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Environmental Defense Fund v. Tennessee Valley Auth.

The Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upholds the validity of a preliminary injunction against further construction on the partially complete Tellico Dam Project, grounding its decision upon defendants' failure to file an environmental impact statement in compliance with the requirements of §1...

Environmental Defense Fund v. Armstrong

The district court refuses to grant preliminary injunctive relief against the letting of bids and further work on the main contract for the New Melones Dam but retains jurisdiction pending the final updating of the interim environmental impact statement which is required by the National Environmenta...

Enewetak v. Laird

The Pacific Cratering Experiments are preliminarily enjoined for failure to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), which requires the filing of a final approved environmental impact statement.
Counsel for PlaintiffsTheodore R. Mitchell,Edward C. KingJames E. DugganCentral...

Environmental Defense Fund v. Corps of Eng'rs

The Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirms a judgment dissolving an injunction and dismissing claims that provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) were violated by the decision of the Corps of Engineers to complete the Gillham Dam. The court concludes that there was substa...

Howard v. EPA

A suit challenging the construction of a sewage treatment plant on grounds that the defendant failed to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) and took property without just compensation in violation of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and defendant is granted ...

Environmental Defense Fund v. Froehlke

The Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reverses a judgment denying injunctive relief against the construction of the Cache River Project. The court holds, inter alia, that the existing environmental impact statement is defective because it is conclusory and inadequately deals with alternatives....

Hanly v. Kleindienst

For the earlier opinion of the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, see 2 ELR 20216. On remand, a motion for a preliminary injunction against construction of the Metropolitan Correction Center (MCC), a jail, is denied. The court holds that the plaintiffs are unlikely to succeed on the merits of ...

EPA v. Mink

The Supreme Court reverses a judgment of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, in a suit brought under the Freedom of Information Act of 1966, to compel disclosure of nine documents concerning underground nuclear tests. The Court concludes that (1) exemption one do...

Gage v. Commonwealth Edison Co.

Pursuant to motions by the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and Commonwealth Edison Co. (Com. Ed.), the court dismisses a suit by farmers to enjoin the acquisition of land for a nuclear plant by Com. Ed., and to compel the adoption of construction licensing procedures by officials of the AEC which req...

Granite City Steel Co. v. EPA

The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals rejects a challenge to an EPA-established interim compliance schedule for controlling particulate air pollution from coke ovens in Illinois by December 31, 1974, the date set in the state implementation plan. The increment of progress dates within the schedule ar...