Weekly Cases Update Volume 44, Issue 6

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Volume 44, Issue 10

ELR 2007612-15412(9th Cir., )

The Ninth Circuit held that BLM did not violate NEPA or FLPMA when it approved the expansion of a gold mine near Nevada's Mount Tenabo.

Keywords:
Mining, Native Americans, Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA)
ELR 2007012-0981(D.D.C., )

A district court, in a memorandum opinion, dismissed environmental groups' lawsuit against the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) for APA, NEPA, and ESA violations in connection with two lease sales in the area where the Deepwater Horizo

Keywords:
Oil and gas lease, Jeopardize species/habitat, §7(a)(2)
ELR 200691:11-cv-1481(D.D.C., )

A district court held that environmental groups' NEPA and FLPMA claims against BLM in connection with its decision to lease two coal tracts in Wyoming's Powder River Basin lack merit.

Keywords:
Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA), Discussion of, held adequate
ELR 2007212-cv-00996(D.D.C., )

A district court dismissed environmental groups' claims that BLM violated NEPA when it approved a plan for developing a coal bed natural gas lease in an area of Wyoming's Powder River Basin as well as amendments to the applicable resource management plan for the area.

Keywords:
Oil and gas lease, Negative determination, EIS not required for
ELR 2007312-1505(D.D.C., )

A district court held that fee restrictions set forth in the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act (REA) do not apply to private, third-party concessionaires who operate recreation areas within the National Forests. Nonprofit groups challenged the U.S.

Keywords:
National forests
ELR 2006711-35517(9th Cir., )

The Ninth Circuit reversed a lower court decision invalidating a 2003 USDA regulation that temporarily exempted Alaska's Tongass National Forest from the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule.

Keywords:
Tongass National Forest, Alaska
ELR 20066A-4878-11T4(N.J. Sup. Ct. App. Div., )

A New Jersey appellate court held that the state's Department of Environmental Protection violated the New Jersey APA when it withdrew from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) program.

Keywords:
Climate Change (generally), Air pollution

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