Weekly Cases Update Volume 42, Issue 1

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Volume 41, Issue 33

ELR 2034510-5386(D.C. Cir., )

The D.C. Circuit upheld BLM’s decision to allow additional natural gas drilling in the Pinedale Anticline Project Area of western Wyoming.

Keywords:
Land use planning, §202, Discussion of, held adequate
ELR 2033910-35596(9th Cir., )

The Ninth Circuit held that the FWS' determination that a proposed mining project in northwest Montana would result in "no adverse modification" to critical bull trout habitat and would result in "no jeopardy" to the local grizzly bear population was not arbitrary, capric

Keywords:
Jeopardize species/habitat, Bears, Bull trout
ELR 203402179(E.D. La., )

A district court held that an oil company may not seek insurance coverage for damages it incurred following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill under the oil rig owner's insurance policies.

Keywords:
Insurance, Oil Pollution Act (OPA)
ELR 2034211-619(D. Minn., )

A district court dismissed property owners' CERCLA, tort, and state-law claims against a power company for alleged PCB contamination. A former employee of the company lived at the property before it was sold to the current owners.

Keywords:
Causation, proof of, Citizen suits, §310
ELR 203431:11-cv-00500-AWI-MJS(E.D. Cal., )

A district court held that an insurance company should have provided coverage to a demolition company for damages stemming from its disposal of contaminated waste at a recycling drop-off center.

Keywords:
Hazardous, Held not to bar
ELR 20344C 11-01564 WHA(N.D. Cal., )

A district court held that DOE complied with NEPA when it determined that the construction of a "supercomputer" project on a college campus would have no significant environmental impact and did not require an EIS.

Keywords:
Held not required for

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