A district court denied environmental groups' motion for summary judgment in a challenge to BLM's 2020 rule that eliminated the 15-day protest process for timber sales and clarified that an authorizing officer can implement forest management decisions immediately. The groups argued BLM violated the ...

A district court granted in part and denied in part North Dakota's motion for preliminary injunction in a lawsuit concerning BLM's "pause" on nearly all quarterly lease sales of federal land in the state for oil and gas exploration in 2021 and 2022. North Dakota argued the "pause" or "cancellation" ...

A district court granted EPA's motion to dismiss nonprofit groups' challenge to the Agency's response to their TSCA petition requesting comprehensive health and environmental effects testing on 54 per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) manufactured by a company in North Carolina. EPA granted the...

A district court granted in part and denied in part environmental groups' motion for summary judgment in a challenge to BLM's second approval of a proposed open pit mine in Nevada. The groups argued BLM failed to adequately protect federal water reserves within the mine area; violated NEPA by failin...

A district court denied for lack of jurisdiction the Commonwealth of Kentucky's and business groups' motions to preliminarily enjoin EPA's and the Army Corps of Engineers' 2023 rule revising the definition of "waters of the United States" under the CWA. The court found that plaintiffs failed to show...

A district court denied environmental groups' motions to preliminarily enjoin construction on an oil project in Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve. One of the groups argued BLM violated NEPA and the Naval Petroleum Reserves Production Act (NPRPA) by failing to consider a reasonable range of alterna...

The Ninth Circuit, 2-1, granted in part and denied in part a city's petition for review of FAA's issuance of an EIS and record of decision allowing a Los Angeles airport to begin construction on a replacement terminal. The city challenged FAA's compliance with NEPA's requirement that an EIS include ...

The Eighth Circuit affirmed a district court ruling granting the state of Minnesota's motion to remand to state court a climate liability lawsuit alleging that fossil fuel producers fraudulently marketed their products and misinformed customers about the dangers of fossil fuel use. Minnesota sued th...

The Fifth Circuit dismissed Louisiana's challenge to the Biden Administration's interim estimates on the social cost of greenhouse gas emissions. Louisiana initially sought to preliminarily enjoin the interim estimates from being used, arguing they were procedurally invalid, arbitrary and capricious...

The Fourth Circuit vacated the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection's CWA §401 certification for a proposed pipeline that would transport natural gas from West Virginia to southern Virginia. Landowners and environmental groups petitioned for review of the certification, arguing the ...