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Mountainbrook Homeowners Ass'n v. Adams

The court dismisses an action by homeowners seeking an injunction ordering the removal from adjoining lands of waste rock produced by a federally funded highway project. Plaintiffs alleged that defendants failed to comply with the provisions of the project's environmental impact statement (EIS) by d...

New England Power Co. v. Goulding

The court denies plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction barring the proposed transfer of the Rhode Island Naval Auxiliary Landing Field from the General Services Administration to several other federal agencies. After preparing an environmental impact statement (EIS) addressing possible alt...

Peshlakai v. Duncan

The court denies plaintiffs' motions for a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction in a suit challenging federal approvals of uranium mining and milling activities in the San Juan Basin of New Mexico for alleged violations of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The court h...

Monarch Chem. Works, Inc. v. Thone

The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals affirms a lower court's refusal, 9 ELR 20478, to enjoin construction of a state prison in Omaha, Nebraska, after finding that the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act have not been violated. Part of the prison site was cleared pursuant to a federa...

United States v. Distler

Defendant, through the corporation of which he was president, Kentucky Liquid Recycling, Inc., caused the discharge of toxic organic pollutants into the sewers of Louisville, Kentucky, and thus into the Ohio River. The court finds defendant guilty of discharging pollutants into the waters of the Uni...

Union Carbide Corp. v. Andrus

Granting defendants' motions to dismiss for failure to state a claim and for lack of jurisdiction, the court upholds enforcement actions taken by the Interior Department's Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) pursuant to the interim regulatory program under the Surface Mining C...

Alumet v. Andrus

The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals holds that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has authority to require a private party to pay part of the cost of preparing an environmental impact statement (EIS) in connection with processing an application for a right-of-way over public lands. The court of appe...

United States v. Gold

In a suit against a pesticide manufacturer and its officers seeking criminal penalties for violations of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act and the Mail Fraud Act for failure to submit to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) health and safety data relating to the pesticides...

People ex rel. Younger v. El Dorado, County of

The court strikes down a municipal ordinance banning from a portion of the south fork of the American River all activity other than swimming without the assistance of artificial means. The court finds that although the ordinance had the legitimate aim of eliminating serious problems of litter and ot...

J.E. Brenneman Co. v. Schramm

The court holds that a contractor lacked standing to bring a mandamus action against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Regional Administrator regarding federal funding of construction of a municipal waste water treatment plant. The contractor built the plant for the Derry Township Municipal ...