Weekly Cases Update Volume 41, Issue 4

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Volume 41, Issue 5

ELR 20089No. C 10-0121 RS(N.D. Cal. , )

A district court held that an environmental group may go forward with its CWA claim against a gas and electric company for unpermitted stormwater discharges from its service yards, but dismissed the group's RCRA claim.

Keywords:
Imminent and substantial endangerment, §7002(a)(1)(B), Coverage
ELR 20090No. CV 4:10-26-E-REB(D. Idaho , )

A district court held that the U.S. Forest Service's travel management plan for the Salmon-Challis National Forest violates NEPA.

Keywords:
National forests, Environmental impact statement (EIS)
ELR 20087No. 10-2815(3d Cir. , )

The Third Circuit, in a $113 billion lawsuit against an oil company concerning environmental pollution in the Amazon, affirmed in part and vacated in part a lower court order granting the oil company's application to engage in discovery for use in a proceeding before an Ecuadorian co

Keywords:
Discovery, South America
ELR 20091No. 3275 (Pa. Super. Ct., )

A Pennsylvania appellate court held that an independent contractor hired to test emissions at a beryllium plant had no legal duty to warn third parties about the health risks stemming from those emissions.

Keywords:
Duty to warn

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