Current ELR Update

The cases listed below appear in the most recent issue of ELR's Weekly Update. For cases previously reported, please use the filter on the left.

Volume 55, Issue 27

55 ELR 20135
No(s). 16-60670 (5th Cir. Sep 22, 2025)

The Fifth Circuit, 2-1, denied a challenge to EPA's disapproval of a good neighbor SIP submitted by Texas in 2012 asserting that the state's contributions to ozone pollution in other states were not significant enough to require mitigation.

Keywords:
Clean Air Act (CAA)
55 ELR 20132
No(s). 1:23-cv-01204 (CJN) (D.D.C. Sep 15, 2025)

A district court denied environmental groups' motion for partial summary judgment in a challenge to FAA's decision granting a license to a commercial space company to test its new reusable launch vehicle at its facility in Texas.

Keywords:
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
55 ELR 20131
No(s). 3:25-CV-01377-NJR (S.D. Ill. Sep 11, 2025)

A district court denied environmental groups' motion for preliminary injunction in a challenge to the Forest Service's approval of a logging project in Shawnee National Forest.

Keywords:
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
55 ELR 20133
No(s). CV 22-149-M-DWM (D. Mont. Sep 17, 2025)

A district court adopted a magistrate judge's findings and recommendations in a lawsuit concerning the Forest Service's authorization of continued and expanded commercial livestock grazing leases in the Absaroka Beartooth Mountains.

Keywords:
Land Use (generally)
55 ELR 20130
No(s). 21-1126 (D.C. Cir. Sep 9, 2025)

In a split opinion, the D.C. Circuit denied petitions to review a FERC order certifying a Montana solar power facility as a "small power production facility" under the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA).

Keywords:
Energy (generally)
55 ELR 20134
No(s). 23-1333 (D.C. Cir. Sep 19, 2025)

The D.C. Circuit denied a petition to review FERC orders declaring the Commission would take no action to prevent construction or operation pending its review of license applications for a new pipeline in Puerto Rico.

Keywords:
Natural Resources (generally)

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