Air
Community-in-Power & Development Ass'n v. Pruitt
A district court ordered EPA to promulgate revised CAA emission standards for nine industrial...
Prevention of Significant Deterioration: A Scalpel, Not an Axe
Does the United States need the Clean Air Act’s Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD)...
Climate Change
Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Schneiderman
A district court dismissed an oil company's lawsuit seeking to stop the New York and...
Incorporating Climate Change Adaptation Into Framework Environmental Laws
This Article examines the various ways countries throughout the world have started to...
Energy
Briggs v. Southwestern Energy Production Co.
A Pennsylvania appellate court held that a family may go forward with its lawsuit against a...
Deep Decarbonization and Hydropower
Hydropower—both conventional and pumped storage hydropower—is crucial to sustaining our...
Governance
Center for Biological Diversity v. United States Fish & Wildlife Service
A district court held that FWS must comply with a FOIA request for information from its Law...
EQT Production Co. v. Department of Environmental Protection
Pennsylvania's highest court held that the $10,000/day civil penalty under the Clean Streams Law...
Land Use
Addressing the Environmental Impacts of Large Infrastructure Projects: Making "Mitigation" Matter
We are in the midst of an unprecedented governmentwide focus on infrastructure permitting and...
Growth-Induced Land Development Caused by Highway and Other Projects as an Indirect Effect Under NEPA
Growth-induced land development caused by highway and other projects must be considered as a...
Natural Resources
M.L. Johnson Family Properties, LLC v. Zinke
A district court upheld a surface coal mining permit issued to a company even though the...
Western Organization of Resource Councils v. U.S. Bureau of Land Management
A district court held that BLM violated NEPA by failing to adequately consider climate change in...
Toxic Substances
Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste v. Pruitt
A district court held that EPA violated the APA by failing to provide notice and opportunity to...
Environmental Working Group v. United States Food & Drug Administration
A district court dismissed environmental groups' lawsuit against the FDA concerning the use of...
Waste
B&R Resources, LLC v. Department of Environmental Protection
A Pennsylvania appellate court reversed and remanded a lower court's decision that the owner of...
American Petroleum Institute v. Environmental Protection Agency
The D.C. Circuit clarified an earlier ruling vacating portions of a 2015 rule that defined when...
Water
Environmental Law & Policy Center v. United States Environmental Protection Agency
A district court held it could not rule on the merits as to whether EPA violated the APA when it...
Friends of the Santa Clara River v. United States Army Corps of Engineers
The Ninth Circuit upheld the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' issuance of a CWA §404 permit...
Wildlife
Current Developments in U.S. Fisheries Policy
The Trump Administration’s approach to fisheries management appears to constitute a significant...
California Sea Urchin Comm'n v. Bean
The Ninth Circuit upheld FWS' decision to end its 1987 sea otter translocation program. FWS...
