Forest Service approval of exploratory prospecting in the Custer National Forest is not a major federal action significantly affecting the environment and therefore does not require preparation of an environmental statement under NEPA. Neither §102 of NEPA nor the Council on Environmental Quality g...

The Delaware River Basin Commission adequately complied with all the requirements of NEPA in approving construction of a proposed oil pipeline. Jurisdiction to hear plaintiff's challenge to the Commission's action cannot be predicated on the Declaratory Judgment Act, the mandamus statute, the Admini...

A consent agreement between EPA and the General Services Administration (GSA), which alters previously existing compliance schedules for two GSA heating plants in Washington, D.C., is not an action subject to direct review in the court of appeals under §307(b)(1) of the Clean Air Act. On petitioner...

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals rules that the courts of appeals have exclusive jurisdiction under §509 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972 to review the EPA Administrator's action in promulgating regulations establishing "effluent limitations guidelines," and remands ...

The parties stipulate that the defendants will apply for federal grants in order to pursue an itemized schedule for construction of sewage treatment facilities in Port Chester. The schedule provides for appointment of a state employee to oversee the project, public hearings on the project's environm...

The court sets aside and remands for further consideration EPA's "new source" limitations for the phosphate manufacturing industry promulgated under §306 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972. EPA has already conceded that it will reconsider the new source performance standa...

The Ninth Circuit enjoins federal reimbursement funding for the continued construction of the Los Angeles Dam and Reservoir Project pending plaintiff's appeal from a lower court's denial of injunctive relief in this NEPA suit. Defendants' filing of an environmental impact statement for the project d...

The court of appeals affirms the decision of the Federal Power Commission (FPC) that its jurisdiction does not extend to the production, transportation, and sale of unmixed synthetic gas produced from coal. In addition, the court holds that, while preparation of an environmental impact statement wou...

The Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit reverses the district court's award of attorney fees to plaintiffs, since the lower court could not predicate jurisdiction on the Clean Air Act citizen suit provision. The complaint merely alleged that the District of Columbia failed to insist on preconstruc...

The Second Circuit, on rehearing en banc, affirms dismissal of this civil rights challenge to federal sewer construction and parkland acquisition grants for the reason that the plaintiffs lack standing to sue. Plaintiffs, low income members of minority groups, challenged Housing and Urban Developmen...