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Volume 48, Issue 28
The Sixth Circuit held that seepage from a coal-fired power plant adjacent to the Cumberland River did not violate the CWA.
A district court denied commercial fishing groups' request to preliminarily enjoin development of a wind energy facility off the coast of New York.
A district court ruled in favor of fishermen's challenge to NMFS regulations regarding offshore aquaculture in federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
A district court denied Colorado's and Utah's request to vacate FWS' decision to list the Gunnison sage grouse species as threatened under the ESA.
A district court vacated FWS' designation of land in California as critical habitat for the endangered Riverside fairy shrimp.
A district court vacated FWS' decision to delist the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem population of grizzly bears.
A district court remanded the U.S. Forest Service's decision concerning the management of roads and trails in the Santa Fe National Forest. An environmental group argued that the agency should have considered the effects of forest management on the endangered Jemez Mountains salamander.