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PPG Indus. v. Costle

The court remands the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) designation of Summit County, Ohio as a nonattainment area for sulfur dioxide under the 1977 amendments to the Clean Air Act. Though it upholds as a general matter EPA's use of modeling data rather than monitoring data in designating no...

Romulus, City of v. Wayne, County of

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals rules that an action to enjoin construction of an additional runway at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport is moot because the runway has been completed. The district court found that the environmental impact statement (EIS) prepared by the Department of Transportatio...

Puerto Rico v. SS Zoe Colocotroni

The First Circuit Court of Appeals remands a district court ruling awarding damages to Puerto Rico for injuries to its natural resources sustained as a result of an oil spill from appellants' ship. Considering first several procedural issues, the court rules that the district court did not abuse its...

Energy Action Educ. Found. v. Andrus

After rejecting appellants' earlier challenge to the Department of the Interior's alleged failure to implement alternative leasing systems under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA), 10 ELR 20092, the court now agrees that the Secretaries of Energy and the Interior have violated the Act and...

Pacific Legal Found. v. Council on Envtl. Quality

Vacating the judgment of the district court, 9 ELR 20610, the court holds that Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) regulations limiting the applicability of the Government in the Sunshine Act are invalid. CEQ is an "agency" within the meaning of the Sunshine Act even when functioning in the capac...

General Motors Corp. v. Costle

The court upholds the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) Clean Air Act designation of Richland and Montgomery Counties, Ohio as nonattainment areas for total suspended particulates. The court concludes that the EPA Administrator did not act in an arbirary or capricious manner in refusing to a...

EPA v. National Crushed Stone Ass'n

The United States Supreme Court reverses rulings by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in National Crushed Stone Ass'n v. EPA, 9 ELR 20535, and Consolidation Coal Co. v.Costle, 9 ELR 20511, and upholds the variance clause contained in effluent limitations promulgated by the Environmental Protection...

In re Solid Waste Disposal Permit

The court affirms the decision of the trial court and the South Dakota Board of Environmental Protection to grant a city and county a permit to operate a solid waste disposal site. After adoption of a solid waste management plan by the county, the city applied to the Board for a solid waste disposal...

Pacific Coast Fed'n of Fishermen's Ass'n v. Secretary of Commerce

The court finds that the Secretary of Commerce complied with the Fishery Conservation and Management Act (FCMA), 16 U.S.C. §§1801-1882, in issuing emergency interim regulations restricting commercial and recreational salmon fishing off the coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California during the 19...

Mississippi Comm'n on Natural Resources v. Costle

The court denies a request for injunctive relief restraining enforcement of a water quality standard promulgated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Pursuant to §303 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, EPA informed the state of Mississippi that its standard for dissolved oxygen wa...