Oceana v. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
A district court, in a memorandum opinion, dismissed environmental groups' lawsuit against the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) for APA, NEPA, and ESA violations in connection with two lease sales in the area where the Deepwater Horizon spill ...
Catskill Mountains Chapter of Trout Unlimited, Inc. v. United States Environmental Protection Agency
In a 100+ page opinion, a district court vacated EPA's water transfers rule, which excludes water transfers that convey or connect "waters of the United States without subjecting the transferred water to intervening industrial, municipal, or commercial use" from the CWA's NPDES permitting requiremen...
Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Ass'ns v. Murillo
A district court held that plaintiffs may go forward with their CWA citizen suit against the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and a California water authority in a case involving the need for a NPDES permit for an irrigation project jointly administered by the two agencies. The plaintiffs pled sufficient ...
National Ass'n of Home Builders v. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
A district court upheld two court-approved settlement agreements between environmental advocacy groups and the FWS in a multi-district litigation that require the agency to determine by certain deadlines whether to list 251 species as endangered or threatened under the ESA or find that listing these...