Supreme Court Declines to Limit Environmental Citizen Suits
Jul 10, 2025 · With the Supreme Court declining to take up either case, the current, broad scope of citizen suit authority remains intact. As a result, citizen suits will likely continue to play an …
Supreme Court’s Cert Denials Pave Way for Surge in Environmental ...
Aug 4, 2025 · Environmental groups are poised to intensify their citizen suit efforts. The CWA and CAA, among other statutes, explicitly include citizen suit provisions, recognizing that …
How Citizen Suits Are Evolving in Environmental Enforcement
Sep 26, 2024 · Explore how citizen suits, once simple enforcement tools, have changed over decades due to shifts in environmental law, regulations, and social priorities
Supreme Court Allows Environmental Citizen Suits to Stand
Jul 24, 2025 · Federal enforcement of environmental laws may be slowing down, but citizen enforcement is picking up with the Supreme Court passively allowing suits.
The Citizens Are Coming: Citizens Groups Are Better Funded …
Feb 21, 2025 · It is all but guaranteed that environmental groups will soon step into the enforcement void and file citizen suits. We saw this during the first Trump administration when …
What’s a “Citizen Suit” and Why Does it Matter?
Jun 16, 2025 · But after Congress passed new environmental laws in the 1970s, things changed. Suddenly, private individuals whose health and well-being were threatened by toxic pollution …
Citizen Suits - The Environmental Justice Green Book
Oct 22, 2024 · Many of these environmental laws include “citizen suit” provisions which allow citizens to ‘step into the shoes’ of a government agency to enforce environmental laws directly …
Jul 17, 2025 · In a significant victory for environmental advocacy groups, the Supreme Court’s refusal on June 30, 2025 to grant certiorari in two pivotal cases is widely expected to …
The Other Environmental Enforcer: What You Need to Know About Citizen Suits
This presentation will provide an overview of the citizen suit provisions in various environmental statutes, highlight some recent trends, and more.
Citizen Enforcement - National Environmental Law Center
The citizen suit provisions of the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and more than a dozen other environmental statutes are powerful tools in the fight against illegal pollution.