A district court granted environmental groups' motion for summary judgment in a challenge to BLM's approval of a commercial logging project on federal land in Oregon.

The Ninth Circuit affirmed in part and vacated in part summary judgment for USDA's Wildlife Services in a challenge to the authorization of a predator damage and conflict management program in Nevada wilderness areas.

ELR is pleased to present three articles as a preview to our May-June issue. One argues that if avoided harms to the economy and consumers from emissions reductions can yield economically cognizable consumer welfare enhancement in the longer term, climate action should be defensible under current antitrust doctrine. Another piece urges the granting "presumption of service connection" for PFAS exposure in veterans. And a third discusses issues that future Global Plastics Treaty negotiations must confront to produce an effective plastic life-cycle governance instrument. The full issue will be posted in June.

An antitrust paradox lies at the heart of private-sector climate commitments, particularly if prosocial goals are framed only in terms of economic standards. But if avoided harms to the economy and consumers from emissions reductions can yield economically cognizable consumer welfare enhancement in the longer term, climate action should be defensible under current antitrust doctrine.