Subject Matter Index (Cases & Articles)
The Subject Matter Index contains articles that appear in ELR's News & Analysis as well as cases from ELR's database of judicial decisions from volume 27 through the present. We are in the process of adding earlier volumes to the SMI, so you may see some material prior to volume 27 as we work to complete the index.
- Air
- Clean Air Act (CAA)
- Attorneys fees
- Auto emission standards
- Motor vehicle fuels, §211
- New motor vehicle emission standards, §202
- Citizen suits, §304
- Enforcement, §113
- Hazardous air pollutants, §112
- Radionuclide standards
- Judicial review
- National ambient air quality standards (NAAQS), §109
- New source performance standards, §111
- Definitions
- Standards of performance, §111(a)
- Preemption
- Prevention of significant deterioration (PSD)
- Preconstruction requirements, §165
- State implementation plans (SIPs)
- Part D SIPs, §§171-193
- Transportation plans and programs
- Climate Change
- Energy
- Radiation
- Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compacts
- Governance
- Administrative Procedure Act (APA)
- Judicial review, §§701-706
- Applicability, §701(a)
- Scope of review, §706
- Rulemaking, §553
- Notice-and-comment requirements
- Bankruptcy
- Bankruptcy Reform Act (BRA)
- Administrative costs, §503(b)
- Preservation of claims
- Civil Procedure
- Amendment of pleadings, FRCP 15
- Attorneys fees
- Capacity to be sued, FRCP 17(b)
- Class actions, FRCP 23
- Class certification, FRCP 23(b)
- Counterclaims and crossclaims, FRCP 13
- Default judgments
- Defenses and objections, FRCP 12
- Depositions before action or pending appeal, FRCP 27
- Evidence, rules of
- Injunctions
- Judicial discretion
- Permanent
- Preliminary
- Injunctions, FRCP 65
- Interlocutory appeals
- Intervention, FRCP 24
- Permissive, FRCP 24(b)
- Joinder/Necessary parties, FRCP 19
- Judgments, FRCP 54
- Modification of judgment, FRCP 60(b)
- New trial, FRCP 59(a)
- Pleading, FRCP 8
- Sanctions, FRCP 11
- Statute of limitations
- Third-party practice, FRCP 14
- Constitutional Law
- Article III
- Commerce Clause
- Due process
- Eighth Amendment
- Eleventh Amendment
- Equal protection
- Fifth Amendment
- Equal Protection Clause
- Privilege Against Compulsory Self-Incrimination
- First Amendment
- Fourth Amendment
- Preemption
- Property Clause
- Seventh Amendment
- Spending Clause
- Taking of private property
- Agency action
- Tenth Amendment
- Contracts
- Corporate Law
- Corporate officer liability
- Successor liability
- Courts
- Consent decrees
- Declaratory Judgment Act (DJA)
- Estoppel
- Exhaustion of administrative remedies
- Held required
- Jurisdiction
- Claims Court
- Court of International Trade
- Courts of appeals
- District courts
- Federal question jurisdiction
- In personam jurisdiction
- Original jurisdiction
- Removal jurisdiction
- Subject matter jurisdiction
- Transfer of suit to solve jurisdictional defect
- Laches
- Mandamus
- Mootness
- Capable of repetition, yet evading review
- CERCLA
- Constitutional law
- ESA
- FWPCA
- Hazardous waste
- HMTA
- NEPA
- NFMA
- RCRA
- SMCRA
- State laws
- Res judicata
- Ripeness
- Sovereign immunity
- Standing to sue
- "Injury-in-fact" test
- "Redressability" test
- "Zone-of-interests" test
- Associational standing
- Tucker Act
- Criminal Law
- Convictions
- Mail fraud
- Sentencing guidelines
- Enforcement and Compliance
- Environmental Justice
- Environmental Law and Policy/Governance
- Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA)
- Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA)
- Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
- Human Rights
- Indigenous People
- Insurance
- CGL policy
- "Damage" construed
- "Occurrence" construed
- "Property damage" construed
- "Voluntary payments" construed
- Cooperation requirement
- Notice-of-claim requirement
- Pollution exclusion clause
- Duty to defend
- International
- Antarctica
- Europe
- France
- Treaties
- States
- Alaska
- National forests
- Mineral development
- National Wildlife Refuge System
- Water pollution
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- Hazardous wastes & substances
- California
- California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)
- Central Valley Project (CVP)
- Constitutional law
- Courts
- Hazardous wastes & substances
- Land use
- National forests
- Tort law
- Colorado
- Hazardous wastes & substances
- National forests
- Nuclear energy
- Tort law
- Water pollution
- Connecticut
- Taking of private property
- Delaware
- Hazardous wastes & substances
- District of Columbia
