A Minnesota appellate court upheld an EIS for a steel plant against claims that it failed to address the impact of greenhouse gas emissions, climate change, and power generation. The environmental…
The Alaska Supreme Court held that a proposed clean water initiative relating to the regulation of large-scale metallic mineral mines was constitutionally and statutorily permissible and was…
The Ninth Circuit reversed and remanded a lower court decision dismissing a neighborhood association's APA action seeking to compel EPA's Office of Civil Rights (OCR) to act on their complaint…
A California appellate court affirmed a trial court's judgment dismissing a land company's complaint against a city that terminated the company's environmental review of a proposed development…
A district court held that two local ordinances declaring it unlawful for any corporation to engage in mining activities within the township are invalid and void. Pennsylvania's Bituminous Mine…
The Tenth Circuit affirmed a lower court decision remanding to state court residents' class action lawsuit against a mining company for property contamination stemming from the company's mining…
A California appellate court affirmed the denial of a petition for review of a city's certification of an environmental impact report (EIR) and approval of a conditional use permit for the…
The Seventh Circuit upheld an injunction, at the behest of EPA under the authority of RCRA, requiring an oil company to clean up a contaminated site in Hartford, Illinois. The lower court…
The Tenth Circuit affirmed a lower court decision dismissing water districts' and other entities' claims against an Oklahoma agency and the United States in a dispute over water rights stemming…
The Fourth Circuit reversed a lower court decision rejecting the U.S. Coast Guard's interpretation of its own regulations concerning the installation of double hulls on oil tankers overseas. Under…