List of environmental lawsuits

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On this page, environmental lawsuit means "a lawsuit where the well-being of an environmental asset or the well-being of a set of environmental assets is in dispute". Also on this page, lawsuit with environmental relevance means "a lawsuit where a non-environmental entity or a set of non-environmental entities is in dispute, but whose outcome has relevance for an environmental asset or for a set of environmental assets".

Because the distinction between the two types of lawsuit is not perfectly clear-cut, it is beneficial to keep the two lists together on one page, but separated according to that distinction.

Contents

[edit] Environmental lawsuits

Lawsuit(s) Environmental asset(s)
and subject(s) of lawsuit(s)		 Court(s) of decision(s) Year(s) of decision(s)
Aldred's Case Aesthetics: smell from pig sty 1610
Amchem Products Inc. v. British Columbia Worker's Compensation Board Workplace: asbestos Supreme Court of Canada 1993
American Elec. Power Co. v. Connecticut Climate: greenhouse gas emissions Supreme Court of the United States 2011
Anderson v. Cryovac Water: toxic contamination
Burmah Oil Co. v Lord Advocate Oil fields: destruction during World War II Courts of Scotland 1965
Cardwell v. American Bridge Co. Waterways: common highways Supreme Court of the United States 1885
Castlemaine Tooheys Ltd v South Australia Recycling: bottle deposit High Court of Australia 1990
Chemical Waste Management, Inc. v. Hunt Cleanliness: interstate importation fee for disposal of hazardous waste Supreme Court of the United States 1992
Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. Air: emissions from new equipment and total emissions from plant Supreme Court of the United States 1984
Citizens to Preserve Overton Park v. Volpe Parkland: highway routing Supreme Court of the United States 1971
City of Philadelphia v. New Jersey Cleanliness: interstate importation of waste Supreme Court of the United States 1978
Coeur Alaska, Inc. v. Southeast Alaska Conservation Council Water: gold mine waste disposal in Lower Slate Lake Supreme Court of the United States 2009
Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States Water: supply Supreme Court of the United States 1976
Commonwealth v Tasmania Water: hydroelectric dam on Gordon River High Court of Australia 1983
Department of Transportation v. Public Citizen Air: pollution from international transport Supreme Court of the United States 2004
Dolan v. City of Tigard Land: paving a parking lot, and providing a greenway and a pedestrian and bicycle pathway Supreme Court of the United States 1994
Duke Power Co. v. Carolina Environmental Study Group Workplace: nuclear accidents Supreme Court of the United States 1978
Edwards v. National Coal Board Land: preventing accidental rock fall in coal mine 1949
Environment Agency v Clark Land: compliance with landfill licence terms
Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker Water and land: compensation for victims of oil spill Supreme Court of the United States 2008
Federal Power Commission v. Tuscarora Indian Nation Water: hydroelectric power from Niagara Falls Supreme Court of the United States 1960
Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services, Inc. Water: industrial pollution of North Tyger River Supreme Court of the United States 2000
Gade v. National Solid Wastes Management Association Workplace: hazardous waste materials Supreme Court of the United States 1992
Geer v. Connecticut Wildlife: interstate transportation of wild fowl Supreme Court of the United States 1896
Hadacheck v. Sebastian Aesthetics: pollution from manufacture of clay bricks Supreme Court of the United States 1915
Hornbeck Offshore Services LLC v. Salazar Water: offshore drilling United States federal courts ongoing
Hughes v. Oklahoma Wildlife: federal legislation Supreme Court of the United States 1979
Industrial Union Department v. American Petroleum Institute Workplace: exposure to benzene Supreme Court of the United States 1980
Interprovincial Cooperatives v. The Queen Water: interprovincial river pollution Supreme Court of Canada 1975
Jackson v Attorney General Wildlife: hunting foxes and hares House of Lords 2005, 2006
Jacksonville, MD ExxonMobil Gas Leak Case Land and aquifers: gasoline leak from service station 2009
Kansas v. Colorado Supreme Court of the United States 1902, 1907, 1943, 1995, 2001, 2004, 2009
Kivalina v. ExxonMobil Corp., Et al. Climate: destruction of a community by climate change United States federal courts ongoing
Kleppe v. New Mexico Wildlife: horses and burros Supreme Court of the United States 1976
Kruger and al. v. The Queen Wildlife: hunting of deer by Aboriginals out of season Supreme Court of Canada 1978
Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council Coastland: erecting homes Supreme Court of the United States 1992
Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife Wildlife: geographical limits of a section of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 Supreme Court of the United States 1992
M. C. Mehta v. Kamal Nath Water and land: land encroachment causing swelling of Beas River and washing away of land Supreme Court of India 1997
M.C. Mehta v. Union of India (Oleum Gas Leak Case) Air: pollution causing a hazard to community of Delhi Supreme Court of India
Maine v. Taylor Fisheries: interstate importation of fish Supreme Court of the United States 1986
Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency Air: regulation of greenhouse gases Supreme Court of the United States 2007
