The court affirms a lower court decision denying environmental groups' request for declaratory and injunctive relief in a suit arising out of the U.S. Forest Service's failure to comply with the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act and other federal statutes with regard to several Michigan river segments. The...

The court holds that an environmental group should have been granted its request for a fee waiver for Bureau of Land Management (BLM) documents it obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The documents significantly contribute to the public understanding of the operations or activities ...

The court upheld the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) denial of a petition asking it to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act (CAA). CAA §202(a)(1) directs the Administrator to regulate emissions that "in his j...

The court held that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' (the Corps) decisions to forego the Endangered Species Act §7 consultations based on its determination that two residential developments in Arizona would have no effect on the cactus ferruginous pygmy-owl was not arbitrary and capricious. Fe...

The court dismissed as moot environmental organizations' appeal of a district court decision holding that the roadless rule, which prohibits construction in inventoried roadless areas on National Forest System lands, violated the National Environmental Policy Act and the Wilderness Act. During the p...

The court upheld the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 's (EPA's) approval of New Mexico's water quality standards. The applicable regulation includes a revised enforcement exemption for some pollutants that result from irrigation and flood control facilities, and environmental advocacy groups ar...

The court held that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) violated the Endangered Species Act (ESA) §7(a)(2) when it failed to consult with the National Marine Fisheries Service before approving certain pesticides. EPA argued that it is bound to follow only the provisions of the Federa...

The court held that the U.S. Forest Service's failure to provide for effective predecisional public involvement in the preparation of the environmental assessments (EAs) for four logging projects in the Lassan and Shasta-Trinity National Forests was contrary to law under the Administrative Procedure...

The court affirmed a lower court decision finding an excavation company liable under the Clean Water Act (CWA) for discharging dredge and fill material into navigable waters without a permit. The company dumped dredged stumps and roots into a wetland drained by a ditch that runs into a non-navigable...

The court denied a group of agencies' and companies' petitions challenging final decisions by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that Indiana's and Ohio's proposed regulatory schemes governing toxic discharges into the Great Lakes were inconsistent with the Agency's Final Water Quality G...