Air

The Tenth Circuit, 2-1, granted in part an environmental group's challenge to EPA's…
A district court granted summary judgment for several bus companies in a CAA citizen suit alleging…

Climate Change

A state court held unconstitutional a provision of the Montana Environmental Policy Act that…
This abstract is adapted from Cass R. Sunstein, Arbitrariness Review and Climate Change, 170 U. Pa…

Energy

The Ninth Circuit granted in part and denied in part a petition to review FERC orders that altered…
The Inflation Reduction Act and other policies are pushing solar, wind, and other clean energy…

Governance

The Ninth Circuit affirmed denial of fishing rights to the Lummi Nation in a long-running dispute…
James O. “Jim” McDonald was the first director of enforcement in the U.S. Environmental Protection…

Land Use

A district court dismissed a challenge to President Biden's redesignation of the Bears Ears…
A district court granted environmental groups' motion for a preliminary injunction in a…

Natural Resources

A district court granted the state of Louisiana's and oil and gas companies' motions to…
The Ninth Circuit affirmed a district court's denial of a preliminary injunction to halt two…

Toxic Substances

In an en banc decision, the Eleventh Circuit vacated a panel opinion in a lawsuit concerning a…
A district court granted a plastics company's request to dismiss a lawsuit concerning its…

Waste

The Fifth Circuit granted oil and gas interest groups' and the state of Texas' petition…
The Ninth Circuit affirmed dismissal of a lawsuit alleging the Forest Service was liable as a…

Water

The Fifth Circuit denied environmental groups' petition to review the Army Corps of Engineers…
The U.S. Supreme Court’s May ruling in Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency sharply limited…

Wildlife

A district court granted summary judgment for environmental groups in a challenge to FWS' 12-…
Since 2017, 115 North Atlantic right whales (NARWs) have been documented dead, seriously injured,…