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Conservation Law Foundation, Inc. v. Shell Oil Company et al

  1. August 14, 2025

    Shell Faces Retooled Clean Water Act Suit In Connecticut

    Conservation Law Foundation Inc. has retooled a Connecticut federal court lawsuit against Shell and several other petroleum companies that operate terminals in New Haven harbor on Long Island Sound, adding Connecticut Environmental Policy Act and Coastal Management Act claims to a Clean Water Act case filed in July 2021.

  2. June 16, 2025

    Shell Loses Bid To Halt Suit Over Oil Terminal's Pollution Plan

    Two Shell Oil Co. subsidiaries cannot halt discovery in an environmental group's challenge to pollution control efforts at a New Haven petroleum terminal based on their interpretations of a state agency's draft permit, a Connecticut federal judge has ruled.

  3. May 30, 2025

    Shell Speculated About Conn. Environment Goals, Group Says

    Two Shell Oil Co. subsidiaries speculated about Connecticut's regulatory goals while using the draft of a new state permit to interpret a prior permit governing a New Haven petroleum terminal, relitigating theories a judge rejected in 2023, an environmental group has said in its challenge to the terminal's flood readiness plans.

  4. May 07, 2025

    Shell Says Conn. Draft Shows Climate Review Wasn't Needed

    Two Shell Oil subsidiaries have asked a Connecticut federal judge to pause expert discovery in an environmental group's challenge to pollution prevention efforts at a New Haven petroleum terminal along Long Island Sound, claiming state regulators have clarified that their current permit does not squarely require a climate change review.

  5. May 07, 2024

    Shell Violated Order By Refusing Docs, Enviro Group Says

    Shell Oil Co. violated a federal court order and civil procedure rules by raising "artificially restrictive and hypertechnical interpretations" of discovery demands in a Conservation Law Foundation Inc. lawsuit over the petroleum producer's preparedness for floods, the environmental watchdog group has told a Connecticut judge.

  6. April 01, 2024

    Shell Ordered To Hand Over Docs In Conn. Climate Dispute

    Shell Oil Co. must hand over several documents by the end of April in litigation concerning the company's alleged failure to take into account climate change risks at a fuel storage facility in New Haven, Connecticut, a federal magistrate judge has ruled in an attempt to end the parties' long-running discovery dispute.

  7. December 11, 2023

    Shell Slams Climate Group's Retooled Discovery Bid

    Shell Oil Co. urged a Connecticut federal judge to reject an environmental organization's motion to compel discovery in its climate change suit against the energy giant, arguing that the new requests are even more burdensome than their predecessors and that the green group has "had enough bites at this apple."

  8. October 19, 2023

    Shell Loses Early Attempt To Trim Conn. Climate Change Suit

    A federal judge in Connecticut on Thursday declined a request by Shell Oil Co. to shave nine counts from an environmental group's climate change lawsuit, ruling from the bench that a jury should consider whether a government permit required the company to mitigate against potential storm surges and increased rainfall.

  9. June 14, 2023

    Shell Moves To End CWA Claims Over Its Conn. Terminal

    Shell USA Inc. is asking a Connecticut federal judge to toss nine Clean Water Act claims related to the climate change preparedness of a New Haven petroleum storage terminal, arguing a conservation group is challenging its permit compliance based not on the law but what it wishes the law said.

  10. April 28, 2023

    Shell Urges Sanctions For Enviro Group In Conn. Climate Suit

    Shell Oil Co. and two subsidiaries have urged a Connecticut federal judge to impose sanctions on an environmental group that is suing them over allegedly inadequate climate change preparation at a storage terminal in New Haven, arguing that Conservation Law Foundation Inc. filed an "abusive" motion to punish the defendants amid a dispute over deposition scheduling.