The court reverses an administrative assessment of a $500 civil penalty under the Illinois Environmental Protection Act against a manufacturer who was in compliance with applicable emission standards but had failed to obtain an operating permit from the state Environmental Protection Agency. Imposit...

The Ninth Circuit holds that the Department of the Interior may remove from public lands billboards that are erected under temporary permits. Appellants' signs were removed by the government following expiration of their permits. The court holds that the Secretary of the Interior has almost plenary ...

The court grants plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment in a suit seeking declaratory and injunctive relief against the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) enforcement of regulations providing for reimbursement by the applicant of the government's costs in processing and monitoring applications for r...

The district court enjoins the further use of clearcutting and other even-age timber management techniques in the national forests of Texas pending preparation of an environmental impact statement (EIS) that complies with the mandates of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The court finds ...

Plaintiff filed this action seeking a judgment that a civil penalty levied by the state Environmental Hearing Board under the Pennsylvania Clean Streams Law for water pollution discharged from a federally owned, contractor managed ammunition manufacturing plant is uneforceable against the United Sta...

Pursuant to §17 of the Noise Control Act of 1972, ELR STAT. & REG. 41506, the court directs the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to promulgate Railroad Noise Emission Standards not limited to just rail cars and locomotives. Plaintiffs argued that the mandate in §17 requiring standards for...

The court remands for modifications a district court order that the unobligated balance of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) budget authority provided by §208(f)(3) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972, 33 U.S.C. §1288(f)(3), for funding areawide waste treatment ma...

The court invalidates the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) decision to exempt by regulation steel plants in the Mahoning River Valley from the effluent limitations generally applicable to that point source category. The exemption cannot stand in view of the command in §301(e) of the Federa...

The court dismisses appeals by three state agencies, which appeal a permit issued for a coastal oil refinery, on the grounds that they lack standing to seek judicial review under the Site Location of Development Law, 38 Me. Rev. Stat. Ann. §§481 et seq., ELR Stat. & Reg. 43027. Appellee Board ...

Section 404 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (FWPCA) and the Corps of Engineers' regulations providing for the issuance of permits to discharge dredged and fill material apply to unnavigable waters within Puerto Rico. The court rules that plaintiff has standing to sue under the Declaratory...