The Fifth Circuit reversed a district court's dismissal of a discrimination challenge brought against St. James Parish in Louisiana.

A district court enjoined construction on a dam expansion project in Colorado in environmental groups' challenge to the Army Corps of Engineers' issuance of a dredge and fill permit.

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.