The D.C. Circuit denied two petitions to review EPA attainment designations for the 2010 sulfur dioxide NAAQS. An environmental group argued that the Agency should have designated Gallia County, Ohio, as a nonattainment area rather than an unclassifiable area because air quality modeling data submit...

A district court granted environmental groups' request for discovery relevant to the lobster fishing industry's impact on the endangered North Atlantic right whale. The groups argued that NMFS violated its ongoing duty under §7 of the ESA to ensure against jeopardy of endangered right whales and it...