A California appellate court affirms, with modifications, a lower court's reversal of the state forestry agency's timber harvest plan for a 13-acre parcel of land in Sonoma County. Contrary to the lower court's findings, there is substantial evidence to support the state agency's ultimate finding re...
The court dismisses as moot a chemical association's challenge to California's pesticide registration laws. The association claimed that the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act preempts the state registration laws, but the lower court disagreed. While the association's appeal of that...
The court grants in part and denies in part numerous petitions for review of a series of Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) orders relating to refunds stemming from the California energy crisis in 2000 and 2001. All of the transactions at issue that occurred within the California Power Exch...
The court holds that a lower court improperly dismissed as unripe environmental groups’ claims that the U.S. Forest Service violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) when it amended certain forest plans in the southern United States. The lower court erred in dismissing the case bec...
A district court issues a preliminary ruling that temporarily blocks the Bureau of Land Managment's (BLM's) plans to lease approximately 1.7 million acres within the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska for oil exploration. The lease concerns vast areas of sensitive wetlands surrounding Lake Teshekp...
A California appellate court holds that the state water board abuses its discretion in imposing certain restrictions on an irrigation district's permit to appropriate water within the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta watershed but not on appropriators whose rights are junior to those of the irrigator. T...
A California appellate court upholds a city's and county's certification of a 2003 habitat conservation plan and implementation agreement for threatened hawks and snakes in the Natamos Basin, as well as the state wildlife department's plan for issuing incidental take permits in the area, under the C...
The court dismisses petitions for review of two Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) orders concerning the calculation of settlement statements relating to the California energy crisis. The California Independent System Operator (Cal-ISO) sought review of a FERC order in which it declined Cal...
The court upholds several off-road vehicle (ORV) restrictions imposed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in certain parts of Utah. BLM complied with the Federal Land Policy and Management Act and the National Environmental Policy Act when it enacted the restrictions, BLM's decision to close vari...
A district court enjoined the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) from leasing approximately 1.7 million acres within the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska for oil exploration. The lease concerns vast areas of sensitive wetlands surrounding Lake Teshekpuk that are protected under the National Petrole...