Weekly Cases Update Volume 47, Issue 12

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Volume 47, Issue 30

ELR 20131CIV 12-0069 JB/KBM(D.N.M., )

A district court held that the Forest Service did not violate NEPA when it reduced grazing permits on federal land in New Mexico. The Jarita Mesa Allotment and the Alamosa Allotment are both within the El Rito Ranger District of Carson National Forest.

Keywords:
Public Lands
ELR 2013317-464(La. Ct. App., )

A Louisiana appeals court held that an oil company's oilfield cleanup plan was properly rejected by a trial court. An oil company sued a larger oil company alleging environmental damage to its property caused by decades of oil and gas exploration activities.

Keywords:
Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA)
ELR 2013412-3252(D.N.J., )

A district court held that a solar energy company that entered into an agreement to close a landfill and turn it into a solar farm cannot recover closure costs under CERCLA.

Keywords:
Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA)
ELR 2013516-2035(4th Cir., )

The Fourth Circuit held that a proposed class of residents alleging that improper chemical disposal at a Frederick, Maryland, Army base contaminated their groundwater can't sue the government.

Keywords:
Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA)
ELR 2013617-12107(E.D. Mich., )

A district court held that the city of Flint, Michigan, must choose a long-term water source and gave the city a week in which to do so.

Keywords:
Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)
ELR 2013216-1097(D.C. Cir., )

The D.C. Circuit held that EPA did not violate the CAA by modifying, without notice and comment, its prior understandings of how to measure a proposed transportation project’s impact on ambient levels of particulate matter.

Keywords:
Clean Air Act (CAA)

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