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 courts, the Litigation Center participates in cases where regulators, advocacy groups, municipalities, and plaintiffs’ lawyers seek to advance improper interpretations of statutes and regulations, and of common-law theories and doctrines that jeopardize the operations of responsible businesses and unreasonably impair beneficial economic activity. In recent years, we have been especially active in public nuisance and climate tort cases.

Recent Activity

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California Trucking Association v. South Coast Air Quality Management District

November 21, 2022

U.S. Chamber files coalition amicus brief urging federal district court to hold that the federal Clean Air Act and Airline Deregulation Act each preempt a California air quality district’s...

Jack v. Evonik Corp.

November 17, 2022

U.S. Chamber files coalition amicus brief urging Fifth Circuit to reject plaintiffs’ attempt to defeat federal removal by adding meritless claims against in-state corporate employees.

Plaquemines Parish v. Chevron USA, Inc. (rehearing)

November 16, 2022

U.S. Chamber files coalition amicus brief urging Fifth Circuit to grant panel rehearing or, in the alternative, rehearing en banc to revisit panel decision holding that district court lacked...

BG Gulf Coast LNG, LLC v. Sabine-Neches Navigation District

October 25, 2022

Fifth Circuit denies rehearing en banc to resolve conflict in circuit case law concerning scope of nonfederal entities’ powers to levy fees to improve maritime ports and waterways, consistent with...

Plaquemines Parish v. Chevron USA, Inc.

October 17, 2022

Fifth Circuit affirms order remanding suit to state court, rejecting argument that district court had federal removal jurisdiction over litigation against energy companies for conduct connected to...

BG Gulf Coast LNG, LLC v. Sabine-Neches Navigation District

October 14, 2022

U.S. Chamber files coalition amicus brief urging Fifth Circuit to grant en banc rehearing and uphold constitutional limits on the scope of nonfederal entities’ powers, under the Water Resources...

Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. County of Monterey

October 14, 2022

U.S. Chamber files coalition amicus brief urging California Supreme Court to affirm state preemption of local ban on methods of oil and gas production.

Dudley v. API Industries, Inc.

September 21, 2022

U.S. Chamber files coalition amicus brief urging New York Appellate Division to reinforce traditional limits on negligence and private nuisance law, as well as class certification, in case...

In re 3M Company

September 9, 2022

Sixth Circuit agrees to review certification of Rule 23(b)(2) injunctive class seeking an investigative study of health effects of PFAS chemicals and subsequent medical monitoring for nearly...

Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe v. Enbridge Energy Co., Inc.

September 7, 2022

District court denies request for injunction of petroleum pipeline operations, finding that an immediate shutdown would have significant public and foreign policy implications. The U.S. Chamber...