Weekly Cases Update Volume 50, Issue 6

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Volume 50, Issue 10

ELR 2006716-11950-MLW(D. Mass., )

A district court stayed an environmental group's climate change lawsuit against an oil company concerning a CWA permit for its petroleum storage facility in Massachusetts.

Keywords:
Climate Change (generally)
ELR 200721:20-CV-138-RP(W.D. Tex., )

A district court denied local government entities' and landowners' request to temporarily halt construction of a 430-mile natural gas pipeline in Texas.

Keywords:
Incidental taking
ELR 2007518-565(U.S., )

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld an appellate court ruling that an oil refining company was responsible for $140 million in damages from a 2004 oil spill in the Delaware River.

Keywords:
Toxic Substances (generally)
ELR 2006819-1383(1st Cir., )

The First Circuit reversed the dismissal of a challenge to an EPA directive that prohibits scientists in receipt of certain EPA grants from serving on the Agency's federal advisory committees.

Keywords:
Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA)
ELR 2007819-2896(2d Cir., )

The Second Circuit reversed a district court ruling that denied environmental groups' motion for summary judgment in a lawsuit seeking FOIA disclosure of an EPA computer model related to its rollback of greenhouse gas emission standards for vehicle manufacturers.

Keywords:
Deliberative-process privilege
ELR 2007118-2559(8th Cir., )

The Eighth Circuit upheld the dismissal of a constitutional challenge to Minnesota's right of first refusal (ROFR) law.

Keywords:
Energy (generally)
ELR 2006916-1276L(Fed. Cl., )

The Court of Federal Claims granted in part and denied in part the Bureau of Reclamation's motion to dismiss a lawsuit concerning its curtailing of water deliveries during a drought in California.

Keywords:
Breach
ELR 2007418-cv-00521-HSG and 18-cv-00524-HSG(N.D. Cal., )

A district court upheld BLM's rule that repealed a 2015 rule regulating hydraulic fracturing operations on federal and tribal lands.

Keywords:
Held not required for

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