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June v. Union Carbide Corp.

The Tenth Circuit affirmed a lower court decision dismissing claims for alleged radiation injuries to residents of Uravan, Colorado, a former uranium and vanadium milling town owned and operated by two mining companies. The residents asserted claims for personal injury based on disease or death alle...

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 ...

Mathes v. Vulcan Materials Co.

A district court held that it lacks jurisdiction over a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Virgin Islands natural resources commissioner against two chemical companies for negligence, strict liability, and nuisance in connection with the contamination of an aquifer that was once a significant source of drink...

Coffey v. Freeport McMoren Copper & Gold

The Tenth Circuit affirmed a lower court decision remanding to state court residents' class action lawsuit against a mining company for property contamination stemming from the company's mining operations. The residents originally filed the suit in state court, but the company removed the case to fe...

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...

Orange County Water Dist. v. Unocal Corp.

The Second Circuit denied a petition for writ of mandamus challenging a district court order denying a California water district's motion to remand its suit against corporations that manufactured, refined, marketed, or distributed gasoline containing methyl tertiary butyl ether to California state c...