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Mount Graham Coalition v. Thomas

The court holds that the U.S. Forest Service must comply with Endangered Species Act (ESA) §7 and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) §102 before relocating the construction site for a large binocular telescope on Mount Graham in Arizona. In the Arizona-Idaho Conservation Act (AICA), Congress...

Murray v. Bath Iron Works Corp.

The court denies summary judgment on Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), Federal Water Pollution Control Act (FWPCA), Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), and state common-law claims that landowners brought against a company that disposed of indu...

National Audubon Soc'y v. U.S. Forest Serv.

The court holds that a district court should have used the "arbitrary and capricious" standard specified in §318 of the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 1989 to review the U.S. Forest Service's decision under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) not to p...

National Mining Ass'n v. EPA

The court upholds the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) definition of "major source" in a 1994 rule governing the procedures and criteria for implementing emission standards for hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) under Clean Air Act (CAA) §112, but holds that EPA failed to explain why oth...

National Wildlife Fed'n v. Espy

The court holds that the Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) violated §1813(h)(1) of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 (FACTA) when it transferred inventoried property to a bank without imposing wetland conservation easements. After receiving the property, the bank sold it t...

Native Village of Quinhagak v. United States

The court holds that the district court abused its discretion in denying a preliminary injunction barring enforcement of a U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) regulation interpreting "public lands" under the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) not to include navigable waters, ...

Natural Resources Defense Council v. Department of the Interior

The court holds that the Federal Highway Administration's (FHwA's) approval of the proposed San Joaquin Hills tollroad through California gnatcatcher habitat did not violate the Endangered Species Act (ESA), and affirms a district court's denial of environmental groups' request for a preliminary inj...

Natural Resources Defense Council v. Department of the Navy

The court issues a preliminary injunction barring the implementation of a National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) regulation that would authorize an incidental taking of marine mammals under the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) during the U.S. Department of the Navy's underwater weapons testing ...

Nevada v. O'Leary

The court holds that the Nuclear Waste Policy Act (NWPA) does not authorize judicial review of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) decision to terminate a study of calcite-silica deposits at Yucca Mountain. The presence of the deposits allegedly indicate that the site is unsuitable for use as a ...