The court issues a preliminary injunction prohibiting the defendants from conducting further rulemaking proceedings to implement the acreage limitation provision of the federal reclamation laws until an environmental impact statement (EIS) has been prepared and filed. Defendants' proposed regulation...

The D.C. Circuit denies a petition to review the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) interim regulations implementing the Safe Drinking Water Act insofar as they relate to inorganic contaminants, but remands the record relating to organic contaminants for a report on whether the agency plans t...

The court denies defendants' motion to dismiss this action to halt the killing of wolves by Alaska officials on federal lands. Defendants argued that the State of Alaska should have been joined as an indispensable party under Fed. R. Civ. P. 19 and that the action was barred by res judicata pursuant...

The court reverses the judgment of the trial court sustaining the Board of Forestry's granting of a timber harvesting permit to a private lumber company. At the outset, the court rejects plaintiffs' contentions that the Board inadequately explained the basis for its action and that the trial court e...

In a split decision, the Supreme Court affirms, for the most part, the ruling of a three-judge district court, 7 ELR 20071, that the state of Washington's Tanker Law is unconstitutional because of being preempted by federal law. The Tanker Law regulates oil tanker navigation in Puget Sound through p...

In a separate opinion, Judge MacKinnon dissents in part from the court's decision, 8 ELR 20164, that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is without authority under the Clean Air Act to use the "bubble concept" in applying new source performance standards to modifications at existing facilities...

The court affirms a Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) order imposing $32,500 in civil penalties against petitioner public utility for making seven material false statements in connection with its application for a license for its North Anna nuclear power plant by failing to inform the NRC of geolo...

The Fourth Circuit affirms the district court's denial of injunctive relief in an action seeking to restrain further construction on a segment of an interstate highway for failure to comply with the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act. Plaintiffs' claims that the project environmen...

The court denies plaintiffs' request for a preliminary injunction against continued rights-of-way acquisition and construction of an electric transmission line. The court disagrees with plaintiffs' contention that the final environmental impact statements (EISs) for the project are fatally defective...

The court denies a petition for review of an Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) order granting a conditional certificate of public convenience and necessity and affirms the ICC's conclusion that its decision is not a "major Federal action" under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), thereb...