The court vacates the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) decision to list a waste site in Pennsylvania on the national priorities list (NPL) pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), because the court finds that EPA's calculation of the si...

In an opinion superseding the court's prior decision in this case, 21 ELR 21474, the court holds that an environmental group has standing to sue and that amendments to the Food and Agricultural Act and Swampbuster provisions of the Food Security Act (Swampbuster) apply retroactively. The court first...

The court, in granting partial relief to an environmental organization challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) recent Federal Water Pollution Control Act (FWPCA) storm water discharge rule, holds that EPA's failure to include deadlines for approving or denying point source per...

The court orders the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to promulgate motor vehicle inspection and maintenance programs (I/Ms) required by the 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act and to publish the final rule in the Federal Register by November 6, 1992. Through the 1990 amendments, Congress...

The court holds that a tannery owner is liable under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act for 239 discharge and reporting violations of its national pollutant discharge elimination system permit. The court finds that the company's own discharge monitoring reports reveal unlawful discharges from t...

The court holds that environmental groups have standing to challenge the legislative environmental impact statement (LEIS) accompanying an Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) report by the Department of the Interior (DOI) concerning future management of the Alaska National Wildl...

The court holds that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) violated Federal Water Pollution Control Act (FWPCA) §304(m) by failing to issue effluent guidelines for industrial toxic polluters by the statutory deadline. The court first holds that FWPCA §304(m)(1)(C) clearly requires EPA to promu...

The court holds that New Mexico and an environmental organization are entitled to a preliminary injunction preventing the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) from introducing radioactive waste into the Waste Isolation Pilot Program (WIPP), a proposed nuclear waste repository in New Mexico. In January 19...

The court holds that the Waste Isolation Pilot Program (WIPP), a proposed nuclear waste repository in New Mexico, does not have interim status under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) to conduct storage tests, and the court permanently enjoins the implementation of an order issued by ...

The court affirms a district court order permanently enjoining the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) from implementing a public land order authorizing the introduction of transuranic nuclear waste into New Mexico, as part of the testing of the proposed Was...