The court holds that the U.S. Forest Service has the authority to recalculate the annual motorboat use base-period for certain lake chains within the Boundary Waters Canoe Areas Wilderness (BWCAW) to correct a significant legal error made manifest by an earlier court ruling. Although Congress was si...

The court partially grants environmental organizations' petitions for review of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) orders denying their requests that the Agency object to four Clean Air Act Title V permits issued by the Georgia Environmental Protection Division. EPA abused its discretion and...

The court upholds the dismissal of a city's claims challenging dredge and fill permits issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (the Corps) under the Clean Water Act for an airport expansion project in Cleveland, Ohio. The Corps properly relied on the state agency's express waiver of authority to ...

The court holds that various associations' challenge to a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' (the Corps') regulation concerning permit requirements for the discharge of dredged or fill material into waters of the United States is ripe and reversed a lower court's ...

The court upholds the denial of a property owner's request for cleanup costs against a former lessee of the property. There are no genuine issues of material fact regarding whether the property owner substantially complied with the national contingency plan (NCP). The property owner afforded the pub...

The court affirms the dismissal of a rancher's Fifth Amendment claim against the United States for the taking of his water rights on federally owned grazing land within the Lewis and Clark National Forest. The rancher alleged that by allowing another permittee to graze on the land at issue, the Unit...

The court vacates and remands to state court a district court's remand of a removed case asserting environmental claims. Individuals filed suit in state court against a local authority concerning improvements to a bridge. The state court removed the case to federal district court, and the district c...

The court affirms a lower court decision dismissing nonprofit organizations' National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), National Forest Mangement Act (NFMA), and Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA) claims against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Bureau of Land Management in conne...

A court preliminarily enjoins the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (the Corps) from formally issuing a proposed plan identifying remedial action to take place at the Moses Lake Well Field Contamination site in Moses Lake, Washington, until they provide ...

The court holds that the U.S. Forest Service's (Forest Service's) decision to permit logging in critical old growth forest and post-fire habitats in the Lolo National Forest is arbitrary and capricious. The Forest Service's decision to permit commercial logging in old growth forest stands as a form ...