The court grants defendant's motion to dismiss, ruling that the appropriate forum for challenges to the Environmental Protection Agency's initial steps in regulating "major sources of noise" under the Noise Control Act of 1972 is the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circui...

The court affirms a lower court's judgment dissolving an injunction against the approval of federal funding for construction of a highway segment through Genessee Valley Park near Rochester, New York. The trial court was not clearly erroneous in determining that the project environmental impact stat...

The court denies plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction against disbursement of federal funds under the Local Public Works Act for the construction of storm sewers in a newly annexed area of Eugene, Oregon. Plaintiffs have not shown that they will probably prevail on the merits of their cla...

The court sets aside the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) veto of state-proposed modifications in petitioner's national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit that would allow low-flow augmentation to meet water quality standards. The court rejects defendant's contention that...

The Washington Supreme Court upholds the trial court's issuance of an order barring implementation of certain fishing regulations by the state department of fisheries. The regulations had been formulated by a federal district court pursuant to its order in United States v. Washington, 384 F. Supp. 3...

Granting plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment, the court voids a mining lease in the bed of a scenic river and enjoins removal of sand and gravel by the State Transportation Department. The proposed removal would constitute "dredging" and is prohibited under the Idaho Dredge Mining Act. The Depar...

The Oregon Court of Appeals affirms a lower court decree enjoining owners of unpatented mining claims on federal lands from removing more than 50 cubic yards of material a year from Forest Creek without obtaining a state permit. The court rules that the federal mining laws do not indicate an intent ...

The court enters judgment for defendants in a suit alleging that the planned operation of the Trinity River division of the Central Valley Project in response to the 1976-1977 drought violates provisions of federal and state law. The Act authorizing the Trinity River Division directs defendants to t...

The United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit vacates a lower court's order requiring the Secretary of State to object to the International Whaling Commission's ban on Eskimo hunting of the bowhead whale and thereby make the ban inapplicable in Alaska. Assuming without deciding that plaint...

The court dismisses a petition to review the licensing of the Church Rock uranium mill by New Mexico authorities and affirms the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC's) denial of a hearing on the state's licensing action. The petition does not point to any specific NRC decision that finally affected...