Energy & Environment

The Litigation Center supports continued environmental improvements along with economic growth. The Litigation Center represents the Chamber as a litigant or as an amicus in a select number of environmental cases in which regulators or environmentalist groups seek to stretch environmental laws beyond what legislators intended in a manner that impairs economic growth. The Litigation Center also participates in litigation implicating state and local environmental issues.

Recent Activity

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In re PennEast Pipeline Co., LLC

May 15, 2019

U.S. Chamber, Pennsylvania Chamber, and aligned business groups file amicus brief urging Third Circuit to affirm district court ruling that state entities are not immune from condemnation...

Environmental Defense Fund v. EPA

April 26, 2019

D.C. Circuit rejects all but one of environmental NGOs’ challenges to the TSCA Inventory Reset Rule, and remands without vacatur a portion of the rule for EPA to address substantiation of claims...

Sierra Club v. EPA (Ozone SIL Guidance)

April 15, 2019

U.S. Chamber files coalition brief as intervenor in support of EPA’s guidance establishing significant impact limits for the NAAQS program

Meritor, Inc. v. EPA

April 8, 2019

U.S. Chamber files amicus brief urging D.C. Circuit to vacate and remand Superfund listing that failed to follow regulatory requirements and sets a bad precedent for future application of vapor...

Chamber of Commerce, et al. v. EPA (WOTUS Rule - Oklahoma District Court)

February 20, 2019

U.S. Chamber files supplemental brief in support of motions for preliminary injunction in litigation against 2015 WOTUS rule

Portland Pipe Line Corp. v. City of South Portland

February 19, 2019

U.S. Chamber files amicus brief in support of constitutional challenges to municipal ordinance banning use of pipelines to transport fossil fuels from Canada to the United States

City of New York v. BP PLC

February 13, 2019

U.S. Chamber files amicus brief urging Second Circuit to affirm judgment dismissing state law public nuisance claims against energy companies

Burdick v. Tonoga, Inc.

January 17, 2019

U.S. Chamber files amicus brief arguing New York Appellate Division should reverse class certification order in PFOA contamination litigation

Colorado Oil And Gas Conservation Commission v. Martinez

January 14, 2019

Colorado Supreme Court reverses erroneous interpretation of Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Act, holding the Oil and Gas Conservation Commission correctly interpreted the Act to preclude a...

Reid v. Doe Run Resources Corp.

January 14, 2019

U.S. Chamber and Missouri Chamber file amicus brief arguing Eighth Circuit should review district court decision permitting mass actions brought against American companies by thousands of Peruvian...