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Atlantic Coast Demolition & Recycling, Inc. v. Board of Chosen Freeholders

The court holds that New Jersey solid waste flow-control regulations probably violate the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution, but grants only a conditional preliminary injunction to prevent enforcement of the regulations for construction and demolition debris. The court first addresses the cla...

General Atomics v. NRC

The court holds that a district court lacked jurisdiction over a parent corporation's challenge to a pending U.S. Nuclear Regualatory Commission (NRC) hearing to determine whether the company was liable for cleanup costs at the facility of its subsidiary, which is an NRC licensee. The NRC attempted ...

Friends of the Earth v. Chevron Chem. Co.

The court holds that a nonprofit environmental protection corporation that failed to demonstrate compliance with its internal bylaws regarding the creation of a class of members within the corporation lacked representational standing to bring a Federal Water Pollution Control Act citizen suit agains...

Gary D. Peake Excavating Inc. v. Town Bd. of Hancock

The court holds that under New York law, an unconstitutional section in a local waste flow-control ordinance is severable from the constitutionally valid remaining provisions of the ordinance. The court first holds that plaintiffs' claims are ripe for adjudication. Plaintiffs do not have to obtain a...

Friends of the Earth v. Crown Cent. Petroleum Corp.

The court holds that an environmental organization whose members use a lake located 18 miles and three tributaries downstream from an oil refinery lack standing to bring a Federal Water Pollution Control Act (FWPCA) citizen suit for discharge and reporting violations. The court holds that no genuine...

Hirt v. Richardson

The court holds that individuals' National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) suit against the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) seeking to enjoin the agency from shipping the nuclear material mixed oxide uranium (MOx), from the United States and Russia to Canada is moot. The individuals claimed that DOE...

Pye v. United States

The court holds that owners of land in South Carolina adjacent to both land containing a historic plantation and an African American cemetery and land on which a road crossing is constructed have standing to bring a National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) challenge to the U.S. Army Corps of Engine...

Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, Inc. v. Rivenburgh

The court denies a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' motion to change venue in an environmental group's suit against it for violating the Clean Water Act (CWA) §404 by authorizing a surface mining company to fill streams with waste rock under a nationwide permit and without an environmental impact stat...

Riverkeeper, Inc. v. Whitman

The court denies an electric utility and trade association coalition's motion to intervene in mediation leading to and subsequent enforcement of an amended consent decree between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and an environmental group under which EPA agreed to promulgate Clean Wate...

Dougherty v. North Hempstead Bd. of Zoning Appeals, Town of

The court affirms the dismissal of a landowner's due process and equal protection claims against a zoning board that denied the landowner's application for a building permit, but reverses the denial of the landowner's motion to amend the complaint to include a First Amendment retaliation claim. The ...