Weekly Cases Update Volume 51, Issue 10

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Volume 51, Issue 24

ELR 2015720-1025(D.C. Cir., )

The D.C. Circuit granted in part petitions to review the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC's) order regarding the adequacy of the Commission's guidelines for exposure to radiofrequency (RF) radiation.

Keywords:
Radiation
ELR 2016119-3220(8th Cir., )

The Eighth Circuit affirmed in part and reversed in part a district court ruling in an ongoing enforcement suit concerning air pollution at a utility company's coal-fired power plant in Missouri.

Keywords:
Enforcement, §113
ELR 2015919-35469(9th Cir., )

The Ninth Circuit affirmed summary judgment for EPA in a challenge to a compliance order stating that landowners' property in Idaho contained wetlands subject to CWA protection and directing them to remove fill and restore the property to its natural state.

Keywords:
"Navigable waters" construed
ELR 201603:20-cv-00290-SLG and 3:20-cv-00308-SLG(D. Alaska, )

A district court vacated BLM's approval of an oil and gas project in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska.

Keywords:
Discussion of, held inadequate
ELR 20162CV-17-00163-TUC-CKJ(D. Ariz., )

A district court granted in part and denied in part summary judgment for an environmental group and U.S. congressman in a lawsuit concerning enforcement activity along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Keywords:
Held not required
ELR 2015821-884 (EGS)(D.D.C., )

A district court denied a water district's motion to intervene in an ESA lawsuit seeking protections for longfin smelt.

Keywords:
Standing to intervene
ELR 20163A19-0688 and A19-0704(Minn. Ct. App., )

A state appellate court upheld the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission's (MPUC's) approval of affiliated-interest agreements for construction and operation of a natural gas-fired power plant in Wisconsin.

Keywords:
Energy (generally)