Weekly Cases Update Volume 49, Issue 5

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Volume 49, Issue 9

Wildearth Guardians v. Provencio
ELR 2003917-17373(9th Cir., )

The Ninth Circuit affirmed a summary judgment for the U.S. Forest Service in a challenge to the agency's authorization of travel management plans that permitted motorized game retrieval within a mile of every open road in three districts of the Kaibab National Forest.

Keywords:
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
Wildearth Guardians v. Zinke
ELR 2004116-1724 (RC)(D.D.C., )

A district court granted in part environmental groups' motion for summary judgment in a challenge to BLM authorization of oil and gas leasing on federal land in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming.

Keywords:
Environmental effects
Residents of Gordon Plaza, Inc. v. Latoya Cantrell
ELR 2004218-4226(E.D. La., )

A district court granted residents' motion for summary judgment in a RCRA lawsuit against the city of New Orleans for inhumane and dangerous living conditions at a residential development located on a former landfill site previously operated by the city.

Keywords:
Retroactive application
Eden Environmental Citizen's Group LLC v. Laptalo Enterprises, Inc.
ELR 2004018-cv-05544-YGR(N.D. Cal., )

A district court denied a manufacturing company's motion to dismiss a CWA lawsuit alleging that the company improperly stored and disposed of industrial waste at its sheet metal manufacturing facility.

Keywords:
Standing
Riverkeeper, Inc. v. Wheeler
ELR 2004317-CV-4916 (VSB)(S.D.N.Y., )

A district court granted EPA's motion to dismiss a CWA lawsuit seeking to require the Agency to publish New York's water quality standards.

Keywords:
Water quality standards, §303