The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals dismisses an appeal in a suit challenging the timing and adequacy of the programmatic environmental impact statement for the accelerated oil and gas leasing program for areas of the outer continental shelf off the southern California coast. Plaintiff has failed to ...

The court grants several motions to intervene in a suit challenging the legal sufficiency of the environmental impact statement (EIS) prepared as part of the Forest Service's Roadless Area Review and Evaluation (RARE II). RARE II is designed to inventory all of the approximately 62 million acres of ...

The court dismisses as premature petitions for review of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) revised national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) regulations issued under the Clean Water Act. The petitions were filed before the date and time at which EPA specified the regulation...

After refusing to grant a stay, 9 ELR 20767, pending review of the district court's denial of preliminary injunctive relief against the sale of outer continental shelf oil and gas drilling leases in the Georges Bank region, 9 ELR 20764, the First Circuit Court of Appeals dismisses the appeal of the ...

Granting plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment, the court finds that the final environmental impact statement (EIS) for the Forest Service's second roadless area review and evaluation (RARE II) is inadequate under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and enjoins the Forest Service from all...

The District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals reverses a district court order that granted a preliminary injunction prohibiting the Secretary of the Interior from allowing a state-sponsored aerial wolf hunt to begin on certain federal land in Alaska until an environmental impact statement (EIS) ...

The Supreme Court reverses a decision of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, 8 ELR 20731, and rules that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) did not violate §402(a)(1) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act when it extended a national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit ...

The court denies plaintiff's motion for a preliminary injunction requiring the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to expedite its review and revision of the air quality criteria for sulfur dioxide under §§108 and 109 of the Clean Air Act. Plaintiff, a company that mines and sells high-sulfur co...

The Supreme Court holds that the penalty imposed under §311(b)(6) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (FWPCA), for the unauthorized discharge of oil and hazardous substances into navigable waters, in civil rather than criminal in nature, and therefore the reporting requirements set out in §...

The court reverses the dismissal of an action to compel the city of Seattle to prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) before implementing a bus lane construction program, ruling that the program is not as a matter of law categorically excluded from the State Environmental Policy Act's (SEPA...