A New York court held that the state environmental agency arbitrarily and capriciously denied a developer's application to include in the state brownfield cleanup program certain parcels of…

A district court held that an oil company's claims against its insurer for the costs of cleaning up and redeveloping a parcel of land on the shore of the Sakonnet River in Rhode Island under…

A district court granted a motion in limine to exclude a real estate expert's testimony on the value of certain property alleged to have been contaminated with methyl tertiary butyl ether (…

The California Supreme Court reversed a lower court decision finding that the programmatic environmental impact statement (EIS) and environmental impact report (EIR) for the CALFED Program—a long-…

The D.C. Circuit vacated a lower court judgment enjoining the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) from authorizing the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to lethally take gray wolves for…

A district court held that a neighborhood association and environmental groups who succeeded on just one of their claims against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are entitled to attorneys fees and…

A Louisiana appellate court held that state law allows the state's environmental agency to be held liable for personal injury and property damages when a permittee has contaminated its…

The Fifth Circuit dismissed as moot an environmental group's Clean Water Act (CWA) citizen suit against a city for violating its separate storm sewer system permit. The lower court dismissed…

An Ohio appellate court upheld the dismissal of a property owner's state contribution claim against a mega-store for costs incurred cleaning up mercury and lead contamination at a recycling…

A California appellate court upheld the dismissal of a homeowners association's claim against the California Coastal Commission for requiring it to pay an in-lieu mitigation fee as a…