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.
June 14, 2023
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.
April 28, 2023
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.
April 07, 2023
An environmental group suing Shell Oil Co. and other companies for failing to consider climate change risks to a bulk petroleum storage terminal has asked a Connecticut federal judge to impose sanctions because several defendants failed to attend depositions.
September 16, 2022
A Connecticut federal judge on Friday largely kept intact an environmental group's lawsuit accusing Shell Oil Co. units of failing to factor in the risks of climate change at a New Haven, Connecticut, fuel storage facility, trimming only a few claims from the suit.
July 08, 2021
The Conservation Law Foundation filed a pair of suits against Gulf Oil LP and entities of Royal Dutch Shell PLC accusing them of failing to factor in the risks of climate change at fuel storage facilities in New Haven, Connecticut, thus placing the surrounding community in peril.