The California Supreme Court, sitting en banc, rules that this landowners' complaint alleging that a municipal zoning action reduced the market value of their property by 80 percent fails to state a cause of action in inverse condemnation. Plaintiffs, hoping to build a shopping center, bought a vaca...

The court grants defendant corporation's motion to dismiss, for lack of jurisdiction, this suit attacking discharge of crude oil from defendant's pipeline onto plaintiffs' land and waterways. Section 311 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (FWPCA), 33 U.S.C. §1321, ELR 41116-18, is the only ...

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) issuance of an operating license to the Maine Yankee atomic power plant is affirmed. The evidence supporting issuance was adequate to afford reasonable assurances that the small increment of background radiation attributable to the plant will not jeopardize ...

The court lacks jurisdiction over a petition submitted by the Greene County Planning Board seeking revocation of a Federal Power Commission construction permit issued for a "circuit tower" in Franklin County, New York. The tower would enable the New York Power Authority to import Canadian electricit...

The Court of appeals remands this petition for review of the licensing of a light-water-cooled nuclear reactor in York County, Pennsylvania, to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for an individualized consideration of the costs and benefits of reducing radioiodine exposure from the reactor to b...

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals affirms the district court's dissolution of a previous injunctive order and denial of temporary injunctive relief against further work in navigable waters. The lower court did not abuse its discretion in refusing to grant such relief pending the Corps of Engineers...

The court awards inverse condemnation damages to plaintiffs, a limited partnership which has been prevented from, developing certain land by the defendant city's enactment of open space ordinances. The city repeatedly and publicly indicated its intent to purchase plaintiff's 515 acres, which lie bel...

Judge Sirica approves a stipulation by which the parties agree that the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID) will, within 10 months, file a programmatic NEPA impact statement on its international pesticide activities and pest management program; these include its financing of procurement ...

The New York Supreme Court for Essex County grants summary judgment to the defendants in an action seeking to declare the Adirondack Park Agency Act in violation of New York constitutional and statutory provisions guaranteeing local governments the power to enact local zoning regulations and perform...

The court of appeals dissolves a preliminary injunction entered by the lower court against the Environmental Protection Agency's order banning three economic poisons used for predator control. Acting under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), the EPA Administrator issued ...