The court refuses to issue a preliminary injunction against construction of the proposed Copper River Highway in southcentral Alaska because plaintiffs failed to show that they would suffer irreparable injury if the injunction were denied. Plaintiffs' assertions that construction of the highway woul...

The California Coastal Zone Conservation Act of 1972 applies to coastal projects commenced after February 1, 1973, but does not require builders who performed substantial construction prior to that date to apply for permits from the regional coastal commission. To hold otherwise would in effect impo...

The court affirms denial of a preliminary injunction against eviction and demolition by New York City on a site where plant expansion is planned by a private company with a loan commitment from the Economic Development Administration of the Commerce Department. EDA failed to file an impact statement...

Two transactions in which the Forest Service exchanged government land in and near Yellowstone National Park for land patented to a private company, which then conveyed its acquisition to a developer for construction of a recreational development, are reviewable by the court ans fall under the requi...

The court denies defendants' motion to transfer to Montana an action seeking an injunction against the planned development of coal mining in parts of the Northern Great Plains until a comprehensive environmental impact statement is filed. The issues central to the case are not such that they require...

The U.S. Forest Service did not abuse its discretion in awarding a timber sale contract to the high bidder, who had defaulted on similar contracts in the past and thereby caused the permanent loss by bug infestation of trees totaling 200 million board-feet of lumber. Proof that the agency exercised ...

A summary judgment against plaintiffs seeking to compel disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act of the results of radiation level surveys by EPA in private and public structures built on uranium tailings is reversed. The court rules that EPA has not sustained its burden of establishing a rig...

The state supreme court finds it unnecessary to rule on whether a Western North Carolina Regional Air Pollution Agency regulation is invalid as an unconstitutional delegation of legislative power since the warrant charging a criminal violation of the regulation fails to specify facts sufficient to i...

The court dismisses for lack of jurisdiction an action seeking declaratory and injunctive relief against the operation of 20 nuclear power plants with allegedly ineffective emergency core cooling systems as a breach of AEC's obligation under the Atomic Energy Act to protect the public health and saf...

Sections 304(a) and 307 of the Clean Air Act allow the court to award costs and attorney fees to environmental plaintiffs in a suit against EPA which resulted in reversal of the agency's approval of portions of two state implementation plans. Attorney fees can be awarded against a federal agency onl...