The court preliminarily enjoins the U.S. Forest Service to cause the cessation of logging and road-building activities in seven areas of the Chattahoochee and Oconee National Forests in Georgia. The Forest Service had authorized timber projects in those areas. The court first holds that plaintiff en...

The court holds that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (the Corps) violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) by failing to take a "hard look" at potential zebra-mussel infestation before granting a Federal Water Pollution Control Act §404 permit for a proposed dam, and that the Corps and...

The court holds that the owner of a contaminated railroad-parts foundry may sue railroad companies that sold it scrap parts under both §§107 and 113 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), and that the railroad companies are liable under CERCLA §107 ...

The court holds that parties attempting to intervene under Fed. R. Civ. P. 24 must have standing under Article III of the U.S. Constitution, and orders a district court to allow a conservation association to intervene in a suit by snowmobilers to enjoin snowmobiling restrictions in Voyageurs Nationa...

The court holds that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) interpretation of the attainment demonstration for particulate matter less than 10 microns (PM10) in Arizona's 1995 state implementation plan (SIP) revision is not based on a permissible construction of the Clean Air Act (CAA), ...

The court holds that the "matters addressed" in a consent decree between the United States and a settling potentially responsible party (PRP) do not include the cleanup work that prior-settling PRPs are performing under their consent decree, thus leaving the PRP open to suits for contribution under ...

The court upholds the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's (FWS') denial of landowners' application for a special-use permit to construct a dock and boat ramp in the Oyster Bay National Wildlife Refuge. The court first holds that the Quiet Title Act precludes plaintiffs' challenge to the legitimacy of t...

The court holds that a U.S. Forest Service decision to conduct salvage timber sales in the Kootenai National Forest in northwest Montana was not arbitrary and capricious under §2001(a)(3) of the salvage timber rider to the Rescissions Act of 1995. The court first holds that the Forest Service did n...

The court holds that a potentially responsible party (PRP) that incurred response costs under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) may not bring a CERCLA §107(a) cost recovery suit against another PRP, but is limited to bringing a CERCLA §113(f) contri...

The court refuses to preliminarily enjoin the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA's) construction of temporary emergency housing for hurricane-displaced Virgin Islands residents based on citizens' claims that FEMA violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) or the Endangered Specie...