The court upholds the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) standards for the disposal of uranium mill tailings at inactive mill sites under the Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act (UMTRCA) against challenges from industry and environmental groups, but sets aside a regulation delegating ...

The court upholds the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) uranium mill tailings regulations for active mill sites and denies standing to a party challenging EPA's designation of molybdenum as a hazardous constituent. The court first holds that EPA met Congress' deadline for promulgating the re...

The court rules that the settlement agreement in a government suit, which requires defendant to control and clean up its hazardous waste dumps at the S-Area site in Niagara Falls, New York, fully protects the interests of the Province of Ontario, an intervenor in the suit. The court rejects interven...

The court rules that the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (FWPCA) does not apply to pollution of groundwater that subsequently enters a navigable surface water, that the waiver of sovereign immunity in FWPCA §313 does not apply to actions under state public nuisance statutes, and that Michigan d...

In a Federal Water Pollution Control Act §505 citizen suit to enforce a national pollutant discharge elimination system permit, the court holds that plaintiff has standing, that an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrative enforcement action was not a "court" proceeding within the meanin...

The Court holds that the Army Corps of Engineers' regulations under Federal Water Pollution Control Act (FWPCA) §404 reasonably include wetlands adjacent to other waters within the Corps' permit jurisdiction. The Court first rejects the court of appeals, reasoning that the Corps' jurisdiction must ...

The court upholds a decision of the Interior Board of Land Appeals (IBLA) that held plaintiff's mining claims within the Grand Canyon National Game Preserve to be void because the land within the preserve had been withdrawn from mineral entry. After first holding that the standard for judicial revie...

The court holds that cooperative management agreements (CMAs) entered into between the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and ranchers for the regulation of livestock grazing on public lands violate the Bureau's duties under several environmental statutes and the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). The...

In a suit brought by the state of New York against the United States and the Secretaries of Defense and the Air Force alleging that defendants contaminated the groundwater under a former Air Force base by leaking jet fuel and other chemicals, the court holds that is has no subject matter jurisdictio...

In a petition for attorney fees for work on a case involving paraquat spraying of marijuana on federal lands by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the court rules that the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) is a prevailing party and entitled to fees to the extent ...