Barnes v. United States Department of Transportation
ELR Citation: 41 ELR 20279 No(s). 10-70718 (9th Cir. Aug 25, 2011)
The Ninth Circuit remanded the FAA's decision not to prepare an EIS in conjunction with its approval of an airport runway construction project. Relying chiefly on two cases involving airport improvements—neither of which involved a new runway—the FAA argued that an EA need not account for the gr...