Sierra Club v. FutureGen Industrial Alliance
A district court dismissed an environmental group's citizen suit in which it alleged a power company was attempting to construct a major modification of its coal-fired power plant in Illinois without a PSD permit in violation of the CAA. The project will physically replace an existing boiler with a ...
National Environmental Development Ass'n's Clean Air Project v. Environmental Protection Agency,
The D.C. Circuit vacated an EPA memorandum directing regional air districts to apply different criteria when making source determinations in its Title V or new source review (NSR) permitting decisions for facilities located in areas within the jurisdiction of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth ...
Delaware Riverkeeper Network v. Federal Energy Regulatory Comm'n
The D.C. Circuit held that FERC violated NEPA when it approved the expansion of a natural gas pipeline in the Northeast. The project will upgrade a portion of a much longer natural gas pipeline known as the 300 Line. An environmental group challenged the approval, arguing that FERC violated NEPA whe...