The U.S. Forest Service is enjoined from proceeding with its planned application of the herbicides 2,4,5 T and 2,4 D to certain areas within the Nicolet and Chequamegon National Forests until a NEPA impact statement has been prepared. The project would irreparably damage the quality of the human env...

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals affirms the EPA Administrator's decision to suspend the registrations and prohibit the manufacture and sale of the pesticides aldrin and dieldrin. The suspension order represents a rational exercise of the broad discretion conferred on the Administrator by the Feder...

The environmental impact statement for an interstate highway construction project which will obtain necessary fill by excavating a portion of the site of a canal proposed as part of the California Water Project satisfies the requirements of NEPA. The trial court did not err in concluding that the EI...

The court upholds a preliminary injunction against construction by the Postal Service of a block-long vehicle maintenance facility, (VMF) in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City pending preparation of a NEPA impact statement. The court finds that the broad exemption from certain categories of f...

The court accepts as adequate an environmental impact statement prepared primarily by state officials who had both selected the highway bypass route in question and excluded from the statement discussion of an alternative route proposed after the final public hearing on the proposed highway location...

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirms but modifies a lower court order requiring the defendant to remove 1,760 lineal feet of riprap fill placed on a migratory sand spit at the mouth of a navigable river without a permit from the Corps of Engineers. The defendant clearly violated the Rivers and...

The court affirms dismissal of a suit seeking to compel the EPA Administrator to promulgate indirect source and significant deterioration regulations under the Clean Air Amendments of 1970, and to enjoin further construction of a state highway expansion project and an adjacent shopping center in the...

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirms a lower court decision granting a preliminary injunction halting construction of a section of interstate highway on the grounds that the NEPA impact statement filed for the project was inadequate. Because federal funds provide 90 percent of the cost of the...

The full D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals vacates a three-judge panel's earlier decision holding invalid EPA's regulations requiring the phased reduction of the lead content of gasoline, and grants respondent EPA's petition for rehearing en banc. For the earlier ruling, here vacated, see 5 ELR 20096.
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The Court of Appeals summarily affirms a district court judgment upholding Interior Department regulations which sharply restrict use of the beach in the Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge by motor vehicles. The government's environmental impact statement need not have dealt with the impact of substi...