The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit affirms a lower court's summary judgment holding illegal the EPA Administrator's impoundment of funds authorized for appropriation in 1973 and 1974 under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972. After an examination of the statutory l...

The Soil Conservation Service's (SCS) determination that a NEPA environmental impact statement is not required for a stream channelization project is found inadequate, and the agency is required to confer with plaintiffs and prepare within 30 days a summary of environmental mitigation measures to be...

The Administrator of EPA exceeded his authority under the Clean Air Act Amendments in approving four portions of the Georgia Implementation Plan, and is ordered by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to publish forthwith his disapproval of these provisions. The portions of the Plan in question requir...

The Connecticut Commissioner of Natural Resources' denial of plaintiff's application for a permit to dredge and fill a tidal marsh that is adjacent to its upland industrial property, and which the Commissioner has designated as wetland under the state's Tidal Wetlands Act of 1969, represents neither...

The court grants plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment and issues an injunction prohibiting the defendants from expanding the volume of timber sales offerings from the National Forests during fiscal year 1974 by approximately one billion board-feet until NEPA compliance has occurred. The proposed ...

The court grants summary judgment against plaintiffs seeking to enjoin any further action by the federal government affecting coal development in the Northern Great Plains region pending completion of a regionwide environmental impact statement, systematic interdisciplinary studies, and examination ...

A three-judge federal district court rules that the ICC must prepare a new impact statement on proposed rail freight rate increases to determine if those increases and the existing rates discriminate against recyclable materials. The court holds that impact statements prepared to justify agency deci...

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upholds a lower court's ruling in a criminal action under the Rivers and Harbors Act granting defendant's motion to suppress evidence developed from its notification to the Coast Guard concerning a coal tar discharge from its facilities into the Mahoning River.Rely...

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals affirms, on the opinion of the district court, a decision denying injunctive and declaratory relief to plaintiffs seeking to halt construction of an interstate highway in Baltimore pending satisfactory compliance with NEPA, the Federal-Aid Highway Act, the Clean A...

The court denies plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment and dismisses a suit to enjoin the Secretary of Defense from releasing or acquiring land in Hawaii pursuant to a Department of Defense (DOD) Facilities Plan regarding long range requirements until a NEPA impact statement covering the entire Pl...