Environmental Law & Policy Center v. United States Coast Guard

ELR Citation: 50 ELR 20063
No(s). 18-12626 (E.D. Mich. Mar 16, 2020) (Ludington, J.)

A district court denied summary judgment to environmental groups in a challenge to the U.S. Coast Guard's approval of a contingency plan for a Michigan oil pipeline. The groups argued that the plan failed to respond to a worst-case discharge, as required by the OPA, by failing to consider the need f...