Climate Protection & Restoration Initiative v. Regan

After the plaintiffs and defendants filed a joint stipulation of dismissal, the federal district court for the District of Oregon dismissed the lawsuit challenging EPA’s denial of a petition requesting that EPA undertake rulemaking pursuant to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to phase out greenhouse gas pollution and remove legacy and residual greenhouse gas emissions.

Nonprofit organizations, individual scientists, and a psychiatrist filed a lawsuit in the federal district court for the District of Oregon seeking to compel the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to issue a rulemaking under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) “to phase out the production and importation and, as warranted, the processing, distribution, use or atmospheric disposal of certain chemical substances and mixtures … as required to secure the phase out of greenhouse gas (‘GHG’) pollution and to compel removal of residual and legacy GHG emissions.” The plaintiffs petitioned EPA to undertake this rulemaking in June 2022, and EPA denied the petition in September 2022.