County Road Commissioners are ordered to remove road fill from a pond situated between lands of plaintiff and adjacent landowner and to restore the three-to-four-acre inland pond to its preexisting freshwater condition. Notwithstanding the fact that the road fill traverses only a part of the pond su...

The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, sitting en banc, reverses the denial of further injunctive relief against the issuance of a special land use permit for construction purposes on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Project. The court concludes that the grant of a right-o...

In holding that a private party does not have standing to sue public officials under the Water Pollution Control Act, the court relies on the dual test of Association of Data Processing Service Organizations v. Camp, 397 U.S. 150 (1970). The appellants meet the first requirement because "the challen...

Partial injunctive relief is granted in a suit challenging the construction of the substantially complete five-mile Forty-Seventh Street Bypass, on the ground that responsible officials failed to file a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) impact statement. The court holds that the limited gener...

The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency must promulgate final emission standards for the hazardous pollutants for which proposed standards had been promulgated in December 1971, within 60 days following the order of the court. Under §112 of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1970, the...

In continuing to enjoin the Department of Defense (for issuance of injunction see 2 ELR 20739) from further Pacific Cratering Experiments on Enewetak Atoll, the court holds that Congress intended to include the Trust Territory under the coverage of the National Environmental Policy Act and that resi...

An order of the Illinois Pollution Control Board imposing a $1,000 fine for violation of the state Environmental Control Act is upheld. The power to impose monetary penalties granted by the Act does not constitute a prohibited delegation of legislative authority, because such quasi-judicial powers a...

A local ordinance prohibiting drive-in theater screens that are visible from public streets or highways is a valid exercise of the police power. Drive-in theaters are a special class of hazard compared to neon signs and other lights along the highway. The ordinance was intended to further highway sa...

The Public Service Commission's approval of a transmission line location is not sufficiently important to warrant an environmental impact statement under the New Mexico Environmental Protection Act. The Act, however, does require a determination by the Commission that the location is justified in li...

The Court of Appeals of Maryland affirms a circuit court ruling that a local ordinance regulating signs in the central business district of Baltimore is invalid. The court holds that the sole purpose of the ordinance is the achievement of an aesthetically pleasing result, with no thought of enhancin...