The Supreme Court of Louisiana held that a property owner who discovered radioactive contamination on his land after he purchased it may not file suit against oil and trucking companies allegedly responsible for that contamination. Under Louisiana law, a property owner has no right or actual interes...

A district court upheld a NMFS biological opinion (BiOp) concluding that EPA's registration decisions under FIFRA for three insecticides—chlorpyrifos, diazinon and malathion—were likely to jeopardize the continued existence of 27 protected species of salmon and steelhead fish and would destroy o...

The Third Circuit affirmed a lower court decision granting summary judgment in favor of the U.S. government and imposing a $250,000 fine against a landowner for filling wetlands on his property without a permit. The court joined the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the First and Eighth Circuits in holding...

The D.C. Circuit vacated and remanded the FAA's "no hazard" determinations for a proposed offshore wind farm in Nantucket Sound. A town and a citizens group filed suit arguing that the FAA violated its governing statute, misread its own regulations, and arbitrarily and capriciously failed to calcula...