A district court granted environmental groups' motion for summary judgment in a challenge to BLM's approval of a commercial logging project on federal land in Oregon.

The Ninth Circuit affirmed in part and vacated in part summary judgment for USDA's Wildlife Services in a challenge to the authorization of a predator damage and conflict management program in Nevada wilderness areas.

The March/April issue looks at place-based federal approaches to potential hazards under CERCLA and NEPA, how public lands agencies could use prescribed burns to combat California wildfires, and why Utah’s drought crisis might be a bellwether of securities obligations affecting regional and national businesses alike. It also surveys the “laboratories of democracy,” including municipal environmental justice initiatives, how land use and zoning law may shape the proliferation of artificial intelligence, and Oregon’s effort to create a state-law model to address the global problem of e-cigarette waste.

As the Great Salt Lake shrinks to unprecedented levels, the resulting dust storms, diminished snowpack, and destabilized ecosystems increasingly threaten both the public health and economic viability of Utah’s most populous region, and economic impacts will extend far beyond industries directly dependent on the lake.