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Fresno, City of v. United States

A district court dismissed a city's RCRA and the California Hazardous Substances Account Act against the United States in a dispute concerning the environmental remediation of Old Hammer Field in Fresno, California. The site, presently occupied by an airport, was used by the United States as an Army...

Hartford Accident & Indem. Co. v. Doe Run Resources Corp.

A district court denied an insurer's partial motion for summary judgment on claims that it must indemnify a lead smelter in an underlying lawsuit concerning bodily injury and property damage arising out of the smelter's operations near Herculaneum, Missouri. The insurer argued that coverage is barre...

Public Water Supply Dist. No. 3 v. Lebanon, City of

The Eight Circuit affirmed in part and reversed in part a lower court decision granting summary judgment in favor of a city accused of illegally providing water and sewer services to customers within a nearby water district's boundaries. In 2007, the USDA granted the water district a $2 million loan...

Native Village of Point Hope v. Salazar

The Ninth Circuit, in a memorandum opinion, ruled that the Minerals Management Service (MMS) complied with NEPA and the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) in approving oil companies' plans for exploratory drilling in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas, Alaska. Petitioners claimed that there are mu...

Habitat Educ. Ctr. v. U.S. Forest Serv.

The Seventh Circuit upholds a lower court decision denying an environmental group's request to rescind or modify a court order requiring it to post a $10,000 bond after it asked for and was granted a preliminary injunction preventing the U.S. Forest Service from allowing several thousand acres of a ...

Center for Biological Diversity v. San Bernardino, County of

A California appellate court upholds a lower court decision decertifying a county's environmental impact report (EIR) for an open-air human waste composting facility under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). Substantial evidence does not support the EIR's position that an enclosed facil...

Comer v. Murphy Oil USA

The Fifth Circuit vacates an earlier ruling in which a panel reversed a lower court decision dismissing Mississippi residents' class action lawsuit against several energy, fossil fuel, and chemical companies for their alleged contribution to climate change. When the court first granted rehearing en ...

Alabama v. North Carolina

The U.S. Supreme Court holds that North Carolina should not be held liable or subject to monetary sanctions for failing to fulfill its obligations to an interstate radioactive waste compact. Under the agreement, North Carolina was to take "appropriate steps" to obtain a license and then construct an...

Appalachian Voices v. State Air Pollution Control Bd.

The Virginia Court of Appeals upholds a lower court decision affirming a decision of the State Air Pollution Control Board to issue a PSD permit allowing an electric company to build and operate a coal-fired electric generating plant. The lower court did not err in concluding that carbon dioxide (CO...

TWC Storage, LLC v. State Water Resources Control Bd.

A California appellate court affirms a lower court's denial of a petition challenging a regional water board's imposition of a $25,000 fine against a company for a chemical spill on its property that infiltrated the groundwater. The company argued that the board abused its discretion in imposing the...