September 10, 2014
A Texas federal judge's recent decision to force the Sierra Club to pay $6.4 million in attorneys' fees for filing a "frivolous" Clean Air Act citizen suit has excited defense attorneys, who experts say may now seek to impose the rarely used penalty on environmental groups more often.
September 02, 2014
A Texas federal judge has ordered the Sierra Club to pay $6.4 million in attorneys' fees for filing what he described as a "frivolous" lawsuit accusing Energy Future Holdings Corp. subsidiary Luminant Generation Co. LLC of committing Clean Air Act violations.
February 28, 2014
A Texas federal judge said Wednesday that operations at a coal-fired plant owned by Energy Future Holdings Corp. subsidiary Luminant Generation Co. LLC did not violate the Clean Air Act, ending the Sierra Club's $470 million suit against the energy giant.
May 02, 2012
Sierra Club lodged a Clean Air Act suit against Luminant Generation Co. LLC in Texas federal court Tuesday, claiming the company's own data shows one of its coal-fired plants released illegal amounts of particulate matter pollution on more than 6,000 occasions since July 2007.