The court affirms a decision of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) not to prepare an environmental impact statement and finds adequate the Agency's environmental impact appraisal concerning construction of a federally funded wastewater treatment facility. The proposed system includes two lago...

The EighthCircuit affirms a district court ruling, 8 ELR 20638, that an intrastate lake and its outlet creek are not subject to the Army Corps of Engineers' regulatory jurisdiction under the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899. Although both are navigable in fact, these bodies of water are not navigable ...

The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirms the trial court's order requiring defendants to eliminate raw sewage overflows that ultimately reach Lake Michigan but reverses its imposition of effluent limitations on discharges from defendants' treatment plant more stringent than those contained in th...

Affirming in part and reversing in part the decision of the district court, 8 ELR 20415, the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals rules that the Energy Research and Development Administration's (ERDA's) construction of 22 nuclear waste storage tanks is not subject to the licensing jurisdict...

The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit reverses a lower court's order, 7 ELR 20434, that directed the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to conduct further rulemaking in response to a petition for the promulgation of rules requiring comprehensive disclosure by ...

The First Circuit Court of Appeals upholds the decision of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to terminate its inquiry into three alternative locations for the partially constructed Seabrook Nuclear Power Station. These alternative sites had been proposed by petitioners in the administrative pr...

The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upholds the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) Solid Waste Management Guidelines for Beverage Containers, which require a five-cent refundable deposit on all beverage containers sold at federal facilities. The court first...

In an expedited per curiam opinion in a number of consolidated cases, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit affirms in part and remands in part the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) final regulations implementing various provisions of the Clean Air Act Amend...

The court dismisses a suit seeking an injunction requiring defendants to prepare an environmental impact statement in conjunction with the listing of certain mollusks in the Duck River as endangered species. The listing could serve to prohibit continuation of the proposed Columbia Dam under §7 of t...

Reversing a lower court's decision, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals holds that a suit by riparian landowners, alleging that their property along the James River was rendered valueless for development as a marina because of pollution from a nearby municipal sewage treatment plant and thus taken w...