The Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit reverses the district court's award of attorney fees to plaintiffs, since the lower court could not predicate jurisdiction on the Clean Air Act citizen suit provision. The complaint merely alleged that the District of Columbia failed to insist on preconstruc...

The Second Circuit, on rehearing en banc, affirms dismissal of this civil rights challenge to federal sewer construction and parkland acquisition grants for the reason that the plaintiffs lack standing to sue. Plaintiffs, low income members of minority groups, challenged Housing and Urban Developmen...

In a challenge to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for allowing a disclosure statement required by the Interstate Land Sales Disclosure Act to become effective without first filing an environmental impact statement, the Supreme Court holds that NEPA's impact statement requiremen...

The Supreme Court reverses the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 514 F.2d 856, 5 ELR 20463, and holds that NEPA does not require preparation of an environmental impact statement for coal leasing in the Northern Great Plains region absent an agency proposal for regional coal development. There h...

Although §118 of the Clean Air Act obligates federal installations discharging air pollutantsto join with nonfederal facilities in complying with state "requirements respecting control and abatement of air pollution," obtaining a permit from a state with a federally approved implementation plan is ...

While federal installations discharging water pollutants are obliged, under §313 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972, to comply to the same extent as nonfederal facilities with state "requirements respecting control and abatement of pollution," obtaining a permit from a st...

On cross-motions for summary judgment, the court grants defendants' motion to dismiss this NEPA challenge to construction of the Stonewall Jackson Lake Project, a large dam for flood control, water supply, stream flow regulation and recreation on the Upper West Fork River near Brownsville, West Virg...

The court of appeals reverses the district court order dismissing this action, 2 ELR 20360, only insofar as it held that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) was not required to file a NEPA impact statement on its operation of National Airport and Dulles International Airport. The district cour...

In a brief per curiam order, the court of appeals rejects a number of legal challenges, based on NEPA and the Noise Control Act of 1972, to defendant's decision to allow the Concorde supersonic transport to conduct limited commercial flights to and from Dulles and Kennedy International Airports for ...

The court enjoins, as a major action under NEPA, the cutting of live trees pursuant to the defendants' roadside obstacle removal program, except where they present clearly hazardous obstacles, pending defendants' determination whether the program requires an environmental impact statement as an acti...