Weekly Cases Update Volume 45, Issue 12

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Volume 45, Issue 28

ELR 2018214-5205(D.C. Cir., )

The D.C. Circuit upheld the dismissal of an environmental group's NEPA and CWA claims against the U.S. government in connection with a 593-mile oil pipeline that runs from Illinois to Oklahoma on both public and private lands.

Keywords:
Pipelines, Nationwide permit
ELR 201812:12-cv-3021(E.D. Cal., )

A district court, on motions for summary judgment, held that the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) complied with NEPA and other statutes when it approved a tribe's application for a proposed gaming facility and hotel fee-to-trust acquisition project in Yuma, California.

Keywords:
Bureau of Indian Affairs, Native American lands/resources
ELR 2018313-1306(D.D.C., )

A district court upheld EPA's decision to withdraw a proposed rule that would have required concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) to provide information to the Agency to help facilitate EPA's ability to regulate their discharge of pollutants into the waters of the United States

Keywords:
Judicial review, §§701-706, Nonpoint source discharges