Governance

A district court enjoined a timber harvest project in Lassen National Forest until the Forest Service conducts an adequate and sufficient review under NEPA. Environmental groups brought a lawsuit…

A Minnesota appellate court upheld a state permit regulating ballast-water discharges into Minnesota waters of Lake Superior. An environmental group argued that the agency erred in its…

The D.C. Circuit held that DOI, which breached its fiduciary duties to Individual Indian Money trust account beneficiaries, must conduct an accurate accounting of those funds. The district court…

The Ninth Circuit denied a petition for review of the NRC's refusal to include the threat of air attacks in its revised "design basis threat" rule, initially promulgated to protect…

The Tenth Circuit held that the owner of an underground coal mine may intervene in an environmental group's NEPA action concerning the U.S. Forest Service's approval of venting of…

The Ninth Circuit dismissed as unripe property owner's CERCLA and RCRA claims against the former owners for the costs of removing lead and other pollutants deposited on the land, which had…

A district court dismissed Oklahoma's claims for monetary damages against poultry companies for injury caused to the Illinois River watershed stemming from the their storage and disposal of…

A California appellate court upheld a lower court decision denying an environmental group's petition seeking to force a city to set aside a resolution determining that the group is not a…

The Ninth Circuit denied a petition for review of a FERC decision denying environmental groups' motion to intervene in a license renewal proceeding for a dam. Although the groups' motion…

A California appellate court upheld a lower court decision denying a city's petition to overturn a school district's final environmental impact report (FEIR) for a high school…