Western Organization of Resource Councils v. Granholm

Western Organization of Resource Councils (WORC) voluntarily dismissed a lawsuit it filed in 2020 to contest the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) administration of the National Coal Council (NCC). In its complaint, WORC alleged that the NCC had “operated in secret and work[ed] to advance the goals of only one interest: the industries that profit from the development and combustion of coal.” WORC asserted that the NCC’s operations violated the Federal Advisory Committee Act. The notice of voluntary dismissal noted that DOE had notified the NCC’s chair in November 2021 that DOE would allow the NCC’s charter to lapse and that a new charter had been finalized and transmitted to Congress in February 2022. “Having reviewed the Department’s plans for the new National Advisory Committee on Coal,” WORC voluntarily dismissed the action with prejudice.

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