Center for Biological Diversity v. U.S. Department of Transportation

Three organizations filed a petition for review in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals challenging the U.S. Department of Transportation Maritime Administration’s issuance of a license for the Delfin LNG LLC deepwater port terminal off the coast of Louisiana. In a <a href="https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/lawsuit-challenges-trump-approval-of-louisiana-lng-deepwater-export-terminal-2025-05-19/">press release</a> announcing the lawsuit, the organizations said they were challenging the failure to fully assess the environmental and climate harms of the project, which would be the U.S.’s first offshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project.