Governance

The court holds that an insurer is not liable under a tenant's comprehensive general liability policies for the property owner's cleanup costs resulting from a diesel fuel leak from an…

The court vacates a district court's summary judgment for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in a gasoline additive manufacturer's action under the Freedom of Information Act…

The court upholds the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) decision not to list used oil from gasoline-powered engines that is destined for disposal as hazardous waste under…

The court holds that it lacks jurisdiction to hear a citizen group's request for a preliminary injunction against the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to prevent further…

The court holds that landowners whose wells were contaminated by toxic chemicals migrating from a U.S. Army aircraft maintenance facility failed to prove that the Army was negligent, and that they…

The Court holds that a New York town's ordinance requiring all solid waste to be processed at a designated transfer station before leaving the town violates the Commerce Clause of the U.S.…

Applying Nebraska law, the court holds that the instrument creating the Platte River Whooping Crane Maintenance Trust authorizes the trust to participate in Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (…

The court holds that environmental audit memoranda prepared by company personnel to assist the company's attorneys in evaluating its compliance with environmental laws and regulations are…

The court holds, without opinion, that members of a utility industry group may intervene as of right under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 24(a) in a suit to compel the U.S. Environmental…

The Court rules that the state of Oregon's imposition of a surcharge on the in-state disposal of solid waste generated in other states that is nearly three times that imposed on the disposal…