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- Oct 5, 202675% CONFIDENCEfrom the source
Ninth Circuit Holds a Hearing on the Challenges to Sable's Pipeline Permits
- The Ninth Circuit's calendar lists a hearing for Monday 5 October 2026 at 1:30 p.m. in Courtroom 2 of its San Francisco courthouse on three consolidated cases, 26-4629, 26-508 and 25-8059, each titled Environmental Defense Center v. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, with 20 minutes each[1]
- The petitions by California and conservation groups challenge PHMSA's 17 December 2025 reclassification of Sable Offshore's onshore pipelines as 'interstate', which took them from California's State Fire Marshal, and its 22 December restart approval[2][3]
- The same panel first heard the petitions on 7 July, when the dispute centred on whether oil treated at the Las Flores Canyon plant is still in interstate transportation[4]
- The court has since ruled that PHMSA's new permit moots the challenge to its first, emergency permit, according to the Center for Biological Diversity[3]
- The challenge to the federal takeover of the pipelines from California remains pending; the groups' separate 22 September suit against the June permit is a new case[2]
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- [1]75%ca9.uscourts.gov/calendarca9.uscourts.gov· Posted Sep 28, 2026· Starts Oct 5, 2026 ✓· 27% of score
Scheduled on the Ninth Circuit's calendar: '2026-10-05', San Francisco, 'Courtroom 2, 3rd Floor Rm 330', '1:30 pm', cases 26-4629, 26-508 and 25-8059, 'Environmental Defense Center, et al. v. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration', 20 minutes each.
- [2]70%Environmentalists Sue Trump Administration Over Sable Pipeline Permit as County Leaders Push Backkeyt.com· Published Sep 23, 2026· 27% of score
KEYT: the challenge to the federal government's decision to take regulatory authority over the pipelines from California 'remains pending in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals', separate from the groups' new 22 September suit.
- [3]72%Lawsuit Challenges Second Trump Administration Permit for California Coastal Oil Pipelinebiologicaldiversity.org· Published Sep 22, 2026· 27% of score
Center for Biological Diversity: PHMSA's June permit was its second special permit to Sable since December; 'the court ruled the new permit moots' the suit over the first; PHMSA reclassified the onshore lines as 'interstate' on 17 Dec and approved the restart plan on 22 Dec 2025.
- [4]74%Ninth Circuit asked to shut down California offshore oil drilling operationcourthousenews.com· Published Jul 7, 2026· 20% of score
Courthouse News on the panel's first hearing of these petitions on 7 July: the central issue is whether the onshore line is interstate transportation under federal oversight or intrastate; California asked the court to overturn PHMSA's actions.
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