Weekly Cases Update Volume 45, Issue 6

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 45, Issue 11

Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center v. National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
ELR 2007313-cv-03717(N.D. Cal., )

A district court held that FWS and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) violated the ESA and NEPA when they issued 50-year incidental take permits to a farm to take the northern spotted owl and the Southern Oregon/Northern California Coast coho salmon, both of which are "threatened&q

Keywords:
Incidental taking, Coho salmon, Northern spotted owl
Coalition for Responsible Regulation, Inc. v. Environmental Protection Agency
ELR 2007298-1322 et al.(D.C. Cir., )

The D.C. Circuit, in light of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA, No. 12-1146, 44 ELR 20132 (2014), amended a prior decision in which it upheld four EPA rulemakings governing greenhouse gases (GHGs).

Keywords:
Climate Change (generally), Greenhouse gases
Shell Offshore, Inc. v. Greenpeace, Inc.
ELR 200713:15-cv-00054(D. Alaska, )

A district court granted an oil company's motion for a temporary restraining order barring environmental activists from entering a 1,000 meter "safety zone" around three drilling vessels in the U.S. exclusive economic zone.

Keywords:
Energy (generally), Injunctions