The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals affirms a lower court's judgment that preparation of an environmental impact statement (EIS) is not required in conjunction with the Atlanta area's Regional Development Plan for transportation systems.The court of appeals finds that the Plan does not constitute a "...

The Fifth Circuit grants a petition by the Environmental Protection Agency for a clarification of a decision rendered in the case on May 3, 1979, 9 ELR 20311, in which the court invalidated the Agency's designation of non-attainment areas in Alabama pursuant to §107(d) of the Clean Air Act. The cou...

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reverses a lower court's injunctive order, 7 ELR 20780, requiring the United States Navy to file annual environmental impact statements in conjunction with its appropriations requests for practice bombing on the Island of Kahoolawe. The Supreme Court's recent decis...

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirms the dismissal, 7 ELR 20400, of a suit challenging the issuance of certificates of registration under the Nevada state implementation plan (SIP) for two proposed hotel-casinos. Appellants claimed that the two indirect sources would result in violations of th...

Pesticide manufacturers petitioned for review of final Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations, 40 C.F.R. Part 455, setting effluent limitations for pollutant discharges by the pesticide industry, alleging both procedural and substantive errors. The court rules that the Agency did not viol...

In a suit by one chemical manufacturer against another and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the court rules that appellant is entitled to compensation for test data that was submitted by it with an application for a pesticide registration under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Roden...

Granting defendants' motion for summary judgment, the court rejects plaintiff's challenges to the legality of the procedures used by the Council on Environmental Quality in carrying out its functions. The Council is not subject to the common-law quorum rule because the agency's statutory purposes an...

Affirming the lower court, the Louisiana Supreme Court holds that a local ordinance prohibiting the disposal of hazardous waste within the boundaries of Iberville Parish is preempted by federal and state law. Prompted by a death at an unlicensed waste disposal site, the Parish Police Jury amended it...

Granting defendants' motion to dismiss, the court rules that construction of individual water projects need not be delayed pending preparation of a comprehensive basinwide environmental impact statement (EIS) for Colorado River water resource development once final site-specific EISs are filed. Afte...

The court grants plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction against demolition of historic buildings as part of an ongoing urban renewal project pending compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). In 1966, the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) approved,...