The October 1979 Term of the United States Supreme Court is shaping up as a full one with respect to cases raising environmental issues. Last Term, except for the important decisions supporting the National Environmental Policy Act regulations issued by the Council on Environmental Quality¹ and holding that state authority to regulate wildlife is circumscribed by the same Commerce Clause limitations applicable to their regulation of other natural resources,² the High Court's end-of-Term score card was marked by a paucity of substantive rulings in environmental cases and a plethora of refusals to review the decisions³ of lower courts. Already this year, however, review has been granted in a wide range of cases, including early argument in some, and a number of other important questions have been placed on the docket for consideration.