The Atomic Energy Commission does not have to file an Environmental Impact Statement under the National Environmental Policy Act concerning its research and development program on the liquid metal fast breeder reactor. Only when a demonstration plant is built must such an impact statement be filed, ...

Oregon's 1971 Bottle Bill, outlawing tab-top cans and imposing a minimum refund value for all other beer and soft-drink containers, is held constitutional. Plaintiffs, container manufacturers, bottlers, and out-of-state breweries, seek to have the act declared unconstitutional on five grounds: that ...

Upon reconsideration of its order that plaintiffs be required to post a $75,000 security bond to maintain a preliminary injunction against the Chicod Creek Watershed project (2 ELR 20185), the court denies plaintiffs' motion to reduce the bond to a $100 nominal amount within the plaintiff's financia...

In an action for an injunction against the construction of a highway through two pristine Oahu jungle valleys, conservationists and defendant highway officials enter a stipulation under which defendants will be allowed to proceed with nearly completed end segments of the highway with, however, indep...

On remand from the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, the District Court grants plaintiffs' motion for a temporary restraining order against further activity on the Chicod Creek Watershed Project and requires plaintiffs to post only a nominal $100 security bond. For prior opinions concerning the bond ...

The judgment of the District Court is affirmed per curiam, thus continuing in effect the injunction issued below restraining the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from approving those state implementation plans under the Clean Air Act that permit a significant deterioration of pre...

The determination by defendants and the U.S. Corps of Engineers that the Bulk Mail Facility under construction in Prince George's County, Maryland, will not significantly affect the human environment and that preparation of an environmental impact statement is not required is held not to be arbitrar...

Parties agree to an out-of-court settlement in which plaintiffs dismiss their suit against construction of the Trojan Nuclear Generator on the Columbia River north of Portland in exchange for further geophysical tests of the site and guarantees of near-zero radiation and chemical discharges.
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An injunction is granted prohibiting the razing of a medium-density, low- and middle-income garden apartment and dormitory complex to make way for a high-density shopping and residential complex including mostly upper-middle-income housing. The role played by the National Capital Planning Commission...

The Sierra Club brings an action to compel the removal of Leslie Salt's dikes that enclose abandoned evaporation flats in San Francisco Bay, basing its claim upon §§401, 403, and 406 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899, which provide for civil injunctive relief. Distinguishing these sections fro...