Barnes v. FAA
ELR Citation: 47 ELR 20098 No(s). 14-71180 (9th Cir. Aug 3, 2017)
The Ninth Circuit held that the FAA did not act arbitrarily when it forewent a full EIS on a third runway at the Hillsboro Airport in Hillsboro, Oregon. In 2005, the airport, the busiest in the state of Oregon, developed a plan to deal with traffic that included the addition of a third runway. Since...