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 Southwestern Energy Co.

November 18, 2020

U.S. Chamber files coalition amicus brief urging Texas Supreme Court to direct Texas courts to apply federal standards when deciding motions to dismiss federal securities claims.

State of Rhode Island v. Shell Oil Products Co., LLC

October 29, 2020

First Circuit affirms remand to state court in climate nuisance case, holding that the federal officer removal statute does not apply and that the district court lacked authority to review...

Portland Pipe Line Corp. v. City of South Portland

October 29, 2020

Maine Supreme Judicial Court holds that local ordinance that prohibited bulk loading of crude oil onto marine vessels was not preempted by Maine’s comprehensive Coastal Conveyance Act. The U.S....

Plaquemines Parish v. Louisiana

October 7, 2020

Fifth Circuit issues order scheduling oral argument in a case in which the panel misapplied the appropriate test for timely removal under the Federal Officer Removal Statute. The U.S. Chamber and...

Plaquemines Parish v. Louisiana

September 15, 2020

U.S. Chamber files coalition amicus brief urging the Fifth Circuit to grant the petition for panel rehearing, and revisit its earlier decision that failed to apply the appropriate test for timely...

American Chemistry Council v. Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment

September 9, 2020

U.S. Chamber and California Chamber file letter brief urging California Supreme Court to grant review of case addressing standard for listing substances under California’s Proposition 65. The U.S...

Plaquemines Parish v. Louisiana

August 10, 2020

Fifth Circuit rejects appeal from order remanding complaint to state court, holding that removal was untimely. The U.S Chamber filed an amicus brief opposing this outcome.

Meritor, Inc. v. EPA

July 28, 2020

D.C. Circuit rejects arguments that EPA arbitrarily and capriciously applied its hazardous ranking system before listing the Rockwell International Wheel & Trim facility on the National...

American Chemistry Council v. Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment

July 8, 2020

California Court of Appeal grants a request to publish its opinion upholding the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment’s listing of diisononyl phthalate under California’s Proposition...

Center for Biological Diversity v. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

June 30, 2020

U.S. Chamber files coalition amicus brief urging Ninth Circuit to reverse ruling that the U.S. Forest Service’s approval of the Rosemont Mine’s plan of operations did not comply with the law.