Center for Biological Diversity v. United States Fish & Wildlife Service
A district court held that FWS must comply with a FOIA request for information from its Law Enforcement Management Information System (LEMIS), which, among other things, the agency uses to track species being imported or exported; monitor quotas of a particular species; and intervene in illegal trad...
EQT Production Co. v. Department of Environmental Protection
Pennsylvania's highest court held that the $10,000/day civil penalty under the Clean Streams Law does not apply to each day that pollutants leaked from an impoundment remain in the groundwater and then leach into other waters of the Commonwealth. The case arose after the state environmental agency a...
Hall & Assocs. v. Environmental Protection Agency
The D.C. Circuit held that EPA properly responded to a consultant's requests for information concerning the Agency's response to alleged scientific misconduct in tightening nitrogen requirements for the Great Bay Estuary in New Hampshire. EPA received two sets of FOIA requests, and the Agency provid...
Briggs v. Southwestern Energy Production Co.
A Pennsylvania appellate court held that a family may go forward with its lawsuit against a natural gas company for operating wells on adjacent property to extract natural gas from beneath the family's property via hydraulic fracturing. The family asserted claims for trespass and conversion and soug...