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Noe v. Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Auth.

The court dismisses a complaint seeking an injunction restraining the builder of a subway system from causing noise levels in excess of those predicted in the environmental impact statement prepared for the project. Finding nothing in the National Environmental Policy Act requiring defendants to abi...

Pittston Co. v. Endangered Species Comm.

In a case of first impression, the court rules that the Pittston Company's application for an exemption from §7 of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) to enable it to build an oil refinery in Maine is not ripe for review. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had preliminarily indicated that it wo...

Environmental Defense Fund v. Andrus

The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals affirms the judgment of the district court upholding the adequacy of an environmental impact statement (EIS) prepared in connection with plans for leasing federal lands for oil shale development. Contrary to appellants' argument that the programmatic EIS prepared i...

State v. Crown Zellerbach Corp.

The Washington Supreme Court reverses a lower court's dismissal of a criminal information for an alleged violation of conditions contained in a hydraulic project permit for logging operations affecting the water quality of a stream. The court holds that the statute delegating to the state Department...

Sierra Club v. Corps of Eng'rs

The district court dismisses a suit challenging the adequacy of an environmental impact statement (EIS) prepared by the Corps of Engineers prior to issuing a landfill permit in connection with the construction of the Westway project in New York City. Although the Corps had made a final determination...

Amchem Prods., Inc. v. Costle

The court grants plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from disclosing trade secret research data submitted by pesticide manufacturers. Under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), plaintiffs are required to sub...

Baker v. United States

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals vacates the district court's dismissal of a complaint challenging the invalidation by the Department of the Interior's Board of Land Appeals (IBLA) of two mining claims. The IBLA had invalidated the claims because they located quantities of cinders in excess of rea...

Mt. Airy Ref. Co. v. Schlesinger

The district court remands, for violations of the Department of Energy Organization Act and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), regulations issued by the Department of Energy (DOE) amending the domestic crude oil allocation plan so as to adjust the economic benefits given small refiners pu...

Kilroy v. Quarles

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirms a lower court's refusal to issue a preliminary injunction prohibiting the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from requiring the city of Los Angeles to undertake a temporary landfill project to dispose of sewage sludge from the Hyperion treatment plant. T...

Battle Creek, City of v. Federal Trade Comm'n

The district court dismisses an action seeking an injunction against ongoing Federal Trade Commisssion (FTC) proceedings concerning possible antitrust violations by several cereal manufacturers located within plaintiff city. The basis of the claim is that in the event that the FTC ultimately decides...