The court upholds a district court decision ordering the upward adjustment of sentencing for three labor contractors who violated the Clean Air Act (CAA) and the Social Security Act in connection with asbestos abatement projects. The contractors recruited homeless men from a shelter in Tennessee to ...

The court holds that environmental groups have standing to bring a Clean Air Act (CAA) action against a Texas oil refinery for violating hydrogen and sulfur dioxide emission standards and further holds that a state environmental agency's administrative action against the refinery for the same violat...

The court holds that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) regulations implementing Clean Air Act (CAA) amendments properly delegated to Native American nations authority to regulate air quality on all land within reservations, including fee land held by private landowners who are not t...

The court affirms a district court decision holding that hazardous waste regulatory charges imposed by New York on federal installations operated by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in New York are reasonable service charges within the meaning of Resource Conservation and Recovery Act §6001(a), ...

The court holds that U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations limiting the content of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in architectural coatings and paints under the Clean Air Act (CAA) are lawful. The court first holds that nothing in the CAA unambiguously requires EPA to analyze the...

The court denies environmental groups' motion to reopen a previous action and dismisses the groups' current action against the federal government in which the groups allege that the U.S. Navy violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the Endangered Species Act (ESA), and the Marine Mamm...

The court holds that three electric utilities may maintain their breach of contract claims against the government for the failure to begin by January 1, 1998, the disposal of spent nuclear fuel waste produced at the utilities' plant as agreed to in a 1983 contract. The government conceded that it wo...

The court reverses the dismissal of a utility's breach of contract claim against the government for failing to dispose of the utility's spent nuclear waste beginning no later than January 1, 1998, as agreed to in a 1983 contract. The government notified the utility that it would be unable to begin d...

The court holds that individuals lack standing to bring a Clean Air Act (CAA) citizen suit against a petroleum refinery for failing to report certain CAA emissions violations from its catalyst regenerator, but the individuals do have standing to maintain a CAA citizen suit against the refinery for f...

The court refuses to preliminarily enjoin a lessee from using a soil vapor extraction (SVE) cleanup method during the remediation of its leased property or to require the lessee to remediate all contamination at the site. The lessee subleased the property at issue to a dry cleaner who released hazar...