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

June 30, 2020

U.S. Chamber files coalition amicus brief urging Fourth 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.

Portland Pipe Line Corp. v. City of South Portland

June 12, 2020

U.S. Chamber files coalition brief urging Maine Supreme Judicial Court to recognize Coastal Conveyance Act preempts local ordinances that conflict with its state-wide regulation of safe loading...

American Chemistry Council v. Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment

June 10, 2020

California Court of Appeal issues unpublished decision upholding the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment’s listing of diisononyl phthalate under California’s Proposition 65. The U.S...

FMC Corp. v. Shoshone-Bannock Tribes

April 17, 2020

U.S. Chamber files coalition amicus brief asking Supreme Court to review Ninth Circuit decision broadly construing tribal jurisdiction over private lands.

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...