A district court granted in part environmental groups' request for judicial review of BLM's resource management plan (RMP) for an area in the Colorado River Valley. The groups argued that the agency failed to consider the severity and impacts of greenhouse gas pollution and climate change, methane e...

In a modified opinion that withdraws a prior published opinion, the Ninth Circuit found that an environmental group has standing to challenge a uranium mining company's right to operate on land previously withdrawn from new mining claims. The group argued that the U.S. Forest Service violated the Ge...

The D.C. Circuit denied two petitions to review EPA attainment designations for the 2010 sulfur dioxide NAAQS. An environmental group argued that the Agency should have designated Gallia County, Ohio, as a nonattainment area rather than an unclassifiable area because air quality modeling data submit...

The court holds that a district court acted within its discretion by declining to order a Massachusetts public water district to install a filtration system even though the district violated the Surface Water Treatment Rule, which requires public water systems to install a filtration system if they ...

The court denies the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) motion to compel the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) and the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) to provide filtration for the water they supply to the Boston metropolitan area. Pursuant to state enforcement of the...

The court orders the beneficiary of a land trust that formerly held title to property subject to an investigation under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) to pay a $45,525 civil penalty for failing to comply with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agenc...

The court denies individuals' motion to vacate a consent decree entered into with the United States regarding Clean Water Act (CWA) violations involving wetlands in an area being developed by the individuals. The individuals argued that the consent decree should be vacated because in light of Solid ...

The court holds that a district court abused its discretion in granting a downward departure from the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines (USSG) to a pest control applicator who was convicted of 20 counts of misdemeanor Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) violations for the illegal sa...

The court holds that the ruling in Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (SWANCC), 531 U.S. 159, 31 ELR 20382 (2001), does not warrant granting a petition for a writ of error coram nobis or vacating a consent decree in a case involving the illegal filling of wetl...

A district court granted environmental groups' request for discovery relevant to the lobster fishing industry's impact on the endangered North Atlantic right whale. The groups argued that NMFS violated its ongoing duty under §7 of the ESA to ensure against jeopardy of endangered right whales and it...