Weekly Cases Update Volume 49, Issue 6

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Volume 49, Issue 10

ELR 200493:18-cv-05005-RJB(W.D. Wash., )

A district court granted Washington's and environmental groups' motion for summary judgment in a challenge to the state's decision to deny a coal company a CWA §401 certification for construction of a coal export facility along the Columbia River.

Keywords:
State certification, §401
ELR 200481:17-cv-01536 (TNM)(D.D.C., )

A district court dismissed a lawsuit brought by California farming and ranching groups challenging FWS' designation of 1.8 million acres of critical habitat for two endangered yellow-legged frog species and the threatened Yosemite toad.

Keywords:
Critical habitat designation
ELR 2005418-10129-FDS(D. Mass., )

A district court dismissed a nonprofit group's challenge to an EPA directive that prohibited scientists in receipt of certain EPA grants from serving on the Agency's federal advisory committees.

Keywords:
Agencies
ELR 2005518-cv-613(S.D.N.Y., )

A district court dismissed for lack of standing an environmental group's challenge to an EPA directive that prohibited scientists in receipt of certain EPA grants from serving on the Agency's federal advisory committees.

Keywords:
Agencies
ELR 200473:18-cv-00029-SLG(D. Alaska, )

A district court vacated DOI's decision to enter into a land exchange agreement to facilitate construction of a road through Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.

Keywords:
National Wildlife Refuge System
ELR 200441:17-cv-02519-LTB-GPG(D. Colo., )

A district court ordered BLM and environmental groups to agree on a remedy for BLM's failure to address impacts from greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in its NEPA review for oil and gas development in Colorado.

Keywords:
Environmental effects
ELR 2005016-1599 (RJL), 16-1602 (RJL), 17-280 (RJL), and 17-441 (RJL)(D.D.C., )

A district court ordered BLM to provide an explanation for how management of timber harvest on certain federal land (O&C land) in western Oregon had changed, if at all, after President Obama designated approximately 16,000 acres of O&C land as part of the Cascade-Siskiyou National

Keywords:
BLM lands
ELR 200521:17-cv-00285-CL(D. Or., )

A magistrate judge ruled against a timber company's motion for summary judgment in a challenge to President Obama's decision to include lands covered under the Oregon and California Revested Lands Act (O&A Act) in the expansion of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument.

Keywords:
National monuments
ELR 2005316-cv-00525-VC(N.D. Cal., )

A U.S. jury awarded over $80 million in damages to a California man who claimed that the weedkiller Roundup caused his cancer.

Keywords:
Toxic Substances (generally)