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Central Me. Power Co. v. F.J. O'Connor Co.

The court allocates responsibility for past and future cleanup costs and expenses under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), holding an electric utility and a supplier of electrical equipment, which both had disposed of electrical scrap equipment at the...

Chemical Mfrs. Ass'n v. EPA

The court vacates the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) decision to list methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) as a high-risk air pollutant for purposes of the Clean Air Act's early reduction program. Under the program, a participating facility may use emission reductions for one pollut...

Chesapeake Bay Found. v. Department of Agric.

The court reverses and remands a district court's award of $44,373 in attorney fees and costs to an environmental group that obtained data on public pesticide use in Maryland from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) under §552(a)(4)(E) of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The USDA initia...

Child v. United States

The court holds that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' (Corps') assertion of jurisdiction over property it claims contains wetlands is not judicially reviewable under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (FWPCA) or the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). The court holds that it does not have juri...

Chlorine Inst., Inc. v. California Highway Patrol

The court holds that the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act of 1975 (HMTA), as amended by the Hazardous Materials Transportation Uniform Safety Act of 1990 (HMTUSA), preempts regulations imposed by the Department of the California Highway Patrol (CHP) on the transportation of chlorine and oleum ...

Citizens to End Animal Suffering & Exploitation v. New England Aquarium

The court holds that dolphin and animal welfare organizations lack standing to bring an action under the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) to challenge the transfer of the dolphin from the New England Aquarium to the Department of Defense (DOD) pursuant to a Department of Commerce (Commerce) Lette...

Clipper Cruise Line, Inc. v. United States

The court holds that the National Park Service's (NPS') method of allocating entry permits to Glacier Bay, Alaska, for the 1995 season does not violate the Administrative Procedure Act's (APA's) notice-and-comment requirement, and that the NPS' denial of entry permits to a cruise line operator is no...

Color Pigments Mfrs. Ass'n v. OSHA

The court holds that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) failed to rely on substantial evidence in determining that it was technologically and economically feasible for the dry color formulator industry to meet a permissible exposure limit (PEL) of five micrograms per cubic mete...

Committee to Save the Mokelumne River v. East Bay Mun. Util. Dist.

The court affirms a district court judgment that municipal water suppliers, who constructed a reservoir and dam to collect toxic surface runoff from rivers flowing through an abandoned mine site, discharged a pollutant within the meaning of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (FWPCA) when draina...