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Volume 55, Issue 19
No(s). 1:20-cv-00706 JLT EPG (E.D. Cal. Jun 29, 2025)
A district court denied summary judgment for environmental groups in a challenge to the Bureau of Reclamation's application of provisions of the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation (WIIN) Act governing certain kinds of contracts for water delivery from the federal Central Valley
No(s). 24-cv-03899-VC (N.D. Cal. Jul 3, 2025)
A district court granted in part and denied in part the Navy's motion to dismiss a lawsuit concerning a decades-long radioactive waste cleanup at a naval shipyard in San Francisco.
No(s). 5:25-cv-04003-HLT-BGS (D. Kan. Jul 1, 2025)
A district court dismissed a lawsuit brought by Kansas landowners and the city of Rossville challenging construction of a nearby large-scale industrial solar power project.
No(s). 24-0156 (E.D. La. Jun 27, 2025)
A district court denied a shrimping advocacy group's motion for summary judgment in a challenge to NMFS' 2019 rule requiring turtle excluder devices on skimmer trawl vessels greater than 40 feet in length operating in inshore waters.
No(s). SAG-24-3111 (D. Md. Jul 2, 2025)
A district court granted in part and denied in part motions to dismiss a challenge to federal agencies' approval of a construction and operations plan for a wind project off the coast of Maryland and Delaware.
No(s). 23-593 and 24-1653 (9th Cir. Jun 26, 2025)
The Ninth Circuit denied environmental groups' challenge to the Bonneville Power Administration's (BPA's) decision to spend only 10% of its excess financial reserves on measures to protect fish and wildlife.
No(s). 3:24-cv-00116-SLG (D. Alaska Jun 30, 2025)
A district court dismissed a lawsuit brought by a fishing group challenging NMFS' adoption of an amendment to a fisheries management plan (FMP) for salmon fisheries in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) off the coast of Alaska.
No(s). CV-24-00146-TUC-RCC (D. Ariz. Jul 7, 2025)
A district court granted in part environmental groups' motion for summary judgment in a lawsuit concerning their 2017 petition to FWS to revise the critical habitat for the endangered Mount Graham red squirrel.
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