A district court vacated BLM's approval of an oil and gas project in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. Indigenous and environmental groups argued BLM violated NEPA by failing to adequately analyze the effects of the project's downstream greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in its EIS, failing to c...

The Eighth Circuit affirmed in part and reversed in part a district court ruling in an ongoing enforcement suit concerning air pollution at a utility company's coal-fired power plant in Missouri. EPA argued the company violated the CAA, Missouri's SIP, and its Title V permit by performing modificati...

A district court denied nonprofit groups' motion for summary judgment in a challenge to BLM's decision authorizing a power company to construct a portion of an electrical transmission line across roughly 100 miles of federal land. The groups argued BLM violated NEPA by failing to supplement the fina...

A Minnesota appellate court remanded a challenge to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency's (MPCA's) grant of an air emissions permit for a proposed copper-nickel mine in northern Minnesota. Environmental groups argued the MPCA improperly issued the permit because the company receiving it did not i...