Weekly Cases Update Volume 50, Issue 6

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Volume 50, Issue 10

ELR 2007016-1534 (JEB)(D.D.C., )

A district court held that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers must prepare an EIS for the Dakota Access Pipeline that runs from North Dakota to Illinois.

Keywords:
Held required for
ELR 2007717-1714 (BAH)(D.D.C., )

A district court denied summary judgment to an environmental group in a challenge to the USDA Farm Service Agency's (FSA's) EA for a loan guarantee to construct and operate a poultry concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) in Maryland.

Keywords:
Discussion of, held adequate
ELR 2007318-23-SDD-EWD(M.D. La., )

A district court denied summary judgment to environmental groups in a challenge to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' issuance of permits for construction of a crude oil pipeline across the Atchafalaya Basin.

Keywords:
Discussion of, held adequate
ELR 20076GLR-19-1264(D. Md., )

A district court granted two Baltimore solid waste incineration facilities' partial motion for summary judgment in a challenge to the Baltimore Clean Air Act (BCAA).

Keywords:
Clean Air Act (CAA)
ELR 2006716-11950-MLW(D. Mass., )

A district court stayed an environmental group's climate change lawsuit against an oil company concerning a CWA permit for its petroleum storage facility in Massachusetts.

Keywords:
Climate Change (generally)
ELR 200721:20-CV-138-RP(W.D. Tex., )

A district court denied local government entities' and landowners' request to temporarily halt construction of a 430-mile natural gas pipeline in Texas.

Keywords:
Incidental taking
ELR 2007518-565(U.S., )

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld an appellate court ruling that an oil refining company was responsible for $140 million in damages from a 2004 oil spill in the Delaware River.

Keywords:
Toxic Substances (generally)
ELR 2006819-1383(1st Cir., )

The First Circuit reversed the dismissal of a challenge to an EPA directive that prohibits scientists in receipt of certain EPA grants from serving on the Agency's federal advisory committees.

Keywords:
Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA)

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