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Tolumne County Citizens for Responsible Growth, Inc. v. Sonora, City of

A California appellate court reversed a lower court decision denying a petition for writ of mandate challenging a city's approval of a home improvement center construction project. A citizens group argued that the realignment of a nearby road should have been considered as part of the same project u...

Coalition on W. Valley Nuclear Wastes v. Department of Energy

A district court denied plaintiff environmental group's motion for summary judgment under the Administrative Procedure Act to compel compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and to enforce a 1987 stipulation. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) did not violate NEPA's policy prohi...

Mejia v. Los Angeles, City of

A California appellate court denied an appeal of a post-judgment award of attorney fees to plaintiff as the successful party in a proceeding under the California Environmental Quality Act challenging a proposed housing development due to its environmental impacts on wildlife and traffic. Plaintiff i...

A.J. Lancaster v. North Carolina Dep't of Envtl. & Natural Resources

A North Carolina appeals court denied respondent agency’s appeal of a lower court's reversal of the agency's assessment of a civil penalty for petitioner's failure to meet certain requirements related to leaking underground storage tanks (USTs). Petitioner inherited the property from his father wh...

Santa Clarita Org. for Planning the Env't v. Los Angeles, City of

A California appeals court affirmed a lower court’s denial of environmental group’s petition for writ of mandate challenging defendant county’s revision and recertification of an environmental impact report (EIR) under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). The water serv...

O'Mara v. Wappinger, Town of

On certification from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the New York Court of Appeals held that an open space restriction imposed by a subdivision plat under New York Town Law §276 and filed in the Office of the county clerk pursuant to Real Property Law §334 is enforceable...

Porterville Citizens for Responsible Hillside Dev. v. Porterville, City of

A California appellate court reversed a lower court's grant of a peremptory writ of mandamus in favor of an environmental group that set aside defendant city's approval of a housing project subdivision map and that required a focused environmental impact report (EIR) or equivalent analysis to be con...

Rattlesnake Coalition v. EPA

The Ninth Circuit affirmed dismissal of an action against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and others under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) in which an environmental group sought injunctive, declaratory, and other relief relating to the preparation of certain environmental...

Nuclear Info. & Resource Serv. v. Nuclear Regulatory Comm'n

The D.C. Circuit denied citizen advocacy groups' claim that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission violated the National Environmental Policy Act and the Atomic Energy Act when it granted a license for a new, privately owned facility in New Mexico to produce enriched uranium as fuel for nuclear reactors....

Save Round Valley Alliance v. Inyo, County of

A California appellate court reversed a lower court's denial of a petition for a writ of mandate, which challenged the certification of an environmental impact report (EIR) under the California Environmental Quality Act and the approval of a developer's tentative subdivision tract map in Inyo County...