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Volume 55, Issue 23

55 ELR 20110
No(s). 2:24-cv-00801-ODW (PVCx) (C.D. Cal. Aug 13, 2025)

A district court denied business groups' motion to preliminarily enjoin two California laws that require large businesses to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions (S.B. 253) and climate-related financial risk (S.B. 261). The groups challenged the laws on First Amendment grounds.

Keywords:
Climate Change (generally)
55 ELR 20106
No(s). 18-2260 (TJK) (D.D.C. Aug 7, 2025)

A district court denied environmental groups' motion for summary judgment in a challenge to a 2019 EPA rule that exempted air emissions from animal waste from an EPCRA reporting requirement.

Keywords:
Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act (EPCRA)
55 ELR 20108
No(s). 25-00209 MWJS-WRP (D. Haw. Aug 8, 2025)

A district court granted summary judgment for cultural and environmental groups in a challenge to a letter NMFS sent to fishing permit holders informing them that commercial fishing was no longer prohibited in certain areas of the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument following a pres

Keywords:
Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act
55 ELR 20109
No(s). MO:23-CV-000047-DC and MO:23-CV-00049-DC (W.D. Tex. Aug 12, 2025)

A district court granted FWS' motion to vacate and remand its 2022 rule listing the northern distinct population segment (DPS) lesser prairie-chicken as threatened and the southern DPS of the species as endangered.

Keywords:
Endangered Species Act (ESA)
55 ELR 20107
No(s). 2:24-cv-00701 (S.D.W. Va. Aug 7, 2025)

A district court granted an environmental group's motion for preliminary injunction in a CWA citizen suit brought against a chemical manufacturer for discharging per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances into the Ohio River.

Keywords:
Clean Water Act (CWA)

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