The Federal Claims Court denied a motion to dismiss a wetlands mitigation bank's breach of contract claim against the government. A family formed the bank to manage two tracts of valuable land in Alaska that the family wanted to sell as a preserved natural resource to developers who were required to...

A district court issued a preliminarily injunction barring EPA from taking further steps under CWA §404(c) in connection with the proposed Pebble Mine project in southwestern Alaska until after the court has ruled on the merits of the mine's lawsuit against the Agency for alleged Federal Advisory C...

The Ninth Circuit upheld a lower court decision dismissing an environmental group's citizen suit requesting EPA to issue more stringent regulations for ozone pollution under the PSD program. The group alleged that the EPA Administrator has a nondiscretionary duty to issue revised ozone regulations u...