The court holds that a decision of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to lift a ban on the commercial importation of three threatened kangaroo species does not violate the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Section 2(c) of the ESA requires federal agencies to seek to conserve endangered and threate...

Reversing a decision of the District of Columbia Circuit, 10 ELR 20905, the Court holds that the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) does not require the Secretary of the Interior to experiment with non-cash-bonus bidding systems for leasing outer continental shelf (OCS) oil and gas tracts. Th...

The court rejects a challenge to a proposed highway extension under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The challenged roadway, an extension of Gude Drive in Rockville, Maryland, would pass within 100 feet of plaintiffs' residences and was alleged to be part of a proposed "Rockville Circum...

The Maryland Court of Appeals upholds in part and invalidates in part two ordinances regulating the transportation and disposal of hazardous wastes within Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Appellant, a licensed landfill owner and operator and hazardous wastes hauler, filed a petition for declaratory an...

The court upholds the conviction of a transformer dealer for the unlawful roadside dumping of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) transformer oil in violation of §§6 and 15 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) and PCB disposal regulations. It finds sufficient evidence to show that the oil was dum...

The Third Circuit affirms a district court's denial, 11 ELR 20952, of a motion by Pennsylvania legislators to intervene in a suit to compel state implementation of an automobile inspection and maintenance (I/M) program. The court rules that the state legislators may not intervene as of right under F...

The court upholds the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) conditional approval of Connecticut's Part D state implementation plan (SIP) revision and its final approval of the state's partial withdrawal of its indirect source review (ISR) program, but requires EPA to reinstate a moratorium on co...

The District of Columbia Circuit holds that petitioner is entitled under §19(d) of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to recover reasonable attorney fees for the hours reasonably expended in litigating all issues in Environmental Defense Fund, Inc. v. Environmental Protection Agency (EDF v. EP...

The district court upholds defendants' decision not to prepare an environmental impact statement prior to application of an herbicide in the Fort Cobb Reservoir in Oklahoma. Defendants prepared an environmental assessment, which concluded that the experimental application of 2,4-dicholorophenoxyacet...

The district court dismisses a citizen suit under the Clean Air Act alleging noncompliance with and the inadequacy of the New York state implementation plan (SIP). Initially, the court dismisses plaintiffs' claims that the state defendants violated the 1973 SIP. The 1979 revision of the SIP, approve...