- Statute of Repose
- Florida
- Drinking water
- Hazardous wastes & substances
- Georgia
- Hazardous wastes & substances
- National forests
- Solid waste
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Hazardous wastes & substances
- National forests
- Illinois
- Environmental Protection Act
- Hazardous wastes & substances
- Insurance law
- Indiana
- Environmental Compliance Plans Act
- Hazardous wastes & substances
- Tort law
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Hazardous wastes & substances
- Tort law
- Maine
- Hazardous wastes & substances
- Maryland
- Hazardous wastes & substances
- Massachusetts
- Constitutional law
- Consumer Protection Act
- Hazardous wastes & substances
- Tort law
- Water Pollution
- Michigan
- Environmental Response Act
- Hazardous wastes & substances
- Leaking Underground Storage Act
- Solid waste
- Tort law
- Water pollution
- Minnesota
- Hazardous wastes & substances
- Highways
- National parks
- Mississippi
- Tort law
- Missouri
- Montana
- Environmental Policy Act
- Hazardous wastes & substances
- National forests
- Nebraska
- Groundwater
- Hazardous wastes & substances
- Nevada
- Hazardous wastes & substances
- Nuclear waste
- New Hampshire
- Hazardous wastes & substances
- New Jersey
- Hazardous wastes & substances
- Sanitary Landfill Facility Closure and Contingency Fund Act
- Solid waste
- Tort law
- New Mexico
- Hazardous wastes & substances
- National forests
- New York
- Environmental Conservation Law
- Federal facilities
- Hazardous wastes & substances
- State Environmental Quality Review Act
- Tort law
- Water pollution
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Hazardous wastes & substances
- Nuclear energy
- Water pollution
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Constitutional law
- National forests
- Rogue River
- Water law
- Water pollution
- Pennsylvania
- Constitutional law
- Hazardous wastes & substances
- Insurance law
- National forests
- Nuclear energy
- Tort law
- Puerto Rico
- Rhode Island
- Hazardous wastes & substances
- South Carolina
- Hazardous wastes & substances
- Nuclear energy
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Hazardous wastes & substances
- Texas
- Hazardous wastes & substances
- National forests
- National Wildlife Refuge System
- Utah
- Hazardous wastes & substances
- Insurance law
- National forests
- National parks
- Tort law
- Vermont
- Virgin Islands
- Virginia
- Hazardous wastes & substances
- Water pollution
- Washington
- Hazardous wastes & substances
- National forests
- Nuclear waste
- Toxic substances
- West Virginia
- Torts
- Water pollution
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
- Hazardous wastes & substances
- National forests
- Tort Law
- Damages
- Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA)
- Discretionary function exception
- Independent contractor exception
- Negligence
- Nuisance
- Strict liability
- Toxic torts
- U.S. Government
- Commerce, Department of
- Congress
- Defense, Department of
- Energy, Department of
- Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
- Environmental Protection Agency
- CAA powers and duties
- CERCLA powers and duties
- FWPCA powers and duties
- TSCA powers and duties
- Health and Human Services, Department of
- Homeland Security, Department of
- Interior, Department of the
- Land Management, Bureau of
- National Park Service
- Reclamation, Bureau of
- Interstate Commerce Commission
- Justice, Department of
- Labor, Department of
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
- Pacific Northwest Electric Power and Conservation Planning Council
- President
- State, Department of
- Transportation, Department of
- Federal Highway Administration
- Research and Special Programs Administration (RSPA)
- Treasury, Department of the
- Land Use
- Land Use (generally)
- National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA)
- Property
- Quiet Title Act (QTA)
- Public Lands
- Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness Act (BWCAWA)
- Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area Act (CRGNSAA)
- National forests
- National Parks System
- National recreation areas
- National Trails System Act (NTSA)
- National Wildlife Refuge System
- Taylor Grazing Act
- Wilderness areas
- Transportation
- Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (HMTA)
- Highways
- Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA)
- Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973
- Transportation Act
- Wilderness
- Natural Resources
- Forests
- National Forest Management Act (NFMA)
