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On September 21, 2012, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld a decision of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California dismissing the federal common law nuisance and civil conspiracy damage claims of the Native Village of Kivalina and the City of Kivalina against a group of U.S. oil, energy, and utility companies ("Energy Producers"
Although there have been numerous lawsuits filed challenging U.S. EPA's authority to promulgate and implement regulations governing greenhouse gas emissions, perhaps the most significant, and most watched, pending climate change case is American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut, No. 10-174, argued April 19, 2011 before the U.S. Supreme Court
