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California ex rel. State Water Resources Control Bd. v. EPA

Following the Supreme Court's reversal, 6 ELR 20563, of the court's earlier decision, 511 F.2d 963, 5 ELR 20213, the Ninth Circuit vacates its decision and upholds EPA's denial of the state's National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) application under the Federal Water Pollution Contro...

Wambat Realty Corp. v. Adirondack Park Agency

The court denies most of the plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment that the Adirondack Park Agency Act is unconstitutional per se and as applied as a taking without just compensation, but strikes down as an impermissible exercise of the police power a provision allowing local governments to zone l...

Ward v. Coleman

In an interlocutory order, the court denies plaintiff's motion to convene a three-judge court to hear its challenge to the Coast Guard's assessment of a $500 civil penalty pursuant to §311(b)(6) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972 in connection with an oil spill reported b...

United States v. U.S. Steel Corp.

The court denies the United Steelworkers Union's motion to intervene in this Clean Air Act enforcement proceeding because the union's interest in worker employment is adequately represented by the defendant United States Steel. On June 9, 1975, plaintiff filed an action to enjoin operation of five o...

Wildlife Alive v. Chickering

Reversing a lower court, the California Supreme Court holds that the state Fish and Game Commission is not exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act of 1970 (CEQA), and in particular its environmental impact report (EIR) responsibilities. The suit had its origins in the failure of the Com...

Hayes v. Yount

Remanding a lower court's decision, the Washington Supreme Court upholds the Shorelines Hearing Board's vacating a permit issued by Snohomish County that would have allowed filling 93 acres of wetlands in the Snohomish River estuary. Plaintiff's land, designated as part of "shorelines of state-wide ...

Civic Improvement Comm. v. Volpe

The court requires defendants to supplement their environmental impact statement for a proposed highway with new noise studies. The earlier impact statement mistakenly assumed that the Charlotte City Code prohibited diesel trucks from using the highway, and thus did not fulfill the requirements of N...

Westside Property Owners v. Schlesinger

The court upholds the adequacy of the NEPA environmental impact statement on stationing the F-15 jet fighter plane at Luke Air Force Base. The base has been in operation since 1941 and has had jet planes for 25 years. After review of a draft and a public hearing, the final impact statement on statio...

Fred F. French Investing Co. v. New York, City of

The New York Court of Appeals affirms a lower court's decision declaring a New York City Zoning Resolution that rezoned two private parks in the Tudor City complex as public parks to be an unconstitutional taking of private property without due process. Tudor City is a four-acre parcel in mid-Manhat...

Environmental Defense Fund v. EPA

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit affirms the EPA Administrator's order suspending the registrations of heptachlor and chlordane for certain uses under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and prohibiting further production of the two pesticides for those uses...