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Native Village of Point Hope v. Salazar

The Ninth Circuit, in a memorandum opinion, ruled that the Minerals Management Service (MMS) complied with NEPA and the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) in approving oil companies' plans for exploratory drilling in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas, Alaska. Petitioners claimed that there are mu...

Habitat Educ. Ctr. v. U.S. Forest Serv.

The Seventh Circuit upholds a lower court decision denying an environmental group's request to rescind or modify a court order requiring it to post a $10,000 bond after it asked for and was granted a preliminary injunction preventing the U.S. Forest Service from allowing several thousand acres of a ...

Center for Biological Diversity v. San Bernardino, County of

A California appellate court upholds a lower court decision decertifying a county's environmental impact report (EIR) for an open-air human waste composting facility under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). Substantial evidence does not support the EIR's position that an enclosed facil...

Comer v. Murphy Oil USA

The Fifth Circuit vacates an earlier ruling in which a panel reversed a lower court decision dismissing Mississippi residents' class action lawsuit against several energy, fossil fuel, and chemical companies for their alleged contribution to climate change. When the court first granted rehearing en ...

Alabama v. North Carolina

The U.S. Supreme Court holds that North Carolina should not be held liable or subject to monetary sanctions for failing to fulfill its obligations to an interstate radioactive waste compact. Under the agreement, North Carolina was to take "appropriate steps" to obtain a license and then construct an...

Appalachian Voices v. State Air Pollution Control Bd.

The Virginia Court of Appeals upholds a lower court decision affirming a decision of the State Air Pollution Control Board to issue a PSD permit allowing an electric company to build and operate a coal-fired electric generating plant. The lower court did not err in concluding that carbon dioxide (CO...

TWC Storage, LLC v. State Water Resources Control Bd.

A California appellate court affirms a lower court's denial of a petition challenging a regional water board's imposition of a $25,000 fine against a company for a chemical spill on its property that infiltrated the groundwater. The company argued that the board abused its discretion in imposing the...

Raritan Baykeeper, Inc. v. NL Indus., Inc.

A district court dismissed, on grounds of abstention, an environmental group's RCRA and CWA citizen suit against a company seeking remediation of contaminated sediments in the Raritan River located adjacent to a site formerly owned by the company. The complaint asks the court to enter an injunction ...

San Diego Navy Broadway Complex Coalition v. San Diego, City of

A California appellate court held that a local development agency was not required to prepare a subsequent or supplemental environmental impact report (EIR) under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) regarding the potential impact of a redevelopment project on global climate change. CEQA ...

Vineyard Area Citizens for Responsible Growth v. Rancho Cordova, City of

A California appellate court held that a public interest group's California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), zoning law, and public trust claims against a city for approving a development project in an environmentally sensitive area lacks merit. The environmental review process adequately addressed...