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

Results sorted by date of most recent activity.

Safer Chemicals Healthy Families v. EPA

September 20, 2018

U.S. Chamber files intervenors brief against challenges to Risk Evaluation and Prioritization Rules under Toxic Substances Control Act

Portland Pipe Line Corp. v. City of South Portland

August 24, 2018

U.S. District Court for the District of Maine grants summary judgment against pipeline company on Commerce Clause challenges to municipal ordinance prohibiting oil exports

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

August 17, 2018

U.S. Chamber files joint motion with Oklahoma to reopen proceedings against the EPA’s 2015 WOTUS rule

Sierra Club v. EPA (Ozone SIL Guidance)

July 18, 2018

U.S. Chamber and business groups move to intervene to defend EPA guidance document clarifying and improving process for analyzing emissions during PSD permitting

Environmental Defense Fund v. EPA

May 31, 2018

U.S. Chamber files joint intervenor brief in support of EPA in NGOs’ challenge to EPA’s inventory reset rule under the 2016 amendments to the Toxic Substances Control Act

Colorado Oil And Gas Conservation Commission v. Martinez

April 2, 2018

U.S. Chamber files amicus brief urging Colorado Supreme Court to reverse erroneous interpretation of Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Act

EQT Production Co. v. Department of Environmental Protection of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

March 28, 2018

Pennsylvania Supreme Court, citing the Chamber’s amicus brief, limits liability under Clean Streams law for Pennsylvania businesses and landowners in ongoing discharge case

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

March 9, 2018

District court puts challenges to 2015 WOTUS rule on hold while the EPA completes its rulemaking process to rescind the 2015 rule

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

February 20, 2018

Tenth Circuit reverses district court’s dismissal on jurisdictional grounds of U.S. Chamber’s challenge to Obama administration’s WOTUS rule; remands to district court for further proceedings

Serrano v. Union Pacific Railroad Company

February 6, 2018

Ninth Circuit upholds railroad’s right to lease land under right of way for pipeline use