The court affirms a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Environmental Appeals Board decision upholding an administrative law judge's (ALJ's) $1.345 million penalty assessment, less an amount paid in settlement by a co-defendant, against the former owner and operator of a recycling plant that ...

The Ninth Circuit upheld a preliminary injunction enjoining California Department of Public Health officials from enforcing the California Medical Waste Management Act (MWMA) against a medical waste facility with regard to how it disposes of medical waste at facilities outside the state. The facilit...

The Ninth Circuit affirmed a lower court's grant of summary judgment in favor of a Native American tribe in a lawsuit seeking to enjoin the DOI's Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) from taking a parcel of land into trust for the tribe so it could build a casino and hotel complex. Following the BIA's dec...

A district court dismissed an environmental group's lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Congressional Review Act (CRA), under which Congress recently passed a resolution disapproving an FWS rule that prohibited certain hunting and trapping practices on National Wildlife Refuges in Alask...

The court affirms a district court dismissal for lack of subject matter jurisdiction of a state and town's suit alleging that the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) is unconstitutional. Under SDWA §1448, a petition for review of an SDWA regulation must be filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C....

The court upholds a $799,000 civil penalty and an injunction imposed against a shipyard operator for failing to implement its stormwater pollution prevention plan (SWPPP) and monitoring plan for its discharges to the San Diego Bay in violation of its stormwater permit and the Clean Water Act (CWA). ...

A district court held that that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) need not disclose information about certain chemical facilities per an environmental group's FOIA request. The group sought information regarding previously high-risk facilities that have reduced their chemical holdings. DHS p...

A district court denied a pesticide manufacturer's motion to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that the label on one of its weed-killing products is false and misleading. The product's label states that it targets an enzyme "found in plants but not in people or pets." But an anti-pesticide group alleges th...

The court holds that an environmental group that successfully challenged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) treatment of total maximum daily loads (TMDLs) that were submitted for 10 New York reservoirs was a prevailing party and awards the group $221,732.71 in attorney fees and expen...

The court holds that although the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is not required under the Clean Water Act (CWA) to set total maximum daily loads (TMDLs) for waters in New York State when the state failed do so, EPA must approve or disapprove 10 TMDLs submitted by the state for Agency ap...