Weekly Cases Update Volume 41, Issue 7

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Volume 41, Issue 14

ELR 20175No. 1:07-cv-01043(E.D. Cal., )

A district court denied a property owner's motion to add RCRA claims to its CERCLA and state law action against a dry cleaner for groundwater contamination. The property owner failed to comply with RCRA's notice requirements.

Keywords:
60-day notice requirement, §7002(b)(1), 90-day notice of endangerment requirement, §7002(b)(2)(A)
ELR 20172Nos. 138863 et al(Mich., )

The Michigan Supreme Court vacated its previous decision at 41 ELR 20056 in which it held that a company's plan to discharge contaminated water from an environmental cleanup site in the Manistee River watershed into a previously unpolluted site in the AuSable River water

Keywords:
Environmental Response Act
ELR 20167No. H035619(Cal. , )

A California appellate court held that a city's approval of a "term sheet" setting forth the basic plans for building a stadium for the San Francisco 49ers does not constitute a project or project approval under the California Environmental Quality Act.

Keywords:
Environmental impact reports (EIRs)
ELR 20168No. 137(U.S., )

The U.S. Supreme Court held that Wyoming did not violate the Yellowstone River Compact by allowing its pre-1950 water appropriators to increase their net water consumption by improving the efficiency of their irrigation systems.

Keywords:
Wyoming

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