A district court denied a conservative nonprofit advocacy group's motion for spoliation sanctions against EPA for its mishandling of the group's FOIA request, but nevertheless scolded the Agency for its conduct. Because the record does not support a finding of punitive spoliation sanctions, the cour...

The Ninth Circuit upheld the dismissal of a trucking association's federal preemption challenge to a California environmental regulation on diesel trucks. The regulation requires heavy-duty diesel trucks, whose emissions contribute significantly to particulate matter and ozone pollution, to be upgra...

A California appellate court ordered the dismissal of an environmental group's California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) lawsuit against a city in connection with emergency storm drain repair and revegetation projects. Following a storm drain failure in 2009 that caused significant erosion along a...