Weekly Cases Update Volume 43, Issue 9

The cases listed below appear in the most recent issue of ELR's Weekly Update. For cases previously reported, please use the filter on the left.

Volume 43, Issue 21

ELR 2016213-1019(D.C. Cir., )

The D.C. Circuit ordered the Maryland Department of Environment to act on a natural gas company's application to construct a natural gas compressor station in the state. The company applied for and received a certificate of public convenience and necessity from FERC.

Keywords:
Energy (generally), Air pollution
ELR 2016713-cv-635(D.D.C., )

A district court upheld an SEC rule imposing certain disclosure requirements for companies that use "conflict minerals" originating in and around the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Keywords:
Human Rights, Africa
ELR 201692012 CA 008263(D.C. Sup. Ct., )

A D.C. court held that a climate scientist may go forward with his defamation suit against a conservative publication and think tank.

Keywords:
Defamation
ELR 201641O-68-BU-SEH(D. Mont., )

A district court held that the U.S. Forest Service complied with NEPA when it promulgated the land and resource management plan (LRMP) for the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest in Montana.

Keywords:
Beaverhead National Forest, Mont., National forests

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