October 04, 2024
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency asked a Louisiana federal judge to reject the state's effort to impose a nationwide ban on civil rights regulations focused on disparate impacts.
September 23, 2024
Louisiana is asking a federal judge to revisit an order and amend it to completely vacate U.S. Environmental Protection Agency civil rights regulations, after the judge granted the Pelican State's motion for a permanent injunction within its borders.
August 23, 2024
A Louisiana federal judge has granted the state's request for a permanent injunction blocking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from enforcing civil rights regulations in the state that involve disparate impact components.
May 17, 2024
In the year since the U.S. Supreme Court said "extraordinary" and "far-reaching" attacks on administrative enforcers can skip agency tribunals and go straight to federal district court, ambitious challenges to regulatory powers are rapidly gaining traction, and the high court is poised to put them on an even firmer footing.
May 15, 2024
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has told a Louisiana federal judge that the state's bid to block EPA regulations that involve disparate impact components would inappropriately impact the EPA's authority beyond the state's own agencies.
January 24, 2024
A Louisiana federal judge will allow the state to temporarily block the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from imposing certain environmental justice requirements on permitting and grant decisions, finding the state is likely to prevail in its challenge.
October 02, 2023
Louisiana on Friday slammed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's "frantic response" to its lawsuit alleging the EPA illegally attempted to strong-arm state agencies into adopting environmental justice policies, urging a federal judge to keep the litigation alive.
August 17, 2023
U.S. environmental regulators said in a memo filed in Louisiana federal court that the state's challenge to anti-discrimination measures employed in the cause of environmental justice is rooted in investigations abandoned nearly two months ago, and that its claims suffer from "fundamental" jurisdictional and merits flaws.
August 04, 2023
Courts around the U.S. will be weighing important environmental legal issues over the rest of 2023, including how much courts should defer to agency expertise, whether young plaintiffs can sue the U.S. over its energy policies and whether the Biden administration has overstepped in its efforts to enforce its environmental justice priorities.
June 27, 2023
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday told Louisiana officials that it had ceased investigations into civil rights violations by state agencies regarding pollution from a petrochemical plant and suggested that the state drop its lawsuit alleging federal overreach to pursue environmental justice.