Search Results
Use the filters on the left-hand side of this screen to refine the results further by topic or document type.

United States v. Northshore Mining Co.

The Eighth Circuit affirmed a lower court decision holding moot certain parts of a 1975 injunction regulating air emissions from a mining company's taconite pellet operation in Silver Bay, Minnesota. The lower court held that since portions of the injunction had been effectively incorporated into st...

Long Beach v. Los Angeles Unified Sch. Dist.

A California appellate court upheld a lower court decision denying a city's petition to overturn a school district's final environmental impact report (FEIR) for a high school construction project. The city argued that the school district failed to provide adequate detail and analysis sufficient to ...

Tracy First v. Tracy

A California appellate court affirmed the denial of a petition for review of a city's certification of an environmental impact report (EIR) and approval of a conditional use permit for the construction of a large food store. The city council approved the EIR after adding additional information to th...

Wagoner County Rural Water Dist. No. 2 v. Grand River Dam Auth.

The Tenth Circuit affirmed a lower court decision dismissing water districts' and other entities' claims against an Oklahoma agency and the United States in a dispute over water rights stemming from the Grand River. The plaintiffs sought a declaration regarding their interests in the Grand River wat...

Maine v. McLaughlin

Maine's highest court upheld the conviction entered against an individual hired to remove contamination stemming from an oil spill after a large piece of logging equipment caught on fire. Instead of cleaning up the site, the individual merely removed some of the contaminated soil and dumped it at a ...

Las Lomas Land Co. v. Los Angeles, City of

A California appellate court affirmed a trial court's judgment dismissing a land company's complaint against a city that terminated the company's environmental review of a proposed development project and rejected the project before the completion of a draft environmental impact report (EIR) under t...

California Native Plant Soc'y v. Santa Cruz, City of

A district court held that a city complied with the California Environmental Quality Act in approving a master plan for a project on city-owned greenbelt property. The project will have a significant effect on the habitat of the Santa Cruz tarplant due to the chosen alignment of a multi-use trail. T...

Penn Ridge Coal, LLC v. Blaine Township

A district court held that two local ordinances declaring it unlawful for any corporation to engage in mining activities within the township are invalid and void. Pennsylvania's Bituminous Mine Subsidence and Land Conservation Act expressly states that the commonwealth maintains primary jurisdiction...