Indigenous Environmental Network v. Trump
A district court dismissed as moot a yearslong lawsuit challenging President Trump's issuance of a presidential permit in 2019 for construction of a cross-border segment of the Keystone XL oil pipeline. Environmental groups had argued the former president violated the Property Clause, the Commerce C...
Friends of Alaska National Wildlife Refuges v. Haaland
The Ninth Circuit, 2-1, reversed a district court ruling that set aside a land exchange agreement between the Secretary of the Interior and an Alaska Native village company that wished to build a road through Izembek National Wildlife Refuge to allow access to a nearby city. The district court had h...
Food & Water Watch v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
The D.C. Circuit granted in part an environmental group's petition to review FERC's decision authorizing a new natural gas pipeline and compressor station in Massachusetts. The group argued, among other things, that FERC's EA failed to account for reasonably foreseeable indirect effects of the proje...