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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Sierra Club v. EPA (Ozone SIL Guidance)

April 7, 2020

D.C. Circuit holds that EPA memorandum on significant impact levels (SILs) for ozone is not final agency action subject to review under the Clean Air Act and dismisses environmental NGOs’...

PennEast Pipeline Co., LLC, v. New Jersey

March 23, 2020

U.S. and Pennsylvania Chambers urge Supreme Court to review a Third Circuit opinion that disrupts 70 years of interstate pipeline law and practice. The Natural Gas Act authorizes FERC approved...

Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. v. Enterprise Products Partners, L.P.

January 31, 2020

Texas Supreme Court affirms that parties can conclusively negate the formation of a partnership under Texas’ de facto partnership law through contractual conditions precedent. The U.S. Chamber...

Wheeler v. Arkema Inc.

January 16, 2020

U.S. Chamber files coalition amicus brief urging Fifth Circuit to decertify class in environmental mass-tort litigation and affirm that full Daubert review applies to expert testimony...

Parish of Cameron v. BP America Production Co.

January 13, 2020

U.S. Chamber files amicus brief arguing that the Fifth Circuit should correct the district court’s improper application of the federal officer removal statute, which permits removal of a case from...

Portland Pipe Line Corp. v. City of South Portland

January 10, 2020

First Circuit certifies state law issues to Maine Supreme Court. The U.S. Chamber filed an amicus brief in support of constitutional challenges to municipal ordinance banning use of pipelines to...

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

December 23, 2019

Appellants file joint motion for voluntary dismissal in litigation over the Obama administration’s 2015 Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule. After the Trump administration’s rule rescinding...

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

November 27, 2019

U.S. Chamber files amicus brief in public-nuisance case against energy companies urging First Circuit to reverse district court’s remand order and accept federal jurisdiction.

League of Conservation Voters v. Trump

November 14, 2019

U.S. Chamber files amicus brief highlighting the economic and societal benefits of offshore oil and gas development in litigation brought by environmental groups against executive order...

Safer Chemicals Healthy Families v. EPA

November 14, 2019

Ninth Circuit grants EPA’s request for voluntary remand of certain provisions of its Risk Prioritization Rule. The Chamber and aligned business groups intervened supporting EPA’s request.