The court denies plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction to prevent Exxon Corp. from drilling an exploratory oil well on a man-made gravel pad in the Beaufort Sea less than one mile from the Alaska coast. Plaintiffs claimthat the Coprs of Engineers permit for construction of the gravel pad u...

The court denies plaintiffs' request for declaratory and injunctive relief barring allegedly illegal ex parte communications between defendant Secretary of the Interior and defendant members of the Council of Economic Advisors regarding rulemaking to implement the Surface Mining Control and Reclamat...

The court enjoins further work on the installation of two oil drilling and production platforms in the Sanata Barbara Channel until the Department of the Interior complies with the National Environmental Policy Act by providing a statement of reasons for its determination that a site-specific enviro...

The court dismisses a suit seeking to compel defendants to prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) before issuing a mineral patent for 12 mining claims in the Black Hills National Forest. The court determines that the agency's decision not to prepare an EIS was not unreasonable because the S...

Affirming the lower court's decision, 7 ELR 20502, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals holds that the failure by the Secretary of the Interior to take action to halt a program by the state of Alaska to kill wolves on federal land in order to protect a caribou herd is not federal action requiring prep...

The court denies motions for judgment of acquittal or a new trial by defendants, a corporation and two of its officers that were found guilty by a jury of willfully or negligently discharging pollutants without a permit in violation of §§301(a) and 309(c) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act...

In a suit brought by the United States seeking an order requiring removal of fences impairing public access to beach property owned by a municipality and leased to defendant, the court grants plaintiff's motion for summary judgment and denies defendants' counterclaim. Since there are no issues of ma...

The court denies a motion to dismiss a suit by the United States seeking civil penalties and an injunction against further waste water discharges from defendant's sewage treatment plant in violation of its national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit. The court rejects defendant's ...

The parties agree to dismiss without prejudice this suit to compel compliance by defendant Export-Import Bank with the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The president has issued Executive Order No. 12114 concerning actions to be taken by federal agencies to further enviro...

The court denies a petition for review of the granting by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) of a permit for construction of a nuclear power plant. Petitioner's argument that the Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Board violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) by failing to conside...