NEPA does not require that the Economic Development Administration void its initial funding grant for the Elk Mountain Road project and reconsider the application in competition with other current projects seeking funds, even though the grant was issued before an environmental impact statement was p...

A preliminary injunction is issued against further construction of a federally funded highway segment which received design approval prior to Feb. 1, 1971, even though according to FHwA's transitional guidelines no EIS was required. The court rules that this administrative guideline for determining ...

The final environmental impact statement and its supplement for the Corps of Engineers Truman Dam project adequately comply with the requirements of NEPA despite plaintiffs' allegations that certain alternatives were inadequately examined and that the cost-benefit analysis lacked the support of scie...

Plaintiffs' motion for a stay of all Federal Power Commission proceedings regarding the Blenheim-Gilboa Power project until the adequacy of the final environmental impact statement, upon which the Commission has deferred making a decision, has been reviewed is denied and the petition for review dism...

The Secretary of the Interior was acting within his authority when, after the Santa Barbara Channel oil blowout, he suspended drilling permits in the channel. The Outer Continental Shelf Act permits the Secretary to issue and amend regulations in order to protect and conserve the natural resources o...

The Federal Power Commission has adequately established by competent evidence that its denial of an application for the interstate transport of natural gas for direct use does not significantly affect environmental quality and therefore does not require a NEPA impact statement. Although the court fi...

Relying on its earlier decision in Snyder v. Harris, the U.S. Supreme Court affirms a Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that lakeshore property owners with separate and distinct damage claims for water pollution must each satisfy the federal jurisdictional amount requirement in order to maintai...

The final environmental impact statement for the partially completed Tellico Dam project complies with the requirements of NEPA, and a preliminary injunction against further construction is dissolved. The final EIS adequately discusses historial and archeological losses to be incurred by the project...

The court grants plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment and enjoins defendants from allowing clearcutting under contracts for the sale of timber in the Monongahela National Forest since this practice violates the Organic Act of 1897. Defendants are ordered to revise their regulations, manual, and c...

Two orders of the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which withdrew approval of New Animal Drug Applications for implant pellets of the growth hormone DES and revoked certain regulations governing their use, are held illegal and vacated by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. ...