Hoopa Valley Tribe v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

ELR Citation: 41 ELR 20058
No(s). 09-1134 (D.C. Cir. Dec 28, 2010)

The D.C. Circuit denied a Native American tribe's petition challenging FERC's decision declining to impose conditions on a utility's annual licenses for a hydroelectric plant in order to preserve the Klamath River's trout fishery. Contrary to the tribe’s argument, FERC quite plainly articulated an...