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National Ctr. for Preservation Law v. Landrieu

The court grants defendants' motion for summary judgment and dismisses plaintiffs' challenge to the construction of a convention center complex in an historic area of Charleston, S.C. Plaintiffs sought to enjoin construction of the hotel and convention center and to enjoin release of federal funds t...

North Slope Borough v. Andrus

The court allows the Secretary of the Interior to proceed with the "lease phase" of an outer continental shelf (OCS) oil and gas project in the Beaufort Sea because of compliance with the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA), the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the Endangered Species ...

Union Carbide Agric. Prods. Co. v. Costle

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals reverses the issuance of a preliminary injunction against the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) use of efficacy and hazard test data submitted by a pesticide producer pursuant to registration under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FI...

Natural Resources Defense Council v. Munro

The court upholds an injunction, 7 ELR 20662, which prohibits the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) from implementing Phase 2 of its Hydro-Thermal Power Program, a long-range cooperative plan formulated to meet the energy needs of the Pacific Northwest, pending preparation of an environmental im...

Highland Coop. v. Lansing, City of

The court preliminarily enjoins a highway project pending completion of an environmental impact statement (EIS) pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Plaintiffs sought to restrain further federal, state, and local agency action to create a four-lane boulevard through their neighb...

United States v. Providence, City of

The court finds the city of Providence in contempt of a consent decree that set dates for its wastewater treatment plant to comply with a national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit issued under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (FWPCA). The city was issued an NPDES permit i...

Metromedia, Inc. v. San Diego, City of

The court upholds en banc the constitutionality of a San Diego ordinance which prohibits all off-site billboards and requires the removal of certain existing billboards following expiration of an amortization period. The court holds that the purposes recited in the ordinance—eliminating traffic ha...

PPG Indus. v. Costle

The court remands the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) designation of Summit County, Ohio as a nonattainment area for sulfur dioxide under the 1977 amendments to the Clean Air Act. Though it upholds as a general matter EPA's use of modeling data rather than monitoring data in designating no...

Romulus, City of v. Wayne, County of

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals rules that an action to enjoin construction of an additional runway at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport is moot because the runway has been completed. The district court found that the environmental impact statement (EIS) prepared by the Department of Transportatio...

Puerto Rico v. SS Zoe Colocotroni

The First Circuit Court of Appeals remands a district court ruling awarding damages to Puerto Rico for injuries to its natural resources sustained as a result of an oil spill from appellants' ship. Considering first several procedural issues, the court rules that the district court did not abuse its...