The court holds that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (the Corps) was not required to obtain the prior consent of the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior under Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (WSRA) §7(a) before issuing a record of decision (ROD) on, or requesting congressional appropriations fo...

The court adopts a magistrate judge's recommendation that it should not award attorney fees to an environmental group and an individual in connection with their suit to compel the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) to prepare an Endangered Species Act (ESA) recovery plan for Bradshaw's Desert Par...

The court holds that slag produced as a byproduct of steel production is discarded material and, thus, is a solid waste under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). The court first notes that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) interpretation of RCRA's definition of "solid...

The court preliminarily enjoins the U.S. Forest Service from funding, permitting, or announcing new, ongoing, or announced timber sales, range activities, mining activities, or road-building projects in six national forests in Idaho pending completion of formal consultation between the Forest Servic...

The court dissolves the injunction it issued on January 12, 1995, by which the court enjoined the U.S. Forest Service from funding, permitting, or announcing new, ongoing, or announced timber sales, range activities, mining activities, or road-building projects in six national forests in Idaho pendi...

The court affirms a district court's exclusion of most of the medical testimony of plaintiffs' experts in a toxic tort suit alleging that polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) contamination at a Pennsylvania railroad yard caused personal injury to local residents. The court first holds that its review of t...

The court holds that despite defendant's remediation efforts, the owner of a paper recycling plant may bring a citizen suit under §7002(a)(1)(B) of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) against the defendant operator of a bulk fuel terminal to remedy soil and groundwater contamination c...

The court dismisses claims by commercial fishers and commercial fishing associations that in order to provide in-river harvest allocations for two Native American tribes, the Secretary of Commerce improperly reduced the Klamath Chinook ocean harvest rate for the 1993 fall fishing season in violation...

The court holds that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) regulation limiting the operation of motorized personal watercraft, or "thrill craft," in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary to four designated zones and access routes is not arbitrary and capricious simply b...

The court holds that the medical monitoring costs of an owner of contaminated land are not recoverable response costs under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), and that the owner failed to demonstrate an imminent and substantial danger to health that w...