Weekly Cases Update Volume 48, Issue 12

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Volume 48, Issue 28

ELR 201721:18-cv-00187-REB(D. Idaho, )

A district court preliminarily enjoined BLM from conducting oil and gas lease sales under the procedures of a new BLM directive.

Keywords:
Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA), National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
ELR 2016718-5115(6th Cir., )

The Sixth Circuit held that seepage from a coal-fired power plant that reached a nearby lake violated RCRA, but not the CWA.

Keywords:
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), National pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit program, 402
ELR 2016617-6155(6th Cir., )

The Sixth Circuit held that seepage from a coal-fired power plant adjacent to the Cumberland River did not violate the CWA.

Keywords:
National pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit program, 402
ELR 2017416-cv-2409 (TSC)(D.D.C., )

A district court denied commercial fishing groups' request to preliminarily enjoin development of a wind energy facility off the coast of New York.

Keywords:
Oil and gas leasing
ELR 2017516-1271(E.D. La., )

A district court ruled in favor of fishermen's challenge to NMFS regulations regarding offshore aquaculture in federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

Keywords:
Aquaculture, Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act)
ELR 2017015-cv-00286-CMA-STV(D. Colo., )

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.

Keywords:
Critical habitat designation, Threatened species listing
ELR 2017113-cv-0240 (KBJ)(D.D.C., )

A district court vacated FWS' designation of land in California as critical habitat for the endangered Riverside fairy shrimp.

Keywords:
Critical habitat designation

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