A district court dismissed a request by environmental groups to compel the State Department to release documents detailing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions as required by the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change. The groups sought to compel the submission of two required reports via the APA, and...

A state court dismissed a lawsuit filed by a group of Alaskan youth alleging that the state has contributed to climate change through its actions with respect to fossil fuels and carbon emissions. The group sought declaratory relief that the state's actions violated their fundamental rights to a sta...

The U.S. Supreme Court denied the U.S. government's petition for a writ of mandamus in a lawsuit brought by a group of youths challenging the government's failure to act on climate change and asserting the right to a safe climate. The court found that the government's petition was unwarranted becaus...

The D.C. Circuit denied two petitions to review EPA attainment designations for the 2010 sulfur dioxide NAAQS. An environmental group argued that the Agency should have designated Gallia County, Ohio, as a nonattainment area rather than an unclassifiable area because air quality modeling data submit...