PLF represents Morning Star Packing Co and others in their constitutional challenge to California’s illegal greenhouse gas allowance auction. A hearing this week at the California State Senate illustrated how high the stakes in this fight are. California anticipated collecting … Continue reading
On Monday, the Supreme Court denied Kivalina’s cert petition. Recall that this was a global warming nuisance tort action, brought by an Alaskan town against several large energy companes. The town argued that, under federal common law, the companies had … Continue reading
Today PLF filed a motion for summary judgment in federal district court to reverse the government’s decision to prohibit motorized travel on hundreds of miles of roads and trails in Tahoe National Forest. Historically, these routes were available to individuals … Continue reading
Since Fiscal Year 2011, over five dozen senior officials have retired from the agency. That fact, coupled with the presence of many “acting” senior officials (whose nominations Senate Republicans have held up), has led many EPA observers to conclude that … Continue reading
When the Supreme Court of the United States issued its opinion in Rapanos v. United States a few years ago, it highlighted that the average applicant for a Clean Water Act Section 404 permit spends 788 days and $271,596 to … Continue reading
Today, in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Drakes Bay Oyster Company presents its case for enjoining the Secretary of the Interior and the National Park Service from destroying its business before its legal claims can even be heard in … Continue reading
Over at the Cato at Liberty blog, Ilya Shapiro reports on an effort to rein in the EPA’s abuse of property rights under the Clean Water Act. PLF has long been involved in the fight against the abuse of the … Continue reading