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Sierra Club v. EPA

The court holds that an environmental group and a trade association lack standing to challenge the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) hazardous wastewater treatment sludge rule promulgated under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). The court first holds that the environment...

MSOF Corp. v. Exxon Corp.

The court holds that a district court lacked jurisdiction under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) and the All Writs Act to hear landowners' land contamination claim against various corporations that owned and operated hazardous waste sites. After bein...

Natural Resources Defense Council v. Federal Aviation Admin.

The court holds that an environmental group's challenge to the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA's) determination that the National Parks Air Tour Management Act does not bar proposed sightseeing tours out of the Jackson Hole, Wyoming, airport is not ripe for review. In 1999, and again in 2000,...

Exxon Chems. Am. v. Chao

The court dismisses a company's petition for review of a U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Administration Review Board (ARB) order remanding for further fact-finding and consideration an employee's claim that the company violated the Clean Air Act's (CAA's) and Toxic Substances Control Act's (TSCA's) w...

LaFleur v. Whitman

The court denies a petition for review seeking reversal of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator's decision not to object to a state agency's determination that the heightened permitting requirements of the prevention of significant deterioration (PSD) program do not apply to ...

Westchester Creek Corp. v. New York City Sch. Constr. Auth.

The court holds that a school construction authority properly appropriated property being held by a redevelopment group in order for the authority to build a new school. The property is one of seven parcels that New York City leased to the redevelopment group in 1978 for 90 years under an urban rene...

Aguinda v. Texaco, Inc.

The court affirms the dismissal of two class actions brought by residents of Peru and Ecuador against a U.S. oil company for environmental and personal injuries arising out of the company's oil exploration and extraction operations between 1964 and 1992. The residents sought money damages under theo...

Conservation Force, Inc. v. Manning

The court holds that Arizona's cap on nonresident hunting of antlered deer and bull elk substantially affects and discriminates against interstate commerce and remands the case for further proceedings to determine whether Arizona has met its burden of showing that it has no other means to advance it...

Rancho Lobo, Ltd. v. Devargas

The court reverses a district court decision that the New Mexico Forest Conservation Act (FCA) preempted a county timber harvest ordinance and that the ordinance's environmental assessment provision included an invalid delegation of unlimited power to the county and zoning commission. The court firs...

Blue Ribbon Properties, Inc. v. Hardin County Fiscal Court

The court affirms a district court decision that a county's denial of a company's permit application to operate a landfill on its property was not a taking under state law and did not violate the U.S. Commerce Clause or the Sherman Antitrust Act. The court first holds that the company did not meet t...