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Farr v. California Coastal Comm'n

A California appellate court upheld a California coastal development permit allowing homeowners to build a second story to their home in Redondo Beach. A petitioner sought to have the permit vacated, arguing that the addition would block the public's view of the ocean in violation of the state Coast...

Kalden Constr. Co. v. Hansen Aggregates New York, Inc.

A district court remanded a portion of FWS' 2008 biological opinion that approved the Bureau of Reclamation's selected operating system for a dam along the Colorado River. The 2008 opinion replaces the FWS' 1994 opinion in which it that found that the selected operating system—modified low flu...

Communities for a Better Env't v. Richmond, City of

A California trial court held that a city's environmental impact report for a major expansion of an oil refinery in Richmond, California, violated the California Environmental Quality Act's new greenhouse gas requirements. Although the city identified a standard of no net increases in greenhouse gas...

Colony Nat'l Ins. Co. v. Specialty Trailer Leasing, Inc.

A district court held that the pollution exclusion clause contained in a transport company's insurance policy does not cover bodily injuries stemming from the release of a naturally occurring gas. The case arose after dock workers were fatally asphyxiated due to argon leaking from one of the company...

Hempstead County Hunting Club, Inc. v. Arkansas Pub. Serv. Comm'n

An Arkansas appellate court struck down a state permit allowing an electric company to build a $1.6 billion coal-fired power plant near the state's southwest border with Texas. The state public service commission failed to require the company to address alternative locations in its permit applicatio...

Snellback Properties, LLC v. Aetna Dev. Co.

A district court held that a property owner's receipt of a "no further remediation" letter from the state environmental agency does not bar a neighboring company's lawsuit against it under RCRA. Under Illinois law, a no further remediation letter releases the recipient from further responsibilities ...

Guzman v. Monterey, County of

The Supreme Court of California reversed a lower court decision holding that residents of a mobile home park may file suit against the county for failing to direct the park owner to notify the residents about contaminated drinking water. The residents claim that since at least 1995, the drinking wat...

United States v. Sunoco, Inc.

A district court held that under Pennsylvania law, a property owner that agreed to hold the seller harmless for environmental claims does not become a successor to the seller's environmental liabilities. In a settlement agreement between the current and prior owners, the current owner promised to co...

Longleaf Energy Assocs., LLC v. Friends of the Chattahoochee

A Georgia appellate court reversed a lower court decision invalidating a state environmental agency air quality permit allowing an energy company to construct a pulverized coal-fired electric power plant in southern Georgia. The lower court ruled that the permit violated the CAA and the Georgia Air ...

Employers Ins. of Wausau v. Neal Feay Co.

A California appellate court affirmed a lower court decision that an insurer has no duty to defend or indemnify a metal coating company in underlying proceedings filed against it concerning soil and groundwater contamination at the company's metal anodizing facility. The insurance policy excluded co...