The court grants a preliminary injunction against condemnation of plaintiff's property for construction of a prison pending compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The city of Omaha prepared an environmental impact statement (EIS) on the proposed federally assisted redevelopmen...

In response to a petition challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) action in extending for an additional two-and-one-half years the national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit for the Hyperion Wastewater Treatment Plant in Los Angeles, the Ninth Circuit remands th...

The Ninth Circuit affirms a lower court's refusal to issue a preliminary injunction against the execution of leases for the exploration for and commercial production of geothermal steam in the Alvord Desert of eastern Oregon. The district court correctly concluded that plaintiffs failed to establish...

In consolidated cases challenging terms within discharge permits issued to petitioners under the Wisconsin Pollution Discharge Elimination System, the court affirms the opinion of the lower court that the terms are overly restrictive and invalid under state law. The state law parallels the Federal W...

The court dismisses for lack of jurisdiction a petition to review the Environmental Protection Agency's denial of a request for modification of a national pollutant discharge elimination system permit which specifies effluent limitations for waste water discharged from petitioner's gold mine. The co...

In an action challenging the construction or operation of three dams on the Savannah River, the court denies defendants' motion for dismissal of Counts I and II of the complaint, which allege, respectively, that the defendants are in violation of §§301 and 402 of the Federal Water Pollution Contro...

The court dismisses petitions filed by representatives of the electrical manufacturing industry, an environmental organization, and a fishermen's society challenging defendant's regulations limiting discharges of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) into waterways. The regulations are not procedurally i...

In a suit challenging, inter alia, defendants' compliance with federal pollution control laws in approving salinity control plans adopted by states of the Colorado River Basin, the court denies defendants' motion for transfer of the case to the federal district court in Colorado. The two prerequisit...

The court denies defendants' motion for judgment on the pleadings in a suit challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) and the Department of the Interior's compliance with federal statutes in connection with measures to improve water quality in the Colorado River Basin. Counts I and I...

The appellate court affirms the district court's denial of intervention to appellants. Because the states in which appellants are located had already been granted intervention in the litigation, appellants must be held to a greater showing of interest in order to qualify for intervention as of right...