In three consolidated cases the court upholds various provisions of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness Act against constitutional and statutory challenges. In the first case, the court (1) rejects plaintiffs' allegation that Congress' reliance upon a map, held by the Department of Agriculture...

The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals affirms the district court's upholding the Secretary of Transportation's withholding, under the Highway Beautification Act, of a portion of South Dakota's federal highway funds as a penalty for failure to institute effective control of billboards. The state legisl...

The court summarily affirms the trial court's dismissal, 10 ELR 20820, of a challenge to the construction of a convention center complex in an historic area of Charleston, South Carolina, to be funded by grants from the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Economic Development Adminis...

The District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals reverses the district court's denial of appellants' request for attorney fees under §307 of the Clean Air Act. In 1973, appellants brought suit to compel the closure of an incinerator owned by the District of Columbia because of alleged violations o...

On remand from the First Circuit Court of Appeals, the district court finds that an alternative route for a highway was not adequately discussed in the environmental impact statement (EIS) for the project. The court had previously held, 10 ELR 20293, that on the basis of the administrative record as...

The court grants a temporary restraining order preventing the Department of the Interior from including five rivers in northern California within the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System until plaintiffs are included in the evaluation process required by the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA...

In consolidated cases, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rules that both a California and Oregon district court were without jurisdiction to enjoin the Department of the Interior from adding portions of five California rivers to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. The two lower courts, 11 E...

The court rules that owners of alluvial valley floor (AVF) land on which strip mining is prohibited must be offered federal coal-bering land in exchange, and it remands a number of the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM's) regulations for determining the unsuitability of lands for surface coal mining ...

The court rules that completion of a 4.5-mile highway segment in Clinton, Louisiana, to be funded exclusively by the state, is neither a "major Federal action" under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) nor federal action for purposes of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). With th...

The court orders the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to initiate rulemaking proceedings for the testing of priority chemicals, as required under §4 of the Toxic Substances Control Act. One year ago, the court issued partial judgment, 10 ELR 20274, ruling that EPA must submit plans to initiate...