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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 25

55 ELR 20120
No(s). 23-35543 and 23-35544 (9th Cir. Aug 22, 2025)

The Ninth Circuit affirmed summary judgment for American Indian tribes in a challenge to BLM's authorization of an exchange of land that was formerly part of the tribes' reservation. The tribes, which ceded that land to the U.S.

Keywords:
Land Use (generally)
55 ELR 20122
No(s). 24-4542 (9th Cir. Aug 27, 2025)

The Ninth Circuit affirmed summary judgment for BLM's approval of a logging project in federally owned coastal Oregon forests.

Keywords:
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
55 ELR 20118
No(s). 21-00094-JB-B (S.D. Ala. Aug 21, 2025)

A district court granted in part and denied in part summary judgment for property owners in a challenge to FWS' 2020 final rule designating ESA critical habitat for the black pinesnake.

Keywords:
Endangered Species Act (ESA)
55 ELR 20117
No(s). 1:24-cv-138-JL-TSM (D.N.H. Aug 20, 2025)

A district court denied summary judgment for an environmental group in a challenge to the Forest Service's authorization of logging projects in White Mountain National Forest.

Keywords:
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
55 ELR 20121
No(s). 2:24-cv-41 (S.D. Ohio Aug 26, 2025)

A district court granted EPA's motion to dismiss a challenge to its 2022 denial of a coal-fired power plant's request to extend the deadline to comply with an amendment to the Agency's 2015 rule that required the plant to stop adding coal ash to unlined impoundmen

Keywords:
Water (generally)
55 ELR 20123
No(s). 24-1024 (D.C. Cir. Aug 29, 2025)

The D.C. Circuit denied environmental groups' challenge to DOI's approval of a five-year schedule for oil and gas leasing on the outer continental shelf (OCS).

Keywords:
Natural Resources (generally)
55 ELR 20119
No(s). 24-5075 (D.C. Cir. Aug 22, 2025)

The D.C. Circuit affirmed summary judgment for FWS in a challenge to its rejection of a petition to remove the southwestern willow flycatcher from the list of endangered subspecies.

Keywords:
Endangered Species Act (ESA)

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