The court holds that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) was not required under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) to supplement a programmatic environmental impact statement (EIS) when it substituted herbicide sprays used in a forest vegetation management program in Oregon but that BLM mu...

The court denies defendants' motion for reconsideration of its ruling, 13 ELR 20174, which held that a "worst-case analysis" of the health effects of herbicide spraying must be included in the 1982 environmental assessment (EA) updating a forest vegetation control programmatic environmental impact s...

The court denies plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction to halt construction of Bald Mountain Road in the Siskiyou National Forest in Oregon pending resolution of its National Environmental Policy Act challenge to the Forest Service's (USFS') finding of no significant impact concerning the ...

The court enjoins the Army Corps of Engineers from the further dumping of any materials at an interim disposal site, Site A, in the Gulf of Mexico. Initially, the court rules that plaintiffs' claims against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are not ripe for review since EPA has recently issu...

In a suit by the federal government against an owner-operator of a hazardous waste disposal site, the court holds that §7003(a) of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) confers strict liability and that §104(a)(1)(A) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liabil...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the state of Indiana sign a consent decree with 24 companies who allegedly generated and/or caused to be transported solid and hazardous waste disposed of at the Seymour Recycling site, Indiana. The settling companies were defendants in a lawsuit brought...

The court approves, with minor modification, the proposed consent decree between the Environmental Protection Agency, the State of Indiana, and 24 companies that provides for the surface cleanup of the Seymour Recycling site in Indiana.The court finds that the decree is not only legal, but serves to...

The court approves a consent decree requiring the operator of MK Ranches to restore 8,000 acres of wetlands located in the Florida Gulf Coast Panhandle. The decree is in settlement of a lawsuit brought by the federal government alleging that defendants had violated §§301, 309, and 404 of the Feder...

The court holds that its has no jurisdiction pursuant to the citizen suit provision of the Clean Air Act, §304(a)(2), to compel the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to commence a §113 enforcement action against a source that is allegedly in violation of the state implementation plan (SIP). Th...

The court clarifies its April 1, 1982, injunction, 12 ELR 20658, requiring the Forest Service to prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) concerning amendments to the plan for mining within the Misty Fjords National Monument in Alaska, and rejects intervenor-defendants U.S. Borax's motion to ...