The court rules that the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) acted within the scope of its authority under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) in selecting an alternative to a highway segment in the final environmental impact statement (EIS). Pursuant to a district court o...

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals holds that a decision by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) limiting the scope of a public hearing regarding a registration cancellation under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act must be reviewed first in the district court. EPA proposed ...

The district court denies plaintiff's request for a permanent injunction and rules that approval of a 1976 coal mining lease agreement between two coal and gas companies and the Navajo Tribe, as well as a subsequent 1978 Mining Plan, violate neither the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Nati...

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...