Weekly Cases Update Volume 46, Issue 11

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Volume 46, Issue 25

Los Padres ForestWatch v. United States Bureau of Land Management
ELR 2014715-4378(C.D. Cal., )

A district court held that BLM failed to take a "hard look" at the environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing with regard to the agency's resource management plan (RMP) for public lands in California's central region.

Keywords:
Resource development, Energy resource projects, Hydraulic Fracturing
Petro Star Inc. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Comm'n
ELR 2014415-1009(D.C. Cir., )

The D.C. Circuit granted a refining company's petition challenging FERC's methodology for determining payments to oil companies that use the Trans Alaska Pipeline System to transport oil in a commingled stream.

Keywords:
Energy (generally), Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
National Parks Conservation Ass'n v. U.S. Department of the Interior
ELR 2014514-15326, 15-11599(11th Cir., )

The Eleventh Circuit upheld the National Park Service's (NPS') wilderness assessment and management plan for the addition of approximately 112,400 acres of land to the Big Cypress National Preserve in Florida, including its decision to allow off-road vehicle (ORV) use on the added land.

Keywords:
National preserves, Wilderness areas, Interagency consultation, §7(a)
Wildearth Guardians v. U.S. Department of the Interior
ELR 2014814-270(D. Mont., )

A district court ordered FWS to reconsider its decision not to designate critical habitat for the Canada lynx in Colorado, Idaho, and Montana.

Keywords:
Critical habitat designation, Canada lynx
Audubon Society of Portland v. United States Army Corps of Engineers
ELR 201463:15-cv-665(D. Or., )

A district court upheld the U.S.

Keywords:
Endangered Species Act (ESA), Discussion of, held inadequate

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