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, 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.

Recent Activity

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Kentucky Chamber of Commerce v. EPA

March 8, 2023

U.S. Chamber and co-plaintiffs file reply in support of motion for preliminary injunction against the Biden Administration’s “phase 1” Waters of the United States Rule.

District of Columbia v. Exxon Mobil Corp.

March 8, 2023

U.S. Chamber files amicus brief arguing that claims seeking to impose liability for the effects of global climate change -- regardless of how they are labeled -- are inherently federal, require...

American Petroleum Institute v. Environmental Defense Center

February 27, 2023

U.S. Chamber files amicus brief urging Supreme Court review of Ninth Circuit decision allowing premature judicial review of programmatic environmental review under National Environmental Policy...

Kentucky Chamber of Commerce v. EPA

February 22, 2023

U.S. Chamber and co-plaintiffs file motion for preliminary injunction against the “phase 1” Waters of the United States Rule.

Kentucky Chamber of Commerce v. EPA

February 22, 2023

U.S. Chamber files coalition lawsuit in Eastern District of Kentucky challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s and U.S. Army’s “phase 1” Waters of the United States Rule as unlawful. ...

Rennert v. A.O.A.

February 10, 2023

U.S. Chamber files coalition amicus brief urging Eighth Circuit to grant immediate review and reverse district court decision allowing thousands of Peruvian nationals to sue American companies in...

Healthy Gulf v. US Army Corps of Engineers

January 26, 2023

U.S. Chamber files coalition amicus brief urging Fifth Circuit to deny petition seeking to vacate permit for natural gas export facilities issued by Army Corps of Engineers under Clean Water Act...

Long Island Pure Water, Ltd. v. NYS Department of Health

December 23, 2022

U.S. Chamber files amicus brief urging New York Court of Appeals to grant review of intermediate appellate court decision holding that under New York’s zone-of-interests test for standing,...

Electric Energy, Inc. v. EPA

December 21, 2022

U.S. Chamber files amicus brief urging D.C. Circuit to hold that EPA guidance, creating binding new requirements under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, is judicially reviewable final...

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

November 29, 2022

Fifth Circuit denies panel rehearing and rehearing en banc in case where panel held that district court lacked federal officer removal jurisdiction over litigation against energy companies...