Plaintiff, a producer of fuel oil and a consumer of electric power, has standing to challenge an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) order issued under the Clean Air Act, which requires a power company to cease burning plaintiff's fuel because it contains more sulphur than is permitted by Delaware...

Plaintiffs Sierra Club and other organizations alleged, and offered proof, that their local chapters and individual members have enjoyed the park area of the proposed highway and would be individually injured by construction of the route there, suffering, for example, the destruction of spectacular ...

The Secretary of the Interior acted ultra vires when he suspended Santa Barbara Channel oil leases, made pursuant to the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, to allow Congress to consider legislation that would permanently prohibit drilling in the channel. the Secretary's power to suspend leases is li...

In a challenge to proposed bypass location of interstate highway around Fayetteville, North Carolina, case remanded to district court to ensure full federal compliance with §102(c) of NEPA and to determine required extent of state compliance under §128(a), as amended, of Federal-Aid Highways Act. ...

Because the ordinary procedure under the state Administrative Procedure Act would have taken too long to complete, the Rhode Island Department of Natural Resources could use an emergency procedure to authorize spraying of 64,000 acres with the pesticide Sevin. However, any permanent program of spray...

A city which has dedicated beach front property to the public may not then act by local ordinance to limit access to the beach to residents of the city and their invited guests. Dedication to a public use can arise when a city accepts land for a public park, administers it as such and the public act...

This action was brought to compel the Corps of Engineers to permit appellee to dredge and fill an additional 194 acres of the submerged land adjacent to its property by utilizing material from the bed of Lake Worth, Florida, and to quiet title in that submerged land in appellee as against the Truste...

The preliminary injunction restraining defendants from proceeding with the implementation of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, a navigation project in Alabama and Mississippi that is expected to create a new, inter-regional trade route between the Gulf Coast and much of the mid-continent region of t...

Section 1161 (b) (4) of the Federal Pollution Control Act, 33 U.S.C. §1161 (b) (4), which provides immunity from prosecution under the Refuse Act of 1899, 33 U.S.C. §§407, 411, for a person in charge of a polluting vessel or facility on the basis of his own immediate notification to the governmen...

The Fourth Circuit affirms the district court's dismissal of the case for lack of federal jurisdiction. Plaintiffs allege assault and battery committed by defendants as plaintiffs were attempting to obtain photographic evidence of an alleged violation of the 1899 Refuse Act by defendant strip mining...