A district court enjoined a county from enforcing a solid waste flow control ordinance that, among other things, requires all waste collected in the city to be disposed of at a city landfill. The city had entered into franchise contracts with a number of haulers that allowed them to dispose of waste...

A district court held that utilities violated CAA §112(g) by upgrading an existing power plant in Lamar, Colorado, from a natural gas-fired plant into a coal-fired one without receiving a maximum achievable control technology (MACT) determination. When the state environmental agency first issued th...

A district court denied a company's motion to dismiss an environmental group's CAA citizen suit against it for building seven compressor stations without first obtaining a nonattainment new source review permit. The company claimed that it properly applied for and received less stringent permits fro...

A district court held that reheater replacements at a Louisiana power plant constitute a major modification and do not qualify for the routine maintenance, repair or replacement exception to the CAA's PSD provisions. In Wisconsin Electric Power Co. v. Reilly, 893 F.3d 901, 20 ELR 20414 (7th Cir. 199...