Weekly Cases Update Volume 43, Issue 11

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Volume 43, Issue 27

ELR 20221No. 11-12168(11th Cir., )

The Eleventh Circuit reversed a lower court decision excluding the testimony of two expert witnesses in the government's case against a power company for making major modifications at three of its coal-fired power plants without obtaining a permit or installing modern pollution control devic

Keywords:
Testimony by experts, Permits
ELR 20219Nos. 12-1844 et al.(8th Cir., )

The Eighth Circuit vacated and remanded EPA's best available retrofit technology (BART) determination for a large power plant in North Dakota, but otherwise upheld EPA's partial disapproval of two SIPs submitted by North Dakota to meet the CAA's visibility requirements as well as t

Keywords:
North Dakota, Visibility protection for class I areas, §169A, Federal implementation plans (FIPs), §110(c)(1)
ELR 20217No. 10-72104(9th Cir., )

The Ninth Circuit upheld the Northwest Power and Conservation Council's 20-year plan to provide adequate and reliable energy at the lowest economic and environmental cost to the Northwest.

Keywords:
Northwest Power Act (NPA)
ELR 20220No. 2:12-CV-252-SWS(D. Wyo., )

A district court held that BLM complied with NEPA and FLPMA when it authorized a uranium mining project in south central Wyoming.

Keywords:
Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA), Resource development, Discussion of, held adequate
ELR 20218No. 12-677(E.D. La., )

A district court ordered EPA to conduct a necessity determination under CWA §303(c)(4)(B) in response to an environmental group's petition asking the Agency to establish water quality standards to control nitrogen and phosphorous pollution in the mainstem of the Mississippi River and the Nor

Keywords:
Review and revision, §303(c)

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