state court jurisdiction to adjudicate the constitutionality of s…