The Ninth Circuit affirmed a lower court's grant of summary judgment in favor of DOI in water districts' lawsuit challenging the agency's management of California's Central Valley Project. The water districts argued that DOI should be ordered to provide the necessary drainage or, alternatively, to p...

The Ninth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of an environmental group's citizen suit against two electric companies alleging that their utility poles discharged wood preservative into the environment in violation of the CWA and RCRA. The group failed to state a claim under the CWA because discharges of...

The Second Circuit dismissed a petition for review challenging an FAA letter endorsing a series of recommendations made by a panel of experts regarding the impact of a proposed marine trash-transfer facility on safe airport operations at New York's LaGuardia Airport. The expert panel found that New ...