McLaren v. Caldwell Waterways: common highways Judicial Committee of the Privy Council 1884
Metropolitan Edison Co. v. People Against Nuclear Energy General environment: restarting reactor Supreme Court of the United States 1983
Missouri v. Holland Wildlife: hunting migratory waterfowl Supreme Court of the United States 1920
Monsanto Canada Inc. v. Schmeiser Farmland: deliberate propagation of canola contaminated by genetically modified organisms Supreme Court of Canada 2004
Monsanto Co. v. Geertson Seed Farms Farmland: genetically modified alfalfa Supreme Court of the United States 2010
Morrison v. Olson Land: Superfund law regarding hazardous waste Supreme Court of the United States 1998
National Assn. of Home Builders v. Defenders of Wildlife Water and wildlife: granting state authority over anti-pollution statutes Supreme Court of the United States 2007
National Audubon Society v. Superior Court Water: supply from Mono Lake Supreme Court of California 1983
New York v. United States General environment: disposal of radioactive waste Supreme Court of the United States 1992
Nollan v. California Coastal Commission Coastland: erecting a house, and providing a public greenway and a bicycle path Supreme Court of the United States 1987
Norton v. S. Utah Wilderness Alliance Wilderness: preservation Supreme Court of the United States 2004
Nulyarimma v Thompson Water: mining company draining Lake Eyre Federal Court of Australia 1999
Operation Dismantle v. The Queen General environment: military tests increasing risk or nuclear war Supreme Court of Canada 1985
Oregon Waste Systems, Inc. v. Department of Environmental Quality of Oregon Cleanliness: interstate disposal of waste Supreme Court of the United States 1994
Palila v. Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources Wildlife: introduced species (goats and sheep) United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit 1981
Partridge v Crittenden Wildlife: advertising brambling cocks and hens Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of England and Wales 1968
R. v. Badger Wildlife: hunting by Aboriginals on private land Supreme Court of Canada 1996
R. v. City of Sault Ste-Marie Water: locating a waste disposal site near a stream Supreme Court of Canada 1978
R. v. Crown Zellerbach Canada Ltd. Water: ocean dumping Supreme Court of Canada 1988
R. v. Hydro-Québec Water: dumping polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) into the St. Maurice River Supreme Court of Canada 1997
R. v. Jim Wildlife: hunting by Aboriginals on Indian reserves British Columbia Supreme Court 1915
R. v. Van der Peet Fisheries: Aboriginal fishing rights extending to selling Supreme Court of Canada 1996
Rapanos v. United States Wetlands: filling with sand Supreme Court of the United States 2006
Rylands v Fletcher Water and land: reservoir flooding adjacent land British House of Lords 1868
Ryuichi Shimoda et al. v. The State General environment: atomic bombs damaging Hiroshima and Nagasaki District Court of Tokyo 1963
S. D. Warren Co. v. Maine Board of Environmental Protection Water: hydroelectric dams discharging into Presumpscot River Supreme Court of the United States 2006
Sierra Club v. Morton Parkland: development Supreme Court of the United States 1972
Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook Cty. v. Army Corps of Engineers Water: waste disposal Supreme Court of the United States 2001
Sporhase v. Nebraska ex rel. Douglas Water: exportation of water Supreme Court of the United States 1982
St. Louis v. Myers Water: rights of landowners beside Mississippi River Supreme Court of the United States 1885
Sterling v. Velsicol Chemical Corp Water: disposal of waste from insecticide production United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit 1986, 1988
Tahoe-Sierra Preservation Council, Inc. v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency Water: supply from Lake Tahoe Basin Supreme Court of the United States 2002
Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill Habitat: destruction by hydroelectric dams Supreme Court of the United States 1978
Tri-state water dispute Water: supply from Lake Lanier undecided
United Haulers Assn. v. Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste Mgmt. Auth. Cleanliness: interstate exportation of waste Supreme Court of the United States 2007
United States v. Dion Wildlife: American Indians hunting eagles Supreme Court of the United States 1986
United States v. Riverside Bayview Wetlands: placement of fill materials Supreme Court of the United States 1985
United States v. SCRAP Recycling: railroad freight rate Supreme Court of the United States 1973
United States v. Weitzenhoff Water: ocean dumping Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
United States v. Winans Fisheries: Americans using a fish wheel to catch salmon Supreme Court of the United States 1905
Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. General environment: rulemaking, and environmental effects of the uranium fuel cycle Supreme Court of the United States 1978
Ward v. Canada (Attorney General) Fishing and hunting: catching seals and selling their pelts Supreme Court of Canada 2002
Whitman v. American Trucking Associations, Inc. Air: ozone and particulate matter Supreme Court of the United States 2001
Winter v. Natural Resources Defense Council Biophony: navy sonar harming whales and other marine mammals Supreme Court of the United States 2008
Wisconsin v. Illinois Water: supply from the Great Lakes Supreme Court of the United States 1929
Wyoming v. Colorado Water: supply from Laramie River Supreme Court of the United States 1922

