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Volume 56, Issue 16

56 ELR 20068
No(s). 25-1012 (4th Cir. May 15, 2026)

The Fourth Circuit reversed in part a district court ruling in a lawsuit concerning a Maryland law that regulates the speech of renewable energy suppliers. Energy companies sought to preliminarily enjoin the law on First Amendment grounds.

Keywords:
Environmental Law and Policy/Governance
56 ELR 20070
No(s). 25-384 (9th Cir. May 21, 2026)

In an unpublished opinion, the Ninth Circuit vacated a district court finding that adding fluoride to drinking water at a concentration of 0.7 milligrams per liter (mg/L) presented an unreasonable risk to human health.

Keywords:
Water (generally)
56 ELR 20069
No(s). 24-12682 (11th Cir. May 18, 2026)

The Eleventh Circuit reversed a district court's dismissal of a RCRA citizen suit concerning toxic leaching from a coal ash impoundment at a power plant near the Mobile River.

Keywords:
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
56 ELR 20067
No(s). 6:24-cv-01641-MTK (D. Or. May 14, 2026)

A district court granted in part and denied in part environmental groups' motion for summary judgment in a challenge to BLM's approval of a logging project in western Oregon.

Keywords:
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)

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