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Long Beach v. Los Angeles Unified Sch. Dist.

A California appellate court upheld a lower court decision denying a city's petition to overturn a school district's final environmental impact report (FEIR) for a high school construction project. The city argued that the school district failed to provide adequate detail and analysis sufficient to ...

Tracy First v. Tracy

A California appellate court affirmed the denial of a petition for review of a city's certification of an environmental impact report (EIR) and approval of a conditional use permit for the construction of a large food store. The city council approved the EIR after adding additional information to th...

United States v. Apex Oil Co.

The Seventh Circuit upheld an injunction, at the behest of EPA under the authority of RCRA, requiring an oil company to clean up a contaminated site in Hartford, Illinois. The lower court determined that millions of gallons of oil, composing a "hydrocarbon plume" trapped not far underground, are con...

Grace Christian Fellowship v. KJG Invs., Inc.

A district court denied a religious congregation's motion for a preliminary injunction under RCRA ordering the former owner of a gas station to clean up contamination beneath their church. In early April 2006, a gasoline spill occurred at the gas station and migrated to the church, the basement of w...

Wagoner County Rural Water Dist. No. 2 v. Grand River Dam Auth.

The Tenth Circuit affirmed a lower court decision dismissing water districts' and other entities' claims against an Oklahoma agency and the United States in a dispute over water rights stemming from the Grand River. The plaintiffs sought a declaration regarding their interests in the Grand River wat...

First Specialty Ins. Corp. v. GRS Management Assocs., Inc.

A district court held that under Florida law, a pollution exclusion contained in a swimming pool's insurance policy unambiguously applies to harmful microbes allegedly present in the pool. As defined under the plain language of the policy, the term pollutant includes contaminant. Because the record ...

June v. Union Carbide Corp.

The Tenth Circuit affirmed a lower court decision dismissing claims for alleged radiation injuries to residents of Uravan, Colorado, a former uranium and vanadium milling town owned and operated by two mining companies. The residents asserted claims for personal injury based on disease or death alle...

Maine v. McLaughlin

Maine's highest court upheld the conviction entered against an individual hired to remove contamination stemming from an oil spill after a large piece of logging equipment caught on fire. Instead of cleaning up the site, the individual merely removed some of the contaminated soil and dumped it at a ...

Mathes v. Vulcan Materials Co.

A district court held that it lacks jurisdiction over a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Virgin Islands natural resources commissioner against two chemical companies for negligence, strict liability, and nuisance in connection with the contamination of an aquifer that was once a significant source of drink...

Coffey v. Freeport McMoren Copper & Gold

The Tenth Circuit affirmed a lower court decision remanding to state court residents' class action lawsuit against a mining company for property contamination stemming from the company's mining operations. The residents originally filed the suit in state court, but the company removed the case to fe...