The court dismisses petitions filed by representatives of the electrical manufacturing industry, an environmental organization, and a fishermen's society challenging defendant's regulations limiting discharges of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) into waterways. The regulations are not procedurally i...

In a suit challenging, inter alia, defendants' compliance with federal pollution control laws in approving salinity control plans adopted by states of the Colorado River Basin, the court denies defendants' motion for transfer of the case to the federal district court in Colorado. The two prerequisit...

The court denies defendants' motion for judgment on the pleadings in a suit challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) and the Department of the Interior's compliance with federal statutes in connection with measures to improve water quality in the Colorado River Basin. Counts I and I...

The appellate court affirms the district court's denial of intervention to appellants. Because the states in which appellants are located had already been granted intervention in the litigation, appellants must be held to a greater showing of interest in order to qualify for intervention as of right...

The state of Nebraska and a number of national, state, and local conservation, agricultural, and environmental groups challenge the legality of the Rural Electrification Administraton's (REA's) granting of federal commitments and loan guarantees for the Missouri Basin Power Project and the Corps of ...

On petitions for review presented by several industrial manufacturers, the Fifth Circuit vacates a work place rule promulgated by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration limiting occupational exposure to benzene. That portion of the regulation limiting airborne concentrations to one part p...

The district court denies plaintiffs' request for injunctive and declaratory relief in a constitutional challenge to the Maine Traveller Information Services Act, which prohibits the erection or maintenance of signs or billboards within view of any public way, subject to certain exceptions. With res...

On remand from the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the court revises its order of September 27, 1977, 7 ELR 20785, enjoining the federal defendants from implementing the federal coal leasing program because of inadequacies in the programmatic environmental impact...

The court grants plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction against the construction of a reregulating dam designed to stablize downstream fluctuations caused by the operation of the Libby Dam. After affirmatively resolving questions of standing and jurisdiction, the court determines that plain...

Granting defendants' motions for summary judgment, the court concludes that the Secretary of Agriculture's decision to reduce authorized utilization of national forest lands under grazing permits was an action committed to agency discretion by law and thus not judicially reviewable. Plaintiffs, whos...