Center for Biological Diversity v. Berger
A district court granted BLM's motion to dismiss a challenge to its approval of 26 applications for permits to drill in Colorado. An environmental group argued BLM's refusal to impose environmental mitigation measures on drill sites located on private land violated the APA and impaired its members' ...
Couser v. Shelby County, Iowa
The Eighth Circuit affirmed summary judgment for a carbon dioxide pipeline company in a challenge to two Iowa county ordinances that regulate pipelines. The company, which wants to build an interstate pipeline through Iowa, argued the ordinances were preempted by the Pipeline Safety Act (PSA) and Io...
Appalachian Voices v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
The D.C. Circuit denied environmental groups' challenges to FERC's decision to grant a company's request to extend its construction deadline for a 75-mile extension to the Mountain Valley Pipeline. The groups argued FERC's finding of "good cause" to grant the extension and its refusal to revisit its...