Preparation of an environmental impact statement is not required for an ongoing interstate highway interchange project in Seattle, since the Secretary of Transportation gave the project final design approval prior to January 1, 1970, the effective date of NEPA. Since that date there has been no addi...

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals vacates a district court order awarding attorney fees against the Governor and other officials of the state of Ohio in a legislative reapportionment case. The award is in substance and effect against the state itself, and where, as here, a state has not waived its ...

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals reverses a lower court's grant of summary judgment against plaintiff in a suit to compel disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act of audits conducted on companies operating concessions in national parks and of annual financial statements filed by concessioner...

The Third Circuit holds that private dredging and construction of waterfront homesites and a lagoon system upon marshland previously subject to the ebb and flow of the tide do not require a permit from the Army Corps of Engineers and may not be totally enjoined under the Rivers and Harbors Appropria...

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals upholds all but the liability provisions of EPA's regulations prohibiting the use of leaded gasoline in automobiles fitted with "cataltic converter" devices for the control of exhaust emissions and requiring widespread retail marketing of at least one grade of unlea...

Regulations limiting the amount of asbestos dust allowed in the air in industries using asbestos, set by the Secretary of Labor pursuant to the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, 29 U.S.C. §§651 et seq. (OSHA) are subject to the substantial evidence standard of judicial review to the exte...

The court grants motion to dismiss, as barred by sovereign immunity, claims against the EPA Administrator in a suit against him and various state and local governments by landowners in counties where a sewer hook-up moratorium has been imposed. Plaintiffs seek injunctive relief requiring the Adminis...

Denying a motion for a preliminary injunction, the court rules that the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) decision not to prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) for a sewage treatment project in Morris County, New Jersey, was neither arbitrary, capricious, nor unreasonable and thus ...

The Supreme Court dismisses an appeal from a California decision regarding municipal liability for inverse condemnation by means of a zoning ordinance because there was no final judgment from the court below. Appellant's nuclear power plant site was zoned by appellee city for industrial or agricultu...

The court upholds the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) standards governing particulate emissions and its waiver of the nitrogen oxides emissions standard for light-duty diesel vehicles. The Clean Air Act sets specific emissions standards for certain classes of vehicle pollutants and authori...