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Iowa v. Council on Environmental Quality
Geography
Year
2024
Document Type
Litigation
Part of
About this case
Filing year
2024
Status
Court granted intervenor-appellants' motions to dismiss appeal as moot and vacate the district court's decision granting summary judgment to plaintiffs.
Geography
Docket number
25-1641, 25-1705
Court/admin entity
United States → United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (8th Cir.)United States → United States Federal Courts
Case category
Federal Statutory Claims (US) → NEPA (US)
Principal law
United States → National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
At issue
Document with title of Iowa v. Council on Environmental Quality
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Documents
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07/29/2025
Court granted intervenor-appellants' motions to dismiss appeal as moot and vacate the district court's decision granting summary judgment to plaintiffs.
Challenge to Biden administration NEPA regulations.
Decision
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06/30/2025
Combined reply filed by appellant states in support of motion for vacatur and dismissal.
Challenge to Biden administration NEPA regulations.
Reply
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06/20/2025
Reply filed by intervenors-appellants Alaska Community Action on Toxics et al. in support of motion to dismiss appeal as moot and vacate underlying order.
Challenge to Biden administration NEPA regulations.
Reply
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05/30/2025
Consolidated response filed by federal defendants.
Challenge to Biden administration NEPA regulations.
Response
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05/12/2025
Combined response filed by plaintiff-appellees to motions for dismissal and vacatur.
Challenge to Biden administration NEPA regulations.
Response
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04/30/2025
Motion filed by appellant states for vacatur and dismissal.
Challenge to Biden administration NEPA regulations.
Motion
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04/30/2025
Motion filed by appellants Alaska Community Action on Toxics et al. to dismiss appeal as moot and vacate underlying order.
Washington, other states, the District of Columbia, New York City, and nonprofit organizations that intervened to defend the Biden administration’s amendments to the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulations asked the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals to dismiss as moot the appeal of a district court decision vacating the amendments. They argued that the case no longer presented “a live case or controversy” because CEQ published an interim final rule on April 11, 2025 withdrawing all of its NEPA regulations. The intervenors further argued that the Eighth Circuit should vacate the district court’s judgment. The plaintiff states opposed the motion, and CEQ requested an extension until May 30 to respond.
Motion
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Summary
Challenge to Biden administration NEPA regulations.
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Group
Topics
Policy instrument
Risk
Impacted group
Just transition
Fossil fuel
Greenhouse gas
Economic sector
Finance