The court grants the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator's motion for summary judgment in a suit challenging his decision to stop further processing of an application for federal funding of a proposed sewage treatment plant near Dickerson, Maryland. Plaintiffs are mistaken in asserti...

Reversing the lower court's issuance of injunctive relief, 7 ELR 20720, the court of appeals rules that the Forest Service need not prepare a programmatic environmental impact statement (EIS) for clearcutting in Texas national forests pursuant to interim guidelines under the National Forest Manageme...

The court denies defendants' motion to dismiss claims under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (FWPCA), the Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act (MPRSA), and the federal common law of nuisance seeking declaratory and injunctive relief against the defendants' dumping of garbage and se...

Consolidating and deciding two cases, the court concludes that the non-consumptive water rights, reserved by the United States, to the natural flow of several streams in two national forests are limited to the amount necessary to accomplish the purposes of timber and watershed protection. Reviewing ...

The court grants plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment in a suit challenging the General Services Administration's (GSA) failure to prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) in conjunction with an agreement to lease a privately owned building for federal office space. By definition, the five...

Plaintiff's challenge on National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) grounds to the construction of two rural water supply systems is rejected. The Minnehaha system has been in planning stages since 1971, is currently 98 percent completed, and the evidence shows that the bases of plaintiff's legal chal...

The court denies plaintiff's request for an injunction against construction of three electrical transmission towers in New Haven Harbor. Pursuant to §10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899, the Corps of Engineers issued a permit for the project after determining that the environmental effects of ...

In consolidated cases seeking declaratory judgments as to the limits of the Corps of Engineers' regulatory jurisdiction over tidal waters on the Pacific Coast, the Ninth Circuit, modifying in part and reversing in part the judgment of the trial court, 5 ELR 20039, rules that (1) under the Rivers and...

On consolidated appeals from orders of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington issued to enforce its decision in United States v. Washington, 5 ELR 20552, the Ninth Circuit reaffirms the validity of the legal bases of that decision and upholds the district court's sub...

The United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit reverses a district court's ruling, 5 ELR 20383, that the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requires preparation of an environmental impact statement (EIS) on an annual budget request for operation of the National Wildlife Refuge System....