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Hempstead County Hunting Club v. Southwestern Elec. Power Co.

The Eighth Circuit upheld as moot a lower court decision denying a hunting club's motion to preliminarily enjoin a power company from constructing a 600-megawatt pulverized coal-fired power plant in Hempstead County, Arkansas, without first obtaining a prevention of significant deterioration permit ...

Natural Resources Defense Council v. EPA

The D.C. Circuit denied an environmental group's petition for review of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) air quality regulations governing the exclusion of emissions data from state reporting requirements during exceptional events such as natural disasters. The rule allows states to list s...

California Native Plant Soc'y v. Rancho Cordova, City of

A California appellate court reversed a lower court decision that a city violated the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) in approving a residential and commercial development project. The lower court properly ruled that the city violated the Planning and Zoning Law because the city's genera...

American Trucking Ass'n v. Los Angeles, City of

The Ninth Circuit reversed and remanded a lower court decision denying the trucking industry's motion to preliminarily enjoin two California ports from implementing "concession agreements" designed, among other things, to reduce diesel emissions from trucks servicing container facilities at the port...

Save Strawberry Canyon v. Energy Dep't

A district court preliminarily enjoined the construction of a $113 million computer center in Berkeley, California. A citizens group raised serious questions going to the merits of its claim that the project is a "major federal action" under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Moreover, ir...

National Parks Conservation Ass'n v. Tennessee Valley Auth.

A district court held that environmental groups' citizen suit against the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) for violating the Clean Air Act, the Tennessee state implementation plan, and related regulations in conjunction with its operation of coal-fired power plant in Bull Run, Tennessee, must procee...

Scott v. E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.

A district court presiding over a group of residents' class action lawsuit against a manufacturer for allegedly contaminating water supplies dismissed an individual's New Jersey Environmental Rights Act (ERA) claim against the company for failure to provide notice. A plaintiff seeking to bring a cla...

Appalachian Voices v. State Corp. Comm'n

The Virginia Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of Virginia Code §56-585.1(A)(6), a provision of the state's utility law that requires coal-fired power plants to use Virginia coal. Environmental groups, challenging the state's approval of the construction of a coal-fired power plant, ar...

Federal Maritime Comm'n v. Los Angeles, City of

A district court denied the Federal Maritime Commission's (FMC's) motion to preliminarily enjoin portions of the Port of Los Angeles' and the Port of Long Beach's clean truck programs, which are aimed at reducing the air pollution caused by the trucks used to transport cargo to and from the ports. T...

Strother v. California Coastal Comm'n

A California appellate court reversed a lower court decision dismissing residents' motion challenging the California Coastal Commission's approval of coastal development permits for two unimproved residential lots. The case involves apparently inconsistent sections of the California Environmental Qu...