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Natural Resources Defense Council v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
The Ninth Circuit granted in part and denied in part a petition to review EPA's determination that glyphosate did not pose "any unreasonable risk to man or the environment." Nonprofit groups challenged the Agency's determination, arguing that EPA did not adequately consider whether the weedkiller ca...
Save the Scenic Santa Ritas v. United States Army Corps of Engineers
A district court granted a developer's motion to dismiss a challenge to the Army Corps of Engineers' decision to issue a CWA §404 permit for a proposed copper mine project in the Santa Rita Mountains. Environmental groups and Native American tribes argued that the Corps violated the CWA and NEPA wh...
State Citizen Suits, Standing, and the Underutilization of State Environmental Law
This Article explores the relationship between state environmental citizen suit provisions and judicial standing requirements, and analyzes whether the introduction of citizen suits into state statutory law inspired increasingly strict state standing requirements, as occurred at the federal level. Specifically, it identifies how state judiciaries have interpreted standing and aggrievement in response to general, non-media-specific citizen suit provisions, both in the common law and in administrative law.