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Motor & Equip. Mfrs. Ass'n v. EPA (I)

Various motor vehicle and automotive parts manufacturers challenge the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator's waiver of federal preemption, under Clean Air Act §209(b)(1), of the California regulations which limit the amount of in-use masintenance that a manufacturer can require of p...

Motor & Equip. Mfrs. Ass'n v. EPA (II)

The court denies a petition for review of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator's waiver of federal preemption of California regulations establishing an optional 100,000-mile procedure for manufacturer certification of new vehicle compliance with state NOx emission standards. The c...

Newport Beach, City of v. Andrus

The court denies plaintiff's motion for a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction against Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas Lease Sale No. 48. In challenging the legality of the lease sale two days before the sale was scheduled to take place on June 29, 1979, plaintiff alleged vio...

Atlanta Coalition on the Transp. Crisis v. Atlanta Regional Comm'n

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals affirms a lower court's judgment that preparation of an environmental impact statement (EIS) is not required in conjunction with the Atlanta area's Regional Development Plan for transportation systems.The court of appeals finds that the Plan does not constitute a "...

U.S. Steel Corp. v. EPA

The Fifth Circuit grants a petition by the Environmental Protection Agency for a clarification of a decision rendered in the case on May 3, 1979, 9 ELR 20311, in which the court invalidated the Agency's designation of non-attainment areas in Alabama pursuant to §107(d) of the Clean Air Act. The cou...

Aluli v. Brown

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reverses a lower court's injunctive order, 7 ELR 20780, requiring the United States Navy to file annual environmental impact statements in conjunction with its appropriations requests for practice bombing on the Island of Kahoolawe. The Supreme Court's recent decis...

League to Save Lake Tahoe v. Trounday

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirms the dismissal, 7 ELR 20400, of a suit challenging the issuance of certificates of registration under the Nevada state implementation plan (SIP) for two proposed hotel-casinos. Appellants claimed that the two indirect sources would result in violations of th...

BASF Wyandotte Corp. v. Costle

Pesticide manufacturers petitioned for review of final Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations, 40 C.F.R. Part 455, setting effluent limitations for pollutant discharges by the pesticide industry, alleging both procedural and substantive errors. The court rules that the Agency did not viol...

Amchem Prods., Inc. v. GAF Corp.

In a suit by one chemical manufacturer against another and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the court rules that appellant is entitled to compensation for test data that was submitted by it with an application for a pesticide registration under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Roden...

Pacific Legal Found. v. Council on Envtl. Quality

Granting defendants' motion for summary judgment, the court rejects plaintiff's challenges to the legality of the procedures used by the Council on Environmental Quality in carrying out its functions. The Council is not subject to the common-law quorum rule because the agency's statutory purposes an...