[edit] Lawsuits with environmental relevance

Lawsuit(s) Environmental asset(s)
and subject(s) of lawsuit(s)		 Court(s) of decision(s) Year(s) of decision(s)
Anglo-lranian Oil Co. (United Kingdom v. Iran) Oil fields: licence to extract oil International Court of Justice 1952
Arizona v. California Water: supply from Colorado River Supreme Court of the United States 1931, 1934, 1936, 1963, 1964, 1968, 1979, 1983, 1984, 2000 and 2006
Babbitt v. Sweet Home Chapter of Communities for a Great Oregon Wildlife: interpretation of law protecting fish and wildlife Supreme Court of the United States 1995
Bamford v Turnley Aesthetics: smoke from brick kiln 1860
Baldwin v. Fish and Game Commission of Montana Wildlife: elk hunting Supreme Court of the United States 1978
BG Checo International Ltd. v. British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority Electromagnetic fields: terms regarding clearing of land Supreme Court of Canada 1993
Bowoto v. Chevron Corp. Oil fields (offshore): injuries and human rights violations United States District Court for the Northern District of California 2008
Burford v. Sun Oil Co. Oil fields: complex geology and multiple users Supreme Court of the United States 1943
Carter v. Carter Coal Company Land: regulating the coal mining industry Supreme Court of the United States 1936
Case Concerning Maritime Delimitation between the Republic of Peru and the Republic of Chile (Peru v. Chile) Water: sea border between Chile and Peru International Court of Justice unresolved
Celotex Corp. v. Catrett Workplace: asbestos exposure Supreme Court of the United States 1986
C&A Carbone, Inc. v. Town of Clarkstown, New York Recycling: interstate exportation restriction Supreme Court of the United States 1994
Department of Interior v. Klamath Water Users Protective Assn. Water: federal legislation Supreme Court of the United States 2001
Diamond v. Chakrabarty Genetics and water: patent for GMO for cleaning oil spills Supreme Court of the United States 1980
Dimmock v Secretary of State for Education and Skills Climate: providing documentary An Inconvenient Truth (about climate change) to English state schools High Court of Justice 2007
English v. General Electric Workplace: work table contaminated with uranium Supreme Court of the United States 1990
Farley v Skinner Soundscape: aircraft noise House of Lords 2001
Funk Brothers Seed Co. v. Kalo Inoculant Co. Leguminous plants: patent for product for promoting nitrogen fixation Supreme Court of the United States 1948
Hunt v. T&N plc Workplace: asbestos exposure Supreme Court of Canada 1993
Keystone Bituminous Coal Ass'n v. DeBenedictis Land: coal mining causing damage to buildings, etc. Supreme Court of the United States 1987
McDonald's Restaurants v Morris & Steel Water and rainforests: waste and destruction, respectively European Court of Human Rights 2005
Minnesota v. Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa Indians Wildlife: hunting, fishing, and gathering rights Supreme Court of the United States 1999
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. v. State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission General environment: disposal of radioactive waste from nuclear reactors Supreme Court of the United States 1983
Peevyhouse v. Garland Coal & Mining Co. Land: restoration after coal mining Supreme Court of Oklahoma 1962
Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon Land: coal mining under a habitation Supreme Court of the United States 1922
R. v. Marshall Fisheries: right of Aboriginals to catch and sell eels Supreme Court of Canada 1999
Rindge Co. v. County of Los Angeles Land: expropriation for highway Supreme Court of the United States 1923
Transco plc v Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council Land: water pipe leaking and washing away land 2003
United States v. Causby Biophony and scotobiology: aircraft flying low Supreme Court of the United States 1946
United States v. Louisiana (1965) Natural resources: entitlement to Gulf of Mexico seabed Supreme Court of the United States 1965
United States v. Shoshone Tribe of Indians Land: mineral and timber rights Supreme Court of the United States 1938
United States v. The Progressive General environment: publishing the "secret" of the hydrogen bomb 1979
Vaughan v Menlove General environment: spontaneous ignition of hay, causing fire to spread to adjacent land 1837
Wik Peoples v Queensland Land: removal of land from Aboriginal reserve for bauxite mining High Court of Australia 1996
Willson v. Black-Bird Creek Marsh Co. Water: sailboat breaking through a dam Supreme Court of the United States 1829
Wiwa family lawsuits against Royal Dutch Shell Oil fields: human rights abuses United States District Court for the Southern District of New York 2009
Yarmirr v Northern Territory Water: native title to seas, sea-bed and sub-soil Federal Court of Australia 2001

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