- Land and resource management plans (LRMPs), §6
- National forests
- Timber Sales
- Mining
- Federal Mine Safety and Health Act (FMSHA)
- Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 (MLA)
- Oil and gas leases and prospecting permits, §17
- Mining Law of 1872
- Sites
- Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (SMCRA)
- Citizen suits, §520
- Enforcement
- Environmental protection performance standards, §515
- Judicial review, §526
- State programs, §503
- National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
- "Proposal for action" construed
- "Significantly affecting the environment" construed
- Application to
- Categorical exemption
- CEQ regulations
- Environmental assessment (EA)
- Environmental impact statement (EIS)
- Environmental effects
- Programmatic EIS
- Segmentation to avoid EIS requirements
- Supplemental EIS (SEIS)
- Injunctive relief
- Judicial review
- Relationship to other statutes
- Natural Resources (generally)
- Toxic Substances
- Food
- Food Security Act (FSA)
- Oil Pollution Act (OPA)
- Definitions, §1001
- Liability, §1002
- Pesticides
- Pollution Prevention
- Public Health
- Toxic Substances (generally)
- Federal Hazardous Substances Act (FHSA)
- Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)
- Definitions, §202
- Enforcement
- Judicial review, §19
- Regulation of hazardous chemical substances and mixtures, §6
- Waste
- Contaminated Sites/Brownfields
- Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act (EPCRA)
- Hazardous Substances
- Disposal facility siting
- Disposal site cleanup
- Private rights of action
- Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
- Citizen suits, §7002
- Attorneys fees, §7002(e)
- District court jurisdiction
- Imminent and substantial endangerment, §7002(a)(1)(B)
- Liability
- Notice requirements
- Preemption
- Definitions, §1004
- "Hazardous waste" construed
- "Solid waste" construed
- Enforcement
- Criminal penalty provisions, §3008(d)
- Defenses
- Federal facilities, §6001
- Federal procurement of recycled material, §6002
- Identification and listing, §3001
- Imminent hazards, §7003
- Judicial review, §7006
- Permits, §3005
- Interim status, §3005(e)
- Regulations
- EPA-administered permit programs, 40 C.F.R. pt. 270
- Identification and listing of hazardous waste
- Relationship to other statutes
- State and local regulation, §3009
- Treatment, storage, and disposal (TSD) facility standards, §3004
- Waste (generally)
- Nuclear Waste
- Nuclear Waste Policy Act (NWPA)
- Solid
- Water
- Clean Water Act (CWA)
- Citizen suits, §505
- District court jurisdiction
- Notice requirements, §505(b)
- Preemption, §505(b)(1)(B)
- Definitions, §502
- Disposal or use of sewage sludge, §405
- Dredge and fill, §404
- Corps of Engineers jurisdiction
- Corps of Engineers permits
- Exemptions, §404(f)
- Effluent limitations, §301
- Illegal discharges, §301(a)
- Enforcement
- Criminal penalty provision, §309(c)
- Defenses
- Injunctive relief
- Federal facilities, §313
- Information and guidelines, §304
- Judicial review, §509
- National pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit program, 402
- Navigable Waters
- Nonpoint source discharges
- Ocean discharge criteria, §403
- Oil and hazardous substance spills, §311
- Relationship to other statutes
- Water quality standards, §303
- Coastal Zone Management Act (CZMA)
- Groundwater
- Contamination
- Oceans
- Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA)
- Outer Continental Shelf (OCS)
- Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)
- Definitions, §1401
- National drinking water regulations, §1412
- Underground injection control (UIC) program
- Water (generally)
- Quantity
- Rivers and Harbors Act (RHA)
- Water Resources Development Act (WRDA)
- Wetlands
- Agricultural conversion
- Intrastate, isolated wetlands
- Wildlife
- Biotechnology
- Endangered Species Act (ESA)
- Definitions, §3
- Determination of endangered and threatened species, §4
- Enforcement and penalties, §11
- Federal actions, §7
- Interagency consultation, §7(a)
- Prohibited acts, §9
- Relationship to other statutes
- Fisheries
- Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act)
- Wildlife (generally)
- Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act (BGEPA)
- Lacey Act
- Marine Mammal Protection Act
- Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act
- Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA)
- Taking, possessing, or offering to sell migratory birds or bird parts, 16 U.S.C. §703
- Migratory birds
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