A district court ordered the State Department to supplement its 2014 EIS for a cross-border oil pipeline, known as Keystone XL, to consider the pipeline company's alternative route that was approved for the project. Environmental groups argued that the agency violated NEPA by failing to revisit its ...

The Ninth Circuit affirmed in part and reversed in part a district court's summary judgment in favor of the U.S. Forest Service's approval of a site-specific project concerning restoration activities on roughly 80,000 acres in Payette National Forest in Idaho. Environmental groups challenged the app...

A Missouri appellate court affirmed in part and reversed in part the Missouri Public Service Commission's order suspending an electric utility company's request for a general rate increase.The company argued that the Commission erroneously refused to include electric vehicle charging stations constr...

A Washington state court dismissed a lawsuit filed by young Washingtonians alleging a right to a clean environment and stable climate. Specifically, plaintiffs argued that the state should be required to submit a greenhouse gas emissions reduction plan because they have a state constitutional right ...

The court holds that individuals who are members of an environmental group have standing to bring a Clean Water Act (CWA) citizen suit against a salmon farmer for the illegal discharge of pollutants into water. The court first holds that the individuals provide sufficient averments to satisfy the in...

The court holds that a salmon farmer is liable under the Clean Water Act (CWA) for discharging pollutants without a national pollution discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit in Machias and Pleasant Bays off the coast of Maine. The court first holds that, based on the undisputed facts and the br...

The court holds that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers did not violate the Clean Water Act (CWA), the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), or the Federal Wildlife Coordination Act (FWCA) when it allowed the construction of three water treatment proj...

The court affirms in part and reverses and remands in part a district court's sentencing of two individuals convicted for making materially false statements in violation of 18 U.S.C. §1001 by submitting reports containing falsified turbidity measurements to a state water district. Under 18 U.S.C. �...

The court vacates a district court decision holding that owners of property surrounded by a national forest in West Virginia do not have an express or implied easement to use a U.S. Forest Service road that provides the sole access to their property. The owners' predecessors conveyed 742 acres of la...

The court holds that a company failed to meet its burden of proving the divisibility of response costs at a New Jersey Superfund site and, thus, is responsible for all of the response costs associated with one phase of remediation at the site. The company argued that the response costs are divisible...