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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Plaquemines Parish v. Louisiana

September 15, 2020

U.S. Chamber filed coalition amicus brief urging the Fifth Circuit to grant the petition for panel rehearing, and revisit its earlier decision that failed to apply the appropriate test for timely...

American Chemistry Council v. Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment

September 9, 2020

U.S. Chamber and California Chamber file letter brief urging California Supreme Court to grant review of case addressing standard for listing substances under California’s Proposition 65. The U.S...

Plaquemines Parish v. Louisiana

August 10, 2020

Fifth Circuit rejects appeal from order remanding complaint to state court, holding that removal was untimely. The U.S Chamber filed an amicus brief opposing this outcome.

Meritor, Inc. v. EPA

July 28, 2020

D.C. Circuit rejects arguments that EPA arbitrarily and capriciously applied its hazardous ranking system before listing the Rockwell International Wheel & Trim facility on the National...

American Chemistry Council v. Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment

July 8, 2020

California Court of Appeal grants a request to publish its opinion upholding the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment’s listing of diisononyl phthalate under California’s Proposition...

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’...