Topic: Environmental Assessment
Date | Action | Topic | Type | Excerpt | Jurisdiction | |
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2015-11-20 | Comments on Tennessee Pipeline Gas Go. Northeast Energy Direct Project | Climate Change Mitigation, Energy, Environmental Assessment | Administrative Proceeding | Massachusetts AG submitted comments to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and a study opposing a proposed natural gas pipeline that would have run through New England. |
Massachusetts | |
2013-02-14 | Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice v. County of Riverside | Air Pollution, Environmental Assessment, Environmental Justice | Lawsuit v. Other Public Entity | California AG intervened in and helped to settle litigation surrounding an industrial project that was expected to increase diesel truck traffic in a predominantly Latino residential area. |
California | |
2012-06-08 | New York v. Nuclear Regulatory Commission | Energy, Environmental Assessment, Solid & Hazardous Waste | Lawsuit vs. Federal Government | Multi-state challenge to a Nuclear Regulatory Commission rule on storage of spent nuclear fuel, resulting in a decision that the rule was a major federal action that requires the agency to either make a finding that the action would have no significant environmental action or issue an environmental impact statement. |
Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Vermont | |
2012-01-25 | Cleveland National Forest Foundation v. San Diego Association of Governments | Climate Change Mitigation, Environmental Assessment | Lawsuit v. Other Public Entity | California AG intervened in a suit attempting to require the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) Regional Transportation Plan to consider climate change in its long term planning decisions. |
California | |
2011-01-13 | New Jersey, Dept. of Environmental Protection v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | Environmental Assessment | Lawsuit vs. Federal Government | New Jersey and environmental groups sued the Army Corp. for not supplementing their EIS after an oil spill in the Delaware River. |
New Jersey | |
2010-11-23 | Delaware Dept. of Natural Resources and Environmental Control v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | Environmental Assessment, Water Pollution | Lawsuit vs. Federal Government | Delaware and New Jersey brought action pursuant to the APA to challenge a decision made by the US Army Corp of Engineers to proceed with a dredging project to deepen the main navigation channel of the Delaware River without obtaining requisite approval pursuant to the CWA, CAA, CZMA, and Delaware code. |
Delaware, New Jersey | |
2007-08-28 | California v. County of San Bernardino | Climate Change Mitigation, Environmental Assessment | Lawsuit v. Other Public Entity | The State of California entered into a landmark climate change settlement with San Bernardino County setting forth a specific greenhouse gas reduction plan. |
California |