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Sierra Club v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

About this case

Filing year
2015
Status
Judgment issued denying petition for review.
Docket number
15-1133
Court/admin entity
United StatesUnited States Federal CourtsUnited States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (D.C. Cir.)
Case category
Federal Statutory Claims (US)NEPA (US)
Principal law
United StatesNational Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
At issue
Challenge to FERC approvals of liquefied natural gas facilities in Texas.
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Documents

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11/04/2016
Judgment issued denying petition for review.
In a two-page unpublished judgment, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals denied Sierra Club’s petition for review challenging the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC’s) environmental review for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Corpus Christi, Texas. The court said that it had explicitly rejected Sierra Club’s arguments regarding consideration of indirect and cumulative effects in its earlier opinion in Sierra Club v. FERC, No. 14-1275 (D.C. Cir. 2016), another challenge by Sierra Club to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) review for an LNG project. The court also said it had already rejected Sierra Club’s arguments regarding the social cost of carbon and regarding use of projects’ consistency with federal greenhouse gas emission reduction goals as a tool.
Decision

Summary

Challenge to FERC approvals of liquefied natural gas facilities in Texas.

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Fossil fuel
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