The court holds that an aluminum plant that turns off its wet scrubbers thereby becomes a modified stationary source within the meaning of Clean Air Act (CAA) §111(a)(4), subject to the new source performance standards (NSPS) promulgated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) pursuant to CAA ...

The court generally upholds the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) amended regulations issued pursuant to Clean Air Act §123 governing pollution control credit for tall smokestacks. The regulations establish the credit that sources receive toward compliance with local air quality standards f...

The court holds that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) may impose conditions in defendant's national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit regulating internal waste streams that discharge into treatment ponds at defendant's plant. EPA had denied defendant's application for a ...

The court holds that piercing the corporate veil to assert personal jurisdiction in Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) actions is a federal question determined by traditional tests for piercing the corporate veil, CERCLA §106 does not authorize nationwide...

The court holds that the plaintiffs have not shown misrepresentation, newly discovered evidence, or manifest injustice warranting relief from a Supreme Court decision. The Court had held that the Secretary of Commerce has discretion under the Magnuson Fishery Conservation Management Act to decide th...

The court holds that the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) refusal to remove bacitracin and phthalate esters from the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) list of extremely hazardous substances was arbitrary and capricious. Both bacitracin and phthalate esters had been ...

The court rules that the Endangered Species Act's (ESA's) 60-day notice requirement for citizen suits is jurisdictional and applies to emergency actions. The First Circuit's strict reading of the 60-day notice requirements in other environmental statutes applies to the ESA's virtually identical noti...

The court holds that regulations adopted by the Secretary of the Interior in 1982 to clarify the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act's (SMCRA's) two-acre exemption may not be applied retroactively to nullify an exemption granted by Virginia to a deep coal mining operation. The 1982 regulation...

The court holds that the supplemental environmental impact statement (SEIS) prepared by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for the use of herbicides to control noxious weeds on public lands in five northwest states satisfies the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act's (NEPA's) worst...

The court holds that plaintiffs are entitled to attorney fees under the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA). Plaintiffs challenged the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC's) "backfit" rule, which the court vacated in an earlier ruling. The court holds that plaintiffs were the prevailing party, since...