The court affirms the jury convictions of the president of a chemical company for unlawfully discharging wastewater into a municipal sewage system. The court first holds that the company president violated the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (FWPCA), the Washington Administrative Code (WAC), and...

The court upholds the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) zero discharge limits for produced water and produced sand in the effluent limitation guidelines for the coastal oil-and gas-producing industry as well as EPA's more lenient discharge limits for produced water and drilling wastes i...

The court refers to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) several issues on whether Clean Air Act (CAA) §209 preempts a Massachusetts regulation requiring automakers to manufacture a certain number of zero emission electric vehicles (ZEVs) for sale in Massachusetts before the 2003 model ye...

The court grants in part and denies in part the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) motion to dismiss environmental groups' claims that the Agency failed to perform various mandatory, nondiscretionary Federal Water Pollution Control Act (FWPCA) duties in connection with Virginia water qua...

The court holds that a Federal Water Pollution Control Act citizen suit brought by an environmental group against a city is not barred by a subsequently filed state environmental agency enforcement action. The court first holds that actions taken by the state after the filing of the group's citizen ...

The court holds that the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act's (CERCLA's) federally required commencement date (FRCD), which provides a uniform accrual date for toxic tort cases that preempts state statutes of limitations, applies to survival and wrongful death acti...

The court upholds most of the U.S. Forest Service's Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) wilderness management plan under the BWCA Wilderness Act. The BWCA is located in the Superior National Forest in Minnesota. The court first holds that the Forest Service's adoption of special use permits for commer...

The court grants in part and denies in part the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) summary judgment motions in an action by environmental groups alleging that EPA was required to intervene and establish total maximum daily loads (TMDLs) for New York and challenging EPA's approval of New ...

The court remands for further explanation the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) rule establishing floor performance standard requirements for new and existing medical waste incinerators (MWIs) under the Clean Air Act (CAA). The court first holds that EPA's use of permit and regulatory d...

The court holds that the Surface Transportation Board (STB) lacks jurisdiction to grant a railroad's application to abandon a segment of its rail line. The court first holds that the STB lost jurisdiction over the line through a de facto abandonment. A de facto abandonment occurred because the line ...