The requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act and §4(f) of the Department of Transportation Act protecting parklands from highway construction except in unusual cases, must both be complied with for any ongoing highway project unless the project has reached such an advanced state of com...

Appellants, farmers living downstream from the city's sewage treatment plant, sought damages for diminished value of their property caused by the inability of the city to treat industrial sewage placed into the stream. The dumping of polluted wastes by a city into a private watercourse constitutes a...

Construction and operation by federal officials of a Courthouse Annex—two nine-story buildings that will house federal offices and 450 people in a Metropolitan Correction Center—is a major federal action under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, but this project will not significantly...

The plaintiffs, 18 states, seek to have the Supreme Court hear an antitrust case against the major automobile manufacturers under the Court's original jurisdiction. The complaint charges a conspiracy to retard development of pollution control devices for automobiles. The Supreme Court has discretion...

The General Services Administration's determination that the construction of a nine-story correctional facility in a densely occupied urban neighborhood will not significantly affect the quality of the environment so as to require the filing of an environmental impact statement under the National En...

In highway planning, the design approval stage is the crucial date for determining if agencies have any discretion whether or not to file a NEPA statement. If the design approval stage had not been reached prior to January 1, 1970 (the effective date of NEPA), then the Act must be rigorously complie...

On petition for review, the decision of the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) not to suspend all registered uses of the chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides aldrin and dieldrin under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) (see Reasons Underlying The Re...

Suit by downtown property owners to enjoin condemnation of their land as a step in the implementation of a Downtown Urban Renewal Plan for failure to comply with required statutory procedures in preparing the Plan—including the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969—is dismissed. The nonenvir...

A state statute that authorizes municipalities to exercise their zoning power to establish historic districts, and the establishment of a historic district by the village of Franklin pursuant to that statute, is a constitutional exercise of the state's police power. Preservation of historic objects ...

A Canadian citizen and a Canadian environmental organization may intervene as of right in a suit which challenges the adequacy of the Secretary of Interior's compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) with respect to his decision to permit the construction of the Trans-Alas...