Affirming the lower court, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court holds that, pursuant to the Pennsylvania Clean Streams Law, the state Department of Environmental Resources (DER) may order the closing of a landfill and cleanup of the pollution discharged. The landfill operators had failed to comply with or...

The appellate court rules that the lower court erred in granting a preliminary injunction preventing the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD) from proceeding with solicitation of bids and construction of a proposed vertical liftstyle bridge over the Red River in Rapides Pari...

The court rules that appellants may not proceed under a trespass theory in their action for damages caused by noise from a nearby steel plant. It holds that noise alone, without damage to property, is not sufficient to support a trespass claim. The court notes that the trial court had previously den...

The court holds that the environmental impact statement (EIS) for a transmission line project on federal land within Henderson, Nevada, adequately addressed alternative routes for the line and its potential health hazards. Henderson first claims that the transmission line crosses a small parcel of n...

The court holds that suits brought by residents of Jefferson County, Missouri, charging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with negligence for failure to warm them of a dioxin contaminated landfill or to remove the contaminated soil are barred by the discretionary function exception to the Fe...

The court rules that a district court has jurisdiction under §304 of the Clean Air Act to hear a suit seeking to force the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to promulgate a state implementation plan (SIP) provision to replace a state provision disapproved by EPA, even though that disapproval is...

The court holds that the Secretary of Transportation's approval of construction of the Presidential Parkway through historic properties in Georgia was based on consideration of relevant factors and was neither arbitrary and capricious nor an abuse of discretion, and plaintiffs are not prevailing par...

Corps permit for landfill along nine miles of Hudson River for proposed expressway voided. Future permits enjoined. Army Corps of Engineers exceeded its authority under Rivers and Harbors Act and Transportation Act of 1966 by issuing permit for dike and causeway without prior approval of Congress an...

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