Weekly Cases Update Volume 49, Issue 6

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Volume 49, Issue 10

ELR 200521:17-cv-00285-CL(D. Or., )

A magistrate judge ruled against a timber company's motion for summary judgment in a challenge to President Obama's decision to include lands covered under the Oregon and California Revested Lands Act (O&A Act) in the expansion of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument.

Keywords:
National monuments
ELR 2005316-cv-00525-VC(N.D. Cal., )

A U.S. jury awarded over $80 million in damages to a California man who claimed that the weedkiller Roundup caused his cancer.

Keywords:
Toxic Substances (generally)
ELR 200513:17-cv-00101-SLG(D. Alaska, )

A district court vacated a provision of President Trump's 2017 Executive Order that reopened Alaska's Beaufort and Chukchi seas and canyon areas in the Atlantic Ocean to oil and gas exploration.

Keywords:
Oil and gas leasing
ELR 2005617-10031(E.D. Mich., )

A district court granted in part and denied in part an environmental group's motion for summary judgment in a challenge to the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration's (PHMSA's) approval of two spill response plans for an oil pipeline that crosses Michigan's St

Keywords:
Planning and prevention, §311(j)
ELR 200452:15-cv-2467(S.D. Ohio, )

A district court denied Ohio's and Tennessee's motion to preliminarily enjoin EPA's 2015 Clean Water Rule that clarified the definition of "waters of the United States" under the CWA.

Keywords:
"Navigable waters" construed
ELR 200493:18-cv-05005-RJB(W.D. Wash., )

A district court granted Washington's and environmental groups' motion for summary judgment in a challenge to the state's decision to deny a coal company a CWA §401 certification for construction of a coal export facility along the Columbia River.

Keywords:
State certification, §401
ELR 200481:17-cv-01536 (TNM)(D.D.C., )

A district court dismissed a lawsuit brought by California farming and ranching groups challenging FWS' designation of 1.8 million acres of critical habitat for two endangered yellow-legged frog species and the threatened Yosemite toad.

Keywords:
Critical habitat designation
ELR 2005418-10129-FDS(D. Mass., )

A district court dismissed a nonprofit group's challenge to an EPA directive that prohibited scientists in receipt of certain EPA grants from serving on the Agency's federal advisory committees.

Keywords:
Agencies
ELR 2005518-cv-613(S.D.N.Y., )

A district court dismissed for lack of standing an environmental group's challenge to an EPA directive that prohibited scientists in receipt of certain EPA grants from serving on the Agency's federal advisory committees.

Keywords:
Agencies

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