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...

The court reverses a municipal zoning board's denial of homeowners' request for a zoning variance to allow installation of a rooftop solar collector. The section of the town zoning ordinance upon which the board relied, when strictly construed, does not apply to the installation of solar collectors....

The Second Circuit denies the federal government's petition for rehearing in a case in which it previously held, 12 ELR 20119, that the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (FWPCA) preempts the government's right under common law, maritime law, or the Rivers and Harbors Act to recover costs expended ...

The court approves a settlement in which the federal government agrees that §114(c) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) does not preclude the state of New Jersey from using its Spill Compensation Fund to finance hazardous waste cleanup and compensat...