Friends of the Clearwater v. Probert
A district court vacated in part the Forest Service's 2017 record of decision (ROD) that closed approximately 196,000 acres of recommended wilderness areas in Clearwater National Forest to motorized vehicles and eliminated motorized use on 38 miles of existing trails. An environmental group had chal...
Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians of the Bad River Reservation v. Enbridge Energy Co., Inc.
A district court ordered a pipeline company and Native American tribe to submit a joint proposal on how to prevent a "catastrophic rupture" of a crude oil and natural gas pipeline running through the tribe's reservation in northern Wisconsin. The tribe initially brought public nuisance and trespass ...
Gold King Mine Release in San Juan County County, Colorado, on August 5, 2015
A district court granted a federal contractor's motion for partial summary judgment in a CERCLA liability suit brought by the state of New Mexico and a Native American reservation concerning Gold King Mine's release of millions of gallons of contaminated water into nearby rivers in 2015. The contrac...