On petitions for review presented by several industrial manufacturers, the Fifth Circuit vacates a work place rule promulgated by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration limiting occupational exposure to benzene. That portion of the regulation limiting airborne concentrations to one part p...

The district court denies plaintiffs' request for injunctive and declaratory relief in a constitutional challenge to the Maine Traveller Information Services Act, which prohibits the erection or maintenance of signs or billboards within view of any public way, subject to certain exceptions. With res...

On remand from the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the court revises its order of September 27, 1977, 7 ELR 20785, enjoining the federal defendants from implementing the federal coal leasing program because of inadequacies in the programmatic environmental impact...

The court grants plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction against the construction of a reregulating dam designed to stablize downstream fluctuations caused by the operation of the Libby Dam. After affirmatively resolving questions of standing and jurisdiction, the court determines that plain...

Granting defendants' motions for summary judgment, the court concludes that the Secretary of Agriculture's decision to reduce authorized utilization of national forest lands under grazing permits was an action committed to agency discretion by law and thus not judicially reviewable. Plaintiffs, whos...

The court grants a preliminary injunction against the removal of fill from platted roadways in a subdivision pursuant to an order of the Corps of Engineers. Plaintiff is likely to succeed with its contention that the removal order is jurisdictionally defective because the Corps, while it is authoriz...

The court denies motions to dismiss a suit for the recovery of civil penalties and cleanup costs for an oil spill following a collision between a tug and a barge on the Mississippi River. Plaintiff has stated causes of action against the tug and its owner in negligence for the maritime tort of oil p...

The court holds that while title to those portions of the riverbed that have traditionally underlain navigable portions of the Willamette River belongs to the state, title to the Fischer Cut, which became a portion of the navigable riverbed through a sudden and violent change in the path of the rive...

The court reverses a grant of summary judgment for the government in a suit to enforce a civil penalty for discharging oil into navigable waters after finding that the spill did not have a harmful effect on the environment. Section 311(b) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972...

In a suit seeking an order directing the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to increase federal funding from 33 percent to 75 percent of the cost of construction of a municipal sewage treatment plant, the court affirms the district court's granting of summary judgment to the plaint...