May 18, 2026
Any artificial intelligence prompts that an environmental advocacy group's expert witness used to craft her report in a Clean Water Act case are discoverable as part of her methodology, a Connecticut federal judge ruled in ordering additional disclosure efforts.
April 15, 2026
An apparently frustrated Connecticut federal judge on Wednesday ordered Shell and an environmental advocacy group to try to resolve remaining disputes in Clean Water Act litigation before they appear before him again, ruling that counsel "must actually speak for four hours," and "time spent composing e-mails, even lengthy ones" doesn't count.
August 14, 2025
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.
June 16, 2025
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.
May 30, 2025
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.
May 07, 2025
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.
May 07, 2024
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.
April 01, 2024
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.
December 11, 2023
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."
October 19, 2023
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.