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People v. Department of Agric.

A district court holds that the U.S. Forest Service violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the Endangered Species Act (ESA) when it repealed the nationally uniform "roadless area conservation rule" and replaced it with a less protective "state petitions rule." The roadless rule pr...

Fitzgerald Living Trust v. United States

The court affirms a lower court's grant of summary judgment in favor of the U.S. Forest Service in a case involving property owners' right-of-access over a road in the Sitgreaves National Forest. In lieu of a special use permit, the Forest Service offered the property owners a 30-year private road e...

Coliseum Square Ass'n v. Jackson

The court upholds the Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD's) evaluation of environmental and historic preservation impacts of a revitalization project in New Orleans. In issuing a finding of no significant impact and environmental assessment in lieu of an environmental impact statemen...

Northwest Envtl. Advocates v. EPA

A district court issues a permanent injunction ordering the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate shipping vessel discharges under the Clean Water Act (CWA) by September 30, 2008. In a previous decision, the court ruled that a 30-year regulation that exempts all effluent discharges ...

Washington Toxics Coalition v. Department of the Interior

A district court partially overturns U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries (the Services) "counterpart regulations" concerning consultation between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Services on the effects of pe...

Hale v. Norton

The court upholds the dismissal of property owners' claims against the National Park Service (NPS) concerning the use of an abandoned road crossing federally protected land to access their property within the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve in Alaska. The property owners sought an inju...

Natural Resources Defense Council v. EPA

The court denies a petition to review a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule implementing a critical use exemption for methyl bromide, an ozone-depleting substance. An environmental group argues that the rule violates post-treaty decisions made by party nations to the Montreal Protocol on...

Tacoma, Wash., City of v. Federal Energy Regulatory Comm'n

The court partially grants petitions for review of Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) orders granting a conditional license to a city to operate a hydroelectric project on the Skokomish River in the state of Washington, but it does not vacate the license. FERC exceeds its statutory authorit...

Morton Int'l, Inc. v. A.E. Staley Mfg. Co.

The court holds that it lacks jurisdiction to hear a company's appeal of a lower court decision dismissing its contribution claim against a corporation for mercury contamination surrounding Berry's Creek in Bergen County, New Jersey. In 1983, a state court found the company and several other entitie...

Mortellite v. Novartis Crop Protection, Inc.

The court partially vacates and remands an order of summary judgment dismissing blueberry farmers’ claims against a pesticide company for damage to their crops. The farmers argue that the damage resulted from mixing a new chemical insecticide containing a non-disclosed surfactant with previous...