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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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...

California Trucking Association v. South Coast Air Quality Management District

November 21, 2022

U.S. Chamber files coalition amicus brief arguing that the federal Clean Air Act and Airline Deregulation Act each preempt a California air quality district’s regulations that effectively require...

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...