Energy & Environment

The Litigation Center supports businesses and market-based innovation as integral to confronting today’s environmental challenges. The Litigation Center represents the Chamber as party or amicus in a wide range of cases raising energy, environmental, and natural resources issues. In both federal and state court, the Litigation Center participates in cases where regulators or litigants seek to advance overbroad interpretations of environmental statutes and regulations that jeopardize the operations of responsible businesses and unreasonably impair beneficial economic activity.

Recent Activity

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Louisiana v. Biden

January 13, 2022

U.S. Chamber files amicus brief urging Fifth Circuit to affirm injunction of nationwide pause of domestic production of oil and gas on federal lands.

Ideker Farms, Inc. v. United States

December 23, 2021

U.S. Chamber urges Federal Circuit to conclude that where a government historically made improvements benefiting real property, but later takes action infringing on property that was not...

California State Water Resources Control Board v. FERC

December 13, 2021

U.S. Chamber urges Ninth Circuit to hold that California waived its authority under section 401 of the Clean Water Act to grant or deny water quality certifications for proposed federally licensed...

City of Hoboken v. Exxon Mobil Corp.

November 22, 2021

U.S. Chamber files amicus brief arguing that federal common law claims regarding the effects of global climate change are removable to federal court even if the plaintiff fails to acknowledge the...

Solar Energy Industries Association v. FERC

November 22, 2021

U.S. Chamber files amicus brief urging Ninth Circuit to reject challenges to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC’s) recent updates to its regulations implementing the Public Utility...

Michigan v. Enbridge Energy

November 16, 2021

District court denies motion to remand, finding revocation of easement for cross-border pipeline raises federal issues. The U.S. Chamber filed a coalition amicus brief supporting this outcome.

Sackett v. EPA

October 25, 2021

U.S. Chamber files amicus brief urging Supreme Court to revisit its 4-1-4 decision in Rapanos v. United States (2006) and resolve entrenched split of authority over the proper test for...

Davies v. S.A. Dunn & Co., LLC

October 21, 2021

New York’s Supreme Court Appellate Division reinforces New York’s special injury requirement for public nuisance claims by private parties, holding that neighbors to a landfill could not pursue...

Duncan v. Capital Region Landfills, Inc.

October 21, 2021

New York’s Supreme Court Appellate Division reinforces New York’s special injury requirement for public nuisance claims by private parties, holding that neighbors to a landfill could not pursue...

Plaquemines Parish v. Louisiana

August 5, 2021

Fifth Circuit grants petition for panel rehearing, revisits its earlier decision on the timeliness of removal under the Federal Officer Removal Statute, and concludes that removal was timely. The...