Natural Resources

In an unpublished opinion, the Ninth Circuit affirmed in part and reversed in part a district court ruling in a lawsuit over a logging project in Kootenai National Forest. Conservation groups sued…

The Ninth Circuit reversed a district court's dismissal of a challenge to the U.S. Air Force's decision to engage in hazardous waste disposal through open burning/open detonation (OB/OD…

A district court denied environmental groups' motion to preliminarily enjoin a tornado recovery operations project in Hoosier National Forest. The groups argued the Forest Service improperly…

A district court granted the state of Utah's and an oil and gas company's motions to dismiss a challenge to four leasing decisions made from 2018 through 2019, under which BLM issued 145…

The Fifth Circuit affirmed a district court's denial of a motion to remand to state court a lawsuit concerning oil and gas production in New Orleans. The city of New Orleans sued several…

The D.C. Circuit vacated the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration's (PHMSA's) 2020 rule authorizing the transportation of liquefied natural gas by rail in newly…

The Ninth Circuit affirmed in part and reversed in part two district court rulings in lawsuits concerning policies governing oil and gas lease sales conducted by BLM on protected sage-grouse…

The D.C. Circuit denied an advocacy group's petition to review FERC's approval of a natural gas pipeline in Indiana. The group argued FERC was required to analyze non-gas alternatives…

A district court upheld in part and remanded in part DOI's decision to refrain from holding lease sales of federal land for oil and gas development during the second and third quarters of…

The D.C. Circuit denied a pipeline operator's petition to review a FERC order authorizing abandonment, subject to a condition, of a natural gas pipeline it operated off the Louisiana and…