A district court held that animal rights groups lack standing to challenge FWS' decision to allow the National Primate Research Center to transfer eight of its chimpanzees to a zoo in the United Kingdom. FWS authorized the transfer under ESA §10 on the condition that the Center donate money to an u...

The Eighth Circuit reversed a lower court decision that livestock farm groups lacked standing to bar EPA from releasing their members' personal information in response to environmental groups' FOIA requests about concentrated animal feeding operations. The farm groups argued that the requested infor...

A district court held that environmental groups may go forward with some, but not all, of their CWA claims against TVA concerning coal ash contamination stemming from a coal-fired power plant near Gallatin, Tennessee. The groups allege that TVA knew that the ash ponds' construction and the area's to...