An oil company is found guilty under §311(b)(5) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972 for failing to notify an appropriate federal agency immediately after discovering an oil discharge from its facilities into a non-navigable stream. Navigability of the stream is not an elem...

An injunction prohibiting the dredging of New Haven harbor and the dumping of spoil into Long Island Sound until the requirements of NEPA have been met is dissolved since defendants have filed an adequate environmental impact statement. Plaintiff is not entitled to have the injunction modified so as...

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...