New York Environmental Hearing Dockets Since 2005

The Office of Hearings and Mediation Services Docket Management System contains records of environmental cases referred for public hearings or action by an administrative law judge. It includes cases open on or after January 1, 2005, managed by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. The dataset was last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in case referrals and docket status over time using case open dates and docket status fields.
• Study the frequency and outcomes of different types of environmental hearings using case type and decision fields.
• Model case duration or predict hearing outcomes from features like case type, referral date, and involved parties.
• Track geographic distribution of environmental disputes using location data associated with each docketed case.

Strengths

• Cases span from January 1, 2005 to the present, providing over 15 years of temporal coverage.
• Data is available in multiple structured formats including CSV, XML, RDF, and JSON.

Limitations

• The specific number of rows and columns is unknown, limiting assessment of dataset scale.
• No sample data or column schema is provided, complicating initial analysis.

Provenance

Source

State of New York, Department of Environmental Conservation, Office of Hearings and Mediation Services.

Collection Method

Records from an operational docket management system for administrative law cases.

Time Range

Beginning January 1, 2005.

Freshness

Last updated in April 2026.

Geography

State of New York, USA.