Weekly Cases Update Volume 45, Issue 11

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Volume 45, Issue 26

ELR 201701735 C.D. 2014(Pa. Commw. Ct., )

A Pennsylvania appellate court reversed a lower court order denying an energy company's application to construct and operate a natural gas well on land it has leased from a private landowner.

Keywords:
Energy (generally), Zoning, Land use
ELR 2016914-35553(9th Cir., )

The Ninth Circuit upheld the Bureau of Indian Affairs' (BIA's) approval of a Native American tribe's plan to harvest 268 acres of timber in the Coquille Forest in southwest Oregon.

Keywords:
National forests, National forests
ELR 2017214-02446(D. Ariz., )

A district court held that the U.S. Forest Service violated NEPA when it categorically excluded from environmental review a mining company's proposed mineral exploration plan in the Coronado National Forest.

Keywords:
Coronado National Forest, Ariz., Categorical exemption